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Jeffrey Page’s third-year directing thesis The Woman / The Man: An Evening of Two One-Act Plays premieres next week. The evening is a theatrical double feature comprised of two Obie Award-winning plays: Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro and Suzan-Lori Parks’ The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World AKA the Negro Book of the Dead. Written nearly thirty years apart, these two pieces remain as haunting and relevant as the day each was written.
The next thesis production, Medea directed by Miriam Grill, premieres January 23rd at The Flexible Performance Space at Lenfest Center for the Arts.
Alumnus Jay Scheib '02 directs and alumna Benita de Wit '16 associate directs the tour of Bat Out of Hell a musical about Join Strat, the forever young leader of rebellious gang, The Lost, as he falls in love with Raven, the beautiful daughter of the tyrannical ruler of post-apocalyptic Obsidian. The production is currently finishing its critically acclaimed UK tour. The musical features many of Meat Loaf’s iconic hits including I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That), It’s All Coming Back To Me Now, and Paradise By The…
Alumnus Scott Ebersold '15 to direct and alumna Anika Chapin '14 to dramaturg a staged reading of The Peculiar Tale of the Prince of Bohemia and the Society of Desperate Victorians. When Prince Florizel learns that his father the King of Bohemia is dead, he seeks to escape the throne. He and his chaperone Colonel Geraldine are invited to join a secret society — The Suicide Club. Club members play a deadly card game nightly with higher stakes than the Prince has ever known. Realizing the deck is stacked against them, the Prince and Geraldine become inextricably linked…
In This Hope: A Pericles Project, a new play dramaturged by alumna Hannah Hessel Ratner ’11 and directed by Anna Brenner '11, is part play and part ritual. Led by an all-female/multi-cultural ensemble, the production mines a well known story to create something completely in the present. The those forced to flee a homeland and journey over the sea, experiencing great loss and sacrifice only to discover love and build a new life has been passed on since antiquity and still resonates to this day.
A group of Alumni are collaborating on Re-Reading Oppression: 3 one-act plays, a mini festival, which takes place next Monday, April 30th at 5:30pm at The Martin E. Segal Center. The evening consists of three readings of one act plays that address oppression, discrimination, and abuse portrayed by three significant playwrights from the U.S., England and Egypt, in the second half of the last century. All the plays are directed by graduates from the Directing Concentracion.
Under the artistic direction of Alumnus Tony Speciale '08, Abingdon Theatre Company will produce two New York premieres this season
Alumnus Darko Tresnjak '98 will kick off The Metropolitan Opera’s 2018–2019 season with Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila.
Alumnus Kareem Fahmy ‘07 is the current Resident Director at The Flea Theater throughout the 2017-2018 season.
Numerous productions including Columbia students, faculty, and alumni garnered nominations for this year’s Drama Desk Awards.