Tag Theater

University Theatre presents ‘The Bluest Eye’

February 19, 2008

“The Bluest Eye,” an adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer-prize winning novel, will kick off the spring University Theatre season when it opens on Friday, Feb. 29, at the Mitchell Theatre.

Concerts, exhibits, plays among spring events

January 28, 2008

There’s no end in sight for the strike at the Writers Guild of America, but that doesn’t mean you need to sit around boo-hooing, watching reruns or mind-numbing reality TV. Much finer entertainments are in the works on campus for the spring semester. See a play, visit a gallery, take in a film and attend a concert, or two or seven. Campus arts groups will present the works of the world-renowned as well as our student artists-in-the-making.

Theatre auditions attract national producers, hopeful actors, techies

January 25, 2008

Theatre producers from around the country will audition actors, singers, dancers, designers, technicians and managers at the 32nd annual Theatre Auditions set for Feb. 9 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Memorial Union.

Three finalists for Wisconsin Wrights’ new play project announced

May 16, 2007

Bruce Murphy, Greg Lawless and Kurt McGinnis Brown have been selected as the three finalists for the first Wisconsin Wrights New Play Development Project.

Theater students breathe life into Raven software

February 19, 2007

In the studios of Raven Software Inc., Middleton's fast-growing video gaming company, UW–Madison theater graduate Carrie Coon is working through a wildly athletic motion capture regimen - with bullet-dodges, head-kicks, dive rolls and back flips - that will become the raw material for a new femme fatale: an elite-force assassin. Raven's need for a strong base of acting talent led to a unique partnership now in its second year between the company and the UW–Madison theater program.