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Welcome to The Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas at Austin! This self-guided tour allows visitors to explore the Winship Drama building without scheduling an official appointment. If you have any questions after the tour, please contact our Undergraduate Admissions Coordinator at tadadmissions@utexas.edu. In addition to the self-guided tour, we have a virtual video tour available online. We recommend watching the video before or after your self-guided tour for more information regarding each space.
If you need to access an elevator during the tour, there There is an elevator in the Winship Lobby near the restrooms when you walk inside the building.
Please do not enter any of the studio or classroom spaces. You may enter the Oscar Brockett Theatre and the Payne Theatre if the doors are unlocked.
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The celebrated entrance at the front of the Winship Drama Building will bring you to the lobby. The wooden panels open up into a box office, where students and community members can purchase tickets for shows produced by The Department of Theatre and Dance are available to our community. This is also where our Building Monitors are located for evening hours. Restrooms, water fountain and elevator are located to the left next to the staircase. Turn right to continue your tour!
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The atrium serves as the hub of our building. This common space is used by students, faculty and staff from 8a.m. - 10p.m. daily to work on projects and catch up in between classes and rehearsals. Community engagement teams build installations in this space when there are shows in the Oscar Brockett Theatre, located through the large doors underneath the awning. The skylights create a warm environment for our community to gather and share their ideascollaborate. Continue to the right towards the end of the hallway.
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This black box studio is primarily used for classes, rehearsals, and shows produced by our faculty or student organizations. This is also a popular venue for work curated during the Cohen New Works Festival. The space offers a lighting grid and flexible seating arrangements. Head back towards the atrium and up the stairs or Next, exit the studio and take the ramp towards the Atrium to the Oscar Brockett Theatre to continue your tour.
Stop Four: Oscar Brockett Theatre
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The Oscar Brockett Theatre is one of our main stage venues. The space seats approximately 250 people and offers flexible seating arrangements to accommodate specific set designs, or shows curated in-the-round. This space creates an intimate experience for our audience to connect with the work, and you can see both theatre and dance performed works produced in this venue. For our next stop, exit the theatre and take a left towards the Main Office. Continue down the hallway until you reach the end, dance studio 1.172.
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To continue the tour, please head up the stair case just outside of 1.172. For elevator access, retrace your path to the Winship lobby, then take the elevator to the second floor. Follow the hallway all the way to the end, past two staircases to Stop Six. exit the studio and turn down the hallway to the right towards the scene shop.
Stop Six: Studio 2.180
Studio 2.180 serves as a classroom, rehearsal space, and performance venue for faculty and student curated work. The lighting grid, sound booth, and flexible seating make it an admirable option for students to practice their craft in a black box style theatre. Exit the studio for the next stop on our tour.
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