Theatre, Speech and Dance
IN THE NEWS
Emily O'Dell BA '01, MFA '03, MA '06, PhD '08 and John Pannill Camp MA '01 PhD '08
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Harvard Humanities Center welcomes Postdoctoral Fellows. Click here.
Yann Montelle
1999 (MA), Brown University (Theatre Studies)
2004 (PhD), Brown University (Theatre and Performance Studies)
Yann's book is out! Click here.
I am back in New Zealand after a campaign of fieldwork in the Chauvet cave (France) for 4 weeks. I can now empirically state that this particular cave is without a doubt the oldest and most magnificent "theatre" in the world (and does confirm the paradigm I proposed in Paleoperformance).
Don B. Wilmeth
Asa Messer Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor of Theatre & English Brown
Editor, Cambridge Studies in American Theatre & Drama
Editor, Cambridge Guide to American Theatre
Editor, Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance HistoryDon opens in a production of ANNIE GET YOUR GUN! as Buffalo Bill
with a new local theatre group in Keene, NH.
Dance News:
Washington D.C.-based choreographyer, social activist, and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Liz Lerman and her performance company Dance Exchange will be in residence at Brown and in Providence from January 21 to February 3, 2008.
The residency is part of Dance Exchange's new project entitled 613 Radical Acts of Prayer, which focuses on the relationship between spirituality and social action.
Join Liz Lerman and Dance Exchange for two weeks of free workshops and events and for performances at Brown in February and May. Click here for more information. (link to www.brownhillel.org/danceexchange)
Curt Columbus
Artistic Director of Trinity Repertory Company
Chair of the Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium (Directing)“Crime and Punishment,” in a feat that rivals the construction of the Hoover Dam, has been distilled into a taut 90-minute play by Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus, and the production by the Writers’ Theater of Chicago now at the 59E59 Theaters will banish any bad memories you might have of trying to struggle through Dostoyevsky’s book. Read the rest of the review here.
Don B. Wilmeth
Asa Messer Emeritus professor, Emeritus professor of Theatre & English Brown University
Editor, Cambridge Studies in American Theatre & Drama
Editor, Cambridge Guide to American Theatre
Editor, Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance HistoryDon opens in a production of THE CRUCIBLE (Judge Hathorne) with a new local theatre group in Keene, NH and at the end of the month will be doing the Devil in a staged reading of DON JUAN IN HELL. In November he's Ford in a staged public reading of MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR and in Dec. he's playing Marley in JACOB MARLEY'S CHRISTMAS CAROL in Peterborough, NH
Our own Theatre and Performance Studies
graduate students:Co-winners of the TDR Essay Contest
Christian DuComb
PRESENT-DAY KUTIYATTAM:
G. VENU'S RADICAL AND REACTIONARY SANSKRIT THEATREPaige McGinley PhD
HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED
