Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers, a docu-drama co-written by Geoffrey Cowan and the late Leroy Aarons, recently concluded a 10-day tour in China in November and December 2011. For details about the tour, visit the Top Secret Blog.

The LA Theatre Works production was performed in Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangzhou. The tour was sponsored by the U.S. Embassy and the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. Top Secret was last presented during a successful Off-Broadway run at New York Theatre Workshop in 2010. In conjunction with performances, the Center on Communication Leadership & Policy at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism presented post-performance discussions with Cowan and other special guests from leading law and journalism schools. This provided a valuable opportunity to contextualize the content of the play, which is authentically American, within Chinese society. While in China, Cowan also delivered the prestigious F.Y. Chang lecture, a joint program of Peking University Law School, Tsinghua University Law School and the Harvard University Law School East Asian Legal Studies Program. For more information about the China tour of Top Secret, click here.