As the play begins, lighting illuminates a simple yet pleasant family room, filled with vintage furniture in yellow and orange tones. Suddenly, conflict arises: the main character, Nellie, is gone. As domestic chaos unfolds, her entire family questions her disappearance, and the living room becomes the stage where complex intergenerational differences are woven around activism with sitcom-like ease.

On Friday, Feb. 21, WashU’s Performing Arts Department (PAD) opened its production of “The Wolves,” a Pulitzer-nominated play by American playwright Sarah DeLappe, at Edison Theater. Directed by PAD professor Annamaria Pileggi, “The Wolves” is a dive into adolescence that dares the audience to look away. 

Anticipation buzzed in the air as Edison theater filled to near-capacity on Friday evening for the opening performance of Diwali. 

Inspired by the fairytales of the Brothers Grimm, Washington University’s Performing Arts Department’s-rendition of the musical “Into the Woods” is a winding narrative of desire and discontentment.

While it would seem that watching a production via Zoom would take away some of that so-called “theatre magic,” that wasn’t the case with “Front Porch Society.”

The annual Lunar New Year Festival performance will kick off Feb. 7 and 8, marking the group’s first set of shows since the loss of the Gargoyle rehearsal space.

After celebrating their 30th show last year, Black Anthology will return this weekend, bringing “Masquerade” to the Edison Theatre.

This weekend, Washington University’s Performing Arts Department (PAD) will open “Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches.”

As students at an institution where “diversity, inclusion and equality” are so important, we should all be looking for experiences that challenge us and make us see the world differently. Make the Black Rep one of those experiences.

Representation matters. In this day and age, that phrase cannot be said enough, but what exactly are we doing about it? Are we just parroting this phrase back and forth in conversation or are we actually doing something to increase representation?