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
- The Oldest Boy (Reading)
April 26, 2016
Brown/RISD Hillel
Brown University’s Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, University of Rhode Island’s Center for Nonviolence, and Trinity Repertory Company presented a reading of The Oldest Boy, the recent play by Sarah Ruhl ’97, ’01 MFA, to raise awareness about 2015’s 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Nepal.
Continue reading → - Dr. Kim TallBear (Talk)
April 25, 2016
Petteruti Lounge
Disrupting Settlement, Sex and Nature: An Indigenous Logic of Relationality
Continue reading → - Eleanor Skimin (Graduate Colloquium)
April 22, 2016
Becker Library, Lyman Hall
The Artist is Sitting: Marina Abramovic’s sedentary performance works and the ghosts of bourgeois domestic drama
Continue reading → - Native Girl Syndrome (Performance)
April 12, 2016
Granoff Center, Studio 1
Native Girl Syndrome was dance artist Lara Kramer’s new piece inspired by the experience of her own grandmother who migrated from a remote First Nations community into an unfamiliar urban environment as a young woman. The piece explored the effects of cultural disorientation, assimilation and the self-destructive behavior she endured.
Continue reading → - Making Intermedial Performance: The Artist’s Way (Lecture-Workshop)
April 11, 2016
Ashamu Dance Studio
In collaboration with AS220 Modern Movements Festival, Ferro-Murrayl shared different methods for addressing digital culture and new media.
Continue reading → - Colleen Kim Daniher (Graduate Colloquium)
April 8, 2016
Lyman Hall, Becker Library
Curating the Costume: Pauline Johnson’s Racial Ambiguity Act
Colleen Kim Daniher, Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, held a graduate colloquium talk in TAPS.
Continue reading → - Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play (Performance)
April 7–18, 2106
Leeds Theatre
Written by Anne Washburn. Directed by Connie Crawford.
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