From Oct. 23 through Oct. 26, WashU’s All Student Theater (AST) will perform “The Rest is Silence,” their immersive adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy “Hamlet.” Rather than the typical proscenium setup, where the audience sits directly facing the stage, AST’s fall performance throws the audience directly into the action. The performance takes place in the Village Black Box Theater (on the lower level of Village House), where AST’s crew has transformed the space into a winding collection of rooms and scenes, complete with props, lighting, and sound design. 

All Student Theatre (AST) hosted its annual spring cabaret, “Gayberet 20Bi-teen,” as a fundraiser for its spring show, “Melancholy Play”.

All Student Theatre’s carnival-themed murder mystery event was the perfect way to get in the spooky Halloween spirit. From

SOCIOECONOMIC ISSUE: For the dozens of student-run and Student Union-funded performing arts groups on Washington University’s campus, putting on a show with a limited budget and limited resources can be a challenge.

Starting this Thursday night, All Student Theatre will present its annual show on Brookings Quadrangle and its first musical since 2009: “Young Frankenstein,” a comedic sequel to the horror story we all know and love.

Since starting work for All Student Theater’s (AST) production of the Mel Brook’s musical “Young Frankenstein,” cast and crew members have continuously monitored the set.

When an anniversary dinner party takes an unexpected turn after the host shoots himself and his wife goes missing, the guests are simply buzzing with questions and allegations in All Student Theatre’s production of Neil Simon’s “Rumors” this upcoming weekend. A farcical comedy plays out as the ritzy guests in the Westchester, N.Y.

So what do you do when you pick a play to perform, cast it, get super excited about it and then find out that you can’t acquire the rights to it? Well, I’d probably go into a corner and cry, but luckily All Student Theatre (AST) had a better solution: Pick four student-written one-act plays and perform them instead. And thus, “4×4: Four Plays on the Quad” was born.

I’ve always been one for going back to my childhood and enjoying the small things in life. I ended up loving “Alice in Wonderland” for the nonsense, but I never knew “Peter Pan” had so much of the same jolliness in it. This weekend’s play is put on by All Student Theater, a group that collaborates on one entirely student-produced play or musical each spring at Beaumont Pavilion in Brookings Quad. That’s right.