Events

Steven Liu, from the University of British Columbia, will engage us in conversation about theatre in China in the 1950s. Come and enjoy coffee and cookies as you listen to Professor Liu present new research.

The Center for Performance Studies is inviting you for coffee and conversation with Sara E. Freeman, a theatre historian from the University of Puget Sound. Professor Freeman will share an excerpt from her current book project. Her title is "Words and Images" an excerpt from Poetic Images and Dramatic Spaces: Staging Caryl Churchil, Naomi Iizuka, and Sarah Ruhl." Sara Freeman is Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of Puget Sound. Previously she taught at the University of Oregon, Illinois Wesleyan University, and...

The Center for Performance Studies is inviting you for coffee and conversation with Laurie A. Frederik, a cultural anthropologist and performance scholar from the University of Maryland. Professor Frederick will share material from the book she is currently writing. The title of her talk is "Truth, Storytelling, and the Ethics of Dramatic Editing." Laurie Frederik is a cultural anthropologist and an associate professor of performance studies and ethnography in the School of Theatre, Dance, & Performance Studies, University of Maryland. She was...

This talk will focus on the manuscript's chapter on Seattle: on Seattle-based artists and venues including DK Pan, Sara Porkalab, Implied Violence, Annex Theatre, The Satori Group, and King Street Station, as well as the enduring, colonial role of the "frontier" in claiming urban space in Seattle.