The department offers advanced interdisciplinary seminars and programming initiatives that build upon strong collaborative faculty relationships.
The Program teamed with Nomadic Theatre on “Dr. Korczak and The Children,” a play based on the real events of sheltering Warsaw orphans in Nazi Germany. The March 2006 show also featured a panel discussion with Daniel Blatman of the Holocaust Museum and a photographic exhibit.
Academic programs Georgetown University Music Program and the Theater & Performance Studies Program joined forces with student-run ensembles Mask & Bauble and the Black Theatre Ensemble to present “Caroline, or Change” in November 2009, with the largest team of student, faculty, and staff ever to work on a theatrical production at Georgetown.
In January 2009, students performed the opera “Hydrogen Jukebox” by composer Philip Glass and beat poet Allen Ginsberg, as a collaboration between Georgetown University and American Opera Theater.
Wind Me Up Maria! A Go-Go Musical in November 2016 featured DC’s own percussion-driven go-go music, an offshoot of funk, in this new work created by Professor Natsu Onoda Power and Charles “Shorty Corleone” Garris, and lead singer of DC Go-Go band Rare Essence. The work was presented by the Georgetown University Theater & Performance Studies Program with student groups Mask & Bauble Dramatic Society and Black Theatre Ensemble as part of the Davis Center’s 2016-17 season.
Polk Street, based on Polk Street Stories by Joey Plaster, was produced in March 2013 by two GU student drama societies (Mask & Bauble and Nomadic Theatre). The Theater & Performance Studies Program later presented it at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in a staged reading as part of the 2015 Page-to-Stage Festival.
