Concerts feature a wide variety of music including classical and contemporary Arabic music, jazz, and Western classical music performed by local groups like the Cairo Symphony or by international ensembles on tour. The AUC Theatre Company is one of the most active student enterprises and traditionally a meeting ground for students of all nationalities. Under the guidance of the university's drama faculty, students act in and occasionally direct several productions a year ranging from classics to modern experimental theater. They also construct sets and work on costumes, lighting, and makeup. Plays in recent years have included musicals and works by Shakespeare, Brecht, Ibsen, O'Casey, Chekhov, Tennessee Williams, Tawfik el-Hakim, Naguib Mahfouz and Ali Salem.
Productions are in English, Arabic, and occasionally French.
Films are a favorite form of recreation at AUC, and one of the most widely attended student activities is the Thursday Night Movie series, organized by the Student Union to show good films for the student body at large. The Performing and Visual Arts Department also regularly shows classic films. Student Publications Caravan , the student newspaper, is published weekly, in English and in Arabic, and distributed on campus without charge. It is both a learning laboratory for students majoring in journalism and mass communication who receive some academic credit for participation, and a co-curricular activity open to participation by reporters, photographers, and students with writing skills or artistic talent from the student body at large. Over the years many Caravan alumni have become professional journalists in Egypt, elsewhere in the Middle East, and in the West.