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Kennedy Center Announces Upcoming In-Person Theater Season

Kennedy Center Announces Upcoming In-Person Theater Season

By Haley McLean April 22, 2021

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has announced its schedule for the 2021-22 season, following a year of canceled shows in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.  The season, which...

Student Play Makes Debut at Kennedy Center

By Caroline Welch September 11, 2015

Seven actors took to the stage at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Terrace Theater Monday for a 50-minute reading of the student-written "Pandemopium," Georgetown’s entry to the...

COURTESY MICHAEL REDMAN. A scene from Pandemopium.

Poppies, Kid Rock and the Taliban

By Emily Welch September 11, 2015

Afghanistan’s rural Kandahar province — the cradle of the Taliban insurgency — has a plant problem. Poppies, the Dorothy-red flowers that are tapped to make opium, outnumber the citizens. Landowner...

Professors Top Dean’s List

By Molly Simio February 14, 2014

German professor Astrid Weigert, Department of Performing Arts Chair Maya Roth and biology professor Gina Wimp received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Convocation of College...

Live-In Faculty Bring the Lesson Home

By Emma Hinchliffe and Pat Curran September 11, 2012

Professor Maya Roth’s office in the Davis Performing Arts Center looks every bit the domain of a seasoned theater professor — performance posters are plastered on the door, artwork lines the walls...

Theater Adviser Retires After 13 Years

By Meghan Patzer March 16, 2012

Ted Parker, technical adviser to the university’s co-curricular theater groups, will retire this semester after 13 years in the department of performing arts, leaving a legacy of strong collaboration...

For Children-in-Residence, Campus Is a Playground

By Heather Flynn February 6, 2012

For most children, college is at most a vague, unfamiliar concept. But for the children of the faculty- and chaplains-in-residence at Georgetown, this college campus is a warm home. About 13 children...

Faculty in Residence Bond With Students

By Johanna Caldwell October 2, 2010

Running into professors outside of class can be awkward, but for some students it happens daily. Nationwide, university faculty members are increasingly opting to live in on-campus residence halls...

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