Past Events

First Mondays with Arianna String Quartet: Drama and Sound with Dr. Robert Henke

Featuring PAD Professor of Drama and Comparative Literature, Rob Henke!

STLPR - Community Room | 3651 Olive St, St. Louis, MO 63108

April 03, 2024 4:00 PM

Roundtable Discussion - Performance and Modernity: Enacting Change on the Globalizing Stage

Join us on April 3rd in Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall for this roundtable discussion of Julia Walker's book: Performance and Modernity: Enacting Change on the Globalizing Stage

Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall

April 05 to 06

WUDance Collective: GLIMMERS

Edison Theatre

April 12, 2024 1:00 PM

Movement Workshop with Sathya Sridharan and Paton Ashbrook

Join PAD alum and Broadway actor, Sathya Sridharan ('09), and Juilliard alumni, actor, and teacher Paton Ashbrook for a movement workshop.

Mallinckrodt 101

April 18 to 21

Cry it Out

A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre

April 19, 2024 4:00 PM

With Heart and Humor: A Screening with Julia Lindon

Julia Lindon (WashU class of 2013) has worked on Saturday Night Live (NBC), Ted Lasso (Apple), Survival of the Thickest (Netflix), and In the Know (Peacock).

Umrath 140

April 23 to May 02

Spring 2024 Final Showings

The end of the semester means opportunities for our students to put into practice what they have been learning in class.

April 25, 2024 7:00 PM

Retina Burn 2024

The students of the Lighting Technology class will put on a full concert in the Edison Theatre.

Edison Theatre

April 26, 2024 3:00 PM

Feathers and Facepaint: The Making of Redface in American Theatre

Bethany Hughes, Assistant Professor of American Culture, Native American Studies Program, University of Michigan

Umrath 140

May 10, 2024 12:00 PM

2024 Handprint Ceremony for Graduating PAD Students

If you were involved, you are invited!

PAD Lounge & Hallway

May 10, 2024 3:00 PM

Graduate Hooding & Recognition Ceremony

Graham Chapel

May 12, 2024 8:30 AM

College of Arts & Sciences Recognition Ceremony

Francis Olympic Field

August 20, 2024 3:00 PM

Dance Placement Class for the 2024-2025 Academic Year

All new students with interest in dance at WU are strongly encouraged to attend the Dance Placement Class.

ANNELISE MERTZ DANCE STUDIO, 207 MALLINCKRODT CENTER (MAIN LEVEL)

August 24, 2024 4:00 PM

Drama Audition Workshop

Not sure how to audition? Attend this short workshop to ask questions and get familiar with the rehearsal process!

A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre

August 26, 2024 5:00 PM

PAD Welcome Back / Kick-Off

Join us for the PAD Kick-Off on August 26th! Moved to A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre!

A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre - Mallinckrodt Center

August 29 to 30 7:00 PM Thursday

Fall Drama Auditions

GENERAL AUDITIONS for the fall semester will take place on August 29th & 30th, 2024.

Women's Building | Olin Studio I & II

September 03 to 05 7:00 PM Tuesday

PAD Dance Auditions

Auditions will be held for the Performing Arts Department's Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 Dance Productions.

| Mallinckrodt 207, Annelise Mertz Dance Studio

September 20, 2024 3:00 PM

Joyous Jamettes: Laboring Fuh Di Wine

Featuring Adanna Kai Jones, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Dance and Dance Studies at Bowdoin College in the Department of Theater and Dance

Annelise Mertz Dance Studio (Mallinckrodt 207)

September 20 to 21 7:30 PM Friday

2024 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival

For nearly 30 years, the Performing Arts Department has produced the A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival as a vehicle to support and develop new plays written by WashU students.

