Month: April 2015
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Columbia College Theatre Alumna in Off-Broadway ‘Clinton’ Musical–Plus ‘Rent’ in Edinburgh Festival
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Gretchen Wylder is in the company of the new Off-Broadway show Clinton The Musical, now running at New World Stages, 340 W. 50th St., New York. Wylder, who graduated from Columbia College in 2007 with a BA in Acting, is in the show’s ensemble and also covers the…
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Columbia Theatre Alumni and Students Present Solo Performance ‘Mixtape’
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Laura Korn is producing artistic director of The LIVINGroom, a solo performance project that showcases work by other Columbia alumni and students. “The LIVINGroom is a theatrical assembly of individual, autobiographical performances that blend spoken word, movement, spectacle, music, and any other device to bridge the personal with the…
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Columbia College Theatre Faculty, Alumni and Students Bring World Premieres to Chicago Stages
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty and alumni are bringing two new plays to Chicago stages this month. Susan Padveen, coordinator of the Theatre Department’s BFA program in Theatre Directing, is staging the world premiere of Anna in the Afterlife, by Richard Engling, for the Polarity Ensemble Theatre. The show’s cast includes Columbia alumna Sheila…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumni’s Work Featured in New Play Festival April 11-12
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Michael Allen Harris and Eric Burgher are participating in this year’s edition of “arciTEXT,” a festival of short new works for the theatre presented by The Arc Theatre. This year’s festival explores the topic of “Mortal Sin.” Harris, who graduated from Columbia in 2011 with a BFA in Acting,…
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Columbia College Theatre Directing Program Alumnus Stages World Premiere of ‘Badfic Love’ at Chicago’s Den Theatre
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Aaron Henrickson (BA, Theatre/Directing, 2009) is directing the professional world premiere of Badfic Love, opening April 6 at the Den Theatre, 1333 N. Milwaukee, Chicago. Presented by Strange Bedfellows Theatre, this comedy by Adam Pasen runs through May 2. Previews are scheduled for April 3-5. Click here for ticket…
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Columbia College Chicago Musical Theatre Student Praised for Performance in ‘The Mikado’ at American Repertory Theatre
The Hypocrites theatre company’s reimagined production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta The Mikado received a rave review from the Boston Globe in its engagement at American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. The show, which features musical direction by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department musical director Andra Velis Simon and lighting design by Columbia associate professor…
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Columbia College Theatre Alumni Have New Play Running in Chicago
Columbia College Chicago alumnus Ryan Patrick Dolan‘s new play, Moraine, is running through April 19 at CIC Theater, 1422 E. Irving Park, Chicago. The play concerns a young man trying to keep his best friend alive, his ex from leaving town, and his de facto family of twenty- and thirty-somethings intact. Moraine is a play about…