Bwog attended the Columbia Musical Theater Society’s production of Next To Normal in the Glicker-Milstein Theatre on November 17-20. Content Warning: mentions and depictions of death, suicide, bipolar depression, other mental illnesses, addiction, drug/alcohol use/abuse, staged intimacy, and foul language. 

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

On Thursday, December 1, Deputy News Editor Paulina Rodriguez attended the opening of the Columbia Musical Theatre Society’s production of Sunday in the Park with George, which runs through December 3 at Barnard’s Glicker-Milstein Theatre.

Daily Editor Talia Bloom and Staff Writer Emma Burris recently attended a production of In the Heights produced by the Columbia Musical Theatre Society.

On Friday, April 8, Events Editor Ava Slocum attended the opening matinee of the Columbia Musical Theater Society’s presentation of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, running April 8 and 9 in the Glicker-Milstein Theatre.

Staff Writer Jake Torres attended CMTS’ 24 Hour Musical: A Very Potter Musical on Sunday, March 27th at 11 am in the Lerner Party Space and it was just as fun and hectic as one would expect!

Staff Writer James Perry, Illustrator Ava Morouse, and Deputy Arts Editor Grace Novarr attended CMTS’ December 3 performance of Rocky Horror, which took place in the Glicker-Milstein Theater at 8 pm.

Bwog Staffers detail a thorough review of CMTS’s latest production in a moment-by-moment walkthrough!

Betsy Ladyzhets is a once and future BBC Merlin stan.

Arts Editor Riva Weinstein attended the Friday night performance of CMTS’ Godspell, directed by Hope Johnson (BC ’21), an 80’s-inspired retelling of the Gospel of Matthew. She gives her thoughts below.

Last night, senior staffers Betsy Ladyzhets and Sarah Harty had the privilege of attending the Columbia Musical Theater Society’s production of Spring Awakening, a musical about sexual repression gone horribly wrong. The CMTS production was intense, confusing, beautiful, and powerful in equal measures. The doors and programs of the Columbia Musical Theater Society’s production of […]

Arts Editor Riva Weinstein attended the Thursday night performance of CMTS’ Into The Woods (dir. Anna Moskowitz, BC ’19), by Stephen Sondheim. The verdict: a well-acted and impressively coordinated show, if you have the stamina to sit for two and a half hours of it. At the center of the stage, a man in a […]

Happening Around The World: Heightened racial tensions and hostile relations with communist nations? It really is the 1950s all over again. North Korea has warned of a possible hydrogen bomb test over the Pacific Ocean, a threat that apparently should be taken “very seriously”. Just as a reminder, the h-bomb is 1,000 times more powerful […]

Bwogger Sarah Harty reviews Columbia Musical Theater Society’s production of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee”, directed by Nina Lam BC ’19, produced by Emeline Bookspan BC ’18, stage managed by Clare Bradley CC ’20, and choreographed by Harmony Maria Graziano CC ’19, with Anna Bryan CC ’18 as the Music Director.  Like most […]

Senior Staffer and Sports Editor, Ross Chapman reviewed the last performance by CMTS’s seniors.  On Friday night, musicians and actors from the Class of 2017 gathered in front of a friendly audience in the Glicker-Milstein Theatre for one final performance at Columbia. Far from the theatrical formality of the usual CMTS show, the atmosphere Senior […]