A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre

October 18, 2024 3:00 PM

Creating Contemporary Ballet: A Showing and Talk with Stephanie Martinez

Stephanie Martinez is the Performing Arts Department's 2024 Marcus Artist-in-Residence

Annelise Mertz Dance Studio, Mallinckrodt 207

October 25, 2024 1:15 PM

Interpolations 2: Spatial Computing and Performance

Umrath Lounge

October 25 to November 03 7:30 PM Friday

Pride and Prejudice

The Performing Arts Department presents Kate Hamill's irreverent and playfully anachronistic take on the beloved Jane Austen novel!

Edison Theatre

November 01, 2024 3:00 PM

Lamenting Intervals: Landscapes of the Body

Featuring Monika Weiss: New York-based Polish artist, Professor in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, and Affiliate Professor of Performing Arts.

DUC 276

November 07 to 10

Spring Drama Auditions

General auditions for the spring semester will take place on Thursday, November 7th and Friday, November 8th.

November 10, 2024 10:30 AM

Stage Combat Workshop

Hosted by the Central Illinois Stage Combat Workshop Taught by Society of American Fight Directors Certified Teachers DC Wright and Amie Root

Mallinckrodt 101

November 21, 2024 6:00 PM

What’s Important in Verse Translation?

Diane Svarlien, Independent Scholar

TBA

November 21 to 24 7:30 PM Thursday

The Thanksgiving Play

In The Thanksgiving Play, Larissa FastHorse, a 2020 MacArthur Fellow, has written what she calls a "comedy in a satire" with "a little bit of medicine that's going to go down with the laughs".

A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre

December 06 to 10

Fall 2024 Final Showings

The end of the semester means opportunities for our students to put into practice what they have been learning in class.

December 06, 2024 12:30 PM

Making Art in a Time of War: Kurt Jooss' The Green Table (1932) in Weimar Germany and Today

A Discussion with Joanna Dee Das, Associate Professor of Dance at WashU and Hannah Kosstrin, Associate Professor of Dance Studies at OSU

DUC 239

December 06 to 08 7:30 PM Friday

Washington University Dance Theatre: It's Time

The annual dance concert features diverse artwork by resident and guest choreographers, performed by student dancers of the Performing Arts Department.

Edison Theater

Past Events

Applications Are Now Open for The Summer Program at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

The Winter's Tale

Stop! Shakespeare, Boal, and the Italian Spect-actor

Major-Minor Welcome

2024 MFA Student Dance Concert

First Mondays with Arianna String Quartet: Drama and Sound with Dr. Robert Henke

Roundtable Discussion - Performance and Modernity: Enacting Change on the Globalizing Stage

WUDance Collective: GLIMMERS

Student Dance Showcase: A Picnic in the Park

Student Dance Showcase: A Picnic in the Park

April 12th and 13th at 7:00 p.m. Annelise Mertz Dance Studio in Mallinckrodt

Movement Workshop with Sathya Sridharan and Paton Ashbrook

Cry it Out

With Heart and Humor: A Screening with Julia Lindon

Spring 2024 Final Showings

Retina Burn 2024

Feathers and Facepaint: The Making of Redface in American Theatre

2024 Handprint Ceremony for Graduating PAD Students

Graduate Hooding & Recognition Ceremony

College of Arts & Sciences Recognition Ceremony

Dance Placement Class for the 2024-2025 Academic Year

Drama Audition Workshop

PAD Welcome Back / Kick-Off

Fall Drama Auditions

PAD Dance Auditions

Joyous Jamettes: Laboring Fuh Di Wine

2024 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival

Creating Contemporary Ballet: A Showing and Talk with Stephanie Martinez

Interpolations 2: Spatial Computing and Performance

Pride and Prejudice

Lamenting Intervals: Landscapes of the Body

Spring Drama Auditions

Stage Combat Workshop

What’s Important in Verse Translation?

The Thanksgiving Play

Fall 2024 Final Showings

Making Art in a Time of War: Kurt Jooss' The Green Table (1932) in Weimar Germany and Today

Washington University Dance Theatre: It's Time

We also have current events!

April 12th and 13th at 7:00 p.m.
Annelise Mertz Dance Studio in Mallinckrodt