Past Events
College of Arts & Sciences Recognition Ceremony
2025 Handprint Ceremony for Graduating PAD Students
If you were involved in the PAD, you are invited!
PAD Lounge & Hallway
Retina Burn 2025
Lighting Technology and Digital Media for the Stage students will put on a full concert in the Edison Theatre.
Edison Theatre
Spring 2025 Final Showings
The end of the semester means opportunities for our students to put into practice what they have been learning in class.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Performing Arts Department Alum Brenna Jones (BA '23) will be returning to campus to direct this lighthearted musical with quick remarks and even quicker definitions.
A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre
¡Habla!: Embodied Code-Switching and Listening to Our Dances
Featuring Jade Power-Sotomayor, Assistant Professor Department of Theatre and Dance, UC San Diego
EADS 016
Paws with the PAD: Spelling Bee Edition
Pause, Paws, and Perfect Spelling!
Mallinckrodt Lobby
WashU Dance Collective: Transcendence
The annual concert of PAD's resident dance company, Washington University Dance Collective.
Edison Theatre | 6465 Forsyth Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63105
The Three Bodies of Horikoshi Hideshi: Corporeality, Performance, and Medium in Meiji Kabuki
Featuring Jonathan Zwicker: Associate Professor, Agassiz Professor of Japanese and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of California, Berkeley
Umrath 140
2025 Helen Clanton Morrin Lecture: Taylor Mac
Clark-Fox Forum, Hillman Hall
Film Screening: Taylor Mac's "24-Decade History of Popular Music"
Brown 100
2025 MFA Dance Concert: ¿Te puedo contar algo?
This year’s concert, "¿Te puedo contar algo?", celebrates the eighth year of the MFA in Dance final project with choreography by Tess Angelica Losada-Tindall and Lourdes del Mar Santiago Lebrón.
Edison Theatre
Major/Minor Welcome
2025 Welcome Gathering for Majors & Minors in Dance & Drama
PAD LOUNGE - 3RD FLOOR, MALLINCKRODT CENTER
Performance and Social Theory: Reification and Role in Marx’s Political Economy
Featuring Pannill Camp, Associate Professor of Drama, Performing Arts Department, Washington University in St. Louis
Umrath 140
The Wolves
Sarah DeLappe's 21st century coming-of-age tale offers a glimpse into the lives of nine teenage teammates on a girls soccer team
Edison Theatre | 6465 Forsyth Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63105
Paws with the PAD
Take a pause with us and enjoy some pet therapy with the Performing Arts Department!
Mallinckrodt Lobby
2025 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Competition-Call for Submissions
The deadline for submitting a play to the A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Competition has been extended to Monday, February 10, 2025!
Choreographies of a Life: Mapping Afro - Worlds and Cultures
Oliver will discuss a number of her choreographic works, her methods for creating the teams with whom she creates, their inspirations and the socio cultural aims of her projects overall.
Umrath 140
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.
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
What’s Important in Verse Translation?
Diane Arnson Svarlien, Independent Scholar
Goldberg Formal Lounge | DUC
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
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
Fall Drama Auditions
GENERAL AUDITIONS for the fall semester will take place on August 29th & 30th, 2024.
Women's Building | Olin Studio I & II
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
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
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)