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Othello, the Moor of Venice

The Stanford Shakespeare Company is proud to present Othello, Shakespeare’s timeless tale of a foreign general plagued by prejudice and insecurity, poisoned with the words of a treacherous friend seeking to advance his own position in the world. In the course of the general’s downfall, we encounter a love twisted into monstrous jealousy, an innocence battered…

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The Crucible

Salem, Massachusetts, 1692: a small, devout town is thrown into chaos with accusations of witchcraft and spiritual possession. Arthur Miller’s explosive account of the famous Salem witch trials caused a sensation with its parallels to the Communist scares of the 1950s, and remains one of his most enduring classics. Approximate duration: 2.25 hours Performances: Thursday,…

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Tickets for Bing Concert Hall inaugural season performances are selling out

Early reviews of Bing Concert Hall are in, and they are glowing. The best of the bon mots include: “The sound popped like champagne,” “The hall exudes a serenely majestic air,”  “The acoustics in the room and the intimacy of the space made performing an incredibly personal musical experience,” and “In a word, it’s magnificent.”…

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The Stanford Arts Timeline unearths a vital legacy of tradition and transformation

On Friday, January 11, 2013 – nearly 121 years after Stanford convened its first class – Bing Concert Hall opened its doors. A culminating event for years of curricular and extracurricular arts activity on campus, this exciting moment has deep roots in over a century of Stanford arts – from one department focused on applied…

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Asian American Theater Project taps into the need to prove oneself

In spring 2012, Ken Savage and Asia Chiao decided to reboot the Asian American Theater Project (AATP) by scheduling a full academic year of productions for 2012-13, something that hasn’t been done in years, starting with The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee in fall quarter. Following Spelling Bee is Trying to Find Chinatown in…

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Stanford Live Single Tickets for the 2013 Inaugural Season at Bing Concert Hall Now On Sale

Bing Concert Hall and the Stanford Live inaugural season debut in grand and festive style, beginning with a historic “Opening Night” concert on January 11 and continuing with a full weekend of tickets and free event. Single tickets for Stanford Live’s inaugural season go on sale Friday, Nov. 16 at 12 pm. You can order…

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TAPS presents Guillermo Gómez-Peña

Guest performance by Guillermo Gómez-Peña on 11/28 has been cancelled. Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a performance artist, writer, activist, radical pedagogue and director of the performance troupe La Pocha Nostra. Born in Mexico City, he moved to the US in 1978. His performance work and 10 books have contributed to the debates on cultural diversity, border culture and…

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Robert Whitman: Local Report 2012

Local Report 2012 was an international media and telecommunications work in which Robert Whitman used live video and audio reports from approximately ninety participants around the world. Whitman used these reports to create a live sound and video performance, composing what he calls “a cultural map of the world.” Local Report 2012 was the latest…

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In a series of gatherings, Stanford discusses the ethics of wealth

With all the things that money can buy comes a slew of ethical and moral dilemmas. To name a few: Does wealth make people happy? Are large wealth inequalities damaging to a democracy? What are the moral obligations of the wealthy to those in need? Throughout the 2012-13 academic year scholars from an array of…

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Stanford professor leads exploration of the work of actor, playwright Sam Shepard

It’s as if Sam Shepard could see the Occupy movement coming 36 years ago when he wroteCurse of the Starving Class. His characters, who might identify as the 99 percent today, imagine that the future belongs to them if they borrow or go in debt or buy land or speculate, only to find that the…

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Stanford Shakespeare Company’s Romeo and Juliet brings the feuding families of Verona together for a eulogy

The idea of a family feud forever was never truer than in the presentation of Romeo and Juliet by the Stanford Shakespeare Company tonight through Sunday, May 23-27. The company adds new life and longevity to the familiar Montague vs. Capulet tragedy by staging the play as an evocation of the spirits of the doomed lovers by the two…

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Sophomores Jessica Anderson and Tyler Brooks spoke out for the Occupy Stanford movement in song and rap.
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A Stanford event: How the arts contribute to the Occupy movement

The word “occupy” was on several short lists for word of the year after the Occupy Wall Street protest launched in New York City’s Zuccotti Park last fall. The word was certainly on the minds of H. Samy Alim, Jeff Chang, Tania Mitchell, Ramón Saldívar and José Davíd Saldívar when they developed an entire course…

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Artist takes performance to new heights at Stanford biological preserve

Visiting artist Ann Carlson is no stranger to unconventional performance sites, including frozen ponds, dairy farms and trains. But her latest project took her to new heights: Stanford’s biological preserve in the eastern foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. “Picture Jasper Ridge is a way to connect to the history that we stand on. It’s an…

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