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Theatre Professor David Henry Hwang's opera, An American Soldier, has been nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording.
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.
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.
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.
Playwriting alum Melis Aker '18 has been tapped to write a new Prince biopic The Most Beautiful, in production at Crazy Legs Features.
The celebrated dramatist will direct the Theatre Program’s Playwriting concentration.
Pulitzer Prize-winning, Tony-nominated playwright, director and educator James Ijames officially joins the institution as Associate Professor of Theatre this fall.
Playwriting alum Angelica Chéri ’13 will bring her first musical to Broadway in 2026.
Playwriting alum Amalia Oliva Rojas ’25 won The Leah Playwriting Prize for her play In The Bronx Brown Girls Can See Stars Too (or The F*ck Is You Lookin’ At?).