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
- Anusha Kedhar (Graduate Colloquium)
- Writers in Action: The Flea Theatre, New York (Performance)
April 24, 2017
New Dramatists
424 West 44th Street, NYCThe Flea Theater/Brown University MFA Project Residency 2017 featured brief excerpts from new works by Diane Exavier & Carlos Sirah followed by a meet & greet reception with the writers.
Continue reading → - Sandra Stone (Workshop)
April 7, 2017
Ashamu Dance Studio
The Paul Taylor Legacy Project, a collaboration of American Dance Legacy Initiative, FirstWorks, and the Brown University Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, presented: A Master Class With Sandra Stone.
- Invasion! (Performance)
April 6–16, 2017
Leeds Theatre
Written by Jonas Hassen Khemiri. Translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles.
Directed by Ashley Teague ’17 MFA
Continue reading → - Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces (CRCI): How Bodies Make Data (Conference)
March 10–11, 2017
Granoff Center, Studio One
CRCI was a convening where artists, designers, scientists, ethnographers and roboticists discussed the choreography of the Internet of Things.
Continue reading → - ASaP Symposium 2017 (Symposium)
March 4, 2017
Ashamu Dance Studio
Intergenerativity: Creative Exchange Between Generations
Produced by ASaP (Artists and Scientists as Partners) and Brown University Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, the ASaP Symposium 2017: Intergenerativity was a day of workshops, community classes, discussion, lecture-demonstrations, and film.
Continue reading → - In The Heights (Performance)
March 2–5 & 9–12, 2017
Stuart Theatre
Music and Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Book by Quiara Algería Hudes ’04 MFA.
Conceived by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Directed by Sarah d’Angelo.
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