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No One is Forgotten: An Immersive Opera Drama

February 7

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Reading by Hala Alyan and Creative Writing Seniors

February 10

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Fall 2025 Student Film Screenings

February 11

Theater & Music Theater

Liminality by Matthew Cooperberg ’26

February 13

Creative Writing

Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading by Didi Jackson and Major Jackson

February 17

Dance

In relation to, a new dance work by Madalyn Mejia ’26

February 19

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Spring 2026 VIS Program Info Session

February 17

Visual Arts

2026 Thomas Edison Film Festival Premiere Screening

February 20

Theater & Music Theater

How to Be Not Alone: A Princeton Playhouse Ensembles Concert

February 21

Creative Writing

Reading by Jordan Salama ’19 and Creative Writing Seniors

February 24

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No One is Forgotten: An Immersive Opera Drama

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Lali and Beng are being held captive. No one knows where they have been taken or if they are alive. All they have is each other. No One is Forgotten: An Immersive Opera Drama is a work-in-progress that experiments with psycho-acoustic and immersive sound design, along with actors, opera singers, cello, and theatrical foley to create a sound world which places audiences within the confines of a journalist and aid worker held hostage. Co-composed by Paola Prestini and Sxip Shirey with a story and libretto adapted by Winter Miller, based on her play. Free tickets required.

Theater & Music Theater
Free, Ticketed Event
Wallace Theater, Lewis Arts complex
A person, seen from behind, stands in a dark space.

No One is Forgotten: An Immersive Opera Drama

Featured Recurring

Lali and Beng are being held captive. No one knows where they have been taken or if they are alive. All they have is each other. No One is Forgotten: An Immersive Opera Drama is a work-in-progress that experiments with psycho-acoustic and immersive sound design, along with actors, opera singers, cello, and theatrical foley to create a sound world which places audiences within the confines of a journalist and aid worker held hostage. Co-composed by Paola Prestini and Sxip Shirey with a story and libretto adapted by Winter Miller, based on her play. Free tickets required.

Theater & Music Theater
Free, Ticketed Event
Wallace Theater, Lewis Arts complex
Film poster for The Story of Souleymane, a film by Boris Lojkine

Black History Month: Free Screening of “The Story of Souleymane”

As part of the Princeton French Film Series and GSG's Events for Black History Month, join us for a special screening of four-Cesar-winner "The Story of Souleymane" (2024) by Boris Lojkine who follows a fictional asylum seeker from Guinea, Africa, working in the French capital as a bike deliverer. In French, Maninka, and Fula with English subtitles. Open to public; free tickets available through Eventbrite.

Campus Partners
Film Screening, Free, Ticketed Event
Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture
Equations written in white chalk on a blackboard.

Liminality by Matthew Cooperberg ’26

Recurring

In this new play by physics major Matthew Cooperberg, Quinn Marion rebels against academia in their pursuit of proving quantum mechanics false. Grace Sy navigates a gender crisis to find themself with the help of old friends. Meanwhile, a mysterious figure called Kit encourages both of them to experiment in increasingly dangerous ways. As they seek certainty in the unknown, their lives and their experiments in quantum mechanics and gender exploration collide. Free tickets required.

Theater & Music Theater
Free, Ticketed Event
Donald G. Drapkin Studio, Lewis Arts complex
Equations written in white chalk on a blackboard.

Liminality by Matthew Cooperberg ’26

Recurring

In this new play by physics major Matthew Cooperberg, Quinn Marion rebels against academia in their pursuit of proving quantum mechanics false. Grace Sy navigates a gender crisis to find themself with the help of old friends. Meanwhile, a mysterious figure called Kit encourages both of them to experiment in increasingly dangerous ways. As they seek certainty in the unknown, their lives and their experiments in quantum mechanics and gender exploration collide. Free tickets required.

Theater & Music Theater
Free, Ticketed Event
Donald G. Drapkin Studio, Lewis Arts complex
Equations written in white chalk on a blackboard.

Liminality by Matthew Cooperberg ’26

Recurring

In this new play by physics major Matthew Cooperberg, Quinn Marion rebels against academia in their pursuit of proving quantum mechanics false. Grace Sy navigates a gender crisis to find themself with the help of old friends. Meanwhile, a mysterious figure called Kit encourages both of them to experiment in increasingly dangerous ways. As they seek certainty in the unknown, their lives and their experiments in quantum mechanics and gender exploration collide. Free tickets required.

