“Where Art Thou” is a weekly guide to interesting and notable lectures, events, and performances for the literary/musically/theatrically-inclined.

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Acting Thesis: Small Tragedy

  • Sunday, November 19, 2 pm, Lenfest Center
  • Columbia University School of the Arts presents Small Tragedy by Craig Lucas, an acting thesis production directed by Danny Sharron. This play focuses on a production of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex and the truths that begin to emerge as rehearsals continue.

CU Wind Ensemble Fall Concert

  • Monday, November 20, 8:30 pm, Roone Arledge Auditorium
  • Columbia’s Wind Ensemble, which features woodwinds, brass, and percussion, comes together for its annual fall concert which will feature the works of Kelijah Dunton, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Dmitri Shostakovich, and more.

The Abundant In Between Time

  • Monday, November 20, 8 to 10 pm, Faculty House
  • Columbia University Press and The University Seminars are pleased to announce the 30th Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lecture Series, The Abundant In Between Time, to be given by Farah Jasmine Griffin, The William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. She will call upon the writings of Maya Angelou, and the works of singer and composer Abbey Lincoln, novelist Paule Marshall, and art historian Sylvia Ardyn Boone to help flesh out the intellectual history of Black women in the late 50s and 60s. 

Pop-Up Concerts: Russell Greenberg, percussion

  • Tuesday, November 21, 6 pm, Miller Theater
  • Founder of the intrepid Yarn/Wire and longtime Miller Theater collaborator, percussionist Russell Greenberg will perform his first-ever solo Pop-Up Concert featuring a variety of adventurous percussion works, with trumpeter Nate Wooley joining for a special duo.

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