A review of yesterday’s performance of Book I of the Iliad. Because Bwogger Kurt Kanazawa apparently didn’t get enough Homer in Lit Hum. Yesterday in Low Library, The Aquila Theater Company, which was invited to Columbia by the Center for Core Curriculum and the CU Arts Initiative, presented a staged reading of the first book […]

Bwog reviewer Michael Snyder is back – and so quickly! – to report on what he peeping-tommed in somebody’s Hogan suite. “The Sublet Experiment” is, according to its posters and playbills, “a romantic comedy about mis-taken identity,” and, as per its title, it delivers some solid laughs, some not-so-solid writing, and a happy ending. The […]

Bwog theater critic Michael Snyder sat through LateNite late last night, and has a few good things to say about it. The Semesterly LateNite Anthology of student-written one-acts always feels like a handful of works in progress. When the anthology is good, they are refreshing and exciting; when the anthology is bad…let’s just say that […]

If you couldn’t score tickets to the month-long run of King Lear at BAM, fear not. Bwog newbie Max Friedman shares his thoughts and provides some tips for anyone wanting to make that last ditch effort to see Ian McKellen’s performance (and, if you’re lucky, his wang). It is hard to imagine a better setting […]

From the Barnard Theatre Department listserve comes this invitation from Christina Myers, the director of yet another campus production of The Vagina Monologues: “So far, the rehearsals have been a blast and the show has a fresh and different presentation this year.  Unfortunately, one of our talented cast members was hired by a theater company out […]

Although Bwog managed to squeeze into tonight’s midnight performance, there’s only two shows left of bobrauschenbergamerica, the lastest production from King’s Crown. The play, by Charles Mee, comprises a series of vignettes exploring the life and work of modern sculptor and painter Robert Rauschenberg, and the idea of modern American identity. The audience joins the […]

Overheard outside John Jay:”I didn’t get any sleep last night. I went to bed at 12:30, but I kept being woken up by Richard III.” Nothing like the wake-up call of betrayal, murder, and outdoor Shakespeare. See the final showing tonight at 8 PM. Be at the Sundial.

Is SIPA plaza currently hosting weird, inexplicable initiation procedures, or a King’s Crown rehearsal? You be the judge. More photos after the jump.

Bwog was idling around, and then it received this email from the Columbia Musical Theater Society: CMTS Presents Andrew Lippa’s THE WILD PARTY Roone Arledge Auditorium March 23 – 11 pm March 24 – 8 pm March 25 – 7 & 11pm $5 CUID / $8 GA For ticket reservations, please email cu.wildparty@gmail.com Please be […]

Bari Weiss reviews Bridge and Tunnel, performer-writer Sarah Jones’ theatre tribute to the immigrant experience. It’s hard to knock a female solo performer headlining packed houses at 29, especially when Meryl Streep has called her “a member of the tribe.” But Meryl Streep’s blessing can only get you to the Village; it takes audiences to […]

Last night Lerner’s Black Box theater, Egg and Peacock offered the amusement of 10 plays which hadn’t existed 24 hours prior. Led by Abigail Broberg and Rosalind Grush, playwrights converged at 8pm Friday, burned the midnight oil, and left their directors at 6am Saturday with a play to read, cast, rehearse, and present by 8pm. […]