Emily Epstein, a Barnard '07 alum who moved to Buenos Aires to learn spanish and work on a long-term photo project, worked in Villa 31, a slum in the heart of the city, and photographed a girl's soccer team that stressed leadership for young girls living in poverty. The... | Learn More

The photographs in the Horizons series are suggestive of something beyond the record presented. The images of the buildings in São Paulo, Tokyo and Buenos Aires explore the limits of two-dimensionality, and articulate a radically different perspective on a commonplace visual... | Learn More

The Sixth Borough entails a series of site specific installations,  explores this paradox and the parallel realities of the mainland and the island which exist in spatial proximity but in... | Learn More

Three mixed media pieces entitled, “ Bound by Harmony XI,” “ Bound by Harmony XIV,” and “In.2.It in Red/Copper” created by Renée Rey, Artist, were accepted into the 24th All Florida 2D-3D Juried Exhibit at the Alliance for the Arts, 10090 McGregor Blvd.,... | Learn More

The Red Tie Mafia brings together the best improvisation actors New York City has to offer, blended with stand up comedy, musical guests, and other guest improv and sketch companies. It's SNL meets Who's Line Is It Anyway! Treat yourself to a full evening of entertainment, hosted... | Learn More

Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Next to Normal is the acclaimed, groundbreaking rock musical "that pushes Broadway in new directions." (Rolling Stone). Experience this emotional powerhouse of a musical that tells the story of how far two parents will go to keep... | Learn More

Theater has been entertaining people for thousands of years, now it's your turn. Come see an incredible night of hilarity, sex and a bloody alarm clock. Two plays for the price of one. Still not convinced? Check out our amazing blurb:

What goes on behind closed doors? How do we hide... | Learn More

This new film stars Kevin Kline as an eccentric freeloader named Henry Harrison who escorts wealthy dowagers to art galleries and dinners. He takes in a young boarder (Paul Dano) who has a crush on a co-worker (Katie Holmes) and a penchant for cross-dressing. This outlandish buddy comedy of... | Learn More

“Penetrating The Space” is a tragicomic send-up of a one-woman show in which a kooky bisexual performance artist and incest survivor mistakenly believes that theatricalizing her psychological fragmentation and integration in front of an audience will lead to mainstream acceptance in... | Learn More

Writers reflect on the current state of our economy, fiction style.  Mega-wealth, greed, flat broke journalists longing for work, money, money and more money – are the topics covered in the latest books by Jonathan Dee (The Privileges), Martha McPhee... | Learn More

The much-loved author of ANYWHERE BUT HERE discusses her long-awaited novel MY HOLLYWOOD—the story of two women whose lives entwine and unfold behind the glittery surface of Hollywood.

The event is FREE and open to the public.  For updates and additional information, please... | Learn More

Columbia MFA Director Matt Torney directs MFA Playwright Leegrid Steven's new play, The Dudleys! at the Theatre for the New City's Dream Up Festival (with general management by 3rd year MFA Producer Danielle Karliner).

This evocative new play takes the adolescent memories of a young man... | Learn More

Author and musician Rick Moody brings his love of the old-fashioned b-movie alive, with his latest book THE FOUR FINGERS OF DEATH—a novelization of the 1963 horror flick, THE CRAWLING HAND. This double-feature event includes a musical performance with host Wesley... | Learn More

1937, Frank Capra, USA, 132 min.

With Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt

Based on James Hilton's romantic novel about the discovery of the lost valley of Shangri-La where death can be cheated - for a while.

Introduced by Rivka Galchen

Rivka... | Learn More

Open Reading of non-dogmatic poetry and/or prose. Contact Babette if you want to be featured. Email babsalbin@msn.com. Please bring your own crowd (two or more fans,optional).

Let's do this while NYC is still affordable. It's the longest running open mic in the... | Learn More

Kimi Puntillo (JRN, MBA'86, CAAL), the first woman to run a marathon on every continent in the world (yes, even Antarctica!), shares the races she discovered by combining travel and adventure with a passion for running, a pastime that landed her in the Guinness Book of... | Learn More

BEFORE PURCHASING YOUR TICKETS, PLEASE READ:
1.This program is only available to Columbia University full-time students.
2.When you pick up your tickets at the theatre box office, YOU MUST PRESENT ONE STUDENT CUID FOR EVERY TICKET PURCHASED.
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Screenings

- It's All True International Documentary Film Festival, Brazil (S. American premiere)

- Achtung Berlin - New Berlin Film Award Festival

 * Saturday, April 18, 6 p.m. Kino Babylon (main theater)

 * Monday, April... | Learn More

eCognoscente is a free daily e-mail on matters cultural, both contemporary and classical, in New York City and the rest of the world. eCognoscente is literally DailyCandy meets The New Yorker! The idea behind eCognoscente is deceptively simple. Discerning and culturally active New Yorkers (or... | Learn More

Erica Abeel's (GSAS '69) fifth novel to be released on paper back May 5th.

This genre-bending novel mixes shocking heartbreak, Gothic atmospherics, and an exquisite satire of New York's high-stakes players. Conscience Point involves a successful woman entranced with a... | Learn More

Repeat After Me by Rachel DeWoskin (CC '94) published by Francesca Sacasa (CC '97) with Overlook Press

Aysha is a 22-year-old New Yorker struggling to put pieces back in place after her parents' divorce and her own shattering nervous breakdown. With her... | Learn More

In this brilliantly imagined book, author Danell Jones mines the diaries, essays, correspondence, and fiction of a literary legend to create an unforgettable master class in the art of writing. Using Virginia Woolf's own words, this inspiring, instructive, and entertaining guide will delight... | Learn More

Sound Stories is a podcast delivering great, non-fiction audio narratives selected from story-tellers around the world.

The radio is telling less of these engaging stories that we love, and Sound Stories seeks to fill that vacuum. The podcast delivers a range of feature stories of... | Learn More

Is your soul weighing you down? Paul Giamatti has found a solution!  In the surreal comedy COLD SOULS, Paul Giamatti plays an actor named...Paul Giamatti. Stumbling upon an article in The New Yorker about a high-tech company that extracts, deep-freezes and stores people's souls, Paul very... | Learn More

Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists, and governments. 2012 is an epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.

Cast: John Cusack,... | Learn More