Department of Performing Arts

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS CENTENNIAL FESTIVAL

Georgetown University Theater and Performance Studies Program in partnership with the American Studies Program and Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater presents the Tennessee Williams Centennial Festival (Tenn Cent Fest).

Join us March 24-27 for the Centennial Weekend Celebration at Georgetown University, which will include fully staged productions, interactive multimedia experiences, workshops, concerts, screenings, discussions, and readings by nationally and internationally recognized artists and scholars, including many of DC’s leading talents.

Participants include Edward Albee, John Waters, Christopher Durang, and many more. 

View the list of Tenn Cent Fest events.

Friday Music Series
THOMAS PANDOLFI, PIANO

Friday Music Series continues March 18 at 1:15 p.m. with Juilliard graduate Thomas Pandolfi paying tribute to the bicentennial of Frederic Chopin's birth with an all-Chopin program. Repertoire will include the great "Heroic" and "Military" Polonaises, a group of scintillating Etudes, two ravishingly beautiful Nocturnes, and the Fantasy-Impromptu, among other works. The Washington Post has described Pandolfi as “an artist who is the master of both the grand gesture and the sensual line.” The Music Program’s Friday Music Series features acclaimed artists in FREE concerts on Fridays at 1:15 p.m. in McNeir Auditorium, on Georgetown’s main campus.

Read more about the Friday Music Series.  

Georgetown University Theater and Performance Studies Program
THE GLASS MENAGERIE PROJECT

A production of the classic play by Tennessee Williams, along with surrounding events.  Read the Washington Post profile of the production's sound designer Matthew M. Nielson.

The Glass Menagerie
remaining shows:

Thursday-Saturday, March 17-19 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, March 20 at 2 p.m.
Wednesday and Thursday, March 23 and 24 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, March 26 at 2 p.m.

  

The Glass Menagerie Project is part of the Arena Stage-Georgetown partnership, made possible thanks to the generosity of Andrew R. Ammerman and the family of H. Max and Josephine F. Ammerman.

MELLON FOUNDATION GRANT SUPPORTS PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN GEORGETOWN MUSIC PROGRAM AND POST-CLASSICAL ENSEMBLE

The Mellon Foundation has awarded a $200,000 grant to the Post-Classical Ensemble, called by the Washington Post “the most thought-provoking music group in town,” bolstering the group's ongoing partnership with the Georgetown University Music Program. As an educational partner, Georgetown integrates Post-Classical Ensemble programs and themes into its performing arts curriculum, hosts event-related academic conferences and busses students to off-campus events with free tickets.

Read more about the impact of the Mellon Foundation grant.

SEASON CALENDAR

Visit our upcoming events calendar to explore the Georgetown University Department of Performing Arts' 2010-11 full season of theater, music, and dance performances.

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