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About Edison Theatre
The Edison Theatre is a 656-seat venue, fully technically equipped proscenium-thrust theater that has served Washington University and the greater St. Louis community since 1972.
Edison serves the WashU Performing Arts Department and several WashU student groups as the venue for their mainstage shows. The space also hosts theater, music, and dance performances from The Black Rep and other arts organizations in the St. Louis area.
The theater was made possible through a generous donation from Mrs. Samuel B. Edison, and it was officially named in honor of her late husband and son, Samuel B. & Charles B. Edison, after being built.
Land Acknowledgement
Washington University in St. Louis occupies the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary lands of the Osage Nation, Missouria, Illinois Confederacy and many other tribes, as the custodians of the land where we reside, occupy, and call home.
We recognize their sovereignty was never ceded after unjust removal and encourage your own research on tribal removal, tribal sovereignty and the history of the land you reside. We promote the inclusion of tribal history and the incorporation of contemporary thoughts and actions into your work.
In offering this land acknowledgment, we affirm and support Tribal sovereignty, history, and the experiences of elders past, present, and the seven generations yet to come through their continued connection to this land.