B-Sides
Four Short Plays
Written by Columbia M.F.A. Class of 2010 Playwrights

Friday March 7th @ 8pm
Saturday March 8th @ 8pm
Columbia University School of the Arts
@ Schapiro Studio (in the basement of Schapiro Hall)
605 W. 115th Street (Between Broadway and Riverside Dr.)
*nearest subway stop—116th on the 1/9

Totally Free!

Featuring plays by
Steven Gaultney, Jeffrey James Keyes,
Libby Leonard, and Jason Platt  
 
Stage Managed by Melissa Denizard (Stage Management ‘10)

Space is limited! RSVP to columbiabsides@gmail.com.

Columbia Stages Presents:

THE GREAT GOD BROWN
By Eugene O’Neill
Directed by MICHAEL RAU

February 20-23, 2008

The Riverside Theatre
91 Claremont Avenue
Between 120th and 122nd Streets

$15 General Admission
$5 Seniors

Free with Columbia University ID or other valid student ID
(Subject to availability) 

All Students and CUID holders: To claim your ticket, you must go in person to the box office at The Riverside Theatre and present your I.D. Box office hours are Thursday – Saturday, 4p-8p and Sunday noon-4p as well as one hour prior to performances. One complimentary ticket per CUID. Complimentary student tickets are subject to availability and cannot be reserved. (more…)

2nd Year Actors’ Ensemble Project!  This Thursday!

watchmen of the heart: a workshop production

This Thursday, August 30th
7pm
Schapiro Theater (115th St. between Broadway & Riverside, lower level)
Followed by a talk-back with the audience (more…)

Come see your fellow SoA students’ work in this off-campus production:

Previews of the world premiere of a new play by Torben Betts
THE ERROR OF THEIR WAYS
as part of The American Living Room Festival

HERE Arts Center
145 Sixth Avenue (between Spring and Broome)
Thursday, August 30th – Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
All performances at 8:30pm
www.here.org. // 212.352.3101 (more…)

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
http://lmcc.net/art/index.html
Free LLMC Workspace: Application Deadline – May 10th (Tuesday’s Treasure reminder)
Free Preformances: LLMC SITELINES – June 1- September 14th, 2007

When is an entire acre in the middle of downtown a multi-media venue? Only during the Council’s annual Sitelines series.
MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY
Steps In the Street and Prelude To Action (from Chronicle, 1936)
Friday-Sunday, June 1-3, 2007, 12:30PM 
Location: Intersection of Wall and Broad Streets 
Visit this link for more shows and times: http://lmcc.net/art/programs/2007.6.1sitelines/index.html

Columbia University School of the Arts Theatre Division cordially invites you to attend

The New Voices, New Play Festival:  Showcase 2007
Join us as we celebrate the MFA Playwriting Class of 2007 and present excerpts from their new works.

Directed by Eduardo Machado and featuring a Company of New York’s Finest Actors

Monday, April 30, 2007
4pm and 7pm
DR2 Theatre
103 East 15th Street
Reception with the playwrights from 5:30 – 6:45pm

RSVP: 212-854-3408 by Monday, April 23

Please join us for this great collaboration between the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), and the School of the Arts (SoA) in their first New Play Collaboration:

Insurgency/Counterinsurgency:
a joint project of local NYC artists, activists, and the Columbia University Forum on Political Violence

COLUMBIA ART meets COLUMBIA POLITICS as Dan McSweeney (SIPA, 07), Cynthia Croot (SOA, 01), Cary McClelland (SIPA, 07), Jon Kern (SOA, 07) Alex Beech (SOA,07), Joanne Hudson (SOA, 08) join theatre artists to present plays focused on insurgency/Counter-insurgency…

This project will take place over the weekend of April 20-23.  Five teams of playwrights, directors, dramaturgs, and actors will come together over a single weekend to create five new ten-minute plays based on the theme of insurgency and counterinsurgency.  These new works will be presented on

Monday, April 23
The Columbia School of International and Public Affairs IAB, Room 1501 7:30 pm

With a post-show dialogue with the cast, crew, and interested members of the community.

Please note that, due to circumstances beyond their control, the Sister Circle’s production of: Rooms in the Dark, from The Resurrection of the Daughter: Liliane scheduled for Tuesday, April 17th, 2007 at 7pm at Schapiro Studio has been CANCELLED.

Columbia Stages presents the final School of the Arts Theatre Division Director’s Thesis of the season:

The Wild Party
Music and Lyrics by MICHAEL JOHN LaCHIUSA
Book by MICHAEL JOHN LaCHIUSA & GEORGE C. WOLFE
Based on the poem by Joseph Moncure March

Directed by Saheem Ali

April 18 – 22, 2007
Wed. – Sat. at 8p, and Sun. at 2p

The Riverside Theatre
91 Claremont Avenue
New York, NY 10027
For more information and to order tickets, visit www.columbiastages.com.

