Author: Liam Otten

The Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences has announced winners for the 2005 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Competition. Four student plays were selected in two categories. Full-length winners were Highness, by junior Carolyn Kras, and Shades of Light Blue, by junior Yuan Ji. Flick, by freshman Nicholas A. Loyal, and Chosen Family, by freshman Nick Rogers, won for short plays.

Washington University’s Kingsbury Ensemble will conclude its 2004-05 season with works of Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) and Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) — today’s most popular composers of the Baroque era. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 15, in Holmes Lounge, Ridgley Hall. Tickets are $5 to $15.

The Washington University Opera will present excerpts from four operas by Richard Strauss at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 6 and 7, in the University’s Karl Umrath Lounge.

The show is comparable to a Broadway-style revue, filled with lights, music, drama and, of course, glamorous costumes.

The program will highlight two recently acquired instruments — a harp and grand piano — as well as Graham Chapel’s newly restored organ.

He taught philosophy in Arts & Sciences at WUSTL from 1947-1958; he is perhaps best-known for the book The World’s Religions.

Owen Morse & Jon Wee will bring their trademark mix of sidesplitting comedy & gut-wrenching suspense to the OVATIONS! Series.

The Passing ZoneFrom clubs and machetes to bowling balls and members of the audience, Owen Morse and Jon Wee — collectively known as The Passing Zone — boldly juggle what no jugglers have juggled before. On May 6 and 7, Owens and Wee will bring their trademark mix of side-splitting comedy and gut-wrenching suspense to campus as part of the Edison Theatre OVATIONS! Series.

Pianist Seth Carlin, professor of music in Arts & Sciences, will dedicate the 9-foot grand piano in Graham Chapel.

The concert will offer a rare opportunity to experience temple music and dance from one of the world’s most ancient sacred traditions.