Author: Liam Otten

Courtesy photoOlympia DukakisLegendary actress Olympia Dukakis, the Academy Award-winning star of Moonstruck and Steel Magnolias, will present a concert reading of Rose, her hit one-woman Broadway show, as part of the Edison Theatre OVATIONS Series. Written by celebrated playwright Martin Sherman, the drama centers on an 80-year-old Holocaust survivor whose epic story spans the history of the 20th century.

Rendering of renovated children’s theater.A team of six graduate and undergraduate architecture students — led by graduate teaching assistant Ellen Leuenberger and including Denny Burke, Alexander Harner, Michael Heller, Rachel Kerr and June Kim — has won the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ Community Service Competition. The competition, which includes a $300 cash prize, centered on an abandoned 8,000-square-foot children’s theater located on the campus of St. Francis de Sales church, 2653 Ohio Ave. (63118), popularly known as “the Cathedral of South St. Louis.”

Courtesy PhotoThis fall, five teams of architecture students have worked to create redevelopment plans for an abandoned children’s theater located on the campus of a south St. Louis historic church.

Photo by David MarchantAcclaimed choreographer Liz Lerman (center), founding artistic director of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange and a visiting artist in the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences, and senior Jackie Dodd (far right), work with residents at the Gladys & Henry Crown Center for Senior Living in University City.

Poet Jean Valentine, the Visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23.

Tenor Dominic Armstrong will perform an intimate Liederabend for the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences Oct. 26.

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present three classic Hollywood films as part of its Some Like it Cool film series Dec. 9, 10 and 11. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury, the festival will feature screenings of Rebel Without a Cause (Dec. 9), Anatomy of a Murder (Dec. 10) and North by Northwest (Dec. 11).

Dominic ArmstrongTenor Dominic Armstrong will perform an intimate Liederabend for the Washington University Department of Music in Arts & Sciences Oct. 26. The program will feature Romanzen aus Tieck’s Magelone, Op. 33 by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), a set of 15 loosely knit romances that comprise the composer’s only song cycle.

Kristie KahnsLuna Negra Dance TheatreJosé Limón (1908-1972) was a pivotal figure in the evolution of modern dance, praised by the New York Times as “the greatest male dancer of his own or any other time.” In November Chicago’s acclaimed Luna Negra Dance Theatre, which is dedicated to the work of Latino choreographers, will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Limón’s birth with a concert recreating his iconic There is a Time.

Eric CesalSt. Francis de Sales church, popularly known as “the Cathedral of South St. Louis,” has been a local landmark since the end of the Civil War, listed on the National Registry of Historic Places. This fall five teams of architecture students have worked to create redevelopment plans for an abandoned children’s theater, located on the church’s six-building campus, as part of the Sam Fox School’s Community Service Competition. Winners of the competition will be announced Oct. 17 at a reception in Givens Hall.