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  • When "Trifles" Mean Everything
    4/6/21

    Trifles, by Susan Glaspell, opens this Friday, April 9, 2021, for the first of four weekend performances. We interviewed student cast members Jessica Snyder and Tim Nunez about the one hundred year old show and their roles within it.

  • On "Trifles:" An Interview with Dr. Meredith Conti
    4/5/21

    Susan Glaspell’s 1916 feminist murder mystery Trifles is the second production of UB Theatre and Dance’s spring 2021 online season, with online performances from April 9 – 11, 2021. We interviewed show director Dr. Meredith Conti about the one hundred year old play and how it speaks to contemporary audiences.

  • Making The Most of it While "Topsy Turvy"
    3/18/21

    We’re less than two weeks from the opening of Theatre and Dance’s (THD) spring 2021 virtual season! The first production of the semester is Living in a Topsy Turvy World: The Theatre of Gilbert and Sullivan, guest directed by Gary John La Rosa, with music direction by associate professor and director of music theatre Nathan R. Matthews.

  • From Seoul and Buffalo: Video Theatre With Yoonie Yun
    3/17/21

    Second year Theatre and Performance MA student Yoonie Yun is a director, lighting designer, and theatre-maker. She has studied and practiced theatre arts both in South Korea, her home country, and the United States.

  • UBNOW: Hollywood favorite enlightens students on life in ‘the biz’
    3/8/21

    Hollywood manager, producer and UB alumnus Shep Gordon, BA ’68, returned to campus recently to connect with students and offer advice to those interested in a career in Hollywood.

  • Announcing upcoming Spring 2021 productions
    2/16/21
    Buffalo, NY (February 10, 2021) – Join the University at Buffalo Department of Theatre and Dance (THD) for a unique spring season of virtual musicals, plays and dance – where nationally recognized directors and choreographers work with esteemed faculty and emerging student talent from UB to produce innovative original productions which both entertain and explore the human condition. Given the challenges of the global health emergency, the arts offer welcome comfort, perspective, escape, joy and intellectual stimulation.
  • Hope Through Dance During A Pandemic
    1/8/21
    Second year MFA candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant Jacqueline Cherry is a dancer, choreographer, and actor, plus a Buffalo, NY native. As part of Theatre and Dance’s fall 2020 virtual dance concert Home and Away she choreographed and starred in a solo piece titled “Be Alright,” filmed in downtown Buffalo outside of her church, which is currently closed due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
  • Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program
    12/10/20

    Applications to participate in the Center for Diversity Innovation’s Distinguished Visiting Scholars program are sought from exceptionally accomplished faculty who, through their record of scholarship and/or creative endeavors, teaching, mentoring, and service, as well as their skills, experiences, underrepresentation, and areas of scholarly and/or creative expertise, can substantially advance diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of Buffalo.

     

  • We’ve learned so much from Michael Mwenso. Now you can, too.
    11/17/20

    Each semester, the Arts Collaboratory’s Working Artists Lab hosts a Visiting Professor in the Arts. This semester, we welcomed musician, performer and activist Michael Mwenso, leader of the internationally acclaimed Mwenso & the Shakes. Mwenso’s course Protest, Hope and Resilience Through the Black Arts led students on a fascinating journey through the history of African and African American art—and revealed the ways in which Black artists have always propelled cultural and political change.

  • Going GloBULL with UB Theatre and Dance - Testimonial by UBTHD Student Alexis Miller
    11/11/20

    Undergraduate Alexis Miller recently provided photographs of her academic experiences in England as part of associate professor Maria Horne's popular THD Study Abroad Programs in Ireland and the United Kingdom.

  • Science Fiction, Mythology and Magic In The Works of Bella Poynton
    10/29/20
    Playwright and Theatre and Dance PhD candidate Bella Poynton knows how to keep busy. In the last year she’s produced a tremendous amount of artistic and scholarly work, and Poynton thrives by staying creatively engaged.
  • THEATRE ARTS ON MARS with Evan Moritz, MA
    10/2/20
    How did Theatre and Dance graduate student Evan Moritz end up on Mars?