Where Play Turns Dark: Designing the Puppets of "The Pillowman"

Oct 5, 2026

The puppet designs draw on the idea of an authoritarian society with limited resources, incorporating the kinds of improvised materials and handmade objects that might emerge in such an environment. Together, these influences reinforce the play’s exploration of imagination, storytelling, and the uneasy intersection between innocence and darkness.

Beyond the Classroom

Oct 2, 2026

Through a collaborative partnership with the Guadalupe-Parkway Neighborhood Sommerville Centers, Theatre & Dance graduate students and faculty are discovering that the greatest learning experiences are not always in the classroom at all, but sometimes in the community itself.

Are We Missing the Point?

Oct 2, 2026

While universities are often asked to prepare students for careers, the arts remind us that imagination shapes every career, every relationship, every community, and every vision of the future. Imagination helps us picture not only what we might do, but whom we might become.

From Red Raider Roots to Living the Dream in Arts Leadership

Sep 30, 2026

Rachel Shipley Blackwell (MFA 2025), reflects on her time in the School of Theatre and Dance and her work at the Charles Adams Studio Project.

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