Past Events
Helen Clanton Morrin Lecture: Martin Puchner
Plato and Modern Drama: Martin Puchner
Performing Arts Department Open House
For incoming students & their parents
Dance Placement Class
Required of all new dance students taking non-beginning dance courses
Audition Information Session
Not sure how to audition? No worries! Attend this short workshop!
Welcome Back Reception
Drama Auditions for 2016-17 Production Season
No experience necessary!
Callbacks for Spring 2016 Musical Revue in China
Drama Callbacks
Washington University Dance Collective Auditions
Washington University Dance Theatre Auditions
Drama Callbacks for Son of Soil
Drama Callbacks for Gossip
Nathan Trice Dance Residency
Artistic Director/Founder of nathantrice/RITUALS
Colloquium: "The Best Show in Town, Straight from the Countryside"
William Acree, Associate Professor of Spanish, Washington University
Bill T. Jones International Humanities Medal and Prize Ceremony & Lecture
"A Talk on Art, History and Love"
A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival
3 World Premiere Plays!
Colloquium: "Birth of a Dancing Nation: The Life, Writings, and Choreography of Ted Shawn"
Paul Scolieri, Associate Professor of Dance, Barnard College
2016 Presidential Debate
Jock Soto Dance Residency
2016 Distinguished Visiting Scholar
Symposium: Our Blood is Strong: A Conversation on Community, Identity and Policing
Dael Orlandersmith (Playwright) and Amy Alexander (Journalist/ Author)
Colloquium: “Theater That Builds Bridges, Theater That Chronicles Our Time”
KJ Sanchez, Founder & CEO of American Records Theater Company
Study in London at Shakespeare's Globe Theater
Please join us for an information session on November 14th at 4pm!
Performing Arts Department Alumn Chris Kammerer (LA '11) to Visit Campus
"Lunch with a Pro" Sponsored by the Career Center
2017 Marcus Artist-in-Residence
Sydnie L. Mosley
Colloquium: "The Sole of Pantalone: Shakespeare and the Masks of the Commedia Dell'Arte"
Robert Henke, Professor of Drama and Comparative Literature, Washington University
Colloquium: "The Globalization of the Broadway Musical"
David Savran, Distinguished Professor of Theatre & Vera Mowry Roberts Chair in American Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center
Interested in Careers in the Entertainment Industry?
Washington University Alumnus Russell Schwartz & Barbara Schaps Thomas
Colloquium: "Modernism, Theatre, and the Axis of Language in India"
Aparna Dharwadker, Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Gossip
Directed by William Whitaker
Alumni Reunion
BLACK MATTERS: Black Performance Theory 2017
"Black Patience: Performance and the Racial Politics of Waiting"
Julius Fleming Jr.
A Night of Performance Featuring Javon Johnson, PhD: Poet-Scholar
Retina Burn
Final Project of Lighting Technology Class
Performing Arts Department Open House
For incoming students & their parents
Dance Placement Class
Audition Information Session
Jeffery Matthews, Professor of the Practice in Drama
Welcome Back Reception
Drama Auditions for 2017-2018 Season
Performing Arts Department
Raja Feather Kelly Dance Auditions for WUDT
Washington University Dance Theatre Auditions
WashU Dance Collective Auditions
"Which One is The Monster?" A Conversation with Nick Dear
with Professors Henry I. Schvey & Rebecca Messbarger
British Playwright, Nick Dear to Visit the PAD
The Relevance of Theater in a Digital World.
A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival
Produced by Carter Lewis
Faculty Book Talk: Joanna Dee Das
Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora (Oxford University Press)
Colloquium: A Praxis of Black Maternal Grief: Radical Collapse at Emmett’s Wake
Rhaisa Williams-Postdoctoral Research Associate, Washington University in St. Louis
Guest Artists Ting-Ting Chang Choreography - Informal Showing
Frankenstein at 200 Conference
Henry I. Schvey, Professor of Drama will serve as one of the expert panelists for the Panel 2 Discussion: "Frankenstein Reborn"
Urinetown: The Musical
Music & Lyrics by Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis. Book by Greg Kotis / Directed by Jeffery Matthews
Dancing, Dialogue, Diplomacy: Decisions– a Conversation with Raja Feather Kelly
Raja Feather Kelly
Black Arts, Black Lives: Street Dance Activism
Shamell Bell
Interested in Careers in the Entertainment Industry?
