By KATIE STOCKDALE The stage was set with two staircases, an arched door and a stone slab. The back lighting was red. For those who know Macbeth, the meaning was clear: blood. The Department of Speech, Theater and Dance presented Charles Marowitz’s A Macbeth in Falk Theatre on March 22-25. This adaption of Macbeth relied …
By SARAH CIRELLI The Straz Center for the Performing Arts is saying goodbye to the iconic Phantom of the Opera after a successful two week showing, but the Center is stacked with must-see award-winning Broadway shows through the upcoming months. Whether you’re a fan of poignant dramas or overly theatrical comedies, the Straz Center will …
BY VERONICA SANSUR AND MATT WAGNER UT’s Theatre program has been preparing for a hectic semester. With three shows for the fall semester alone, the casts and productions have been busier than ever. The first show will be As Bees in Honey Drown, a satirical comedy by Douglas Carter Beane. The play begins when a woman …
By KATELYN MASSARELLI Spencer Hubbard shook before first stepping onstage as the Mad March Hare in his sixth grade theatre camp’s production of Alice in Wonderland. Now, in his junior year at UT and about to perform in his fifth theatre production, he says he hasn’t been able to stop acting. The public relations and …
By BRIANA DETURO Lizzie Borden, a mentally ill girl whose only friends included the pigeons in her parents’ barn, was the most shocking and talked about serial killer case in the 19th century. Lizzie’s father and step-mother, Andrew and Abby Borden, were found dead, slashed 40 times each with an axe, in their bed on …
