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
- My Name is Rachel Corrie (Performance)
- Lava Fossil (Performance)
November 3, 2014
Granoff Center, Englander Studio
Written and performed by Beth Nixon
Continue reading → - Wendall Harrington (Talk)
October 15, 2014
Grant Recital Hall
The Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies and the Department of Music presented a talk by Wendall Harrington, pioneer of projection design.
Continue reading → - Freedom Café (Event)
October 23, 2014
Granoff Center
Everett Company’s Freedom Café (Formerly Brain Café)
Continue reading → - The Bacchae (Reading)
October 14, 2014
Leeds Theatre
A staged reading of key sections of the play with synopsis of the rest, presented by TAPS and MCM students and faculty in conjunction with The Roger B. Henkle Memorial Lecture, Fallible Recognition: The Politics of Kinship in the Bacchae by Judith Butler.
Continue reading → - Erin Manning, (Graduate Colloquium)
October 6, 2014
Lyman Hall, Room 211
Weather Patterns or How Minor Gestures Entertain the Environment
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- Searching for Balance (Workshop)
October 3–5, 2014
Lyman Hall, Room 007
TAPS hosted a weekend workshop series with Daniel Bryan, director of the Pachaysana Institute, an Ecuadorian organization that uses the participatory arts to link community development and international education.
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