Washington University Alumni: Russell Schwartz & Barbara Schaps Thomas
Work in Progress Showing Raja Feather Kelly’s Choreography
This informal showing of Raja Feather Kelly's work is free and open to the public.
The Return of the Warrior: Ancient Greeks and Modern Combat
Peter Meineck, New York University
Colloquium: An Introduction to Algorithmic Theater
Annie Dorsen-Artist/Director/Choreographer of Theatre, Film, and Dance
Dance Workshop & Performance
Sanjay Shantaram, Distinguished Bharatha Natyam Artist
Kiss
Written by Guillermo Calderon / Directed by Bill Whitaker
Washington University Dance Theatre: Here.Now.Together.
Artistic Direction by David Marchant
Colloquium Series: Toward Consilience: Integrating Performance History and the Coevolution of Our Species
Bruce McConachie, Professor Emeritus of Theatre Arts, University of Pittsburgh
2018 Marcus Artist-in Residence: Seda Aybay
Contrast and Layers
Colloquium Series: The Sociodramatic Experiment: Performing Nonviolence in the Civil Rights Movement
Paige McGinley-Associate Professor of Performing Arts, Washington University in St. Louis
Choreography by Rachael Servello (MFA '19) to be Performed at the St. Louis Chamber Chorus: Love Dances
MFA student in Dance, Rachael Servello is choreographing to Emma Lou Diemer's "Agnus Dei" for the concert, and WU students will be performing in it.
2018 Welcome Session for Majors & Minors in Dance & Drama
Joanna Dee Das to Speak at the Faculty Book Celebration
August: Osage County
Written by Tracy Letts / Directed by Andrea Urice
Colloquium Series: “Discourses of Memory: The Marginalization of Bronislava Nijinska.”
Lynn Garafola, Professor Emerita of Dance, Barnard College, Columbia University
MFA Student Dance Concert: Common Ground
Artistic Direction by Christine Knoblach-O'Neal
Helen Clanton Morrin Lecture: "A Conversation with Oskar Eustis"
2018
Empower Yourself: Lead a Successful Life as an Artistic Entrepreneur
Allyson Ditchey, Founder of Connect the Arts
WUDance Collective: The Gathering
Artistic Direction by Cecil Slaughter
Alumni Reunion
Time: TBD
The Black Rep Presents "Torn Asunder" by Nikkole Salter
Aunt Dan and Lemon
Written by Wallace Shawn / Directed by Annamaria Pileggi
Colloquium Series: Visions of Racial Democracy and Spectacles of Interracial Eros: Black-and-White Duets in the National Ballet of Cuba
Lester Tomé-Assistant Professor of Dance, Smith College
Student Dance Showcase
Retina Burn
Final Project of Lighting Technology Class
PAD Annual Banquet
Join us for dinner, awards, senior toasts and a celebration of another successful year in PAD!
Graduation Reception & Handprint Ceremony 2018
Celebrating the Class of 2018
Graduate School Hooding & Recognition Ceremony
Commencement
First Day of Class Fall 2018
T.T.C. Dance Company: Persistence of Memory
Artistic Direction by Ting-Ting Chang
A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival 2018
Washington University presents 3 world premieres with 2018 Guest Dramaturg, Michele M. Volansky
St. Pollution: Tennessee Williams's Implacable Hatred toward St. Louis and Washington University
Henry Schvey, Professor of Drama and Comparative Literature, Washington University in St. Louis
Richard O'Brien's "The Rocky Horror Show"
Written by Richard O'Brien and Directed by William Whitaker
Body Art: Between the ‘Who’ and the ‘What’ of Love
Kristine Stiles, France Family Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke University
Kentucky
Written by Leah Nanako Winkler and Directed by Ron Himes
Washington University Dance Theatre presents "PastForward"
Artistic Direction by David Marchant
The Black Rep presents the World Premiere of "Canfield Drive"
Written by Michael Thomas Walker and Kristen Adele
Deadline to Submit to the 2019 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Competition
Attention all Writers! Submissions are now being accepted for the 2019 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Competition. Open to ALL Washington University in St. Louis students, the deadline for submission is January 18, 2019 at 4 p.m.
