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Suicide Cowboys by Greg T. Nanni '21 has been selected as one of four plays for the Playwrights Foundation's 47th Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF) lineup out of a highly competitive pool of 601 applicants.
Since The Public's newly renovated Delacorte Theater reopened last summer, Columbia alums have featured prominently on stage and behind the scenes at one of New York City's most iconic summertime traditions: Shakespeare in the Park. In case you missed it, Saheem Ali '07 directed the park's first production of Romeo and Juliet in 20 years—and romance was in the air.
Awake and Sing!, Clifford Odets's landmark 1935 play about the struggles and aspirations of a Depression-era Jewish family in the Bronx, will return to Broadway next winter for the first time in two decades—and will mark the Broadway debut of director Tyne Rafaeli '14.
Playwriting student Anterior Leverett was awarded the Hansberry-Lilly Fellowship from the Dramatists Guild Foundation, created to support generations of female-identifying playwrights of color.
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.
