Author: Liam Otten

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.

It’s a timeless tale: two rivalrous brothers vie for the love of a single woman. But Remember Me, the ambitious new collaboration between Parsons Dance Company and the East Village Opera Company (EVOC), is anything but old-fashioned. Combining contemporary dance with live and recorded music as well as video projections, aerial choreography and special effects, Remember Me is at once rock-opera and opera that really rocks. Next month these two internationally renowned companies will return to Edison Theatre to present Remember Me as part of the 2009-10 OVATIONS Series.

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts will launch a new Master of Landscape Architecture program in fall 2010, announced Bruce Lindsey, dean of the College of Architecture and the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design.

Celebrated husband-and-wife illustrators Sam Weber and Jillian Tamaki will deliver a joint lecture for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts fall Public Lecture Series at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27. In addition, Marcelo Spina — founder of PATTERNS, a design research architectural practice in Los Angeles — will discuss his work for […]

Photo by Whitney CurtisAnna Zatonskih (left), the recently crowned 2009 U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, combines chess and roulette with Rex Sinquefield (right), president and chairman of the board of the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis Oct. 14 in the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

Four faculty from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design won a total of six 2009 Design Awards from the St. Louis Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts will launch a new Master of Landscape Architecture program in Fall 2010, announced Bruce Lindsey, dean of the College of Architecture and the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design. The program, which will offer both two- and three-year options leading to a professional MLA degree, will be led by Dorothée Imbert, a noted scholar as well as a practicing landscape architect, who is currently associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design Her appointment in the Sam Fox School will be effective Jan. 1, 2010.