Brown University’s Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies offers a broad range of public lectures and talks, as well as a variety of community classes and workshops. Most of these events are offered to the public for free. These events are complimented by a full theatre production season, selected by the Sock & Buskin board, a group comprised of undergraduate students along with members of the TAPS faculty and staff.
Below is an archive of selected events and productions from recent years. Click on the links below to find out more information about each event.
SELECTED PAST EVENTS
- Mande Dance and Music Class (Workshop)
May 28, 2016
Seydou Coulibaly and Michelle Bach-Coulibaly co-taught their popular Mande dance and music class with the Sidy Maiga Drum Ensemble.
Continue reading → - The OTHER Campus Dance! (Workshop)
May 28 at 4pm, 2016
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Englander Studio
A Master Dance Class with Julie Adams Strandberg
Continue reading → - SoloFest 2016 (Festival)
May 26–28, 2016
Strasberg Studio, Faunce House
The festival of senior solo theatre performances ran for three days, with nine shows each just under an hour.
Continue reading → - Play: the Game -or- Game: the Play (Performance)
May 19–21, 2016
Leeds Theatre
A part of Writing is Live 2016
Written by Rick Burkhardt ’16 MFA
Directed by Shira Milikowsky
Continue reading → - There Is No One Between You And Me (Performance)
May 12–14, 2016
Leeds Theatre
A part of Writing is Live 2016
Written by Dalia Taha ’16 MFA
Directed by Caitlin Ryan O’Connell ’16 MFA
Continue reading → - Festival of Dance 2016 (Performance)
- Uri McMillan (Graduate Colloquium)
April 29, 2016
Sensing Grace Jones and Other Sensuous Acts of Knowing
Uri McMillan, Assistant Professor of English, at UCLA approaches the oversized, sculptural and strikingly geometric presence of Jamaican-born model-actress-fashion muse-performer Grace Jones as a figure whose slipperiness has frustrated attempts to decode precise meanings from her large body of work.
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