2021 · Laboratory For Global Performance & Politics

A woman in a dark blue headwrap and light blue top holds a cleaver in one hand as she looks into the camera in front of a dark backdrop

USA Today opinion piece by Melisande Short-Colomb

November 11, 2021

Short-Colomb details her relationship with Georgetown University, the institution that enslaved her ancestors.
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“Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski” review by Chicago Sun Times

November 5, 2021

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An older male performer stands on a stage and dresses beside a wooden chair and table. The screen behind him shows an old photo of an old man in a suit, next to text that reads "Jan Karski, 1914-2000"

“Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski” review by the Washington Post

October 11, 2021

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Old man with long white hair and a suit sits on a park bench beside an identical statue of an old man in a suit

David Strathairn to star at STC as WWII resistance fighter Jan Karski

September 19, 2021

Story by Alexandra Bowman via DC Metro Theater Arts.
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Exterior photo of a glass greenhouse on the rooftop of an old brick building with elaborate reliefs and a sign over the door that reads "Milbank Hall"

The Lab’s New Greenhouse

July 8, 2021

In fall 2020, the last thing we all needed was another Zoom call. Then, the Laboratory for Global Performance & Politics put out a call for proposals that was too intriguing to pass up. … MORE

A screenshot of a PBS News Hour feature, in which a man and a woman in COVID masks are walking next to a brick wall.

“In Your Shoes” on PBS NewsHour

April 6, 2021

The Lab’s signature Performing One Another methodology is highlighted.
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Year: 2021

USA Today opinion piece by Melisande Short-Colomb

“Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski” review by Chicago Sun Times

“Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski” review by the Washington Post

David Strathairn to star at STC as WWII resistance fighter Jan Karski

The Lab’s New Greenhouse

“In Your Shoes” on PBS NewsHour

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