The Performing Arts Department and the Department of Anthropology’s Experiential Ethnography Studio (ESS) moderated a panel conversation about the role of performance in personal empowerment and political change, especially in the Black community, April 9.

From Nov. 14 to 16, the Washington University Dance Theatre put on a live showcase featuring five different performances, including choreography from resident artists Elinor Harrison and David Marchant, graduate student Liz Lloyd, and guest artists Ron K. Brown and Xi Zhao. According to Artistic Director David Marchant, each performance explored concepts of the moment, an unknowable future, curiosity, and the “evocative feeling of anticipation that something is happening.”

Romance. Humor. Man-eating vegetation. This musical has it all, and it’s gracing the stage of Edison Theater until Nov. 2. “Little Shop of Horrors,” a musical based on Howard Ashman’s book of the same title, revolves around a flower shop on Skid Row and its three employees, Seymour, Audrey, and Mr. Mushnik.

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. 

Though corny, “She Kills Monsters”‘ humor and heart propel it over its missteps.

“Tough!,” the PAD’s last play of the semester, succeeded because of its realism.

The PAD released two of its four Homecoming Voices virtual plays, “Solastalgia” and “The Nicest White People That America Has Ever Produced,” over the weekend.

“Covid Mysteries” brought live theater back to Wash. U. with an irreverent reinterpretation of Biblical history just in time for Easter Sunday.

Four Wash. U. graduates wrote one-act plays for the Performing Arts Department’s virtual Homecoming Voices program.

The Performing Arts Department’s dance program faces the unique dilemma of trying to teach an intimate, physical discipline while keeping students’ safety the top priority.