Matt Herzfeld

Campus traditions, literary classics, and the avant-garde all have a place in the Columbia theater community. This weekend, Columbia students will have the opportunity to see three unique theater productions.

Bam and Bouk do not wear white grease paint or painted smiles.

According to Richard Dawkins, science and faith are incompatible. But Jeff Daniels’ play Apartment 3A eschews science for a far more pressing question: Can the liberal, upper-middle-class, NPR-listening set ever find faith and hope in its bleak, Starbucks-addicted existence?

A Vietnamese girl roller-skates around her apartment for no apparent reason other than that it’s cool. Meanwhile, her French boyfriend takes a momentary break from the giant puzzle he is working on to butter a baguette while wearing a snorkeling mask.

Remember that student play you saw last year about the guy who did that thing and then that other guy got into a fight with him about it?