Theorizing Threaded Media; or, Why James Bond Isn’t Just a Failed Attempt at Star Wars
Colin Burnett, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
Angels in America: Bringing Social Work, Public Health, Policy and Racial Implications to the Forefront
To be, or not to be, [in London]. Shakespeare at the Globe
Immersing the student in an intensive exploration of Shakespeare; his plays, the historical-political-cultural context of his time and the stage skills necessary to perform his work.
London, England, July 8 - August 2, 2019.
Applications are open to Washington University students as well as students from other colleges and universities.
Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
written by by Tony Kushner and Directed by Henry I. Schvey
Approaching Millennium: Reflecting on 40 years of AIDS and Tony Kushner's "Angels in America"
2019 Marcus Artist-in-Residence: Lecture Demonstration with Company Wayne McGregor Dancers
“The Choreographic Process and How it Translates to Dancers on Stage”
Historicizing Chinese Dance: Socialist Legacies and Contemporary Trajectories
Emily Wilcox, Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
MFA Student Dance Concert: Reel2Real
Artistic Direction by Christine Knoblauch-O'Neal
Performing Morrison: A Convening at Washington University in St. Louis
Performing Morrison is a convening towards the preparation of the forthcoming special issue of College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies: "Toni Morrison and Adaptation" to be released Summer 2020. The special issue, co-edited by Stacie McCormick (Assistant Professor of English at Texas Christian University) and Rhaisa Williams (Assistant Professor of Performing Arts at Washington University in St. Louis), considers Toni Morrison's work in the contexts of performance genres such as theatre, film, and opera.
WashU Dance Collective: UnTethered
Artistic Direction by Cecil Slaughter
The ‘New’ Hamburg Dramaturgy: Translation as Scholarship in the Digital Age
Wendy Arons, Professor of Dramatic Literature, Carnegie Mellon University and Natalya Baldyga, Instructor in History and Social Science, Phillips Academy Andover
Florida
Written by Lucas Marschke and Directed by Jeffery Matthews
The Performing Arts Department Lighting and Technology Class presents "Retina Burn"
Interested in Careers in the Entertainment Industry?
Washington University Alumni, Russell Schwartz, Senior Vice President & Head, Original Programming Business & Legal Affairs at Starz and Barbara Schaps Thomas, Actress and former Senior Vice President & CFO of HBO Sports.
Spring 2019 Proposal-Writing Information Session
Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities; Informational panel discussions and Q&A for faculty and post-docs humanities & humanistic social sciences interested in pursuing external funding - Please RSVP
PAD 2019 Annual Banquet
Join us for dinner, awards, senior toasts and a celebration of another successful year for the Performing Arts Department!
The Black Rep presents: "Nina Simone: Four Women" opening May 15, 2019
Performing Arts Department Graduation Reception and Handprint Ceremony
For the Class of 2019.
Placement Class for Ballet, Jazz and Modern Dance
Dance placement class is for incoming freshmen and transfer students who wish to enter ballet, modern and jazz classes above the beginning level.
Auditions for the Performing Arts Department 2019-2020 Season
Audition Information Session
2019-2020 Drama Auditions
2019-2020 Drama Auditions
Casting Call for the role of "Bruiser" in "Legally Blonde"
2019-2020 Dance Auditions - Washington University Dance Theatre
The Black Rep presents "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" September 4 - 22, 2019
2019-2020 Dance Auditions - WUDance Collective
A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival 2019
A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Competition 2020 Announces Selected Plays
"Order and Beauty": Ensemble-Made Chicago
Chloe Johnston, Associate Professor of Theater, Lake Forest College
Ain't Misbehavin' - The Black Rep Gala - 2019
Lesley Malin presents "Managing Shakespeare: Text, Company, Playhouse"
In this two-part event Leslie Malin, LA '88 will talk about what it takes to manage a successful theatre; followed by a hands-on workshop which will delve into Shakespeare's text focusing on form, presentation, diction and delivery.
Legally Blonde
Music & Lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin; book by Heather Hach
based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture
Skin Temperature: Air Conditioning and Cross-Racial Identification in "Orfeu Negro" (1959)
Julia Walker, Associate Professor of English and Drama, Washington University in St. Louis
Trezana Beverley: "Perspectives from a Black Theater Woman"
Winner of the distinguished Tony Award for her performance in the Broadway show "for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf," Trezana Beverley will be presenting a Lecture followed by a Master Class*.
