The Dean Performing Arts Series

Each semester The University Honors Center provides opportunities for students to attend local and visiting performances complete with a special academic pre-performance seminar or lecture. Past events have included the Austin Lyric Opera’s performance of Cinderella, Ballet Austin’s performance of The Nutcracker and Broadway Across America’s presentation of Monty Python’s Spamalot.

Availability of tickets is announced via email to the honors community, and tickets are available on a first come-first serve basis. The Dean Performing Arts Series is made possible through the generous support of the L.L. and Ethel E. Dean Endowment.

Current Performance

Plan II Chamber Music Recital
Jessen Auditorium
Friday, November 13, 2009
5:30 PM

Join the Plan II Chamber Music Society for an evening of beautiful chamber music! Enjoy works by Mozart, Shostakovich, Brahms, Prokofiev, songs from Wicked, and more! Admission is free, and a reception will follow the recital. This event is sponsored by the L.L. and Ethel E. Dean Endowment.

Upcoming Events

Fiddler on the Roof
Broadway Across America
Bass Concert Hall – University of Texas Performing Arts Center
March 2, 2010

Tevye, humble milkman, harried husband and devoted father to five marriageable daughters, invites us into his little village of Anatevka. Here, there is a tradition for everything – how to eat, how to wear clothes, how to pray, how to marry…all of which are happily imparted by our earthy philosopher as he draws us into Fiddler on the Roof. It is a remarkable journey traveling through secret love, forbidden betrothal, weddings, devotion and forgiveness, tempered by rejection, oppression and imminent revolution. And, emerging through it all, we find the humor, strength and perseverance of Tevye and his people, reminding us of life’s never-ending circle.

Recent Performances

La Bohème
Austin Lyric Opera

La Bohème is the achingly beautiful, mesmerizing tale of doomed romance in Paris, the most romantic city in the world. It starred in Moonstruck alongside Cher, inspired the musical Rent, and was just made into a major motion picture for the fourth time. Don’t miss this chance to see the original, just as Puccini envisioned it, live on the opera stage. If you’re thinking this one has “date night” written all over it, you’re right.

King Lear by William Shakespeare
Actors From The London Stage
B. Iden Payne Theatre

One of the most powerful pieces in Western literature, King Lear is both an intimate family drama and an explosive political epic. Beginning with a monarch’s division of his kingdom amongst his three daughters, Lear explores the most basic questions of human existence: love and duty, power and loss, good and evil.