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

Admire The Pirates of Penzance… and write lyrics for Varsity Show.

Last Friday, Bwog attended the opening performance of Mayday, Columbia’s 130th annual Varsity Show. This year’s production was directed by Caroline Egler (BC ‘24), and written by Julian Gerber (CC ‘24) and Casey Rogerson (CC ‘24).

Varsity show and CMTS legend, extraordinary “economist,” and proud Vermont resident. Congratulations Malcolm!

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 […]

Directed by Giuliana Russo (BC ‘22) and written by Harris Solomon (CC ‘22) and Nurasyl Shokeyev (CC ‘22), the 128th Annual Varsity Show returned to Roone Auditorium on April 29, April 30, and May 1.

The 127th Annual Varsity Show: Campus in the Clouds premiered on May 7. Written by Wesley Schmidt (CC ’22) and Gigi Russo (BC ’22), directed by Christian Palomares (CC ’22), and produced by Mario Garcia (CC ’21) and Julia Hyman (BC ’22), the show is now available to stream on YouTube. 

Directed by Sophia Houdaigui, BC ’21 and produced by Antara Agarwal, CC ’20 and Nakiri Gallagher-Cave, CC ’21, the 126th Annual Varsity Show: We Hope This Musical Finds You Well, premiered Saturday, January 2nd. Staff Writers Sydney Contreras and Mary Qiu review the livestream of this long-awaited virtual musical.

Baby Bwogger Amrita Banerji attended The 126th Annual Varsity Show’s West End Preview at the Glicker Milstein Theatre, directed by Sophia Houdaigui (BC ’21) and produced by Antara Agarwal (CC ’20) and Nakiri Gallagher-Cave (CC ’21).

Directed by Bernadette Bridges (CC ’19) and written by Jake Arlow (BC ’19) and Jacob Kaplan (CC ’20), the long-awaited 125th Annual Varsity Show opened this Friday night in Roone Auditorium. Reporting on it is Riva 420, Contributing Editor for b-b-b-b-Bwog.

Internal Editor Zoe Sottile and Events Editor Isabel Sepúlveda popped and locked their way over to the Varsity Show’s annual West End Preview. After 30 minutes of songs and the occasional laugh, they were left sufficiently bamboozled but…cautiously optimistic about this year’s show.

While we were all procrastinating on our readings for tomorrow, the V-Show finalized the creative team for the 125th Annual Varsity Show. Here they all are (below and on the right). Good luck, C-team! May you sleep at least a little and write (/design/direct/manage) a lot in the next few months. Director: Bernadette Bridges (CC […]

Friends, countrymen, Columbia students, lend me your ears. I come to raise awareness of the Varsity Show, not to praise it. You’ve probably heard of the Varsity Show already. After all, the characteristic yellow T-shirts, water bottles, and sweatshirts have been all over campus in the past few weeks, to say nothing of the endless […]

EIC Betsy Ladyzhets and Sports Editor Abby Rubel were gracefully invited to see the 124th Varsity Show’s annual West End Preview last night in the Diana Event Oval, filling in for Bwog’s Arts Editor (who had rehearsal). They had hopes that this year’s production would be stronger than Varsity Shows past, but so far are […]