60th Anniversary Alumni Weekend
Alumni Host Committee Recommends…
Directing Thesis: Measure for Measure
Director: Dennis Oliveira (current student)
Saturday, October 4, 8 PM
Flexible Performance Space, Lenfest Center for the Arts
Register here for free tickets to this MFA Theatre Directing Thesis by current student Dennis Oliveira. Please submit your ticket request by September 30; requests received after this date cannot be accommodated.
Inspired by the modern-day nightclubs of Berlin and Brooklyn, Measure for Measure asks us to confront our own definition of morality and what values we choose to uphold, especially when everything we stand for is threatened to be taken away by an authoritarian leader.
Buena Vista Social Club: The Musical
Director: Saheem Ali '07
Saturday, October 4, 7:30 PM; Sunday, October 5, 3 PM
Schoenfeld Theatre
Buena Vista Social Club: The Musical is a vibrant, fictionalized story inspired by the legendary Cuban musicians behind the iconic album. Set in 1950s Havana and across generations, it follows a group of artists who come together through music, love, and loss—capturing the soul of a country on the edge of transformation and the rhythms that echo across time.
RAGTIME
Producer: Santino De Angelo '18
Saturday, October 4, 8 PM; Sunday, October 5, 3 PM
Lincoln Center Theatre
RAGTIME is a sweeping musical adaptation of E.L. Doctorow’s novel that follows three fictional families in pursuit of the American Dream at the dawn of the 20th Century: Black pianist Coalhouse Walker, Jr. and his beloved Sarah, Jewish immigrant Tateh and his little girl, and a wealthy white family led by matriarch Mother. All grasping for the same dream, if only they can hold on to it.
Anat Cohen Quartetinho
Saturday, October 4, 7:30 PM
Miller Theatre, Columbia University
Tickets starting at $25
The charismatic and prolific Grammy-nominated clarinetist-saxophonist Anat Cohen brings her expressive artistry and magnetic stage presence back to Miller. Named "Clarinetist of the Year" by the Jazz Journalists Association every year since 2007 and a perennial favorite in DownBeat’s critics and readers polls, Cohen and her vibrant quartet perform an evening of music rich with swing, Brazilian rhythms, and adventurous improvisation.
Turtle Island
Producer: Sonia Kozlova Clark '11
Free Public Workshops: Sunday, October 5, 12 PM and 4 PM
14th Street Park, Hudson River Park
Turtle Island is a new outdoor spectacle created by Plasticiens Volants under the artistic guidance of Haudenosaunee artist, historian, and educator G. Peter Jemison (Seneca, Heron Clan), with choreography and performance contributions by Skywoman Iroquois Dance Theater. Co-produced by Unicycle Productions LLC and Plasticiens Volants, this intimate, family-friendly production brings to life the foundational Haudenosaunee Creation Story through a vibrant fusion of aerial puppetry, dance, and community engagement.