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It's Parents and Family weekend, so if you're looking for an activity, 'Pride and Prejudice' is the perfect option. You only have two chances left - tonight at 7:30pm and Sunday at 2pm, so don't miss it!

WashU students get FREE tickets 🎟️

Learn more & purchase tickets: https://pad.wustl.edu/events/pride-and-prejudice

Are you ready for our second weekend run of 'Pride and Prejudice' to start tonight? Because we are!

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📢 Save the Date 📢 Our next PAD production, 'The Thanksgiving Play', runs November 21-24th!

A small group of abundantly earnest teaching artists devise a Thanksgiving pageant that attempts to celebrate both Turkey Day and Native American Heritage Month. While striving to be culturally sensitive, the angst-ridden thespians find themselves wrestling with history, myth, and their own biases as they descend into a hilarious cornucopia of political correctness. In The Thanksgiving Play, Larissa FastHorse, a 2020 MacArthur Fellow, has written what she calls a "comedy in a satire" with "a little bit of medicine that's going to go down with the laughs".

Written by Larissa FastHorse
Directed by Andrea Urice
November 21, 22 & 23 at 7:30 p.m.
November 23 & 24 at 2 p.m.

Learn more and get your tickets here: https://pad.wustl.edu/events/thanksgiving-play

Check out this great Two on the Aisle review of PAD's 'Pride and Prejudice'!

You still have three changes to see Pride and Prejudice:
November 1 & 2, at 7:30 pm
November 3 at 2:00 pm

Visit the PAD website to learn more and get your tickets!

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The Bennet sisters aren't the only ones looking to make a match 💘 Check out these other eligible young 'Pride and Prejudice' characters looking for Mr. Right and don't forget to get your tickets to come see them in person this weekend on the Edison stage!

✨More info & tickets: https://pad.wustl.edu/events/pride-and-prejudice✨

We are SO excited to have The Central Illinois Stage Combat Workshop here next week to host a Stage Combat Workshop!

Society of American Fight Directors certified teachers DC Wright & Amie Root will cover slapstick, falling down, mass battles and more.

Stage combat is a vital skill for any actor to acquire so you don't want to miss it! Click here to learn more and save your spot: https://pad.wustl.edu/events/stage-combat-workshop

📢 Students - don't forget to sign up for an audition slot on November 7th & 8th 📢

Anyone interested in auditioning for 'The Wolves' or 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee' should visit our auditions website and sign up for one of the listed times on November 7th & 8th, 7pm-10pm. All WashU students are eligible to audition for drama productions regardless of major or minor!

Students who cannot attend the general auditions may submit a recorded audition. Read more and sign up for an audition slot here: https://sites.wustl.edu/padauditions/drama-call-board/fall-drama-audition-information/

Kate Hamill's reimagining of 'Pride and Prejudice' is a rollicking good time for (almost) everyone! Come see us pour buckets of water on our lead actor, wreak havoc on Mrs. Bennet's poor nerves and tell one of the greatest love stories of all time...with an irreverent and comedic twist, of course. 'Pride and Prejudice' continues this weekend with evening shows on Friday and Saturday and closes with a Sunday matinee.

WashU students get FREE tickets. WashU faculty & staff get discounted tickets. Check out the event page and purchase your tickets here: https://pad.wustl.edu/events/pride-and-prejudice

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Searching for Tinderella. Are you the perfect match for these 'Pride and Prejudice' suitors?

✨More info & tickets here: https://pad.wustl.edu/events/pride-and-prejudice✨

The 'Pride and Prejudice' suitors are looking for their Tinderella, and the Bennet sisters (and their mother, of course) have their profiles ready to go. Which way would you swipe? 👀

P.S. Did we make our own dating app logo from the PAD & Tinder logos? Yes, yes we did.

You still have 3 chances to see 'Pride and Prejudice' next weekend! More info & tickets here: https://pad.wustl.edu/events/pride-and-prejudice ✨

Are you a student interested in learning more about our production of 'Pride and Prejudice', the Performing Arts Department and/or participating in other productions at WashU? If so, don't miss our Q&A session with Director William Whitaker immediately after our Sunday, October 27th 'Pride and Prejudice' matinee!

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife..."
'Pride and Prejudice' opens TONIGHT in the Edison Theatre! With two weekend runs (this weekend and next) you have six chances to see this delightful Kate Hamill reimagining of the Jane Austen classic.

