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10/14/2026

Sign-ups are now open for our Winter Main Stage: Tony Kushner's "Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches." This production will serve as our annual TAPS 122P course for undergraduate actors.

Learn More and Sign Up at taps.stanford.edu/auditions

Additionally, our Grad Rep 2027 piece, Sam Shepard and Patti Smith's "Cowboy Mouth" will join these auditions as well!

10/12/2026

The TAPS Graduate Students will host the October First Friday (10.23 at 12:30PM) as an open table-reading drawing from the "Women+ on the Edge of Democracy project," an initiative that invites conversation on women and democracy through theater. Three plays by three female playwrights will be featured in this reading: "Reasonable Suspicion" by Lisa Loomer, "An Uplifting Highschool Graduation Speech" by Sarah Ruhl, and "Maeve" by Else Went.

10/09/2026

New Episode of TABLEWORK out now! Listen wherever you get your Podcasts 🎙️

10/02/2026

TAPS Graduate Student Lucas Baisch sat down with TABLEWORK Host & TAPS Graduate Student Karishma Bhagani about our upcoming Fall Developmental Stage, "404 Not Found."

Listen wherever you get your podcasts! 🎙

09/24/2026

All New episodes of TABLEWORK return next month with TAPS Graduate Student Karishma Bhagani as host for our 26-27 Season. Listen & Subscribe Wherever you get your podcasts.

Learn more about our upcoming shows at ⁠taps.stanford.edu/season⁠.

09/16/2026

Join us WED SEP 23 from 4-6PM for the TAPS Annual Kick-Off BBQ on the MemAud Loading Dock! We welcome new students and welcome back all Stanford community members involved in the arts on campus!

This social event is an informal and fun opportunity for new students to meet TAPS faculty and staff as well as leaders in the arts and student theater. Learn about what's planned around campus this year and discuss ways to get involved!

taps.stanford.edu/events

09/15/2026

DANCE 30's Chocolate Heads Movement Band will hold open auditions for all Stanford Students during Week 1—all experience levels are encouraged to come out!

Chocolate Heads will be part of our Spring Main Stage, "Spring Rise up 2027" Coming to the Elam Theater this May.

Learn More at taps.stanford.edu/auditions

09/14/2026

The first of our '26-'27 Season Auditions are now live! Come audition for Grad Rep 2027! Seeking Actors & Designers/Crew, these unique projects are entirely student led, while faculty/staff supported. A great way to create exciting works at TAPS!

Learn More at taps.stanford.edu/auditions

09/11/2026

TAPS has a new Graduate Seminar this Fall! TAPS 356S: Protest Performance: Strategies and Practices, 2010-2020—with TAPS Professor Branislav Jakovljević—focuses on performance of dissent during this period marked by an unprecedented wave of global unrest.

All of our '26-'27 courses are live at taps.stanford.edu/courses

09/10/2026

We close out our '25-'26 season recap with "Romeo & Juliet", our Spring Main Stage. Next week brings NSO and the official start of our '26-'27 season!

Learn More at taps.stanford.edu/season

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