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Jessie Montgomery – Composer Portraits
- Thursday, April 3, 7:30 pm, Miller Theatre
- This edition of Miller Theatre’s Composer Portraits series will present the music of composer Jessie Montgomery, who won the 2024 Grammy for Best Classical Composition. Montgomery is a violinist and will perform alongside her ensemble, The Everything Band, made up on eight composer-performers working within “experimentation, improvisation, and open-ended form.” The performance will feature a newly commissioned work alongside a selection of Montgomery’s previous compositions.
- Thursday, April 3, Friday, April 4, and Saturday, April 5, 8pm, Glicker-Milstein Theater (Diana Center)
- The Columbia University Black Theatre Ensemble presents Femme Noire, Nuit Blanche (“Black Woman, White Night”), an Afro-surrealist play by Yahney-Marie Sangaire (CC ‘28). The play follows a young Black woman’s “petit odyssey through Brooklyn—and her mind—reckoning with the mysterious forces shaping the night.”
- Friday, April 4, 4 to 6 pm, Earl Hall
- Theater of War Productions will present their King Lear Project, using readings from William Shakespeare’s play King Lear to “engage intergenerational audiences in powerful, guided discussions about family dynamics, the responsibilities of leadership, and the challenges of caring for loved ones and friends.”
- Friday, April 4, 7:30 pm, Roone Auditorium (Lerner Hall)
- CU Generation, one of Columbia’s talented hip-hop, jazz, and K-pop dance groups, presents a showcase of choreography by CU Gen students and other student groups on campus.
- Friday, April 4, 7:45 pm, LeFrak Theater (Barnard Hall)
- This year’s CUPAL Special Project is Friday Night Live, a comedy variety show hosted by Columbia comedy group Memento Mori. Six comedy groups and a celebrity comic, Nico Carney, will come together for a celebration of comedy and community.
- Friday, April 4, 8 pm, Saturday, April 5, 8 pm, and Sunday, April 6, 2pm, Minor Latham Playhouse
- The Barnard/Columbia Ancient Drama group presents Sophocles’ play Oedipus at Colonus in ancient Greek with English supertitles. This production “foregrounds Oedipus’ embodiment as a disabled character, emphasizing how the performance of his disability allows him movement into social and cultic spaces previously closed off to him.”
- Sunday, April 6, 6 pm and 8:30 pm, Roone Auditorium (Lerner Hall)
- Orchesis is Columbia’s largest student-run dance organization, casting all dancers who audition to dance in student-choreographed pieces to popular songs. Their 2025 spring showcase features 19 student works. This year’s show theme/name is By the SeashOrchesis, so expect beach-themed interludes!
Oedipus at Colonus via Flickr.
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