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Washington University Dance Theatre: COALESCENCE
The Black Rep presents "Two Trains Running" opening January 8, 2020
A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Competition-Call for Submissions
The Deadline for submitting a play to the A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Competition is January 17, 2020. Start writing today!
Dancing Against the Law: Critical Moves in Queer Bangalore.
Kareem Khubchandani, Professor in the Department of Drama and Dance and the Program in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Tufts University.
Are you a Dance Major interested in Dance Education?
Letters of intent for the 2020 Dance Education Laboratory Summer Institute will be accepted through February 3, 2020.
“Noses, Mustaches, and Lazzi”
A Lecture/Demonstration presented by Antonio Fava, international master of Commedia dell’Arte
The Dancing Circle: opportunities for connection, community and creation
A Lecture/Demonstration presented by the Performing Arts Department 2020 Marcus Artist-in-Residence, Jessica Anthony
Realist Ecstasy and The Disappearing Christ
Authors, Lindsay V. Reckson and Phillip Maciak in Conversation, moderated by Rebecca Wanzo, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Men on Boats
This dynamic and very funny piece of writing is a provocative lens for re-examining an extraordinary American moment.
Mr. Jeremy Bentham’s Posthumous Performance Prank… and its Lessons for Contemporary Biocapitalists, Necroliberals, and Political Theorists
Margaret Werry, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, University of Minnesota
The Black Rep presents: Spell #7 by Ntozake Shange
On stage in the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre, February 19 - March 8, 2020.
PAD Announces Cancellation of Remainder of the 2019-2020 Season
Canceled - The Triumph of Love
"The Triumph of Love" has been canceled.
Postponed- MFA Student Dance Concert: Mindscapes
Our MFA Student Dance Concert: Mindscapes, is postponed until next season.
The Triumph of Love
"The Triumph of Love" has been canceled.
Canceled - Julia Lindon: Film Screening of 'Lady Liberty'
Canceled - Blue Gold & Butterflies: A Performance Lecture
Dr. Stephanie Leigh Batiste, Associate Professor of English at The University of California at Santa Barbara, and Director of the Hemispheric South/s Research Initiative
Canceled - WUDance Collective: Panorama
This show has been canceled. If you have purchased a ticket for this production you will be notified shortly about receiving a refund.
Canceled - Ironbound
This show has been canceled. If you have purchased a ticket for this production you will be notified shortly about receiving a refund.
Virtual Visit with PAD Alum Josh Einsohn
Canceled - 2020 Student Dance Showcase
Canceled - 2020 Student Dance Showcase
Class of 2024 Registration Begins
Registration for the Class of 2024 will take place July 14 - 16, 2020.
Performing Arts Department Open House for the Class of 2024
All new and transfer students, and their families are invited to join our Drop-in Zoom Sessions and meet our faculty and staff to learn more about the Performing Arts Department.
Drama Audition Information Session
First Day of Classes
Performing Arts Department Welcome Back Reception
For all new & returning students, faculty, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival 2020
The A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival will be available for on-demand viewing until Saturday, October 31, 2020.
Black Moves: Race, Dance, and Power in Early Modern Europe
Noémie Ndiaye, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago
Register today for the Performing Arts Department Major-Minor Fair on Zoom
First-year and Sophomore Students Register Now for the 2020 Performing Arts Department Major/Minor Fair
AUDITIONS FOR ADVANCED AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATRE
THE TITLE OF THIS COURSE IS -- TOPICS IN THEATRE: ADVANCED AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATRE (DRAMA 372)
"To Be on the One: Worldmaking in the Global Hip Hop Cypher"
Imani Kai Johnson, Assistant Professor of Critical Dance Studies at University of California, Riverside
Remember...That Time Before the Last Time (World Premiere)
This production premiered on December 11, 2020 and was available on-demand thru January 3, 2021.
Washington University Dance Theatre: Aperture
This "Dance for Camera" Film Festival Premiered December 18, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. and Streamed On-demand thru January 3, 2021.
Spring Drama Auditions
Audition submissions for the Performing Arts Department Spring Drama productions will be accepted through the PAD Audition Website January 4 - 14, 2021
Accepting Submissions to the Virtual Platform
Submissions are now being accepted for the Performing Arts Department Virtual Platform. All Washington University Students are Eligible.
Attention All Writers!
