Author: Liam Otten

Joe Angeles/WUSTL Photo Services”Tell Me Somethin’ Good”The St. Louis Black Repertory Company will open its 28th season with an updated performance of Tell Me Somethin’ Good, one of their most popular productions, Sept. 8 to 19 in Washington University’s Edison Theatre.

Don J. Usner/Ventana de Luz PhotographyWrightPoet and playwright Jay Wright, the visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in Washington University’s Department of English in Arts & Sciences, will give a dramatic reading of his work at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 14. In addition, Wright will read from his poetry at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 16.

St. Louis saxophonist Freddie Washington will launch Washington University’s eighth annual Jazz at Holmes series from 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 9. The series features professional jazz musicians from around St. Louis and abroad performing in a relaxed coffeehouse-style setting most Thursday evenings throughout the school year.

Joe Angeles/WUSTL Photo Services”Tell Me Somethin’ Good”The St. Louis Black Repertory Company will open its 28th season with an updated performance of Tell Me Somethin’ Good, one of their most popular productions, Sept. 8 to 19 in Washington University’s Edison Theatre.

Cast list and production credits for The St. Louis Black Repertory Company’s updated production of Tell Me Somethin’ Good at Washington University’s Edison Theatre Sept. 8 to 19.

The Washington University Department of Music in Arts & Sciences will mark the centenary of the 1904 World’s Fair by including works performed at the fair in concerts throughout its fall season. The season will be launched Sept. 7 by the Washington University Chamber Orchestra.

Manfred Pernice, “Untitled (Bicycle Rack),” 2002.The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis is recipient of a $125,000 Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award. The award will support Reality Bites: Making Avant-Garde Art in Post-Wall Germany, the inaugural loan exhibition in the museum’s new facilities, scheduled to open in Fall 2006.

Maki & Associates, TokyoWashington University’s planned Sam Fox Arts Center.A $500,000 gift from Emily Rauh Pulitzer, founder and president of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, has established the first permanent endowment fund for the Sam Fox Arts Center at Washington University in St. Louis.

MacKeithPeter MacKeith has been appointed associate director of the Sam Fox Arts Center at Washington University in St. Louis. MacKeith, who also serves as associate dean for the School of Architecture, will be responsible for public programming; collaborative teaching and research; and organization of the planned Whitaker Foundation Learning Lab.

Photo by David Kilper/WUSTL Photo ServicesMary Jean Cowell and Cecil Slaughter perform “Sliders” as part of the 2004 “Dance Close-Up” Sept. 9-11.Ballet and modern dance will share the stage with Indian Bharata Natyam and multi-media work in Dance Close-Up, an intimate presentation of new and original choreography by faculty in the Dance Program Sept. 9-11.