Alexandra Sargent
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VU Theatre production explores current immigration crisis with ‘The Suppliants’
VU Theatre has adapted a fifth-century Greek tragedy by Aeschylus to spotlight the contemporary global immigration crisis in an April 4-7 production at Neely Auditorium. Read MoreApr 3, 2019
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VU Theatre performs the Bard’s romantic comedy ‘Twelfth Night’
Vanderbilt University Theatre opens "Twelfth Night", a Shakespearean comedy with themes of love and loss, gender roles, double identities and more, Feb. 15 at Neely Auditorium. Read MoreFeb 13, 2019
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VU Theatre offers dark comedy with zombie-hunting video game
VU Theatre will perform "Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom," a dark comedy centering on teens who become addicted to an online horror video game, Nov. 2-10. Read MoreNov 1, 2018
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‘The Language Archive’ leads off VU Theatre’s 2018-19 season
VU Theatre will open its new season Friday with "The Language Archive," a thought-provoking comedy produced in collaboration with the Center for Second Language Studies. Read MoreOct 3, 2018
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Gender and labor are central themes of VU Theatre spring production
VU Theatre will close its 2017-18 season with "Mrs. Warren's Profession," a late Victorian-era play by George Bernard Shaw that remains very relevant on issues related to gender and labor. Read MoreApr 4, 2018
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VU Theatre performs alumnus’ adaptation of absurdist comedy
VU Theatre performs a modern adaptation of the 1920s Italian comedy "Six Characters in Search of an Author"—with five students playing slightly tweaked versions of themselves—Nov. 3-11. Read MoreNov 1, 2017
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VU Theatre sets Molière comedy of manners in ‘It City’ Nashville
Nashville's increasingly popular country music scene is the backdrop for VU Theatre's April 7-10 production of "The Misanthrope," a comedy of manners written by the renowned French playwright Molière. Read MoreApr 4, 2016
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Impression: VUT Presents Metamorphoses
Vanderbilt University Theatre opened its 2015–16 season in early October with Metamorphoses, a theatrical adaptation by Mary Zimmerman of Ovid’s classical Greek stories. Read MoreOct 23, 2015
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Classical stories come to life in VUT production ‘Metamorphoses’
"Metamorphoses," an adaptation of Greek stories whose production features a large pool of water on the Neely Auditorium stage, will lead off the 2015-16 Vanderbilt University Theatre season. Read MoreSep 30, 2015
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Enroll now in Vanderbilt Osher Lifelong Learning fall classes
The Osher Lifelong Learning classes at Vanderbilt this fall draw from professors' research in areas that include earth science, Hebrew Bible, music history, urban planning and more. Read MoreSep 1, 2015
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UPDATE: June 12 history of fashion talk
A June 12 talk by Alexandra Sargent at the Williamson County Public Library on the history of fashion branding has been postponed. Read MoreJun 5, 2015
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History of fashion branding topic of free talk June 12
A Vanderbilt theatre professor will discuss how people throughout time have used particular clothing brands as status symbols June 12. Read MoreMay 22, 2015
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Vanderbilt Theatre to perform ‘The Beaux’ Stratagem’
"The Beaux' Stratagem," a romantic comedy of manners originally written in 1707 by British playwright George Farquhar, will be performed by Vanderbilt University Theatre the weekends of Feb. 13 and 20. Read MoreFeb 11, 2015
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Vanderbilt Theatre performs Shakespearean comedy with a twist
Vanderbilt Theatre opens William Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing," directed by Terryl Hallquist, Sept. 26 in Neely Auditorium. Read MoreSep 22, 2014