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Meenakshi in green patterned dress in Hancher Auditorium

From India to Iowa City: Meet Meenakshi Chinmai, the assistant stage manager for Fierce

Monday, April 22, 2024
University of Iowa
Production still from David Adjmi, Stereophonic, 2024. Left to right: Sarah Pidgeon, Juliana Canfield, and Tom Pecinka pictured

David Adjmi by Jen Silverman

Friday, April 19, 2024
BOMB Magazine
Iowa Playwrights Workshop alums David Adjmi and Jen Silverman both have plays on Broadway in 2024. They met when Silverman was getting her MFA at the University of Iowa and Adjmi came back to campus as a guest artist. Silverman interviewed Adjmi for BOMB Magazine.
Loyce Arthur and Student in the costume shop. Student (left) is in black and white striped shirt, she is wearing glasses and a lanyard. Loyce (right) is wearing a pink, patterned blazer-style jacket with a blue shirt under. They are in front of a small mannequin and Loyce has wrapped orange fabric around it.

After 25 years as teaching design, Loyce Arthur savors her final production in the Department of Theatre Arts

Friday, April 19, 2024
University of Iowa
Promotional image for Fierce featuring four young girls with their backs turned all wearing the same jean jacket with a blue fist, the power symbol, on the back and there is a multicolored design emanating from their jackets into the background

UI students shine on the Hancher stage in Fierce

Thursday, April 18, 2024
University of Iowa
The School of Music’s spring opera—composed by a Jazz Studies professor—features UI students from across the Performing Arts At Iowa and beyond
Video still of an actor from In the Red and Brown Water by Tarell Alvin McCraney looking upwards longingly in purple and orange light

In the Red and Brown Water comes to the University of Iowa stage

Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Performing Arts At Iowa
Jun 9, 2019; New York, NY, USA; Tarell Alvin McCraney shares a “playwright moment” related to “Choir Boy” during the 73rd Annual Tony Awards ceremony at Radio City Music Hall.

Review | UI’s ‘In the Red and Brown Water’ offers spectacular performance

Sunday, April 14, 2024
The Daily Iowan
In the Red and Brown Water Promotional poster, featuring a young black girl with braids emerging from the water with a pinkish sky and lightning behind her

Oya’s future is in the air as the Department of Theatre Arts prepares for the final mainstage production of the season, In the Red and Brown Water

Thursday, April 11, 2024
University of Iowa
Performers practice during a dress rehearsal of “Iris” at the Theater Building in Iowa City, on Wednesday, March 27, 2024.

Review | Stage reading of ‘Iris’ portrays difficult human emotions

Sunday, March 31, 2024
The Daily Iowan
performance image of ensemble cast on stage in Into The Woods

Review | UI’s ‘Into the Woods’ is a stirring reprise of the original

Wednesday, March 6, 2024
The Daily Iowan
Theatre students performing "Dance Nation," Spring 2024

Iowa Theatre Arts eNews - February 2024

Thursday, February 15, 2024
Iowa Department of Theatre Arts
Our newsletter for alumni and friends: February 2024 edition
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