Theatre Arts and Dance

The Theatre Arts and Dance Department will present its annual spring dance concert beginning Thursday, April 18.

The UALR music and theatre arts and dance departments will offer patrons several end-of-season performances this month.

Hundreds of area middle and high school students will take to the stage this month for the 15th annual Shakespeare Scene Festival.

The Department of Theatre Arts will present the apocalyptic fantasy, “Boom,” a play by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, starting at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20, at Haislip Theatre in the Center for the Performing Arts.

Performing on a New York stage is the ultimate dream for most dancers, and one that several UALR students are hoping to see come to fruition this summer, thanks to professor Stephanie Thibeault.

For most students, gaining real-world experience in their chosen field is an essential part of college. For six theater students, that experience meant getting a behind-the-scenes look at one of the nation’s top performing arts companies.

UALR Friends of the Arts (FOA) will host the fundraising event “6×6 ‘at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012 in the Applied Design Studio in University Plaza, Suite 300.

UALR theatre majors Emily Wold of Little Rock and T.J. Medel of Jersey City, N.J., are staring in “Gruesome Playground Injuries,” the 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist play this weekend at Haislip Theatre in the UALR Center for Performing Arts.

Before the age of 16, Penn Ross Jackson saw his father leave the family, lived with his mother out of a car on the streets of New Orleans, and was diagnosed with a brain tumor and underwent surgery. Then Hurricane Katrina hit.

Alum Dances in Production Anthony Bryant, the first graduate from UALR’s bachelor of fine arts degree in dance program, made his professional debut as a member of the dance ensemble in the run of “The Wiz” at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre. Currently a guest artist with the Arkansas Festival Ballet, Bryant will be featured in … Student, Alum Perform in ‘The Wiz’