Stage Season 2020-2021
Spring 2021
On Loop
by Charly Evon Simpson
directed by Alice Reagan
Thursday, February 18, 8 PM
Friday, February 19, 8 PM
Saturday, February 20, 3 PM and 8 PM
A New Plays at Barnard Commission
In On Loop, Jo, a young Black woman, seeks her past and future in the spiraling rings of tall trees and waving grasses. As she explores, she questions whether the woods are a place of solitude and safety or menace and danger...and who she may have to leave behind to find out.
Senior Thesis Festival I
What Every Girl Should Know by Monica Byrne Directed by Perry Parsons Thursday April 8, 7pm Saturday April 10, 9pm
CloudMelt by Heidi Kraay Directed by Emily Liberatore Thursday April 8, 9pm Friday April 9, 7pm
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood Directed by Alexandra Haddad Friday April 9, 9pm Saturday April 10, 7pm
Senior Thesis Festival II
Research Presentation
Friday, April 16 at 7 PM
Enabling Homoerotic Sensibility: Mei Lanfang’s Ideal Woman in Peking Opera Film
Forever Enthralled by Genevieve Yiming Wang 王一茗.
Solo Performance
Saturday, April 17 at 12:30 PM
Addi Bjaringer
Brianna Johnson
Jackson Kienitz
Nafisa Saeed
Playwriting
Friday, April 16 at 8 PM
R.I.P. Andy Cohen by Adam Glusker
Saturday, April 17 at 3 PM
Obsessed by Starr Shapiro
Saturday, April 17 at 5 PM
Butterfingers and Naan by Hope Johnson
Fall 2020
Electra
by Sophocles, translated by Anne Carson
Directed by Javier Antonio González
Thursday 10/15/20 - Saturday 10/17/20
After ten years away from home, Electra's little brother, Orestes, has returned to the cursed palace committed to his role: that of murdering his own mother. Electra sustains a mourning ritual for her murdered father for all to see, as she awaits her brother's foretold arrival. Electra is the climax in a family's ongoing cycle of revenge. In the hands of Anne Carson, the tragedy is an urgent retelling, ripe with poetic humor and truth.
Stupid Fucking Bird
by Aaron Posner
Directed by Colette Robert
Thursday 12/10/20 - Saturday 12/12/20
A funny, raw remix of Anton Chekhov's, The Seagull, Stupid Fucking Bird explores and explodes the sometimes difficult, sometimes hilarious pursuit of love, life, and art.
2020-2021 Events
Please join the Barnard College Department of Theatre, Stages of Inquiry, and the Columbia University Black Theatre Ensemble for a moderated panel discussion with Tonya Pinkins on Wednesday, March 10, 6 PM EST.
The Department of Theatre sponsors 30 student tickets to
Ms. Pinkins' new film, Red Pill,
now virtually premiering at the Pan African Film + Arts Festival.
Some may know Tonya Pinkins from her award-winning work in the premiere productions of Broadway musicals like Holler If Ya Hear Me (2014), Caroline, or Change (2004), The Wild Party (2000), Play On! (1997), and Jelly’s Last Jam (1992). Others may be familiar with her work in plays, such as the 2012 world premiere of Katori Hall’s Hurt Village, the 2011 world premiere of Kristen Greenidge’s Milk Like Sugar, or the 2015 New York premiere of Rasheeda Speaking. Many may be acquainted with Ms. Pinkins’ screen career, with credits such as Above the Rim, All My Children, Nurse Jackie, Fear the Walking Dead, and Gotham. And all can see her work now as the writer, director, and star of the film Red Pill.
Resisting racial, sexual, and gender inequalities, Tonya Pinkins is an artist and activist, someone who stands firmly by her values, and speaks up when the integrity of those values is compromised. In her hosting of the 2018 #MeTooDialogues, a series of online interviews addressing the prevalence of sexual violence in the entertainment industry, in her curation of the restorative anthology Truth and Reconciliation of Womyn for the 2019 #HealMeToo Festival, or in her decision to leave the Classic Stage Company’s 2016 production of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and her Children, Ms. Pinkins has been, and continues to be, a pivotal force in the battle against racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination in the arts.
