Happy 2016! This quarter started with a week-long residency with Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl, who are working with graduate and undergraduate students on a year-long community-based theatre project. Lisa and Katie will have one more residency here in May, followed by public performances of the work being created by UW Drama students in collaboration with three social service organizations in the U-Distrct. We can't wait to share it with you.
In the meantime, we have plenty of events to get your Drama fix. This month includes a new play workshop and public reading, the third event in our Lost & Founded Series, and the opening of the second production of the Musical Theater Program.
We'll see you at the theatre!
New Play Workshop: The Tale of the Heike
Presented in collaboration with ACT—A Contemporary Theatre.
Philip Kan Gotanda and Yussef El Guindi are collaborating on a stage adaptation of The Tale of the Heike, one of the most influential works in Japanese literature and culture, remaining even today a crucial source for fiction, drama, and popular media. Originally written in the mid-thirteenth century, it features a cast of vivid characters and chronicles the epic Genpei war, a civil conflict that marked the end of… Read more
Lost & Founded 3: Bathhouse Theatre
In partnership with One Coast Collaboration and UW World Series.
The third evening in the series features The Bathhouse Theatre and a reading excerpt from The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder. Former artistic director Arne Zaslove will be in attendance. A reception will follow the reading.
Lost & Founded 3: Bathhouse Theatre—reading & receptionThe Skin of Our Teethby Thornton Wilderdirected by Arne ZasloveMonday, January 25, 7:30 PM… Read more
Musical Theater: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Presented by the UW Musical Theater Program—a partnership of the School of Drama, School of Music, and Dance Program.
This hilarious & warmhearted musical comedy chronicles the experiences of six adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home life, the tweens spell their way through a series of [potentially made-up] words hoping to never hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming… Read more
Performance Studies Research Group Lecture
The UW Performance Studies Research Group is pleased to present a lecture by Harvey Young, Northwestern University, on Friday, January 22, in the Simpson Center for the Humanities.
A Racist Love Note: Stereotypes and Caricatures in early 20th Century Valentine’s Day Cards
Friday, January 22, 5:00 PMFree and open to the public, no RSVP requiredCommunications Building, room 120
This presentation spotlights the darker side of… Read more
Alumni News: January 2016
Leyla Modirzadeh (PATP '90) directed Love and Information at San Jose City College this past fall and will be directing The Overcoat in the spring.
Professor Valerie Curtis-Newton (MFA '96) directs Stephen Adly Guirgis's The Motherfucker with a Hat at Washington Ensemble Theatre, running January 15… Read more