This racy musical is based on a 1928 poem about one night of escalating decadence, through which LaChiusa stages a brilliant, savage, polystylistic unmasking of the lies by which we live.

ON THE EDGE: New Independent Cinema From China starts TOMORROW at Columbia University!

This just in: a rare live-painting performance "TRACES" by renowned painters and Chinese "National Treasures" the Zhou Brothers will mark the opening of ON THE EDGE: New Independent Cinema From China TOMORROW in Roone Arledge Auditorium at Columbia University. Also on hand to celebrate the occasion will be readings by acclaimed poet BeiDao and live accompaniment by award-winning musicians Yang Lu and Hsia-Ling Lin.

ON THE EDGE: New Independent Cinema From China (Thursday April 12 – Sunday April 15) Roone Arledge Auditorium at Lerner Hall on Columbia main campus and Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center.

And don’t forget the film: "THE WORLD", Jia Zhangke’s lyrical and moving depiction of life in contemporary Beijing, which plays following the performance!

Other films in the festival include "Blind Shaft", "The Orphan of Anyang", "Walking On the Wild Side", and "The Silent Holy Stones".

All of the directors are expected to be in attendance.  There will be a panel discussion with the directors set for Saturday April 14 moderated by esteemed film critic and Columbia University School of the Arts faculty member Richard Peña. This discussion will be free and open to the public.

For a more detailed description of the films please check out the website: http://www.cuarts.com/ontheedge/

Tickets are $5 for students and $7 for non-students. Opening night tickets and performance are $7 for students and $10 for non-students.

For further information please contact Professor Lydia Liu, who is one of the festival organizers: ll2410@columbia.edu.

(An evening of Beckett short plays)
Directed by: Michael Rau SOA ‘08
April 13, 14 at 8PM, April 15 at 3PM.
Schapiro Theater, 615 W 115 Street

Featuring:
Rachel Bonds, Mary Grill, Chris Henry, Devon Jordan (SOA ‘08), Jeremy Pickard, Kaneza Schaal, Kymberlie Stansell (more…)

Final weekend!
The SoA Theatre Arts Divsion’s Columbia Stages presents a director’s thesis:


Woyzeck
by Georg Büchner
translated by Gideon Lester
directed by Marike Splint


March 28-April 1, 2007
Tonight and Sat. at 8p, and Sun. at 2p
The Theater at the Riverside Church / 91 Claremont Avenue / New York, NY 10027

"The likes of us are wretched in this world and the next." Dreamlike snapshots of a poor man’s life.

For more information and to procure tickets, visit www.columbiastages.com

The Best Intentions

Adapted from Ingmar Bergman’s novel
By Nadia Foskolou & Nathan Wright

Directed by Nadia Foskolou

Friday MARCH 23 @ 8p
Saturday MARCH 24 @ 3p & 8p
Sunday MARCH 25 @ 3p

Schapiro Theatre, 605 W 115th Street (more…)

The SoA Theatre Arts Divsion’s Columbia Stages presents a director’s thesis:


Woyzeck
by Georg Büchner
translated by Gideon Lester
directed by Marike Splint

Performances start next week!
March 28-April 1, 2007
Wed. – Sat. at 8p, and Sun. at 2p
The Theater at the Riverside Church / 91 Claremont Avenue / New York, NY 10027

"The likes of us are wretched in this world and the next." Dreamlike snapshots of a poor man’s life.

For more information and to procure tickets, visit www.columbiastages.com

FINAL FEW DAYS!  Perhaps YOU killed the old woman…

Columbia Stages presents a Theatre Arts Division Director’s Thesis:

Crime & Punishment
(an approach to Dostoevsky’s novel)
Adapted & Directed by Juan Souki

March 7-10, 2007
Wed. – Sat. at 8p, and Sat. matinee at 2p
The Theatre of the Riverside Church (more…)

Columbia University has nearly 150 arts groups, departments, programs, and libraries. You can find out about them, and all they generate, on the newest version of CUArts.com, the university’s
portal to the arts on and off-campus. (more…)

Columbia Stages Presents:

New Voices, New Play Festival 2007
Featuring the School of the Arts’ Graduating MFA Playwrights
February 9 – March 9, 2006

TODAY (Friday, March 2):

**1:00 pm – Not Where I Live by Jeremy Basescu
**3:00 pm – The Radio Diaries of Hank, Yank, & Prank by Rehana Mirza (more…)

Your friendly third-year SoA playwrights invite you to our celebration/exploration of stupidity, and Sunday is OPENING NIGHT!  So reserve a ticket and come on down for STUPID, THE PLAYS.



The Flea Theater presents The Stupid Team and Blue Box Productions presentation of:

STUPID: THE PLAYS
Get Stupid

Every Sunday, February 24  – March 24 (more…)