Edison Theatre

Managing Director: Charlie Robin Marketing Manager: Jennifer Watts

Home Page: http://edisontheatre.wustl.edu/ Email: edison@artsci.wustl.edu Telephone: (314) 935-6543

Edison Theatre is the only fully technically-equipped, proscenium thrust theatre on the Washington University campus and plays a varied role on campus. Edison is home to the professional presenting series OVATIONS! and ovations! for young people, showcasing touring artists and companies both national and international in scope; Edison serves as a teaching facility for the Washington University Performing Arts Department which produces three main stage Edison shows each year and serves as a performance venue for Washington University student organizations; Edison is also one of the few theatres in the St. Louis area to serve as a rental house for locally-based presenting arts organizations. At its capacity, Edison Theatre seats 656.

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What You Will Tony Award-winner Roger Rees brings one-man show to Edison Theatre Nov. 20 Nov. 3, 2009 -- Roger Rees Download 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.

Remember Me Parson Dance and East Village Opera Company bring ambitious rock-opera to Edison Theatre Nov. 14 and 15 Oct. 27, 2009 -- Lois Greenfield Remember Me Download 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.

Sleeping Beauty Wakes GrooveLily returns to Edison Theatre Oct. 2 and 3 Sept. 15, 2009 -- Leslie Lyons GrooveLily Download Fairytales do come true — sort of. Just ask Sleeping Beauty, whose 900 years of enchanted rest finally come to an end in a modern-day sleep disorder clinic, far from the land of far far away. Welcome to Sleeping Beauty Wakes, an artfully twisted take on the classic children's story, by theatrical power-pop trio GrooveLily. In October these acclaimed indie troubadours will return to St. Louis for a pair of performances as part of the Edison Theatre OVATIONS Series.

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Faculty Experts:

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David M. Holtzman Head of the Department of Neurology Holtzman Holtzman is known as one of the leading experts in researching the underlying mechanisms that lead to Alzheimer's disease in an effort to improve diagnosis and treatment. In addition to seeing patients at the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and the Memory Diagnostic Center, Holtzman leads a research ... Expertise: Alzheimer's disease, dementia, neurology, molecular biology, monoclonal antibodies, amyloid plaques, perinatal stroke Media assistance: (314) 286-0109 / reckessg@wustl.edu

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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.

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.