Theatre Arts & Performance Studies
Sock & Buskin Performance Season
Oct 31 - Nov 10
Stuart Theatre
Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play intertwines the lives of characters grappling with love, loss, and identity amid the 1980s AIDS crisis. Complexities of human relationships, identity, and faith are confronted against a backdrop of political and social upheaval. Emerging from a mix of raw emotion and the supernatural is a rich portrayal of the pursuit of meaning in a turbulent time.
Stuart Theatre
Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play intertwines the lives of characters grappling with love, loss, and identity amid the 1980s AIDS crisis. Complexities of human relationships, identity, and faith are confronted against a backdrop of political and social upheaval. Emerging from a mix of raw emotion and the supernatural is a rich portrayal of the pursuit of meaning in a turbulent time.
Nov 21 - 24
Ashamu Dance Studio
Photo by Erin X Smithers
Ashamu Dance Studio
Photo by Erin X Smithers
Dec 5 - 8
Leeds Theatre
When Jasmine visits her alma mater in China, she's longing to meet Ellie again — her former English teacher from America, who was once her longtime mentor and confidante. As Jasmine reckons with her memories of the four years they shared, she finds herself treading a fine line between respect and idolatry, expectations and reality, admiration and love.
Leeds Theatre
When Jasmine visits her alma mater in China, she's longing to meet Ellie again — her former English teacher from America, who was once her longtime mentor and confidante. As Jasmine reckons with her memories of the four years they shared, she finds herself treading a fine line between respect and idolatry, expectations and reality, admiration and love.
March 5 - March 9
Various Locations
Photo by Erin X Smithers
Various Locations
Photo by Erin X Smithers
April 10 - 19
Leeds Theatre
4 retirees encounter a sack of sentient potatoes and find their belief systems forcibly confronted by the challenges of highly integrated, enlightened metaphysics. Parts kitchen sink drama, musical comedy, intimate biographical portraiture, museum educational presentation, Renaissance fair, science fiction, and phenomenological debate it is a fugue in both the musical and psychiatric sense.
Leeds Theatre
4 retirees encounter a sack of sentient potatoes and find their belief systems forcibly confronted by the challenges of highly integrated, enlightened metaphysics. Parts kitchen sink drama, musical comedy, intimate biographical portraiture, museum educational presentation, Renaissance fair, science fiction, and phenomenological debate it is a fugue in both the musical and psychiatric sense.
May 1 - May 3
The Lindemann Performing Arts Center
Photo by Erin X Smithers
The Lindemann Performing Arts Center
Photo by Erin X Smithers
Learn more about Sock & Buskin
Sock & Buskin - a unique board of students, faculty and staff that select the TAPS Department's production season.