WashU students get in for free 🎟️ Learn more and get tickets here: https://pad.wustl.edu/events/pride-and-prejudice

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Directed by: William Whitaker
Scenic design: Katie Plum
Lighting design: Caroline McNinch
Costume design: Nikki Green
Props design: Emily Frei
Sound design: Sean Savoie

Earlier this week talented actress and St. Louis native Ellie Kemper was a guest in Professor Robert Mark Morgan's class!

We've been looking forward to it all semester and it was so great to hear about her journey from high school theatre (with acting teacher Jon Hamm!) to the comedic genius she is today!

If you're looking for us, we're off to start our third re-watch of The Office.

“It’s going to be a wild ride,” Whitaker added. “The humor is skewering — playful, not vituperative — and the contemporary lessons are front and center.” Hamill, like Austen, “bats away the stupidities of arrogant men.”

“If this show has a rallying cry,” Whitaker concluded, “it’s, ‘Be who you need to be.’”

Read Liam Otten's great article below, and get your tickets to 'Pride and Prejudice' here: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35674/production/1211140

Ball gowns and running shoes The Bennet daughters are stubborn, idealistic, spirited and sometimes nosy. They are also unmarried. In the early 19th-century world of “Pride and Prejudice,” which opens Oct. 25 in Edison Theatre, this presents a problem. None can inherit the family estate.

It was so great having Stephanie Martinez, PAD's 2024 Marcus Artist-in-Residence, here with us last week! While she was here, Stephanie guest taught dance classes, set choreography on PAD students, and closed out the week with an open studio showing and Q&A session hosted by Antonio Douthit-Boyd. You don't want to miss Stephanie's choreography at the beginning of December in our fall dance show, WUDT: It's Time. More information to come!

'Pride and Prejudice' leads Hope McKinney (Lizzy Bennet) and Tristan Dumas (Mr. Darcy) are ready to take the stage with their Austen personas (reimagined by Kate Hamill, of course).

P&P opens THIS Friday! Learn more and get your tickets here: https://pad.wustl.edu/events/pride-and-prejudice



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When we say all hands were on deck to finish up costumes, we mean it! ‘Pride and Prejudice’ Costume Designer Nikki Green brought in the cutest little design assistant (WashU Class of 2046) last week to help choose the perfect trims!

Take a peek behind the curtain at our costume shop as they make our 'Pride & Prejudice' costumes come to life!



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Tech has officially begun and our actors and crew are…taking it well. Pictured is day one, with a body count of three. Tech is a long and exhausting process, and our cast has been working hard to put on a fantastic production! Opening night is this Friday, October 25 and you don’t want to miss it!

Reserve your ticket here: https://pad.wustl.edu/events/pride-and-prejudice

Don't miss our November 1st colloquium - Lamenting Intervals: Landscapes of the Body, a forthcoming presentation by the internationally recognized Polish intermedia artist Monika Weiss who will discuss her current cycle of works in sound, movement, drawing and sculpture, collectively titled Metamorphosis, at Laumeier Sculpture Park, where Monika is this year’s Visiting Artist in Residence. Free and open to the public! Learn more at the link 🔗: https://pad.wustl.edu/events/lamenting-intervals-landscapes-body

Meet student designer Katie Plum!

Katie has been working hard as the scenic designer for 'Pride & Prejudice'—check out these progress images of her design ideas! If you want to see Katie’s set designs come to life on stage, don’t forget to grab your ticket to see 'Pride and Prejudice' October 25-27 and November 1-3. Link in bio for more info & to get your tickets!

Psst - 'Pride and Prejudice' opens a week from today!

If you haven't reserved your tickets yet, what are you waiting for?! WashU students get FREE tickets, so call 314-935-6543 or visit the Box Office to reserve yours today 🎟️

For non-WashU students, visit https://ci.ovationtix.com/35674/production/1211140 to purchase your tickets now!

Photo Credit: Danny Reise/WashU

Reserve your tickets ahead of time for either of our 'Pride and Prejudice' Sunday matinees to be entered into our Spot of Tea raffle! Fancy yourself the Lord or Lady of Pemberley Manor, serving Pemberley loose-leaf black tea from a new teapot with an infuser, all courtesy of The London Tea Merchant. Set the mood with the black cardamom and cream scent of a Darcy candle generously donated by London Lights. (Mr. Darcy not included).

Get your tickets here: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35674/production/1211140