Welcome back to campus, and welcome to new Bwog readers! “Where Art Thou” is a weekly guide to interesting and notable lectures, events, and performances for the literary/musically/theatrically-inclined.

Arts Editor Grace Novarr attended Everything Changes, Nothing Is Lost, a dance-theater piece co-created by Celia Krefter (CC ‘22) and Kate Purdum (BC ‘22), featuring performances by Pimprenelle Behaeghel (BC ‘24), Thaleia Dasberg (BC ‘24), and Amelia Mason (BC ‘24). 

On Saturday, June 10th, Staff Writer Frankie DeGiorgio and Arts Editor Grace Novarr attended Clubbed Thumb’s Deep Blue Sound at The Wild Project in the East Village. The play was part of the production company’s Summerworks Festival and was written by Abe Koogler and directed by Arin Arbus. 

Arts Editor Grace Novarr sat down for an interview with Arielle Friedman (GS ’25), who co-directed and starred in the short film Immutable Uncertainties. The film is being featured in the Lower East Side Film Festival on May 7th. Arielle and her co-director Lucy Blumenfield (CC ’23) are also co-founders of Fazed Films, a production […]

On Thursday, April 27, 2023, Staff Writer Maya Reisner attended King’s Crown Shakespeare Troupe’s production of Antony and Cleopatra. The show was produced by Sophie Simons (BC ’25) and Miranda Paiz (BC ’25) and directed by Elsa Hana Chung (CC ’23).

Bwog attended the Saturday evening performance of Transfer of Power, the 129th Annual Varsity Show. This year’s production was directed by Jackie Balestrieri (BC ’24), written by Julian Gerber (CC ’24) and Katy Haden (CC ’23), and produced by Amalia Garcia (BC ’23) and Abby Svelan (BC ’25), with lyrics by Ava Roberts (CC ’25). The […]

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

Two notable Bwog editors showed up to the ADP house at 9 pm last Friday, unsure what to expect from the “independent, sexy, jazzy, experimental play” we had learned about via posters on campus social media. We were there to see Cowboy Mouth, a play by Patti Smith and Sam Shepard, performed by a group […]

On Saturday, April 21, Staff Writers Maya Reisner and Isa RingswaldEgan attended Pale Fire Theater’s production of This Is Our Youth staged at the American Theater of Actors. 

On Friday, April 21st, Raw Elementz held their annual Spring Showcase in Roone Auditorium. What ensued was a night of high-energy dancing, fun, and heart-warming camaraderie. 

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

On Sunday, April 16, Staff Writer Maya Reisner and Arts Editor Grace Novarr attended EASTERX! the second installment of the XMAS! storyline.

Bwog reviews CMTS’s spring production of Head Over Heels, which ran from April 14-15 in Barnard’s Glicker-Milstein Theatre.

Columbia’s student-run dance performance group, Orchesis, hosted their early 2000s-themed end-of-year performance, a culmination of all of the hard work the dancers and choreographers put into running this show. The group even included this strange device on their merchandise—it might be called a flip phone???—and called on the Juicy Couture gods to bless their show.

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