Columbia University's MFA Acting Class of 2017 to Present 1001 and THE LATE WEDDING

Columbia Stages will present Columbia University School of the Arts graduating class of MFA actors, appearing in a pair of thesis productions at Teatro LATEA at The Clementé.

This year, director Carl Cofield looks at Jason Grote's timely piece 1001 to examine the tribulations of the world, and director Mei Ann Teo brings us Christopher Chen's wildly innovative world inspired by Italo Calvino with The Late Wedding.

1001 spins themes and variations from the classic A Thousand and One Arabian Nights to explore the incarnations of love, sex, religion, cruelty, and war from ancient Baghdad to the post-9/11 era.

Inspired by Invisible Cities by Italian fabulist author Italo Calvino, The Late Wedding is a thrilling and witty meta-theatrical romp through imaginative realities, replacing Calvino's allegorical cities with marriages. The genre-bending journey reveals the extent one must traverse to find the beloved.

The acting thesis productions will premiere at 107 Suffolk Street and run for two consecutive weekends: November 9-12, 16-19, 2016. This will be Columbia Stages' last downtown Actors Thesis presentation before the Lenfest Center for the Arts at the Manhattanville Campus uptown opens this coming spring. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit columbiastages.org,

*Appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association

IF YOU GO:

1001

By Jason Grote

Teatro LATEA at The Clementé

107 Suffolk Street, 2nd Floor

New York, NY 10002

Showtimes:

November 10@8PM

November 12@8PM

November 16@8PM

November 18@8PM

November 19@2PM

Tickets: $15/ $5 Seniors/ FREE with Student ID (enter code: "STUDENT").

Ticketing Info: columbiastages.org/tickets.html

The Late Wedding

By Christopher Chen

Teatro LATEA at The Clementé

107 Suffolk Street, 2nd Floor

New York, NY 10002

Showtimes:

November 9@8PM

November 11@8PM

November 12@2PM

November 17@8PM

November 19@8PM

Tickets: $15/ $5 Seniors/ FREE with Student ID (enter code: "STUDENT").

Ticketing Info: columbiastages.org/tickets.html

Columbia Stages is the producing arm of the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies at Columbia University School of the Arts. Columbia Stages presents annually a season of graduate actor and director productions as well as a festival of new plays by emerging playwrights. The Theatre Program at the School of the Arts offers MFA degrees in: Acting, Directing, Playwriting, Dramaturgy, Stage Management, and Theatre Management & Producing. For more information about the Theatre Program visit arts.columbia.edu/theatre.