Author: Liam Otten

Trombones of the Saint Louis SymphonyThe Trombones of the Saint Louis Symphony are one of the nation’s leading brass chamber ensembles, dedicated to elevating the status of the trombone quartet and to expanding the trombone quartet repertoire. At 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20, the group will present a free concert at Washington University, with a program spanning four centuries.

David Kilper/WUSTL Photo Services*The Pillowman*There are good parents and there are bad parents and then there are the outrageously horrible parents of Katurian K. Katurian, the writer at the center of Martin McDonagh’s macabre, pitch-black comedy The Pillowman. This month Washington University’s Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will present The Pillowman — winner of the 2004 Olivier Award for Best New Play — in the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre.

Pulitzer Prize-winning essayist and literary critic Louis Menand will present the keynote address for “Celebrating Our Books, Recognizing Our Authors,” the university’s eighth annual faculty book colloquium, at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, in Graham Chapel. The event — organized by the Center for the Humanities and University Libraries — also will feature presentations by faculty members William Lowry, Ph.D., professor of political science, and Lori Watt, Ph.D., assistant professor of history and International & Area Studies.

Manuel Bailo, the Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor in the College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design, will discuss his work for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ fall Public Lecture Series at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11.

Photo by Lois GreenfieldAt 8 p.m. Nov. 14 and at 2 p.m. Nov. 15, two internationally renowned performance groups return to Edison Theatre to present the rock opera “Remember Me” as part of the 2009-10 OVATIONS Series.

Critic and curator Yve-Alain Bois, Ph.D., a widely recognized expert on 20th century European and American art, will present a lecture titled “Chance Encounters: John Cage, Francois Morellet, Ellsworth Kelly” at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, in Steinberg Hall Auditorium.

Olivier and Tony Award-winning actor Roger Rees is probably best known to American audiences for his work on the small screen — as the dashing English tycoon Robin Colcord on Cheers, as British Ambassador Lord John Marbury on The West Wing and, most recently, as Dr. Colin Marlow on Grey’s Anatomy. But next month Rees, a 22-year veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), will return to the stage with What You Will, a side-splitting one-man-show that combines the Bard’s greatest soliloquies with colorful observations about the acting life and offbeat (and occasionally bawdy) tales of theatrical disaster.

Critic and curator Yve-Alain Bois, a widely recognized expert on 20th-century European and American art, will present a lecture titled “Chance Encounters: John Cage, François Morellet, Ellsworth Kelly” at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, in Steinberg Hall Auditorium. The talk — held in conjunction with the exhibition Chance Aesthetics, on view at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum through Jan. 4 — is cosponsored by the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ fall Public Lecture Series and the Department of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences.

William Massie, architect-in-residence and head of the architecture department at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., will present the Abend Family Lecture at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 2, for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. The free talk — part of the school’s fall Public Lecture Series — takes […]

Courtesy ImageAs part of its semester-long series “Ethnic Profiling: A Challenge to Democracy,” the Center for the Study of Ethics and Human Values will host a free screening of “The Cats of Mirikitani” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, in the Danforth University Center, Room 276.