‘Emma’: Regency With a Twist
Contemporary Music, diverse cast, inventive costumes mark TDPS’ modern adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic tale.
Stay up-to-date on the creative, collaborative, innovative and entrepreneurial work that is going on at the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies.
Congratulations to TDPS Director and Professor Leigh Wilson Smiley on receiving the Inaugural Foxworth Initiative!
Alumnus Dominic D'Andrea (BA Theatre '03) is featured in the December 2013 issue of American Theatre Magazine for his role as producing artistic director of the One-Minute Play Festival (OMPF).
Congratulations to the students of Professor Esther Kim Lee's THET489: Globalization and Theatre on a successful staged reading of plays by Gao Xingjian!
School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) faculty and alumni took part in the African Continuum Theatre Company's benefit cabaret "J's Jook Joint," a modern-day twist on the historical "jook joint" experience.
The Diamondback has run a nice story about the evolving DC theatre scene, quoting Dan Conway, Misha Kachman, Rob Denton and Mitchell Hébert.
Psyche Williams-Forson, Ana Patricia Rodriguez and Leigh Wilson Smiley deliver Foxworth courses to serve the pressing issues of community partners.
MFA Dance candidate Jessie Laurita-Spanglet's thesis concert Way In is featured in the Gazette this week. The show runs this weekend: Friday, December 6 at 7pm and 9pm, and Saturday, December 7 at 3pm, 7pm, and 9pm.
Performance Faculty Ashley Smith was cast in a new television series for AMC and a PBS documentary.
In November, Professor Karen Bradley presented at the San Diego Incubator for Innovation, where the arts are integrated with science, technology, engineering, and math.