Shariffa Ali, theater maker
When a two-week trip to the U.S. fell through, Ali created new spaces of possibility
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Category: Lewis Center for the Arts
Between living bodies and objects
Text courtesy of the Lewis Center for the Arts Dancers navigate sculptures’ dangerously sharp elements in the performance installation Two Person Operating System Type 2, a collaboration between Lewis Center for the Arts’ Martha Friedman, Continue Reading →
Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li
A Public Space, 2021 Yiyun Li, professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts From the acclaimed author of Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life, comes Continue Reading →
Breaking new ground: Lauren Auyeung
Inspired by the physical virtuosity of hip-hop and urban dance, Auyeung seeks to investigate the movement vocabularies of hip-hop in abstracted form. Continue Reading →
An overdue spotlight on an avant-garde playwright
By Steve Runk A symposium and performances held in April 2018 at Princeton focused an overdue spotlight on one of the most influential but perhaps least-known American theater-makers of the 20th century, María Irene Fornés. Continue Reading →
Four Princeton faculty members win Guggenheim Fellowships
By the Office of Communications Four Princeton faculty members, representing a range of subjects in the humanities, have received Guggenheim Fellowships. Brooke Holmes, the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities and professor of classics, Continue Reading →
Paul Muldoon receives Her Majesty’s Gold Medal for Poetry
By Jamie Saxon Paul Muldoon, the Howard G.B. Clark ’21 University Professor in the Humanities, professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts and director of the Princeton Atelier, has received Her Continue Reading →
Jane Cox on LEDs, lighting design and the role of light in storytelling
By Catherine Zandonella WHEN PRINCETON’S NEW LEWIS ARTS COMPLEX was under design, Jane Cox was one of the primary advocates for going all-LED in the new theatrical performing spaces. “It was a risk to go Continue Reading →
New arts complex opens
By Staff The new 22-acre Lewis Arts complex includes spaces for the creation and performance of dance, theater, music and more. The new multi-building Lewis Arts complex on the south edge of campus significantly expands Continue Reading →
Eight win Guggenheim Fellowships
PHOTO CREDITS FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: TOP ROW: JOHN LUCAS, RICHARD SODEN, PETER HURLEY, HANNAH DUNPHY BOTTOM ROW: DAVID BROWN, NINA KATCHADOURIAN, DENISE APPLEWHITE, JILL DOLAN Eight Princeton faculty members have received 2017 Guggenheim Fellowships Continue Reading →
Tracy K. Smith named U.S. Poet Laureate
PHOTO BY DENISE APPLEWHITE Tracy K. Smith has been named the Library of Congress’s 22nd Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, for 2017-18. Smith is the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor in the Humanities and a Continue Reading →
JANE COX receives the Ruth Morley Design Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women
Jane Cox, senior lecturer in theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts and director of the Program in Theater, was presented with the Ruth Morley Design Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women Continue Reading →
GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIPS awarded
Two faculty members and a visiting lecturer have received 2016 fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in recognition of their excellence in scholarship or creative work. The fellowships were awarded to Daniel Garber, Continue Reading →
JHUMPA LAHIRI awarded National Humanities Medal
Jhumpa Lahiri, whose novels and short stories explore the immigrant experience, family, love, language and cultural identity, was named a recipient of the 2014 National Humanities Medal. The medal was conferred by President Barack Obama Continue Reading →
Hero explores Vietnam War experiences
FOR HIS SENIOR THESIS, Eamon Foley combined indie rock music, dance, aerial choreography and ethnographic research to create an original theater-dance piece titled Hero, which tells the story of a young man transformed by his Continue Reading →
JILL DOLAN Receives Distinguished Scholar Award for Theater Research
Jill Dolan, the Annan Professor in English, professor of theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts, and director of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, received the 2013 Distinguished Scholar Award from the Continue Reading →
Princeton-born play makes off-Broadway debut
A MUSICAL ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE that was born at Princeton made its New York City debut in April 2014. Both entertaining and informative, The Great Immensity focuses on the quintessential question of our time: How Continue Reading →
A. M. Homes wins Women’s Prize for Fiction
The 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction was awarded to A.M. Homes, a lecturer in creative writing and the Lewis Center for the Arts, for her novel May We Be Forgiven. The £30,000 ($46,000) prize rewards Continue Reading →
Three win Guggenheim Fellowships
Three professors have received 2013 Guggenheim Fellowships for demonstrated excellence in scholarship or creative work. D. Graham Burnett, professor of history; Deana Lawson, lecturer in visual arts and the Lewis Center for the Arts; and Continue Reading →
Meme by Susan Wheeler
Acclaimed poet Susan Wheeler, professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, whose last individual collection predicted the spiritual losses of the economic collapse, turns her attention to the most intimate of Continue Reading →
Big hair brings to life a 17th-century satire
Extravagant wigs and sumptuous costumes serve as metaphors that breathe life into the social satire of Der Bourgeois Bigwig, a new adaptation of a 17th-century comedy by Molière that pokes fun at both the pretentious Continue Reading →
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