The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the cult classic mandatory for any successful Halloweekend.  Whether it’s your guilty pleasure movie after a night spent drinking pumpkin beer or you force all of your friends to dress up to see a screening downtown, your Halloween just won’t be complete without a little Rocky.  You’re in luck, because […]

Columbia Musical Theatre Society put on The Light in the Piazza this past Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. We sent someone who doesn’t know much about musical theatre, the Italian and Southern Sarah Thompson, to relate the show to a more general audience. Students and members of the community filled Barnard’s cozy Glicker-Milstein Theatre to the brim on […]

This past weekend, the Columbia Musical Theatre Society performed an hour-long musical performance, with lyrics by a Barnard alum.  Culture Connoisseur Hannah Kauders reviews.   The cast of CMTS’s Party Worth Crashing entertained audiences in sold-out performances this week in the Lerner Black Box. In a recent report, Bwog Arts Editor and cast member Kyra […]

CMTS’s Candide will be performed again at the Lerner Black Box tonight and tomorrow at 8 pm.  Last night, Alexandra Svokos checked out the premiere. As Shelley Farmer, BC’14, director of Candide says in her playbook note, the show is “a nightmare to stage.”  With wars, castles, and locales from Uruguay to Portugal to Turkey, it is […]

CMTS’s ambitious production of Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical premieres tonight at 8 pm. You can also catch it tomorrow at 8 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. in Roone Arledge Auditorium. Bwog sent Musical Maven Alexandra Svokos to the dress rehearsal to give us the rest of the details. Headed by first-time CMTS […]

 Last night, in the Lerner Black Box, Columbia Musical Theatre Society put on its rendition of Bright Lights, Big City, the musical based on Jay McInerney’s haunting novel of the same name. Conor Skelding took it as an excuse to spend extra time in Lerner. I went into CMTS’s Bright Lights, Big City, having read […]

Columbia’s theatre community is on fire this semester. With everything from songs of Autumn to the Prince of Denmark, stages have been lit up again and again. This week, Bwog’s favorite zombie aficionado Kem Walker stopped by Lerner 5 for an undead surprise: The premise of “Zombie Prom,”— essentially a satire of ‘50s teen romance, isn’t one […]

Bwog’s rookie reviewer Alex Katz crossed Broadway to see CMTS’s first show of the season.  Wednesday evening, I listened to the premiere of CMTS’s Autumn Songs, playing in Roone Alredge Auditorium. The powerful vocal cast, striking set, and extraordinary music kept a show lacking in plot from withering like the winter, but blossoming like the […]

Bwog’s Wednesday feature, Where Art Thou?, is here to keep you posted on what’s going on in the A&E department in Morningside Heights and beyond (basically all the cool events your friends are in/on/at). If you would like your club’s event, The Edgar Allen Floe Society’s Spring Concert, posted on Bwog, now you can! E-mail […]

Bwog’s Song and Dance Connoisseur Sean Zimmermann reports on Columbia Musical Theatre Society’s latest production, Changing Direction. “You never realize the role of directing until you see different directors back to back,” explained Will Brown, Production Designer for Columbia Musical Theatre Society’s production of Changing Direction. The production features numbers from a wide selection of […]

At last night’s show of Fiddler on the Roof, the average age of the audience was significantly higher than any of the other shows Bwog has attended in the past. Producer Jonathan Jager shared that many families purchased blocks of 10 tickets to the show, explaining the surprising lack of college students. Among the few college […]

Last night Sarah Camiscoli attended Bat Boy along with a mob of eager Columbia students that filled Lerner Black Box to the rim. Thankfully, several poor souls abandoned their spots on opening night, offering Bwog a spot in the audience to review the sold out show. “The way of sin is death, sweetheart,” preaches Jill […]