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Theatre & Dance News

October 25, 2023

"The Threepenny Opera" Takes the Stage

Texas Tech’s School of Theatre & Dance is excited to share with audiences, "The Threepenny Opera," a play with music based on John Gay’s "The Beggar’s Opera," by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill.

October 25, 2023

Theatre in Raider Red

Red Theatre Company (RTC) is a student run thespian group, a haven for theatre students, a theatrical think tank, and an incubation lab all in one.

October 25, 2023

Looking Back on TWI 2023

Each fall for the past eleven years, graduate students in the School of Theatre & Dance are offered a class focused on the writing of playwright Tennessee Williams. No ordinary seminar, this class also takes students to the week-long Tennessee Williams Festival in Provincetown, MA where they see 8-10 plays and study under world-renowned scholars, providing students with myriad networking and professional development opportunities.

October 19, 2023

New Movement Professor Brings the Eastern Art of Suzuki to West Texas

When Texas Tech advertised for a movement specialist on faculty, someone to bring non-western methods to the department, Staley highlighted his extensive Suzuki training and promoted it as an opportunity to share not only an eastern acting method but also a global one.