{"id":561,"date":"2026-03-16T16:35:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/theatre\/?p=561"},"modified":"2026-05-11T14:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:12:10","slug":"%d1%8f-u-robot-now-showing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/theatre\/2026\/03\/16\/%d1%8f-u-robot-now-showing\/","title":{"rendered":"R.U. Robot &#8211; April 2026 Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-ogsc=\"black\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The robot revolution is coming! It\u2019s time to pick a side.<\/p>\n<p data-ogsc=\"black\">\u042f.U.Robot, a new play at Vanderbilt, will ask the important questions like: is your toaster trying to kill you?<\/p>\n<p data-ogsc=\"black\">Does it have a good reason? And if so, is humanity toast?<\/p>\n<p data-ogsc=\"black\">100 years after Karel \u010capek\u2019s\u00a0<i data-ogsc=\"\">R.U.R.<\/i>, we bring you this tale of an American debutante turned revolutionary. But history is in the cold salad tong like hands of the robot victors who stage the first ever robot play\u00a0<i data-ogsc=\"\">Rise of the Robots.\u00a0<\/i>The only thing that could stop their show is their own planned <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">obsolescence<\/span>. Or perhaps love?<\/p>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/Pages\/ResponsePage.aspx?id=OX9aur7js0q0UGf6gPrsrdnmJgdtSnRBtmBiUabpAb5UQVozVzlFOU5aVUNWTUpaS0UxSzRXSkdRSy4u\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-564\" src=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/theatre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/03\/\u042f.U.Robot-Poster-1-300x194.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/theatre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/03\/\u042f.U.Robot-Poster-1-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/theatre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/03\/\u042f.U.Robot-Poster-1-1024x663.png 1024w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/theatre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/03\/\u042f.U.Robot-Poster-1-768x497.png 768w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/theatre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/03\/\u042f.U.Robot-Poster-1-1536x994.png 1536w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/theatre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/03\/\u042f.U.Robot-Poster-1-2048x1325.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<h6 data-ogsc=\"black\">Showtimes<\/h6>\n<p data-ogsc=\"black\">April 3rd and 4th, 7:30 PM<br \/>\nApril 9th, 10th, and 11th 7:30 PM<\/p>\n<p data-ogsc=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/Pages\/ResponsePage.aspx?id=OX9aur7js0q0UGf6gPrsrdnmJgdtSnRBtmBiUabpAb5UQVozVzlFOU5aVUNWTUpaS0UxSzRXSkdRSy4u\">RSVP Here, Tickets are free!<\/a><\/p>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\"><\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The robot revolution is coming! It\u2019s time to pick a side. \u042f.U.Robot, a new play at Vanderbilt, will ask the important questions like: is your toaster trying to kill you? Does it have a good reason? And if so, is humanity toast? 100 years after Karel \u010capek\u2019s\u00a0R.U.R., we bring you this tale of an American&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,16,1],"tags":[5],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/theatre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/03\/\u042f.U.Robot-Poster.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}