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UPDATE (Wednesday, November 21, 2012 . 2:38PM): The ticket office will close today, November 21, 2012, at 5PM.
Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center will be closed from Thursday, November 22 through Sunday, November 25, 2012, including both our ticket office and administrative office. Tickets may still be purchased online during this time.
The UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) is pleased to announce that visiting professor Jared Mezzocchi has been honored with the Princess Grace Award this fall for his work in the emerging field of on-stage projection design. Awarded by the International Princess Grace Foundation, Mezzocchi offered the Foundation their first real connection with projection design, a huge step for the art form.
UPDATE (Monday, November 5, 2012 . 5:52PM): We've finished our maintenance. Thank you for your patience.
On Monday, November 5, 2012, we will perform scheduled maintenance on our ticketing software.
From 7AM to approximately 6PM, we will be unable to perform any transactions or access any accounts.
UMD students: We will delay the distribution of free tickets until Tuesday, November 6, starting at 11AM.
Brian MacDevitt and Stephen Colbert photo by Anita and Steve Shevett
The UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) is proud to announce that professor Brian MacDevitt has been honored with the prestigious 2012 Henry Hewes Design Award for his lighting design in Death of a Salesman on Broadway. MacDevitt has won this honor twice before for his lighting of the Tom Stoppard plays The Invention of Love and later for The Coast of Utopia.
After being closed for two days due to Hurricane Sandy, we will reopen on Wednesday, October 31, 2012, resuming our normal business hours.
Our ticket office will be open from 11AM to 9PM.
Please join us for the Big Band Pre-Halloween Scream, rescheduled for 7:30PM on Halloween day: Wednesday, October 31, 2012.
UPDATED: Closed on Tuesday, October 30, 2012.
Due to the forecasted impact of Hurricane Sandy, the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center will be closed on Monday, October 29 and Tuesday, October 30, 2012, including both our ticket office and administrative offices.
The following events have been canceled or rescheduled:
Drew Barker photo by Chris Flynn/NEH.
You may know Drew Barker as our Graduate Student for Development or as a Master’s Candidate in Theatre and Performance Studies with TDPS.
We're looking for extraordinary students!
Apply for our new student committee, the Maryland Students for the Arts:
- Share your creative instincts and insights.
- Advise us about important issues.
- Assist us in making programming decisions.
- Undergraduate and graduate students from all majors welcome!
Application deadline: Sunday, December 2, 2012 . 11PM
Last week, Kronos Quartet worked with three young composers from UMD School of Music. Now it's your turn!
You may have noticed mandolinist Chris Thile on a big banner in front of our building — he’ll be here on April 12, 2013, performing with pianist Brad Mehldau.
We’ve just gotten word that he received a 2012 MacArthur Foundation “genius grant.”
Congratulations, Chris! Can’t wait to hear you perform.