Award-winning director J. J. Abrams received the Athena Leading Man Award at the Athena Film Festival on Friday night at Barnard College.

Athena Film Festival-goers got an exclusive look at the season premiere of critically acclaimed Lifetime show “UnREAL” on Thursday night.

At Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society performance at Miller Theatre on Saturday night, the three-time Grammy-nominated band continued to champion the New Music genre of jazz. However, Argue is not simply working on the New Music genre—his music also offers a personal political critique.

For one night a year, Lerner Hall’s infamous glass ramps become a risky platform for Columbia’s most talented dance groups.

Jennifer Egan spoke about her new novel, “Manhattan Beach,” and listening to people’s histories of the Brooklyn Navy Yard at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism on Jan. 25.

’Tis the season to be jolly, and ‘Tis the Treason,’ this year’s performance of the annual holiday musical XMAS!, was exactly that: frivolous, festive, and more than welcome in the week before finals. Starring a judge with a nutty sex drive, a Valley girl intern, and a Santa Claus who only wants to be a Jew, the performance filled the audience with Christmas spirit.

Richly portraying Gaelic culture and staying authentic to Irish tradition, the Barnard theater department adaptation of “Translations” simultaneously devotes itself to the past and the present. With references to Virgil and Homer, alongside a set that is brought to life through technology, this adaptation fuses the modern and traditional.

The punchy description written underneath the headlines on posters for NOMADS’ production of “Cold Whole Milk” read: “A Glass Half Full Play.” The play delivered what was promised—a wholesome, power-of-love production. But while it left audience members with passing smiles, it ultimately failed to address the darker issues that result from the suffocation of identity.

The global power of hip-hop and its capability to uplift those marginalized in society was spotlighted at a conversation featuring four internationally acclaimed hip-hop dancers on Wednesday at the Lenfest Center for the Arts.

Publishing an entire book is no mean feat. Yet, Phanesia Pharel, BC ’21, Lulu Cerone, CC ’21, and Tanmay Chopra, CC ’21, have each accomplished this feat prior to coming to Columbia.