Brown University Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies and Sock & Buskin are proud to announce the lineup for their 2016–17 season. As part of ongoing conversations around diversity and inclusion on campus at Brown University, this year’s season brings together diverse writers, writing, and performers that highlight the strengths and the challenges of making relevant performance in the modern world.

Congratulations to Brown alums Daveed Diggs '04 and Stephen Karam '02 for their recent success at the Tony Awards!

Congratulations to Jude Sandy '05, '09 MFA as he joins Trinity Rep's resident acting company this summer.

The Providence Journal spoke with Sandy about his time in the Brown/Trinity MFA program, his successes on Broadway, and his decision to join Trinity's rep company.

The Brown Alumni Magazine (BAM) spent time with Julie Adams Strandberg (Senior Lecturer, Dance) for their May/June issue.

The Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies is delighted to announce that concentrator Miranda Friel '16 is the 2016 winner of the Dorothy Stickney Theatre Arts Scholarship, on the basis of her qualifications, aspirations, and achievements in design.

Indian Summer, written by Gregory S. Moss, will be produced at Playwrights Horizons this May. The piece was first produced as part of the Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory summer season in 2014, directed by Kenneth Prestininzi.

Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) announce the launch of CoLAB: Innovations in Performance Practice, a three-week summer institute designed to incubate innovative performance and research practices.

Brown University Theatre presents two productions of new writing for performance this May, There Is No One Between You And Me by Dalia Taha ’16 MFA and Play: The Game –OR– Game: The Play by Rick Burkhardt ’16 MFA. The productions are written by final year students in the MFA Playwriting program in the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University as part of the year-round Writing is Live festival.

Brown University Theatre presents the Festival of Dance 2016 and Commencement Dance concerts. These annual concerts highlight dance classics, creative innovation, and collaborations with artists from around the world. Faculty, guest artists, and student choreographers present a program of Contemporary American, European, and West African dance.

The Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies announces a continued hiatus for the Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre season in 2016.

Announced by the Graduate School earlier this week, TAPS graduate student Doria Charlson has been accepted to the fifth cohort of Brown University's Open Graduate Education Program.

Brown University Theatre presents Mr. Burns, a post-electric play by Anne Washburn, directed by Connie Crawford. Telling a story about how we tell stories, Washburn’s play celebrates our ability to come together and heal through shared memory.

Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for theatre, announces MFA Playwriting first-year student Maurice Decaul '18 MFA as first official artist-in-residence as part of the the launch of the Veterans and Theatre Institute (VTI), a pilot program for veterans and active military personnel to experience, study, and create theatre.

The Essay in Public conference looks at the changing relationship between journalism and the humanities in the digital age.

Stephen Karam '02 is the writer of The Humans, a new play that opened on February 18 at the Helen Hayes Theatre in New York.

The New York Times gives a glowing review of the production which you can read on their website.

"The title may sound generic, but there’s nothing blurry about Mr. Karam’s scorching drama, which opened on Broadway on Thursday at the Helen Hayes Theater. Drawn in subtle but indelible strokes, Mr. Karam’s play might almost qualify as deep-delving reportage, so clearly does it illuminate the current, tremor-ridden landscape of contemporary America."

Congratulations to Stephen!

Brown University Theatre presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, directed by Kira Hawkridge (Artistic Director, OUT LOUD Theatre). Local director Hawkridge brings Edwardian steampunk style to Shakespeare’s famous comedy of dreamers, lovers, and fairy-inspired chaos. Playing at Stuart Theatre on the main campus at Brown University, March 3-13.

The Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University proudly announces the seventh annual Writing is Live festival, a presentation of new writing for performance by writers in Brown’s Playwriting MFA program.

The Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies has extended the PhD application deadline to January 1, 2016.

Dr. Patricia Ybarra is the President of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) as well as the Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University. In response to recent events on campus and across the country, Dr. Ybarra wrote the following note to the ATHE community, which we are pleased to share here.

Brown University Theatre presents The Red Paint, written and directed by Nikteha Salazar ’16. This new one-act play transcends time and space in an effort to explore the Chicano experience over many generations. Playing at Leeds Theatre on the main campus at Brown University from December 3-6.

Two TAPS alums, and one current graduate student, have been named among the winners of this year's American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) awards.

Theatre director, digital media artist, and Brown University alumnus, Chi-wang Yang ’99, will talk about his work with co-collaborators from CLOUD EYE CONTROL at Grant Recital Hall, Wednesday, November 18 at noon.

