"Uncommon Sense" Series
CRT is more than a professional theatre, it is a center for the intellectual and cultural life of our community. CRT's new "Uncommon Sense" Series is a collection of events, all free and open to everyone, that investigate a variety of aesthetic and academic topics through performing art. For regular updates on all "Uncommon Sense" Series events, sign up for CRT’s electronic newsletter here, or call (860) 486-4799 for information.

Mapa-Corpo 2
Interactive rituals
Mobius Theatre, Drama Building
Oct. 11 & 12, 8 pm

Join San Francisco-based performance artist Guillermo Gomez-Pena and his company for a poetic interactive ritual that explores neo-colonization/de-colonization through acupuncture and the reenactment of the post-911 “body politic.”
Puerto Rican and Latino Studies Institute
Contains adult subject matter and nudity

A Day in the Humanities
Artist, State and Celebrity
Nafe Katter Theatre
April 4, 2008

Join UConn and guest scholars and artists for an exploration of how artists use their celebrity to challenge states as well as create tributes to state-persons. While the paradigmatic lives and works of artists such as Virgil, Toscanini and Khalo capture well the thrust of the Day, dramatic and musical performances and scholarly debates will reflect on more general themes such as artist as dissident, artist as advocate, artist as the oppressed.

Jazz Concert
Beneath the Black Earth     
Nafe Katter Theatre
Nov. 8, 8 pm

Earl MacDonald, Director of Jazz Studies, and Deborah Muirhead, Professor of Art, present a collaborative work of new jazz music and projected photographic imagery. Muirhead’s projected digital photographs were created during the 2006 School of Fine Art Digital Atelier. MacDonald’s musical compositions, performed by his Creative Opportunity Workshop (C.O.W.) ensemble, were composed in response to the photographic images.
Earl MacDonald – piano, Rhodes electric piano; Darryl Harper – clarinet, bass clarinet; Greg Heffernan – cello, laptop computer / electronics; Rogério Boccato – percussion

Pentecost Symposium
Lecture and guest artist event
Nafe Katter Theatre
Dec. 6, 2007

Join visiting speakers and faculty members from the Foundations of Humanitarianism program, the Human Rights Institute, and the Humanities Institute for a provocative discussion of issues raised in David Edgar’s play, Pentecost.
Sponsored by the Foundations of Humanitarianism program, the Human Rights Institute, and the Humanities Institute.