Submissions are now being accepted for the 2021 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Competition. All Washington University Students are Eligible.
"Taiwanese Puppetry Cosplay: Negotiating Performance and Animation"
Teri Silvio is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
This will be a live zoom event.
PAD Study Day - No Classes
No class meetings, rehearsals, or department meetings are scheduled. This is a critical part of the Spring Calendar to allow everyone to catch their breath and relax.
“Performance and Social Theory: Functionalism and Tragic Action in Montesquieu”
Pannill Camp, Chair of Performing Arts & Associate Professor of Drama at Washington University in St. Louis
WashU Wellness Days - No Classes
No class meetings, rehearsals, or department meetings are scheduled. This is a critical part of the Spring Calendar to allow everyone to catch their breath and relax.
Are you a Dance Major interested in Dance Education?
Letters of intent for the 2021 Dance Education Laboratory Summer Institute will be accepted through Monday, March 8, 2021.
Attention PAD Students - EDI Spring Meeting
PAD Study Day - No Classes
No class meetings, rehearsals, or department meetings are scheduled. This is a critical part of the Spring Calendar to allow everyone to catch their breath and relax.
MFA Student Dance Concert: Pathway
Premiered Saturday, March 27, 2021 at 8:00 p.m. and was available on-demand thru Sunday, April 11, 2021.
2021 Marcus Artist-in-Residence: Danielle Agami
View The Covid Mysteries On-demand.
The first “official” performance on the PAD Mobile Stage, "The Covid Mysteries" premiered April 1, 2021.
Homecoming Voices
Theatrical Jazz and Phases of Black Womanhood in Batiste's "Blue Gold & Butterflies"
Dr. Stephanie Leigh Batiste, Associate Professor of English at The University of California at Santa Barbara, and Director of the Hemispheric South/s Research Initiative
WashU Wellness Day - No Classes
No class meetings, rehearsals, or department meetings are scheduled. This is a critical part of the Spring Calendar to allow everyone to catch their breath and relax.
Ferne Pearlstein, the director of the film The Last Laugh
Ferne Pearlstein, the director of the film The Last Laugh will be speaking in the seminar that Prof. Nancy Berg and Henry Schvey are currently offering, Staging Atrocity.
Vignettes for the Artists Who Saw the World in Two Dimensions
Sarah Sterling (LA 21), Choreographer
Tough!
Premiering April 22, 2021!
Washington University Dance Collective: Supper
This production was available On-demand from Friday, April 30 to Sunday, May 16, 2021.
"Songs You'd Never Sing Episode 3: "Distance ≧ Connectivity"
"Song's You'd Never Sing" presents "Distance ≧ Connectivity" as part of an ongoing series produced by Henry Palkes, Lecturer in the Performing Arts
Retina Burn
On-demand through Sunday, May 23, 2021.
"Accompaniment Techniques for Dance" Virtual Showcase
The Accompaniment Techniques for Dance class invites you to view it's Spring 2021 virtual showcase.
To the Lighthouse
This production was available on-demand, May 7-9, 2021.
2021 PAD Virtual Banquet
SAVE THE DATE!
IF YOU WERE INVOLVED, YOU ARE INVITED!
2021 Handprint Ceremony for Graduating PAD Students
New DAY and TIME.
The Performing Arts Department gives a final "Standing Ovation" to our 2021 Graduates
Handprint Ceremony for 2020 Graduates
Handprint Ceremony for 2020 Graduates
"Songs You'd Never Sing Episode 4: "Finding Forward"
"Song's You'd Never Sing" presents "Finding Forward" as part of an ongoing series produced by Henry Palkes, Lecturer in the Performing Arts
The Black Rep presents...
The St. Louis Black Rep rounds up its season of virtual programming with a final mainstage production of an original work "Do I Move You?"
"Homecoming Voices" featured in "Washington Magazine"
"Homecoming Voices" - When COVID-19 upended the season, WashU’s Performing Arts Department turned to alumni playwrights.
Henry I. Schvey to Discuss new book on Tennessee Williams
Henry I. Schvey, Professor of Drama and Comparative Literature to discuss his new biography of Tennessee Williams.
Telling the Tale with Lynn Nottage
The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (The Rep) and the St. Louis Black Repertory Theatre (The Black Rep) are pleased to welcome two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage to St. Louis for a very special roundtable event.
