Month: July 2015
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Columbia College Theatre Alumni Design New Shows at Chicago’s Strawdog Theatre
Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are part of the design teams for the first two shows on Strawdog Theatre‘s fall schedule. After Miss Julie, British playwright Patrick Marber’s exploration of master/servant sexual politics in 1940s Britain, has a set designed by Mike Mroch , a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BFA Program…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Teacher’s Solo Show Praised in Los Angeles
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 July 24-August 16 at the Zephyr Theatre, 7456 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles. This “very interesting entertaining and humorous…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumni Launch New Web Series ‘Karmic’ July 29
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 live in the present . . . with roommates” concerns two young women who offer up…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumnus Directs L.A. Premiere July 24-August 29
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 Chicago, is a touching, whimsical exploration of the impermanence of life and the permanence of love.…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alums Bring Pulse Theatre’s ‘Fabulation’ to the Stage July 24-August 16
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. The show–directed by Reese, a graduate of Columbia College’s Theatre Directing Program–is a social satire about…
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Columbia College Chicago Musical Theatre Alum Choreographs Kokandy Productions’ ‘Loving Repeating,’ Running July 18-August 30 at Theater Wit
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 American author Gertrude Stein that sets Stein’s unconventional creative passions against the backdrop of her lifelong relationship…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Plays Indian God in Eclipse’s ‘A Perfect Ganesh’ July 21-August 23
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 21 at Chicago’s historic Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport, where it runs through August 23. In…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumni and Faculty Bring U.S. Premiere to Steep Theatre July 9-Aug. 15
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 world–is described as “a wildly entertaining sci-fi thriller with more than a touch of dark comedy.”…
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‘Dancing on the Ceiling’ Festival Features New Work by Columbia College Chicago Theatre and Dance Alumni, Students, and Faculty July 10-Aug. 1 at Stage 773
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 by The Neapolitans theatre company, the festival is curated by Hannah Burt, a graduate of the…
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Columbia College Theatre Alumni and Students Appear in Shows on Chicago Stages in July
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 Mechanics. EL Stories 21: People Watching indulges the fantasies we create about our fellow riders’ lives…