Join Lifetime Learning for an insider’s look into UVA’s Drama Department. Richard Will, Department Chair and Professor, will welcome everyone and discuss how the department supports students and performers in creating, designing, performing, and studying theatre and dance at UVA.

We will tour the state-of-the-art Theatres (Culbreth, Helms, and Ruth Caplin) led by Professor Richard Will, Shawanna Hall, Operations and Production Manager, and James Scales, Business Manager. We will explore how the different theatres serve productions and visit the Drama Department shops and studios.

Marcy Linton, Associate Professor of Costume Technology and Collection Manager, will share a lecture about UVA’s Historic Clothing Collection. Linton will present a sampling of the 2,000-item collection ranging from a rare circa 1795 man’s coat, a late-nineteenth-century evening gown by French designer Charles Frederick Worth, and ensembles by twentieth-century designers, such as Christian Dior, Coco Chanel, and Emilio Pucci. We will also view military uniforms from WWI and WWII and rare examples of clothing worn by working-class men and women, such as an 1840s homespun linen dress and several 1950s flour sack dresses.

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