Actor-playwright James Sherman, a Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member who teaches playwriting and improvisation, is getting good reviews for his one-man play The Ben Hecht Show, a portrait of legendary Hollywood screenwriter Ben Hecht. The show runs...
Scarlet Sheppard, a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Acting, is the writer, director, and co-star of Karmic, a new Web series debuting on Youtube Wednesday, July 29. This new comedy “about learning to...
Michael Matthews, a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Acting, is directing the Los Angeles premiere of Failure: A Love Story, by Chicago playwright Philip Dawkins. The show, set against the backdrop of 1920s...
Pulse Theatre Company Chicago, a young troupe founded by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Aaron Mitchell Reese (artistic director) and Christopher Jackson (producing artistic director), is presenting Lynn Nottage’s Obie Award-winning play Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine....
Andrea Louise Soule, a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Musical Theatre, makes her Chicago choreographic debut with Kokandy Productions‘ staging of Loving Repeating, a musical tribute to the life and loves of celebrated...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Michael Allen Harris is featured in A Perfect Ganesh, presented by Eclipse Theatre Company as part of its 2015 season of plays by Terrence McNally. The show previews July 16-18 and opens July...
Steep Theatre, whose ensemble includes several Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and teachers, is presenting the U.S. premiere of British playwright Alistair McDowall’s Brilliant Adventures. The play–about a man who has invented a device that could change the...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, students, and faculty are collaborating on a festival of devised work, Dancing on the Ceiling and Other Moments of Connection, running July 10-August 1 at Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont, Chicago. Presented...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and students are appearing in current productions on Chicago stages. Alumni Ryan Jendrycki and Lucas Perfetti, graduates of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, are in EL Stories 21: People Watching, produced by Waltzing...