“Legally Blonde,” based on the 2001 film of the same name, opened on Broadway in 2007. With music and lyrics by Nell Benjamin and Laurence O’Keefe and a book by Heather Hach, the musical serves as the first show in the Performing Arts Department’s (PAD) season of celebrating female writers.

The Washington University Performing Arts Department has released their 2019-2020 season calendar. The season will feature theatrical productions all written by female playwrights.

“Florida” is a comic play written by recent Wash. U. alumnus Lucas Marschke, workshopped this past fall as a part of the A.E Hotchner Playwriting Festival and staged this past weekend by the Performing Arts Department. The play tells the interwoven story of three groups of people all travelling to Florida for the holidays.

This coming weekend, Washington University’s Performing Arts Department (PAD) will put on its final production of the 2018-2019 season, “Florida,” written by Lucas Marschke and directed by PAD professor Jeffery Matthews.

Starting this year, the Performing Arts Department’s shows are free for all full-time Washington University students. College of Arts and Sciences Dean Barbara Schaal led this initiative to make the performing arts more accessible for students.

The story of Macbeth has been passed down and performed through generations, most recently in the current Performing Arts Department play, directed by Henry Schvey, a professor of drama and comparative literature.

A story that delves deep into the basis of human emotion through the lens of two characters recently awoken from a coma, “Thinking It” is an upcoming production put on by the Performing Arts Department, written by Washington University’s Playwright-in-Residence Carter Lewis and directed by Andrea Urice.

A coming-of-age story that delves into the power of true love, this fall’s Performing Arts Department (PAD) musical, “Passing Strange,” takes audience members on a punk-rock inspired journey of main character Youth’s self discovery.

The Performing Arts Department’s production of “The Misanthrope,” written by Moliere and directed by PAD assistant professor of drama Pannill Camp, is sure to remind students of their own social struggles at Washington University.

He’s a noncommittal socialite of a man, surrounded by friends and usually the center of attention at a party. He’s off and on with three different girls, but all of his closest friends are in long-term relationships…Well, in this case, marriage. Sound sort of familiar?