“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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Terra Femme Film Screening + Q&A with ARFF Fellow Courtney Stephens (Athena Center)
- Thursday, November 14, 7 pm, Athena Center CoLab (Milstein 404)
- The Athena Film Festival and the Artemis Rising Foundation Filmmaker Fellowship Program (ARFF) will host a screening of ARFF Fellow Courtney Stephens’s film Terra Femme. Terra Femme is an essay film composed of archival footage from the first half of the 20th century, presented as a travelogue narrated by Stephens. RSVP here.
- Friday, November 15, 7 pm, and Saturday, November 16, 2 pm and 7 pm, Black Box (Lerner Hall)
- King’s Crown Shakespeare Troupe presents their fall mainstage production, this year of Shakespeare’s Richard III. One of Shakespeare’s history plays, the play follows the powerful King Richard III near the end the War of the Roses. This production specifically seeks “to uplift disabled actors and creatives.”
Baby’s First Crazy Kiss Story – Nomads
- Friday, November 15, 7 pm, and Saturday, November 16, 2 pm and 7 pm, Glicker Milstein Theater
- Nomads, Columbia’s student group dedicated to producing new original theater, presents Baby’s first Crazy kiss Story, an original play by Brooks Gillespie (BC ‘25). The play follows Ellie, described as “a kindhearted and nervous girl tackling the challenges presented to her as a teenager and as a college freshman.”
- Friday, November 15, and Saturday November 16, both at 7:30 pm, Movement Lab (Milstein Lower Level)
- Colab is a group dedicated to producing performance art works that often feature multidisciplinary methods and experimental ideas. Their fall showcase will feature student choreographers and dancers in short new original works.
- Friday, November 15, 8 pm, and Saturday, November 16, 2 pm and 7 pm, Roone Arledge Auditorium (Lerner Hall)
- Columbia Musical Theatre Society presents a revival of Legally Blonde, the musical based off of the film of the same name. The story follows Elle Woods in her journey to Harvard Law to win back her boyfriend.
A previous set for the 2018 School of the Arts production of Richard III via Bwarchives.