Author: Liam Otten

Tennessee Williams’ ‘blue’ bookA piece of literary history has returned to Washington University in St. Louis, thanks to a fortuitous find in a New Orleans bookstore. In 2004, Henry I. Schvey, Ph.D., professor and chair of the university’s Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences, co-directed the world premiere of “Me, Vashya,” a one-act play written in 1937 by then-student Tennessee Williams. Only weeks later, Schvey happened upon another important Williams-related artifact from 1937: a small blue Washington University test booklet containing what appears to be Williams’ Greek final, which he had worried about passing, as well as a previously unknown poem. It is assumed Williams wrote the 17-line poem, which he appropriately titled “Blue Song,” in the back of the booklet while taking his exam.

Downloadable, high-resolution promo photos for the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts’ “76th Annaul Fashion Design Show” at Saint Louis Galleria May 1.

The concert is free and open to the public and will be held in conjunction with the exhibit Inside Out Loud at the Kemper Art Museum.

He wrote The Other Man Was Me, which won a National Poetry Series Award; and What the Body Told, which won a Lambda Literary Award for poetry.

On campus, Duhme is perhaps best known for his large bronze sculpture Fighting Bears near the Athletic Complex.

Performing Arts Department Director Henry I. Schvey made the fortuitous find in a New Orleans French Quarter bookstore.

The Concert Choir of Washington University — under the direction of John Stewart, director of vocal activities in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences — will perform a concert of music about animals at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 16.

Eric Wright*Hiroshima Maiden*Washington University’s Edison Theatre OVATIONS! Series and Center for the Study of Ethics and Human Values will present a panel discussion titled “Examining the Hiroshima Maiden: Exploring the Historical, Cultural and Ethical Issues” from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, April 20, at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

Dancer and choreographer Darwin Prioleau, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Dance at the State University of New York (SUNY) Brockport, will present a “Movement Lab for Teachers” from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 16, in Washington University’s Annelise Mertz Dance Studio.

Eric Wright*Hiroshima Maiden*In 1955, a group of 25 women disfigured by the nuclear blast at Hiroshima visited the United States to undergo reconstructive surgery. Their bizarre odyssey climaxed on the television program “This Is Your Life” in a live, face-to-face meeting with Enola Gay pilot Robert Lewis. In Hiroshima Maiden, performance artist Dan Hurlin recreates this stranger-than-fiction tale though a combination of Japanese Bunraku-style puppetry and dance. The show makes its St. Louis debut Friday and Saturday, April 22 and 23, as part of the Edison Theatre OVATIONS! Series.