St. Louis On The Air Welcomes Henry I. Schvey
Henry I. Schvey, Professor of Drama and Comparative Literature will discuss how St. Louis shaped Tennessee Williams’ life and work.
2021 Performing Arts Department Open House
Dance Placement Class
All new students with interest in dance at WU are strongly encouraged to attend the Dance Placement Class.
Drama Audition Workshop
Not sure how to audition? No worries! Attend this short workshop with Bill Whitaker, Professor of the Practice and Amy Soll, Stage Management Supervisor.
PAD Welcome Back Reception
The Performing Arts Department welcomes all new and returning students!
PAD Drama Auditions
Auditions will be held for the Performing Arts Department's Fall 2021 Semester Drama Productions.
Auditions!
Auditions will be held for the Performing Arts Department's Fall Semester productions; The A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival; She Kills Monsters and The Science of Leaving Omaha. And the PAD's Fall and Spring dance concerts, Washington University Dance Theatre: Return, WashU Dance Collective: Redux.
PAD Dance Auditions
Auditions will be held for the Performing Arts Department's Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 Dance Productions.
The Black Rep presents: SWEAT
The Black Rep presents Lynn Nottage's "SWEAT" directed by Ron Himes
A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival 2021
We invite you to become a part of the playwriting process at the script-in-hand staged reading of each play.
"Performing for God and Country: The History of Branson Entertainment
Joanna Dee Das, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Dance in the Performing Arts Department at Washington University in St. Louis
She Kills Monsters
Major-Minor Fair
First-year and Sophomore Students Register Now for the 2021 Major/Minor Fair
Overload: Switchboard Automation and the Disability History of 0s and 1s
Mara Mills, Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.
The Goldilocks Phenomenon
A Dance Thesis, by senior Grace Myers
The Goldilocks Phenomenon
A Dance Thesis, by senior Grace Myers
The Science of Leaving Omaha
Washington University Dance Theatre: Return
The Time is Now to Submit your play for the A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Competition
Deadline for submission, January 28, 2022.
Stop. Rewind. Replay: Performance, Policing, and Dismantling a Use of Force Paradigm
Natalie Alvarez
Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies, Ryerson University
2022 Marcus Artist-in-Residence: Lecture Demonstration with RESILIENCE Dance Company
Featuring Performing Arts Department Alum Emily Haussler (LA '18)
Podding with Hamlet
Sujata Iyengar, Professor of English, University of Georgia; Co-founder and Co-editor of Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation
Director, Mobile Digital Editing Lab
RENT
The Performing Arts Department announces new dates for "RENT"
Major-Minor Welcome
2023 Welcome Session for Majors & Minors in Dance & Drama
Major-Minor Welcome
2022 Welcome Session for Majors & Minors in Dance & Drama
MFA Student Dance Concert: Solve et Coagula
with the 2020 Cohort: Mindscapes
Insight into the Industry: A Talk with LA Casting Director, Josh Einsohn
"Now is the right time. Come, come!": Unpacking Gender, Caste, and Humor in Bharatanatyam Performances of Eroticism
Anusha Kedhar, Assistant Professor in Dance, University of California, Riverside
Washington University Dance Collective: REDUX
Auditioning & Acting for the Camera
A workshop with Sasha Diamond (LA ‘12)
From WashU to Working the Boards
Q & A with Sasha Diamond (LA ‘12)
PAD Alumni Reception
Bull in a China Shop
Student Dance Showcase: "Sunny Side Up"
Student Run, Student Choreographed, Student Danced!
Retina Burn
The students of the Lighting Technology class will put on a full concert in the Edison Theatre.
ScreenDance Film Festival
Now Available to Stream until August 7!
2022 Handprint Ceremony for Graduating PAD Students
If you were involved, you are invited!
May 2022 Hooding & Recognition Ceremony
Dance Placement Class for 2022-2023
All new students with interest in dance at WU are strongly encouraged to attend the Dance Placement Class.
Drama Audition Workshop
Not sure how to audition? No worries! Attend this short workshop with Bill Whitaker, Professor of the Practice, along with current PAD students.
First Day of Classes
PAD Kick-off
The Performing Arts Department welcomes all new and returning students!
PAD Drama Auditions
Auditions will be held for the Performing Arts Department's Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 Semester Drama Productions.