Theater & Music Theater
Free, Ticketed Event
Donald G. Drapkin Studio, Lewis Arts complex
3 dancers face one another and interact.

In relation to, a new dance work by Madalyn Mejia ’26

Featured Recurring

In relation to, a new work choreographed by senior Madalyn Mejia, explores the creation of social meaning through interactions both with the material and relational world. The audience is immersed in a complex social environment that is iteratively constructed as the work unfolds. Free tickets required.

Dance
Free, Ticketed Event
Hearst Dance Theater, Lewis Arts complex
Wallace Theater black box space with annex illuminated in hot pink lighting

Manual for a Desperate Crossing by María Irene Fornés

Recurring

Manual for a Desperate Crossing is an epic migratory montage that follows a group of Cuban rafters, or “balseros,” fleeing to the United States in the mid-1990s. Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés crafts this one-act with her distinctively stylized prose, which draws from real-life testimonies of balseros, to create a vast landscape of overlapping fears and dreams. Directed by Didi Vekri '27; lighting design and dramaturgy by Elena Milliken '26. Free tickets required.

Theater & Music Theater
Free, Ticketed Event
Wallace Theater, Lewis Arts complex
3 dancers face one another and interact.

In relation to, a new dance work by Madalyn Mejia ’26

Featured Recurring

In relation to, a new work choreographed by senior Madalyn Mejia, explores the creation of social meaning through interactions both with the material and relational world. The audience is immersed in a complex social environment that is iteratively constructed as the work unfolds. Free tickets required.

Dance
Free, Ticketed Event
Hearst Dance Theater, Lewis Arts complex
A large chorus dances and sings onstage with an orchestra in the background.

How to Be Not Alone: A Princeton Playhouse Ensembles Concert

Featured

Join the Princeton Playhouse Ensembles for a concert featuring new music theater arrangements of songs from A Little Night Music, Godspell, Evening Primrose, Kimberly Akimbo, In the Heights, Maybe Happy Ending, Next to Normal, Rent, and Waitress alongside world premieres by student composers and arrangers. This is also the Ensemble's debut EP release event; CDs available to buy.

Theater & Music Theater
Ticketed Event
Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center
Wallace Theater black box space with annex illuminated in hot pink lighting

Manual for a Desperate Crossing by María Irene Fornés

Recurring

Manual for a Desperate Crossing is an epic migratory montage that follows a group of Cuban rafters, or “balseros,” fleeing to the United States in the mid-1990s. Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés crafts this one-act with her distinctively stylized prose, which draws from real-life testimonies of balseros, to create a vast landscape of overlapping fears and dreams. Directed by Didi Vekri '27; lighting design and dramaturgy by Elena Milliken '26. Free tickets required.

Theater & Music Theater
Free, Ticketed Event
Wallace Theater, Lewis Arts complex
3 dancers face one another and interact.

In relation to, a new dance work by Madalyn Mejia ’26

Featured Recurring

In relation to, a new work choreographed by senior Madalyn Mejia, explores the creation of social meaning through interactions both with the material and relational world. The audience is immersed in a complex social environment that is iteratively constructed as the work unfolds. Free tickets required.

Dance
Free, Ticketed Event
Hearst Dance Theater, Lewis Arts complex
Wallace Theater black box space with annex illuminated in hot pink lighting

Manual for a Desperate Crossing by María Irene Fornés

Recurring

Manual for a Desperate Crossing is an epic migratory montage that follows a group of Cuban rafters, or “balseros,” fleeing to the United States in the mid-1990s. Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés crafts this one-act with her distinctively stylized prose, which draws from real-life testimonies of balseros, to create a vast landscape of overlapping fears and dreams. Directed by Didi Vekri '27; lighting design and dramaturgy by Elena Milliken '26. Free tickets required.

Theater & Music Theater
Free, Ticketed Event
Wallace Theater, Lewis Arts complex
An empty stage with a ramp and stairs is illuminated with yellow and blue light.

A Staged Reading of Generation-less by Tiffany Rawlston ‘26

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In "Generation-less," conceived by Princeton senior Tiffany Rawlston, four characters of a wide range of ages randomly meet one day in a train station. They unexpectedly confront how their life experiences reflect the highs and lows of modern society and how their unique perspectives might intersect in more ways than initially assumed. Come see what a 50-year old might learn from a 20-year old (or vice versa) in the short span of a train delay. Free tickets required.

Theater & Music Theater
Free, Ticketed Event
Donald G. Drapkin Studio, Lewis Arts complex
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