2019-2020 Theatre Season, University of Texas at Austin

(via Texas Performing Arts)
Twelve Ophelias (a play with broken songs)
By Caridad Svich
Music and Lyrics by Caridad Svich

Directed by Jess Shoemaker
 
October 2-13, 2019

Shakespeare's Ophelia rises up out of the water, dreaming of Pop-Tarts and other sweet things. She finds herself in a neo-Elizabethan Appalachian setting where Gertrude runs a brothel, Hamlet is called a Rude Boy and nothing is what it seems. In this mirrored world of word-scraps and cold sex, Ophelia cuts a new path for herself.
Book and Lyrics by Steven Sater
Music by Duncan Sheik
Based on the play by Frank Wedekind

Directed by Anna Skidis Vargas

November 6-24, 2019
 
Winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Musical, Spring Awakening explores the journey from adolescence to adulthood as a group of young people struggle with questions of morality, sexuality and self-identity. Set to a punk rock score, this groundbreaking musical personifies the struggles of growing up and finding your own unique voice. 
Dance Repertory Theatre Presents
 

November 12-17, 2019

Dance Repertory Theatre, the award-winning dance company, presents new work from professional and student choreographers in Fall For Dance. 
 
>>> A 2019/2020 Series Plus Option
By Tarell Alvin McCraney 
 
Directed by Charles O. Anderson and Robert Ramirez

February 26-March 8, 2020
 
Marcus is 16 and "sweet." Days before Hurricane Katrina strikes the housing projects of Louisiana, the currents of his life converge, overflowing into his close-knit community and launching the search for his sexual and personal identity on a cultural landscape infused with mysterious family creedis. Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet is the stirring conclusion of Tarell Alvin McCraney's trilogy, The Brother/Sister Plays. 
Sense and Sensibility
Adapted for the stage by Joseph Hanreddy and J.R. Sullivan

Directed by Laura Gordon
 
April 8-19, 2020
 
When their father suddenly passes away leaving his estate to his son, sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood find themselves financially destitute and their reputations tarnished. The personifications of good sense and emotional sensibility, the Dashwood sisters must now navigate their new lives and romantic entanglements under the judgemental eyes of 19th-century English society in order to regain their social standing and find true love. 
Dance Repertory Theatre Presents 
 
April 15-26, 2020
 
Award-winning dance company Dance Repertory Theatre returns to the stage in (R)evolution. An exploration of transition and transformation through contemporary dance, (R)evolution features powerful choreography from internationally-renowned guest and faculty choreographers and students of the M.F.A. in Dance program, as well as the annual Haruka Weiser Memorial Commission. 
Titles, dates and venues are subject to change.