The Department of Performing and Visual Arts (PVA) offers four to six full-length plays and many student-directed one act plays per season, offering students the opportunity to interact with internationally renowned guest artists who are brought to AUC to serve as directors, designers and performers.

Guided by experienced faculty and using the most current resources, the AUC Theater Company produces some of the world’s seminal plays — works by Shakespeare, Pirandello, Sophocles, Farag, Feydeau and Ibsen. Students are involved in every aspect of the productions: acting and directing, set and lighting design, sound, costume construction and makeup. Students also work with renowned guest artists from the world’s leading theater companies.

PVA also supports an active student-produced theatre group, the Howard Cafe, which presents short plays, stand up comedy acts, dance, musical acts, theater games, art exhibitions and poetry events that have gained popularity in Cairo over the last eight years.

The AUC Chamber Choir is a chamber chorus formed of AUC students and members of the local community. The choir performs a wide range of repertory from the Western tradition, ranging from spirituals and folk music to classical repertory and medieval and renaissance masterpieces, with a sprinkling of showtunes and popular music.

The Cairo Choral Society, which has been bringing performances of the great choral-orchestral masterworks to Cairo's concert audiences for more than two decades, has over the years performed the Requiems of Faure, Mozart, Brahms and Verdi; the Glorias of Vivaldi and Poulenc; Haydn's Creation and the Elijah of Mendelssohn. Christmas seasons have been highlighted by performances of Handel's Messiah, the Christmas Oratorios of Bach and Saint-Saens, the Bach Magnificat, and Britten's Ceremony of Carols.