Organization

Dancing History - A Reconstruction of Anna Sokolow's "Rooms" Performance

Presented by Stanford University Drama Department at Roble Studio Theater - Stanford University

February 9, 2012

Rooms, featuring music composed by Kenyon Hopkins for a jazz ensemble, is a powerful portrayal of the terrifying loneliness that afflicts even people living in the closest proximity to each other. After the dance performance of Rooms, Dr. Hannah Kosstrin, Assistant Professor at Reed College, will give a lecture, followed by a discussion. This event is part of the series of satellite events organized as part of Ms. @ 40 and the Future of Feminism. Sponsored by

Regarding Re-... Reconstruction, Repeformance, Research

Presented by Stanford Humanities Center and Stanford University Drama Department at Stanford Humanities Center

February 17-February 18, 2012

The Drama Department is organizing a mini-conference about happenings and re-performance. Over the past few years, the repetition of live performance has returned as a central problem for performance studies, art history, and theater studies. As the plastic and performing arts industries revisit landmark performances of the 1960s and 1970s, artists and scholars have posed questions about the function, validity, and ontology of such "reperformances."

Bringing together

Graduate Repertory Showcase

Presented by Stanford University Drama Department at Nitery Theatre - Stanford Campus

March 1-March 10, 2012

Three Stanford Drama Ph.D Students make their Stanford directing debuts: Joy Brooke Fairfield directs The Ballad of Besty Paradise; Myrton Running Wolf directs Four Little Injuns; and Sukanya Chakrabarti directs Divided Together: Hayavadana, an adaptation from the play by modern Indian playwright Girish Karnard.

8... The Play

Presented by Stanford University Drama Department at Cubberley Auditorium - Stanford University

March 5, 2012

The Stanford University Drama Department, LGBT Center, and Law School present a staged reading of Dustin Lance Black’s 8, a documentary play taken from the testimony of the Federal Prop 8 trial, Perry v. Brown.

The performance is part of a nation-wide series of readings of the text. The US Supreme Court banned pubic broadcast of the trial, and the play brings to the public the impassioned arguments made on both sides of this landmark case.

Please stay

Michael Frayn's Copenhagen

Presented by Stanford University Drama Department at Pigott Theater

December 1-December 3, 2011

"The most invigorating and ingenious play of ideas in many a year. An electrifying work of art." -The New York Times. This production is presented by Stanford Center for Ethics in Society as part of their "Ethics in War" Events Series, in collaboration with Stanford Summer Theater and Stanford Drama. Directed by Stanford Summer Theater Artistic Director and Stanford Professor of Drama and Classics, Rush Rehm. It stars Bay Area professionals Julian Lopez-Morillas,

Our Town

Presented by Stanford University Drama Department at Pigott Theater

November 9-November 12, 2011

The New York Times calls this play "Thornton Wilder's masterpiece... An immortal tale of small town morality [and]... a classic of soft spoken theater."

Stanford Drama professor Jean-Marie Apostolidès collaborates with the world-renowned French director Georges Lavaudant to present the Pulitzer Prize-winning American favorite that Edward Albee describes as “…the greatest American play ever written.”

Written and set in the late

The Climate Chronicles... Tropic of Cancer

Presented by Stanford University Drama Department at Nitery Theatre - Stanford Campus

October 28-October 29, 2011

Using the surreal and absurd elements of everyday life as raw material, The Climate Chronicles... Tropic of Cancer, tells the story of a team of American climatologists and diplomats as they prepare to attend an international conference on climate change in Seville, Spain, incorporating extreme temperatures, Hemingway novels, climate change reports, Flamenco dancing, and airport luggage. the climate chronicles will premiere at the Incubator Arts Project in New York City. Presented

Major Barbara

Presented by Stanford University Drama Department at Pigott Theater

May 19-May 22, 2011

From the Noble Prize and Academy Award-winning playwright of Pygmalion and Heartbreak House, Stanford Drama presents George Bernard Shaw's timeless, ironic comedy, Major Barbara. This production was directed by Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Amy Freed and Ph.D. candidate Ciara Murphy.

In the year 1906, Major Barbara works righteously for the underprivileged at a Salvation Army shelter until one day, a generous but morally dubious donation is made by her

The Knot - A New Play

Presented by Stanford University Drama Department at Nitery Theatre - Stanford Campus

May 12-May 14, 2011

It has been said that we all come from Africa. But can we ever return to our place of origin? How might you experience the land, the people, and your history by trying?

In this multimedia piece, we follow the journeys -- physical, emotional, and spiritual -- of one African American woman as she returns to Ghana seeking knowledge and connection. Time bends, and returns repeat as she encounters spirit guides, tour guides, and celestial guides along her way.