Author: Liam Otten

Jacqueline Tatom, assistant professor of architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, died at her home in the Central West End Sunday, March 18, following a long battle with ovarian cancer. She was 51.

Courtesy photo*Romanzo criminale*The Film & Media Studies Program in Arts & Sciences will host the Italian Film Festival of St. Louis March 30 to April 14. The festival will feature the St. Louis premiers of six recent Italian feature films, screened on Fridays and Saturdays for three consecutive weeks. All films will be shown in 35mm format in Italian with English subtitles.

Imrat Khan, a distinguished artist-in-residence in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences, will be joined by virtuoso tabla player Samir Chatterjee for a concert of Indian classical music at 8 p.m. March 25 at Edison Theatre.

Poet David Baker, the visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, will read from his work at 8 p.m. March 22 in Hurst Lounge in Duncker Hall as part of The Writing Program Reading Series.

Uta Grosenick, managing editor for DuMont publishers in Cologne, Germany, will speak on the development of commercial art galleries since 1945 at 6:30 p.m. March 22 in Brown Hall Auditorium.

The Washington University Opera will present Kirke Mechem’s highly acclaimed 1980 adaptation of Molière’s comedy “Tartuffe” at 8 p.m. March 23-24 at Edison Theatre.

Joseph A. RosenBig George BrockLegendary blues vocalist and harmonica player Big George Brock will perform at Washington University March 29. Raised on a plantation outside Clarksdale, Mississippi, Brock has shared the stage with figures such as Muddy Waters, B.B. King and Howlin’ Wolf and operated a series of popular St. Louis blues clubs, including the 1,000-seat Club Caravan. In recent years he has released three critically acclaimed albums: Front Door Man, Club Caravan and Round Two.

Chris HartmanMaryse PearceIn 2002, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks began writing one play each day for an entire year. The resulting cycle, called “365 Plays/365 Days,” is now receiving its premiere as part of a yearlong grassroots festival that has enlisted more than 600 theater companies, arts organizations and universities from across the nation. In St. Louis, 15 students from Washington University’s Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will present a week’s worth of the cycle April 2 to 8.

<img src="/news/PublishingImages/5531_t.gif" alt="Renaissance students This spring, 37 art and architecture students from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts are soaking in history by living and working in Florence and pursuing a curriculum that includes studios, art history seminars and Italian language classes.” height=”255″ width=”175″ />Courtesy Photo/Sketch by Alla AgafonovRenaissance students This spring, 37 art and architecture students from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts are soaking in history by living and working in Florence and pursuing a curriculum that includes studios, art history seminars and Italian language classes.

Eric Woolsey*Highness* by Carolyn KrasEngland’s Queen Elizabeth I is among the most mythologized figures in history. But who was Elizabeth before she rose to power? What transformed this precocious yet lonely girl into a leader of steel? Find out in Carolyn Kras’ historical drama Highness, winner of the 2006 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Competition, which receives its world premiere this month.