WashU Performing Arts

12/09/2025

From all of us here at the PAD—break a leg...on your final exams!!! Whether you're demonstrating perfected dance techniques, reciting Shakespeare monologues, or calculating molarity we know you are going to put on an INCREDIBLE performance. Remember to take care of yourselves and get some sleep!

You've got this! 📖 🎭 🧪

12/04/2025

Check out this fantastic spotlight on the PAD podcast in the December digital edition of WashU Magazine!

Hosted and edited by PAD's Robert Mark Morgan, the podcast aims to celebrate WashU alumni success and to harness their professional expertise. The article delves into how the PAD offers "the best of both worlds", and features snippets from select alumni interviews delving into their creative careers and how the PAD helped get them there.

Read the article here:

WashU alumni with booming performing arts careers, from Broadway to TV, share their stories on a WashU-centered podcast.

12/03/2025

📣🎙️Another SPECIAL 🎙️📣

Episode #20 features beloved teacher, longtime PAD faculty member, and Professor of Practice Jeffery Matthews! Jeffery will be retiring at the end of the 2025-26 academic year after an astounding THIRTY-EIGHT years of teaching at . Jeffery has been on the PAD faculty since 1988 teaching courses in Acting, Directing, Voice and Speech and Theatre for Young Audiences. Jeffery was on the artistic staff of The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis for twenty years as Artistic Supervisor of The Imaginary Theatre Company, the Rep’s touring children’s company. He is a professional director, actor, and dialect specialist. In the interview, Jeffery reflects on all flavors of shows, classes, and colleagues and even finishes the episode with a list of 70 students who come to mind as having made an impact on him over that period of time.

In this holiday time of lists both ‘naughty and nice’, there’s only one way to know if you’re on Jeffery’s list and that is to LISTen to the episode here: https://pad.wustl.edu/news/pad-podcast-episode-20-jeffery-matthews

P.S. We’re putting together a collection of notes, reminiscences, and photos from students and faculty, past and present for a memory book. We welcome the funny, the poignant and the simply singular memories of your time with Jeffery: https://pad.wustl.edu/help-us-celebrate-anna-and-jeffery

12/02/2025

🎶 Dancing through life 🎶

Throwback our gingko photoshoot this time last year ✨

📸: Photos by Danny Reise

12/01/2025

It's time... PAD final showings start in just two days! Swipe to see which classes are putting on a final showing this semester. Everyone is welcome to attend and show support for your friends, fellow students, or to check out a class you may be considering taking in the future!

11/27/2025

A few snapshots of PAD's Sean Savoie at the inaugural A&S Teaching Innovation Showcase last week 📸

Thanks to WashU Arts & Sciences for putting together an awesome event! Congratulations to winners Jacob Montgomery, Kathryn Wilson, and Scott Krummenacher 🎉

11/22/2025

We're over the moon about selling out our first two shows🌛✨You still have three chances left to catch this play that is both poignant and humorous and takes audiences on a journey of the pioneering women who changed the way we look at the universe forever.

Remaining shows:
Saturday, November 22nd at 2:00pm
Saturday, November 22nd at 7:30pm
Sunday, November 23rd at 2:00pm

Tickets are going fast, so make sure to buy your tickets here: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35674/production/1246463

📍 A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre
🎟️🐻 WashU students get FREE tickets by calling or visiting the Mallinckrodt Box Office up to one hour before the start of each performance.

11/21/2025

We want to extend a huge THANK YOU to everyone who helped make WUDT: 'something is happening' a success! Every choreographer, dancer, production team member, and crew member who came together last weekend brought this project to life in the most inspiring way. Thank you for your passion and dedication. And to our incredible audiences who showed up each day to support our performers, your energy meant everything. We couldn’t have done it without you!

📸: Carly Vanderheyden
Artistic Direction: David Marchant
Resident Choreographers:
Liz Lloyd
Elinor Harrison
David Marchant
Guest Choreographers:
Ron K. Brown
Xi Zhao
Costume Designer: Nikki Green
Props Designer: Emily Frei
Sound Designer: Sean M. Savoie
Lighting Designers: Esteban Castaneda, Evelyn Cheng, Weiyu Guo, Hannah King, Josh Li, Liz Lloyd, Shangwe Nyota, Michael Perlmutter, Emelia Pierre, Noe Schwartz, Brooke Scott, Kajana Whittaker
Stage Manager: Charlotte Corcoran
Assistant Stage Manager: Jacob Elliott

11/20/2025

TONIGHT ✨ these four incredible actresses ~ and our beloved Liam ~ take the stage for opening night of ‘Silent Sky’ in the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre.
This weekend only, you can catch these stars lighting up the stage. You won’t want to miss it!
Tickets are going fast!!!
📍 A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre
🗓️ Nov 20, 21 & 22 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov 22 & 23 at 2:00 p.m.
🎟️🐻 WashU students get FREE tickets with ID at the Mallinckrodt Box Office!

11/18/2025

‘Silent Sky’ is lighting up the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre this Thursday through Sunday! Come experience an empowering story of sisterhood, discovery, and the stars ✨
Tickets are going fast—don’t miss your chance to see this stellar show!

📍 A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre
🗓️ Nov 20, 21 & 22 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov 22 & 23 at 2:00 p.m.
🎟️🐻 WashU students get FREE tickets by showing ID at the Mallinckrodt Box Office!

11/14/2025

We couldn’t wait to show you some of the photos from our last dress rehearsal!

WashU Dance Theatre opens TONIGHT! We’re so excited for you to see what our students, faculty, and guest choreographers have been working on this semester!

November 14 & 15 at 7:30 p.m.
November 16 at 2:00 p.m.
Edison Theatre

More information can be found at the link in our bio.

Photography by .vanderheyden.photo