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The Classical Theater of Harlem has announced that its 2026 Uptown Shakespeare in the Park production will be Othello—one of Shakespeare's most emotionally-charged tragedies, exploring power, rage, and racism—directed by Carl Cofield '14 with assistant direction from Kanika Asavari Vaish '22.
The Off-Broadway hit, School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls by Playwriting alum Jocelyn Bioh '08, is getting its Broadway bow with leading nonprofit theatre company, Manhattan Theatre Club, this fall.
The 79th Annual Tony Awards concluded the evening of June 7, and Columbia theatre-makers took home some of the night's biggest honors.
Associate Professor of Writing Anelise Chen and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theatre Vinson Cunningham named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in the categories of Memoir or Autobiography and Criticism respectively.
This Is Who We Are is a series featuring Columbia University School of the Arts' professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making. Here, we talk with Associate Professor of Professional Practice in Theatre, Liz Hayes, about how a childhood fascination turned into a career, the techniques of teaching speech, and the importance of personal resonance.
This Is Who We Are is a series featuring Columbia University School of the Arts' professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making. Here, we talk with Associate Professor of Professional Practice in Film and Theatre Blair Singer about his transition from acting to writing, the necessity of preparing students for the industry, and the relationship between teaching and practice.
The Metropolitan Opera has honored Stage Management student Anica Acuña with the 2026 Met Opera Stage Manager Fellowship.
'Mexodus' and 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee' are among this year’s Lucille Lortel Award winners.
Professor Emeritus David Henry Hwang revised the Rodgers & Hammerstein classic 25 years ago. Now he gets to remedy some of his own remake’s flaws. Read more from The New York Times.
Hunger, a new play by the collective Radical Evolution, a theatre ensemble co-founded and co-run by Dramaturgy alum Meropi Peponides '13, will be presented by Soho Rep as part of a three-play cycle, The Hunger Cycle, in their 2027–2028 Season.
Mention My Beauty, a solo-show written and performed by Associate Professor of Professional Practice Leslie Ayvazian, qill run at New York Theatre Workshop from May 5 through June 14, 2026.
Theater Management & Producing student Zach Hedner is serving as an associate producer on Beaches, a new musical produced by Broadway and Beyond Productions, a production company co-founded by Theater Management & Producing alum Ryan Bogner '15.
