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Washington University hosts a wide range of professional and student performing arts events, both on the Edison Theatre mainstage and in the intimate, "black box" A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre.
The annual Edison Theatre OVATIONS! Series, launched in 1973, presents interdisciplinary, multicultural and experimental new works (as well as innovative interpretations of classical material) by nationally and internationally known artists. The popular ovations! for young people series provides specially priced Saturday matinees for audiences of all ages.
The Performing Arts Department (PAD) in Arts & Sciences offers a variety of classic, contemporary and even original drama, including the winner of the annual A.E. Hotchner Student Playwriting Competition. Meanwhile, the Dance Program's Washington University Dance Theatre concert showcases top students, selected by audition, in professionally choreographed works by visiting artists such as Donald McKayle, David Dorfman and Bebe Miller.
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Mary Jean Cowell
Coordinator, Dance Program of Performing Arts in Arts & Sciences
Cowell's professional work began in New York City where she studied with Merce Cunningham and Alwin Nikolais, among others. She performed with the Katherine Litz Company and since then has choreographed more than 50 works which have been presented in New York, Hawaii, Tokyo, and more recently in St. ...
Expertise: contemporary dance, Japanese literature, Japanese theatre, Michio Ito, Kobe Abe
Direct contact: (314) 935-4474
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mjcowell@artsci.wustl.edu
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Christine Knoblauch-O'Neal
Senior Artist-in-Residence, Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences
Christine Knoblauch-O'Neal performed for twenty years with such companies as American Ballet Theater, the National Ballet, Dancers, and the Cincinnati Ballet.
Expertise: ballet, choreography, dance
Direct contact: (314) 935-4475
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ckoneal@artsci.wustl.edu
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Bonnie Kruger
Senior Artist-in-Residence in Performing Arts in Arts & Sciences
Kruger has designed costumes for more than 100 productions in theatre, opera and dance for companies throughout the United States and Europe.
Expertise: costume design, Baroque opera, opera costumes, costumes, opera
Direct contact: (314) 935-7522
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bjkruger@artsci.wustl.edu
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Carter Lewis
Playwright-in-Residence, Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences
Lewis is playwright-in-residence at Washington University in St. Louis, prior to which he served as literary manager & playwright-in-residence at Geva Theatre in New York. He was also co-founder and playwright-in-residence for Upstart Stage in Berkeley, CA.
Expertise: playwrighting, dramaturgy, contemporary theatre, horse racing
Direct contact: (314) 935-4475
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clewis@artsci.wustl.edu
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David Marchant
Senior Artist-in-Residence, Performing Art Department in Arts & Sciences
Marchant is an active St. Louis dancer and choreographer. In addition to his work at Washington University, he is artistic advisor to Atrek Contemporary Dance Company and on faculty at COCA (the Center of Contemporary Arts).
Expertise: contemporary dance theory, comtemporary dance technique, choreography, Alexander Technique, improvisation
Direct contact: (314) 935-4476
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marchant@artsci.wustl.edu
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What You Will
Tony Award-winner Roger Rees brings one-man show to Edison Theatre Nov. 20
Nov. 3,
2009 --
Olivier and Tony Award-winning actor Roger Rees is probably best known to American audiences for his work on the small screen — as the dashing English tycoon Robin Colcord on Cheers, as British Ambassador Lord John Marbury on The West Wing and, most recently, as Dr. Colin Marlow on Grey's Anatomy. But next month Rees, a 22-year veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), will return to the stage with What You Will, a side-splitting one-man-show that combines the Bard's greatest soliloquies with colorful observations about the acting life and offbeat (and occasionally bawdy) tales of theatrical disaster.
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Remember Me
Parson Dance and East Village Opera Company bring ambitious rock-opera to Edison Theatre Nov. 14 and 15
Oct. 27,
2009 --
It's a timeless tale: two rivalrous brothers vie for the love of a single woman. But Remember Me, the ambitious new collaboration between Parsons Dance Company and the East Village Opera Company (EVOC), is anything but old-fashioned. Combining contemporary dance with live and recorded music as well as video projections, aerial choreography and special effects, Remember Me is at once rock-opera and opera that really rocks. Next month these two internationally renowned companies will return to Edison Theatre to present Remember Me as part of the 2009-10 OVATIONS Series.
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Ragtime
The Black Rep and Performing Arts Department join forces for acclaimed musical Oct. 16 to Nov. 1
Sept. 24,
2009 --
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Ragtime, Terrence McNally's acclaimed adaptation of the 1975 novel by E.L. Doctorow, is a sweeping and ambitious tale of race, class and the promise of America at the dawn of the 20th century. It is also a tremendously demanding theatrical production, requiring almost 50 actors and at least a dozen musicians. Indeed, Ragtime is so logistically challenging — more than 150 different costumes must be designed and sewn — that it virtually precludes staging by all but the largest of regional theaters. Yet next month, The Black Rep will join forces with the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences to present this Tony Award-winning musical as the fall Mainstage production.
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World Premiere of Evie's Waltz Dances Into Repertory Theatre of St. Louis Oct. 22
Playbill.com (NY)
Oct. 22,
2008 -- Adam Hetrick previews the world premiere of Carter Lewis' Evie's Waltz, which begins performances at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis Oct. 22. The Rep commissioned playwright Lewis to pen the topical work, his fourth collaboration with The Rep. Lewis also serves as the playwright-in-residence at WUSTL.
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'Hana's Suitcase' bridges 2 worlds in its search for a girl who died at Auschwitz
Associated Press
and 16 others
Jan. 19,
2007 -- AP's Cheryl Wittenauer reports on the story behind Hana's Suitcase, a play that is receiving its American premiere this week at WUSTL's Edison Theatre.
Playwright Emil Sher's adaptation of the best-selling book of the same name by Karen Levine is co-produced by Edison Theatre and Metro Theater Company.
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Hemingway pal A.E. Hotchner recalls his old friend
Associated Press
and 11 others
July 21,
2005 -- Dear Papa, Dear Hotch -- letters between Ernest Hemingway and WUSTL alum A.E. Hotchner -- will be released this fall by U. Missouri Press. Hotchner talks about his friend and his life.
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Unpublished Williams poem found in bookstore
Associated Press
and 115 others
April 15,
2005 -- A previously unpublished poem by Tennessee Williams, described as having been "written out of absolute, complete despair," has been discovered in his blue test booklet from a college course in 1937.
The poem has been acquired by WUSTL, where Williams, as a student in his mid-20s, plummeted into depression before fleeing the city he said he despised.
WUSTL performing arts chair Henry Schvey found the poem and test booklet last March at Faulkner House Books in New Orleans.
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20 years after his death, a Tennessee Williams' work is staged for the first time
The New York Times
April 26,
2004 -- Twenty years after his death, one of Tennessee Williams' plays is seeing the light of a stage for the first time. "Me Vashya," an early play by Williams, will receive its world premiere at Washington University in St. Louis in February. Written in 1937 while Williams was a student here and known as Tom, his birth name, the play has remained in Washington University archives for more than 60 years. It has never been published or performed — until now.
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