PAD Dance Auditions
Auditions will be held for the Performing Arts Department's Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 Dance Productions.
Open-rank position in Latinx Performance
Under the auspices of the Provost's Race and Ethnicity 2022-2023 Cluster Hire, the Performing Arts Department (PAD) and American Culture Studies invite applications for an open-rank position in the area of Latinx Performance with a focus on race and/or ethnicity, to begin August 2023.
Jazz Dance Is...: A Conversation with Melanie George
Join the Performing Arts Department for a conversation with Melanie George, named one of Dance Magazine's "30 over 30" in 2021 and an Associate Curator at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.
A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival 2022
We invite you to become a part of the playwriting process at the script-in-hand staged reading of each play.
Dancing Dual Diasporas: Jewishness and Blackness in Dege Feder's Ethiopian Contemporary
Into The Woods
"Into the Woods" is a cautionary tale about life, love, and loss as it explores the crisis of coming of age in an uncertain world.
Performing Black Sovereignty
Miguel Valerio, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Washington University in St. Louis
Globe Summer Program Information Meeting
Learn about our three-week summer program in London at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.
Translation : Dramaturgy
The Performing Arts and East Asian Languages and Cultures Departments and the Center for the Literary Arts invite you to a mini-conference in conjunction with our production of Hsu Yen Ling’s The Dust.
The Dust
Love and Mortality. Existence and Destruction. These are the tensions at play in Hsu Yen Ling’s "The Dust".
Washington University Dance Theatre: This is Temporary
The annual dance concert features diverse artwork by resident and guest choreographers, performed by student dancers of the Performing Arts Department.
The Black Rep presents "Death Of A Salesman
The classic story of traveling salesman Willy Loman and his family explores the disillusionment of the American Dream and the toll it takes on all aspects of life.
On ‘Death of a Salesman’: A Conversation with Ron Himes
Join Himes for a conversation about the production, the Black Rep and this moment in American theater.
Kindred: A Senior Dance Showcase
Kindred is a showcase of two senior dances choreographed by Diamond Warren-Tucker & Izzy Yanover exploring themes of family and belonging.
More Than Just Entertainment: The Politics of Branson’s Tourism Industry and Ethical Questions for Scholars
Joanna Dee Das, Assistant Professor of Dance, Washington University
The Oresteia
The House of Atreus is burdened by an old curse and trapped in a cycle of retributive violence.
"Looking at the Creative Process Through the Lens of Scenic Design"
Rob Morgan, Teaching Professor of Drama, Washington University in St. Louis
2023 MFA Student Dance Concert: No Boundaries
This year’s concert, "No Boundaries", celebrates the sixth year of the MFA in Dance final project with choreography by Kendra Key and Erin Morris.
Careers in the Entertainment Industry
Join us as Washington University Alumni come together to discuss their experiences within the entertainment industry. All aspects of the business will be discussed, from the creative process of writing and acting, to the nuts and bolts of the business of entertainment, and beyond.
"On the Aesthetics of Black Inexpression"
Tina Post, Assistant Professor, Department of English, The University of Chicago
WUDance Collective: GENESIS
“There is an important story needing to come through each of us. We are longing to be seen, to be necessary.” — Toko-pa Turner
2023 Helen Clanton Morrin Biennial Lecture
"Write What You Don't Know" a conversation with David Henry Hwang
Retina Burn
The students of the Lighting Technology class will put on a full concert in the Edison Theatre.
Student Dance Showcase
Student Run, Student Choreographed, Student Danced!
Lena Blou: Performing the political
Lena Blou will share her dance practice by evoking the practical, aesthetic, historical, anthropological and philosophical dimensions of Gwoka, Techni’ka and Bigidi and discusses with our students what these concepts teach us about how to approach uncertainty, unpredictability, imbalances, in contemporary society.
Shakespeare Day: Celebrating 400 years of Shakespeare in Print
Join us as we celebrate the 400-year anniversary of William Shakespeare’s first folio—the first time his collected works were printed.
F***ing A
In Suzan-Lori Parks's "Fucking A", Hester Smith, the shunned local abortionist, hatches a plan to buy her jailed son’s freedom — and nothing will deter Hester from her quest.
2023 Handprint Ceremony for Graduating PAD Students
If you were involved, you are invited!
