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
- Dijla Wal Furat: Between the Tigris and the Euphrates (Performance)
March 23, 2016
Granoff Center, Martinos Auditorium
A reading of a new play by Maurice Decaul MFA ’18. Directed by Ashley Teague, MFA ’17.
Continue reading → - Alanna Thain (Graduate Colloquium)
March 23, 2016
Lyman Hall, Room 211
Fabulation and Futurity in the Anarchive
Alanna Thain, Associate Professor, English and World Cinemas, Director, Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies and the Moving Image Research Laboratory, at McGill University presented a graduate colloquium talk in TAPS.
Continue reading → - Actors and Other Monsters: Graphic Satire as Blood Sport, 1789-1830 (Don Wilmeth Endowed Lecture)
March 21, 2016
John Hay Library
Professor Joseph Roach (Sterling Professor of Theater, Yale University) delivered the twelfth annual Don Wilmeth Endowed Lecture in Theatre and Entertainment
- Monique Mojica (Talk)
March 11, 2016
Ashamu Dance Studio
Inscripted Earth: Embodiment of Place as Research, Process and Performance
Monique Mojica spoke about her creative process for Side Show Freaks & Circus Injuns, her most recent work-in-progress co-written with LeAnne Howe and directed by Jorge Luis Morejon.
Continue reading → - Amelia Jones (Graduate Colloquium)
March 10, 2016
Lyman Hall, Room 211
Intimate Relations: What Makes Performance Queer? What Makes Queer Performative?
The talk introduced Amelia Jones’ new book project, in which she presents a historiography of the terms and concepts of “performativity” and “queer” in order to come to a more full and critically nuanced understanding of the confluence of queer and the performative in contemporary art and performance discourse.
Continue reading → - A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Performance)
March 3–13, 2016
Stuart Theatre
Written by William Shakespeare. Directed by Kira Hawkridge.
Continue reading → - Jasmine Elizabeth Johnson (Talk)
February 26, 2016
Ashamu Dance Studio
Jasmine Elizabeth Johnson, Assistant Professor of African and Afro-American and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University gave a public talk/ interactive workshop entitled West African Dance and the Politics of Diaspora. This event was part of the annual Rhythm of Change Festival.
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