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“We work hard, and we play hard” is how a seasoned student framed Columbia during my Days on Campus visit. “Get high; get high grades,” another student reiterated. “They must be living their best lives, seizing every opportunity that comes their way,” I thought.

“Kiss me through the hole in this nasty wall,” calls Pyramus, played by Joel Meyers, CC ’21, his head poking out from under the legs of the Wall to his lover Thisbe. The Wall was played by Jane Walsh, CC ’23.

Sarah lives in a quaint apartment in New York City. Her walls are covered with magazine cut-outs, her desk stacked with books.

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed California Senate Bill 206, otherwise known as the Fair Pay to Play Act, into law on Monday. The bill, which is set to go into effect on Jan. 1, 2023, will allow California NCAA student-athletes to profit off of their names, images, or likenesses.

Many would not call tennis a loud sport, but at the Dick Savitt Tennis Center this weekend, the enthusiasm could be both felt and heard among the crowd of students and alumni as they chanted players’ names and “Go Lions!” at men’s tennis’ Ivy League opening matches against Yale and Brown.

In "Clytigation: State of Exception" (Nov. 11-14), Clytemnestra, played by Michelle Ellsworth, just wants to be left alone.

The lack of a neat and tidy ending in "Rapture, Blister, Burn" reminds audiences that the question—or, perhaps, Debora Spar's question—"Can women have it all?" still has no answer.

"Bastards of Strindberg" seeks to lend familiarity to a perhaps distant world, while also exposing our distance from many things that should be familiar. In so doing, it explores themes of sexuality, gender politics, and class conflict, as well as more theoretical issues of intertextuality and drama.