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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.

Read more in The New York Times Style Magazine.

Theatre alum Liba Vaynberg has been selected as one of two playwrights for the 2025 Roundabout Underground Playwright Residency.

Tony Award-winning producer and Theatre alum Barbara Whitman '05 is set to receive the James C. Hormel Spirit of Tectonic Award from Tectonic Theatre Project at their annual benefit gala, A Tectonic Cabaret, on Monday October 25, 2025.

Playwriting alum Melis Aker '18 has been tapped to write a new Prince biopic The Most Beautiful, in production at Crazy Legs Features. 

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