New York City is packed with amazing culture and inspiring art, but sometimes it’s difficult to break the Morningside-bubble and experience it all first-hand. “Where Art Thou” is a weekly guide to interesting and notable lectures, events, and performances for the literary/musically/theatrically-inclined on campus.

On Campus:

  • Wednesday through Sunday, head up to the Lenfest Center for MFA student Mikhaela Mahony’s directing thesis, As You Like It! The popular Shakespeare comedy tell the stories of exiles from court living in the forest of Arden, embracing “love against all odds.” Free student tickets with code AYLISTUDENT.
  • Thursday through Saturday, CMTS Presents: Godspell at the Glicker-Milstein Theater. Godspell is an energetic musical celebrating the bonds that tie us together as a community. Arrive early to get off the waitlist.
  • Also Thursday through Saturday, don’t miss the Barnard Theater Department’s Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. in the Minor Latham Playhouse. The play, which critically takes on patriarchal and masculinist power, will be followed by a talkback with director Colette Robert and cast members.
  • Next Sunday, Mar. 10, Take the Downtown Local with Uptown Local… or just see their concert in Wien Hall at 8 PM, featuring the NYU Vocaholics and the Haverford Outskirts! Jazz, pop, and “all around grooving tunes” promised.

Off Campus:

  • Monday at 7 PM is the Schomburg Center’s Annual Women’s Jazz Festival in honor of Women’s History Month. In the opening performance of this year’s festival, Dear Nina, a sonic love letter to Nina Simone, vocalist Crea d’Nur is accompanied by 6-piece string ensemble Rootstock Republic. Tickets $35.
  • Thursday at Performance Studies @ NYU, check out an acoustic performance of the work of artist Baseera Khan, entitled Legacies of Aesthetic Concealment. Khan’s work explores the relationship between consumerism and spirituality, investigating decolonial practices as “geographies of the future.”

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