Master illusionist and showman Harry Houdini and his obsession
with death take center stage in Death and Harry Houdini,
a new musical that will be presented as a workshop by the UC
Davis Department of Theatre and Dance in conjunction with
Catalyst: A Theatre Think Tank.
The work takes the stage on June 2 and 3, 2022, in the Wyatt
Pavilion Theatre at 7 p.m. Performances are free and open to
all.
Clouds from a Crumbling Giant, a collaborative
performance project, will be presented by the UC Davis Department
of Theatre and Dance March 3-5, 2022 in the Main Theater, Wright
Hall.
The UC Davis campus will come alive with sound through an
installation of six audio works responding to specific location
created by students. Location and
Listening, presented by the Department of Theatre and
Dance, will be accessible at noon on Dec. 3 until 7 p.m. on Dec.
10, 2021.
Romeo and Juliet is reinvented as a musical comedy when
the UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance, Southern Utah
University’s (SUU) Department of Theatre, Dance and Arts
Administration and Catalyst: A Theatre Think Tank premiere
Juliet and Romeo. Co-written by Paul Gordon, a Tony
Award nominee for Jane Eyre, and Curtis Moore, an Emmy
Award nominee for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the
production will be accessible virtually June 3 at 6 p.m. PDT
through midnight on June 5, 2021.
Graduate student Barnaby O’Rorke has generated When It
Works, where are you? Invitations and shared
practices, a Zoom Ecamm performance in which each
iteration features improvisation with live and recorded material.
The UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance presents the work on
April 19, 21 and 23, 2020 at 5 p.m. PST.
Graduate student Danielle Levin has written and created Whole
Cloth, an M.F.A. project, in which a woman confronts her
family legacy and heritage. The UC Davis Department of
Theatre and Dance presents the play April 15-17, 2020.
Whole Cloth centers on a woman with no siblings, spouse,
or children, wrestling with questions of legacy and heritage.
Stories are embroidered and woven, literally and figuratively, in
conversation with her seamstress great-grandmother and with S.
Ansky, author of the 1937 film The Dybbuk.
Graduate student Verónica Díaz-Muñiz has gathered testimonies by
women who have been victims of state violence in Chile and the
U.S. to create her M.F.A. project, OJOXOJO. The UC Davis
Department of Theatre and Dance presents the play April 10-12,
2021.
Graduate student Jennifer Grace portrays an isolated woman who
creates online videos for children in her M.F.A.
project Joy, Unboxed. The UC Davis Department
of Theatre and Dance presents the play April 5-7, 2021.
A multisensory performance piece, FOOD offers up a
dreamscape cooking show that promises to sate, disgust, amuse and
amaze even the most discerning of appetites.
The UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance production is
co-devised and directed by Geoff Sobelle, Granada
Artist-in-Residence. The free performance livestreams on
March 4, 5 and 6, 2021, at 7 p.m. PST.
Peter and the Starcatcher, the award-winning stage
prequel to Peter Pan, will be presented by the UC
Davis Department of Theatre and Dance Feb. 27 through March 7,
2020.
The Department of Theatre and Dance presents the world premiere
of ”{LOVE/Logic},” a play by Andrew Nicholls, on May 16-18
and 23-25, 2019 at 7 p.m. and May 18 and 25 at 2.p.m. in the
Wyatt Pavilion Theatre.
Nicholls is the spring 2019 Granada Artist-in-Residence. The
production is directed by alumna Josy Miller.
“LOVE/logic}” was showcased in the 2018 Ground and Field
Theatre Festival under its previous title “Parity.”
“Flora the Red Menace,” the first collaboration between the
creators of “Cabaret” and “Chicago,” will be resurrected by the
UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance. The musical by Tony
Award winners John Kander and Fred Ebb will be presented in the
Wyatt Pavilion Theatre Feb. 28 – March 9, 2019.
Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, wants nothing more than to
be loved. Confronting turmoil at home, she prays for Shirley
Temple’s blue eyes, believing their beauty is the only thing
standing between her and the happiness of the white girls at
school. This powerful adaptation of Toni Morrison’s debut novel
explores the destructive power of racism and the strength of a
community attempting to embrace an era of change.
The award-winning musical “Pippin” receives a semi-staged concert
when presented by the Department of Theatre and Dance on Sunday,
Feb. 25, 2018. The performances take place in the Ann E. Pitzer
Center at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.
The production is staged by Broadway veteran Mindy Cooper,
“CHICAGO the Musical” and “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast,” with
music direction by Graham Sobelman.
Tickets are $15 for the general public and $10 for
students and seniors.
“Gibraltar,” a powerful drama that explores how we tell the
stories of grief, opens the UC Davis College of Letters and
Science’s Department of Theatre and Dance 2017-2018 season. The
play is written by Octavio Solis and directed by UC Davis
graduate and Granada Artist-in-Residence Kent Nicholson, now
director of musical theatre at Playwrights Horizon Theatre
Company in New York.
The 180 Series of courses provide exciting practical instruction
and participation in all aspects of theatrical and dance
production. Whether you are exploring these courses as a
Theatre & Dance Major, Minor, or are simply an interested
non-affiliated student, you will find passionate people working
to create art and tell stories on stage. We invite you to
join us at this link.
We are dismayed at the recent racist violence, and murders, in
Atlanta, and across the country, against Asian and Asian-American
people and women in particular. We recognize that this is part of
an ongoing regime of racism and violence and denounce it.
We stand in solidarity with those working against racism in
our communities, workplaces, government, and cultural
environment.
As Artists and Educators in Theatre, Dance, and Performance we
unequivocally condemn the historically rooted and pervasive
racist murders of African Americans and other people of color by
police in the United States and globally. We acknowledge these
most recent examples are not unique. We acknowledge this plague
is systemic and extends beyond the police. We cannot function as
a society, nor as a learning institution, in a context where
people of color cannot walk, jog, drive, talk, or even sleep in
their homes safely without fear of being murdered by the state.
We certainly cannot teach our craft, which is by its very nature
a living and breathing engagement with all people, without
denouncing this violence, and the hateful rhetoric that fuels it.
