Theatre News

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.

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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. 

Recently appointed Head of Playwriting and Associate Professor James Ijames has co–written the new musical Saturday Church currently on at New York Theatre Workshop.

Concentration Head and Associate Professor of Stage Management, Michael Passaro, serves as the Production Stage Manager for Huzzah.

The Maenads, a new play by Playwriting alum Stephen Foglia '17, is currently playing at The Tank Theater in Midtown, from September 18 to October 12, 2025.

Acting alum William Appiah '24 appears in And Then There Were No More at La Mama, a new play by actor Tim Blake Nelson and directed by Mark Wing-Davey, which runs through November 2, 2025.

Adjunct Professor Moisés Kaufman and 2014 Directing alum Michel Hausman '14 will both direct shows as part of Miami New Drama’s 2025-2026 season.

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The 77th Emmy Award Winners have been announced, and a number of projects worked on by Columbia filmmakers are among the winners.