Brown University Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies this week confirmed Kira Hawkridge as the final director for the 2015-16 performance season. Joining Brown Theatre’s roster of all women directors for the season, Hawkridge will welcome in the Spring with a production of Shakespeare’s comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (March 3-6 & 10-13, Stuart Theatre).

It is with great sadness that the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies shares the news of the death of John Lucas, Senior Lecturer Emeritus, who passed away on August 29, 2015.

Performance in the Virtual World is a multimedia production course at Brown University that examines the place and purpose of live performance in an age of electronic arts and media.

The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry, a play written by Brown University Assistant Professor Marcus Gardley, presents a story of spirituality, identity, and migration.

The Princess Grace Foundation USA has named Megan Sandburg-Zakian '00 as one of the winners of its 2015 Princess Grace Awards, which recognizes artists in across multiple disciplines.

Jen Silverman '06 and Max Posner '11 were both named as winners of The New York Community Trust Helen Merrill Playwright Award in the category of Emerging Playwrights this week.

Ralph Lemon, an internationally acclaimed artist whose medium spans dance, cinema, and writing, came to Brown on October 6 to perform at Ashamu Dance Studio.

Brown alum and TAPS concentrator, James Flynn '11, recently published an article in the Yale Law Journal titled Interbranch Removal and the Court of Federal Claims: Agencies in Drag. As a graduate of Yale Law School, Flynn is currently channeling his passion for legal studies into a strong law career at a firm named Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C.

Over the summer break, the graduate student body of the Department of Theatre Arts & Performance Studies, as well as alums of the program, have shone, winning recognition in the form of honors, awards, prizes, and fellowship.

Choreographer, director, and visual artist Ralph Lemon merges old and new material from his publications, performances and exhibitions in a lecture-performance at Brown University’s Ashamu Dance Studio, 83 Waterman Street, Providence on Tuesday, October 6, 2015 at 6pm.

“Any idiot can face a crisis-it’s day to day living that wears you out” – Anton Chekhov

Brown University’s Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies (TAPS) and Sock & Buskin are proud to announce the lineup for its 2015-2016 season, featuring diverse dance performances and a selection of classic, comedic, and cutting-edge plays.

Palestinian dancer and choreographer, Farah Saleh, joins Brown as an Adjunct lecturer at the department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies and MES, Visiting Scholar at the Pembroke Center.

Michal Kobialka Professor of Theatre in the Department of Theatre Arts & Dance at the University of Minnesota visits Brown on October 2 for two lectures commemorating the centenary of Tadeusz Kantor's birth.

TAPS graduate, Max Posner '11 was interviewed recently by Alexis Soloski in The New York Times in an story, "A Playwright With an Absurdist Style, on the Lure of Basements". In Max Posner’s melancholy comedy “Judy,” set in the year 2040, the theater no longer exists. “What’s a play?” an 11-year-old girl asks her aunt. The aunt struggles to remember. “People recited words to each other in the same order, in the same outfits, night after night,” she offers.

Playwrights at Erik Ehn’s annual Texas retreat don’t speak for 10 days. New writing rushes into the void, along with a sense of community.

The Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies is delighted to announce that Julie Adams Strandberg will receive a Pell Award in June 2015 for Distinguished Achievement in the Arts.

Huge congratulations to Professor Patricia Ybarra who has received the 2014-15 Graduate School Faculty Award for Advising and Mentoring.

Congratulations are in order for Emeritus Professor Don Wilmeth who has been awarded the 2015 The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Alumni Acheivement Award.

Eleven students from the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies link their classwork to community in a voice, movement and text workshop for over 30 Providence school teachers and students.

The Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University proudly presents You Are the Circus written and directed by final year M.F.A, Playwriting student, Katie Pearl ’15 MFA. Pearl’s thesis production will take place at the Pell Chafee Performance Center on May 14 – 17 as part of the extended Writing Is Live festival.

The AntiGravity Theatre Project presents the latest iteration of the immersive, multimedia performance that is Time’s Up: Love, Friendship and Transformation Across the Fourth Dimension at Brown University Theatre.

Brown University Theatre and Sock & Buskin proudly present the Festival of Dance 2015.

Alums of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies are doing OK!

The Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies shares the sense of bereavement and loss felt around campus at the death of Hyoun Ju Sohn earlier this week.

The Sock & Buskin Senior Slot Production occurs every Fall semester and is an excellent opportunity for a capstone experience.

The Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies announces a hiatus for the Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre season in 2015.

As part of its commitment to community engagement and engaged scholarship, the Department of Theatre Arts & Performance Studies at Brown University is hosting a series of community conversations around the upcoming production, 410[GONE].