Graduate students from the University of Chicago’s Theater and Performance Studies (TAPS) program are featured in a recent Tableau article covering the 2025 Berlin Family Lectures performance of John Cage’s Europera 5, directed by internati…
Student Reflection Featured on Court Theatre Blog TAPS major Jo Selmeczy reflects on their experience participating in the development of Out Here TAPS student Jo Selmeczy, a Theatre and Performance Studies major at the University of Chicag…
Positioned at the heart of a world-renowned academic institution and housed in a state-of-the-art presenting facility, the Committee on Theater and Performance Studies (TAPS) offers an undergraduate Bachelor of Arts degree, a joint Ph.D. pr…
TAPS PhD student Andrei Kureichik was recently featured in MPR News for his collaboration with Theatre Novi Most on the documentary play An Ocean Away. The play draws on personal testimonies from Minnesota’s Ukrainian community, including f…
Court Theatre, the professional theatre of the University of Chicago, received nine 2025 Equity Jeff Awards for its world-premiere production Berlin. The production, adapted by TAPS Lecturer Mickle Maher (TAPS Lecturer) from Jason Lutes’ gr…
Join us for new work presented by this year's graduating TAPS majors and minors! FRIDAY APRIL 22 Logan Center 501 1:00pm Willem Finn Harling Pederasty’s (Theoretical) Potential: Fantasy, Fetishism, and Fungibility in Yanaghihara’s The Peopl…
There’s much more to puppetry than a performer and a prop, says Marissa Fenley. As a joint doctoral student in English Language and Literature and Theater and Performance Studies who grew up making puppets in an artistic family, Fenley stud…
In the Division of the Arts and Humanities, admissions for the 2026-2027 academic year are paused in all doctoral programs except for Philosophy and Music Composition and Sound Practices, and in all master's programs except for the Master o…
Donations made to TAPS support a host of programming including undergraduate student performances, the research endeavors of our burgeoning graduate program, student access to visiting artists, internship programs and more. Tax-deductible c…
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My research explores the poetics and the politics of global literary and cultural entanglements, focusing critical approaches to translation theory, semiotics, Marxist aesthetics and anti-colonial theory, which traverse the Caucasus and Cen…
Thomas Christensen’s scholarly research centers on the history of music theory. Fundamental to his work has been a desire to situate the many intellectual frames, arguments and linguistic models used by writers in the early modern period de…