Arts News from the Chronicles

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Amazing student Tori Watson

Majoring in art history and comparative literature and intercultural studies while a member of the Counterpoint Dance Company, rising senior Tori Watson embodies the creative spirit and intellectual curiosity of the Franklin College and UGA. This summer, she …
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The show goes on: UGA Theatre takes the digital stage

Our colleagues in the Office of Research share the story of a successful year for theater at the University of Georgia. The Department of Theatre and Film Studies and its associated student theater organizations produced over 30 shows, each unlike anything seen before at UGA.…
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Amazing student Caroline Caden

UGA’s theatre program brought Caroline Caden to UGA. The senior from Marietta has performed, directed and stage managed productions from cabarets to “Young Frankenstein.” Caden, who has designed lights and worked on publicity for shows, performed in “Young Frankenstein” and…
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A Midsummer Night's Dream Live Outdoors

UGA Theatre presents what “portends” to be a fun evening of spirits, goblins, kings, queens, “lunatics, lovers and poets” — A Midsummer Night's Dream set in the pristine and historic UGA Founder's Garden that evokes the spirit of Shakespeare’s Stratford and the forest of Arden. The play…
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Saunt wins 2021 ROBERT F. KENNEDY BOOK AWARD

Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights announced the winners of its 2021 RFK Book and Journalism Awards on Thursday, June 3 during a virtual ceremony.  This year's RFK Book Award winner is "Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian…

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