Department of Theatre and Dance | University of Alaska Anchorage

We Take Centerstage

Production is at the very center of our award-winning Theatre and Dance program. Each season UAA Theatre and Dance produces four plays and two dance concerts on its "modified thrust" Mainstage, and in the Jerry Harper Studio Theatre, a fully-equipped, black-box space. Student-directed scenes, one-acts, and full-length plays are also presented yearly in the Harper. Department plays are cast at open auditions and on average more than 100 majors, non-majors and members of the community are involved in our productions each year.

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Hometown U: Interview with 'Stalking the Bogeyman' director

By Kathleen McCoyMarch 27, 2016
Over in UAA's Fine Arts Building, the theater faculty and students are hard at work on an ambitious endeavor -- staging the first West Coast production of "Stalking the Bogeyman," based on Alaska journalist David Holthouse's personal story of childhood rape. (Read More)
Meet the legally blind UAA student who still has a vision for dance

By Hope MillerApril 14, 2016
A lot has happened to Young the past few years. Her parents moved to Alaska for her father's job. Then her mom was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer. After her mom died, Young started having trouble seeing. She went to an eye doctor at the Costco on DeBarr Road, who sent her to a neurologist. That's when she found out she has a slow-growing malignant brain tumor in her optic chiasm, which was affecting her vision. After surgery, her eyesight was "noticeably worse." (Read More)
UAA’s Eurydice

By Steven HuntMarch 4, 2016
The Greek mythological tale of lost love and a journey to the underworld takes a new turn in Sarah Ruhl’s play, Eurydice, currently performing at the University of Alaska Department of Theatre and Dance. (Read More)