Graduate Hooding & Recognition Ceremony
College of Arts & Sciences Recognition Ceremony
Dance Placement Class for the 2023-2024 Academic Year
All new students with interest in dance at WU are strongly encouraged to attend the Dance Placement Class.
Drama Audition Workshop
Not sure how to audition? No worries! Attend this short workshop with Bill Whitaker, Professor of the Practice, along with current PAD students.
PAD Kick-Off
Welcome back! Join us for the PAD Kick-Off!
Fall Drama Auditions
GENERAL AUDITIONS for the fall semester will take place in-person and through online submission.
PAD Dance Auditions
Auditions will be held for both Washington University Dance Theatre and the WU Dance Collective.
A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival 2023
We invite you to become a part of the playwriting process at the script-in-hand staged reading of each play.
Return to Play: A Workshop in Clown and Improv
Join PAD Alum Lindsay Brill as she presents an introduction to clowning and its application to improvisation.
Bitter Fruit: A Roundtable on Drama in Translation
A scholarly roundtable featuring playwright Héctor Levy-Daniel (zoomed in from Argentina), translator Philip Boehm (artistic director of Upstream Theatre), Virginia Braxs (faculty, Washington University), and Gad Guterman (faculty, Webster University), with interpretation by Sara Brenes Akerman (graduate student, Washington University in St. Louis)
Fall Break
No Classes
Love Dances: A Workshop and Lecture on Intercultural Collaboration
Writing and Embodied Creativity
A Talk with 2023 Marcus Artist-in-Residence, Choreographer Leslie Cuyjet
Cabaret
“What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear the music play..."
Queer Hits for Hitler's Hollywood:Bruno Balz, Zarah Leander, and the Nazis
Sounding the Unseen: Radio Dramaturgy from Wireless to Podcast
What makes radio storytelling unique? How does the medium’s restriction to the auditory sense offer new opportunities for dramatic representation? In this presentation, Caroline Kita offers new perspectives on radio drama, a genre that emerged with the birth of the radio medium in the early 20th century. Her research focuses on the construction of radio story worlds through the core elements of voice, music, noise, and silence, and highlights how the soundscapes of radio dramas offer critical insights into practices of listening and attitudes toward mediated sound in particular cultural moments. Drawing on work from her book in progress, Border Territories: The Emancipatory Soundscapes of Postwar West German Radio Drama, Prof. Kita’s talk illuminates the significance of radio drama in the German context in the aftermath of World War II, and points to the ways that the dramaturgical language of radio dramas from this era continues to shape radio storytelling today in the form of the audio fiction podcast.
God of Carnage
PAD Spring Production Auditions
GENERAL AUDITIONS for the fall semester will take place in-person and through online submission.
Thanksgiving Break
No Classes
Washington University Dance Theatre: WUDT'sNEXT
Fall 2023 Final Showings
The end of the semester means opportunities for our students to put into practice what they have been learning in class.
Applications Are Now Open for The Summer Program at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Immersing the student in an intensive exploration of Shakespeare; his plays, the historical-political-cultural context of his time and the stage skills necessary to perform his work.
London, England, July 7 - 27 2024.
2024 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Competition-Call for Submissions
The Deadline for submitting a play to the A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Competition is February 4, 2024. Start writing today!
The Winter's Tale
Stop! Shakespeare, Boal, and the Italian Spect-actor
Robert Henke, Professor of Drama and Comparative Literature and Director of Graduate Studies, M.A. in Performance Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
Major-Minor Welcome
2024 Welcome Session for Majors & Minors in Dance & Drama
2024 MFA Student Dance Concert
First Mondays with Arianna String Quartet: Drama and Sound with Dr. Robert Henke
Featuring PAD Professor of Drama and Comparative Literature, Rob Henke!
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
WUDance Collective: GLIMMERS
Student Dance Showcase: A Picnic in the Park
Student Run, Student Choreographed, Student Danced!
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.
Cry it Out
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).
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.
Retina Burn 2024
The students of the Lighting Technology class will put on a full concert in the Edison Theatre.
Feathers and Facepaint: The Making of Redface in American Theatre
Bethany Hughes, Assistant Professor of American Culture, Native American Studies Program, University of Michigan
2024 Handprint Ceremony for Graduating PAD Students
If you were involved, you are invited!
Graduate Hooding & Recognition Ceremony
College of Arts & Sciences Recognition Ceremony
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.