School of Music Theatre & Dance

  1. April 4, 2017

    UMOR to honor six staff members for outstanding research service

    Six U-M staff members will be recognized for outstanding research service with the Research Technical Staff Recognition Award, Research Administrator Recognition Award and Office of Research Exceptional Service Award.

  2. January 12, 2017

    Newmans make $1M gift to support three programs at SMTD

    Regent Andrea Fischer Newman and her husband, Frank Newman, have made a gift of $1 million to support three critical areas within the School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

  3. November 9, 2016

    U-M symposium to honor civil rights legacy of Jesse Jackson

    The university will honor the Rev. Jesse Jackson on his five decades of civil rights activism during a series of events Nov. 16. Jackson will deliver the keynote speech.

  4. November 7, 2016

    Brehm Pavilion at SMTD receives LEED Gold Certification

    The William K. and Delores S. Brehm Pavilion at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance has received LEED Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.

  5. September 12, 2016

    Professor reimagines presidential campaign as musical comedy

    Faculty member Andy Kirshner has created a satirical movie-musical, “Liberty’s Secret,” which explores the relationship between politics and popular entertainment.

  6. January 20, 2016

    University to digitize 19th-century sheet music collection

    The U-M Library will catalog and digitize one-third of its large collection of 19th century sheet music that originated from the Edison Phonograph Co.

  7. December 1, 2015

    Top strings program for young musicians moves to U-M

    The School of Music, Theatre & Dance will be the new home of Center Stage Strings, one of the country’s leading summer training programs for young string musicians.

  8. October 21, 2015

    Students engage with the American South as they live the blues

    Students in an interdisciplinary course on American roots music traveled throughout the South last spring, experiencing the sights, sounds and locales that form America’s blues heritage. 

  9. October 14, 2015

    Global M-Prize music competition will award $100,000 grand prize

    U-M has announced M-Prize, a new international chamber music competition that will present a grand prize of $100,000 — the largest award of any competition of its kind.

  10. September 29, 2015

    Department of Theatre & Drama celebrating its centennial

    The Department of Theatre & Drama celebrates its centennial this year along with the 100th anniversary of the birth of distinguished playwright and U-M alumnus Arthur Miller.