Go behind the scenes as our production team “cleans” soil for "Last Ward" by Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre. The Duke University Venue and Production Management team has been hard at work preparing over 1,000 liters of topsoil for prime-time, removing debris through a multi-step process.

Emi Hegarty is the winner of the 2024 Louis Sudler Prize, given every year to the graduating senior who has demonstrated the most distinguished record of excellence in performance or creation in the arts.

Reynolds Industries Theater went dark in the beginning of fall semester 2022 for replacement of its HVAC system. Thanks to support from Duke Arts, Duke Facilities Management, Duke Student Affairs, and the efforts of the venue and production management team, it has come roaring back to life. The refreshed theater boasts many improvements, and a new Duke blue main curtain is ready to be drawn for the upcoming musical Rent, a production by Duke's Theater Studies Department in collaboration with Hoof ‘n’ Horn.

Felwine Sarr, Anne-Marie Bryan Distinguished Professor of Romance Studies at Duke, has been described in various biographies as a public intellectual, humanist, philosopher, economist, musician, playwright and poet. His face and his distinguished work will soon become more familiar to the community with the production of two of his plays by Duke Performances.

Theater major Samantha Streit ’22 reflects on her senior project, a one-woman show titled This Green Plot Shall Be Our Stage, which she will perform April 14–16 at the Duke Gardens. The show centers on the idea that nature—in particular, the forest—acts as a metaphorical place of potential, freedom, and magic in Shakespeare’s works.

After nearly two years of virtual performances, live theater has made its long-awaited return to both Broadway and Duke’s campus. Samantha Streit ‘22, who was part of the cast of Duke Theater Studies’ Fall Mainstage Show Golem, interviews Duke alumni and faculty about their thoughts on producing theater during the pandemic and what the future holds for live performances.

On April 15, 17 and 18, Duke Theater Studies will present its spring mainstage production, Medea. Directed by senior María Zurita Ontiveros and set designed by senior Ash Jeffers, Medea is the first mainstage Theater Studies has produced with students at its helm. The show will be performed in person and live streamed to virtual audiences.

Hoof 'n' Horn invites submissions to a reinvented audition process and fall production!

Talya Klein, who taught "Acting for the Camera" this spring, shares the class's final project, an original feature filmed titled "EMERGENCY CONTACTS" set in 2030 during a new, fictional pandemic that explores and incorporates present experiences during the coronavirus crisis.

Duke faculty teaching visual arts, music, and theater share how they navigated the move to online teaching. It wasn’t easy. Supplies were mailed, collaborative projects were reinvented. Transformations and solutions discovered this spring have expanded the teaching repertoire—even as we look forward to safely returning to studio and stage.

Ira Knight shares a performance of "From Myth To Man: Martin Luther King, An Interpretation," as recorded live at the Ruby earlier this year, as a reminder of our shared humanity to create better days ahead.

Five questions for Tyler Edwards (Class of 2022), biology major and producer for Hoof 'n' Horn's The Wiz, the first production with an all-black cast and a sensory friendly performance.

Florian is the managing director of the American Ballet Theatre Studio Company.

We look back at 10 years of the Me Too Monologues at Duke. "It is a communal experience and I think that’s the core of what it means,” says Anne Delmedico, this year's producer. "No matter what challenges you’re facing—whether you relate to the challenges on the stage or not—you are not alone."

“This show is such a beautiful showcase of a culture that is often misrepresented,” says Maria Zurita-Ontiveros, a Duke Sophomore and Director of Hoof ‘n’ Horn’s Spring 2019 production of In The Heights. Duke Arts sits down with Maria and lead cast member, Gustavo Andrade, to learn more about how this special show celebrates Latinx diversity and empowers individuals to proudly represent the communities they call home.

Chuck Catotti retires from Duke University this week after a year as director of the Rubenstein Arts Center and after 33 years in theater and box office management for venues across campus.

Brittany Halberstadt (Class of 2019) shares her journey from becoming a production assistant for The Lion King as a first-year student to a Broadway League intern and a Tony Awards seat filler this past summer.

Students in a Theater Studies production class work with Torry Bend to adapt a beautiful but tainted masterpiece for the puppet stage.

The 2016 winner of Duke's premier undergraduate arts award, the Sudler Prize, makes theater of, by, and for the community.

Some days he’s an artist who teaches and some days he’s a teacher who makes art, but either way, Professor Jeff Storer thinks it is a happy advantage that he can be both—for him and his students.