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 Red Paint (Performance)The Red Paint (Performance)

    December 3–6, 2015

    Leeds Theatre

    Written and Directed by Nikteha Salazar ’16

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  • John Lee Beatty ’70 (Talk)John Lee Beatty '70 (Talk)

    December 3, 2015

    Granoff Center, Englander Studio

    Tony Award-winning scenic designer, John Lee Beatty ’70 talked about how a designer’s work goes from the written page, to a two-dimensional image, to a completed stage set.

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  • Fall Dance Concert 2015 (Performance)Fall Dance Concert 2015 (Performance)

    November 19–22, 2015

    Ashamu Dance Studio

    Produced by Julie Adams Strandberg

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  • Cloud Eye Control (Lecture)Cloud Eye Control (Lecture)

    November 18, 2015

    Grant Recital Hall

    A conversation with Chi-Wang Yang ‘99, Miwa Matrayek, and Anna Oxygen.

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  • Gendered Gestures (Workshop)Gendered Gestures (Workshop)

    November 6, 2015

    Ashamu Dance Studio

    Farah Saleh’s  open workshop, which was sponsored by the Pembroke Center, identified what we experience and perceive as gendered gestures. As she explained “we try to understand how the specific ways we move while on and off stage are socially constructed. We will do exercises around our relation to our bodies and the bodies of others to investigate how we can consciously start choosing among these gendered gestures, to include them or exclude them from our full range of movements and why.”

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  • The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry (Performance)The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry (Performance)

    November 5–15, 2015

    Stuart Theatre

    Written by Marcus Gardley. Directed by Kym Moore.

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  • Nick Salvato (Graduate Colloquium)Nick Salvato (Graduate Colloquium)

    October 30, 2015

    Lyman Hall, Room 211

    In Performing Digital Digressiveness, Nick Salvato (Cornell University), asked “can a digressive spell open up paths to creativity and unexpected insights?” Engaging key texts from recent annals in “distraction studies,”  Salvato argued that digressiveness may generatively inform both a working style and a working strategy.

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