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Theatre Professor and Playwriting Concentration Head James Ijames is making history in Philadelphia. Three theaters, Arden Theatre Company, Wilma Theater, and Philadelphia Theatre Company, are each presenting a different play from Ijames’s extensive catalogue.
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 Assistant Professor of Theatre James Ijames about plays as communal, interpretive experiences and the importance of getting people together.
Award-winning director and Theatre alum Celine Song '14 discusses the transition from theatre to film, dealing with economic precarity, and the need for artists to put their work in high-stakes environments.
Adjunct Professor and Tony Award Winner Cody Renard Richard is currently working as the Production Stage Manager for the Broadway production of Ragtime.
Acting alum Greg Cuellar '17 is starring in Initiative, a groundbreaking new play by Else Went having its world premiere at The Public Theater.
Vienna Art Week commissioned multidisciplinary artist and Associate Professor of Theatre María José Contreras Lorenzini to provide a participatory, site-specific performance for the annual celebration, which takes over the city of Vienna from November 7 to 14, 2025.
The Monkey King, a new opera composed by Huang Ro with a libretto by Professor David Henry Hwang, will have its world premiere at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco this month.
Columbia theatremakers work on Lincoln Center Theater's latest production, the political thriller Kyoto.
Read more from the Columbia Spectator.
How can we use digital storytelling to connect with strangers? Can glitch art help us understand the malleability of memory? Is there an end to grieving? These are some of the questions being asked by Associate Professor of Professional Practice, Lance Weiler in his ambitious exhibition, Where There's Smoke.
Theatre alum Nadia Foskolou '08 has recently translated Declan Donnellan's seminal text, The Actor and the Target, which has been published in Greece by the prestigious Patakis Publishers.
2nd Murderer, a new play by Theatre alum Kanika Asavari Vaish '22 opened October 9, 2025 at The Flea Theater in Downtown Manhattan and will run until November 1, 2025.
