Arts & Sciences

David Kilper*Hair*Break out the love beads and buckskin fringe. Hair is back. Subtitled The American Tribal Love/Rock Musical, Hair was one of the most popular and controversial plays of the 1960s, a Broadway smash for the “sex, drugs and rock-and-roll” generation, sparking radio hits and national protests. In October, Washington University’s Performing Arts Department (PAD) in Arts & Sciences will revive this countercultural classic as its fall Mainstage production.

Rock evidence indicated to WUSTL scientists that water froze and melted there at some point in Martian history.

The four lectures — free and open to the public — in October surround the theme “Understanding the Heavens.”

The fellowship provides research and teaching support for three years to a talented junior faculty member in Arts & Sciences.

Photo by Joe AngelesStudents and faculty from the Film & Media Studies Program recently helped create an archive of African-American oral histories.

Crawford (Sept. 23) is the author of five poetry collections, and Ramke (Sept. 29) has written eight books of poems.

Created by Cindy Cooper and directed by Joan Lipkin, the presentation describes the real-life effects of policies.

The Washington University Symphony Orchestra will perform Franz Schubert’s famous “Unfinished” Symphony — the most mysterious and the most forward-looking of the composer’s works — as part of its fall 2005 concert. The performance is free and open to the public and begins at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 2, in the university’s Graham Chapel.

Courtesy photoRocco LandesmanLegendary Broadway producer Rocco Landesman — whose smash adaptation of Mel Brooks’ The Producers won 12 Tony Awards, including “Best Musical” — will speak on “Why We Need Broadway” for Washington University’s Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences. The talk, which is free and open to the public, begins at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7, in the university’s Edison Theatre. Edison Theatre is located in the Mallinckrodt Student Center, 6445 Forsyth Blvd. For more information, call (314) 935-5858.

Courtesy photoBin RamkePoet Bin Ramke will read from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, for the Writing Program Reading Series. The reading is free and open to the public and takes place in Hurst Lounge, located on the second floor of Duncker Hall, in the northwest corner of Brookings Quadrangle, near the intersection of Hoyt and Brookings drives. For more information, call (314) 935-7130.