Month: August 2015
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumni Talent Featured in ‘Kafkapalooza’ New Play Festival Aug. 14-22
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are participating in Kafkapalooza, a festival of new plays, running August 14-22 at Collaboraction’s Pentagon Theatre in the Flat Iron Arts Building, 1579 N. Milwaukee, in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood. Presented by the First Floor Theater, the two-week event features eight short works by Chicago writers who have found inspiration…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumni, Faculty, and Students Bring ‘Little Voice’ to Theater Wit Aug. 14-Sept. 5
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, faculty, and students are bringing British playwright Jim Cartwright’s The Rise and Fall of Little Voice to the stage of Chicago’s Theater Wit August 14-September 5. Presented by the No Stakes Theater Project, the show is directed by Erin Shea Brady, a graduate of Columbia’s Theatre Directing Program. Set…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Organizes ‘gRACE’ Event to Foster Dialogue on Race Aug. 14-16
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Gillian Hastings, a graduate of the BA Program in Acting, is organizing “gRACE: A Graceful Dialogue on Race,” scheduled for August 14-16 at various locations in Chicago’s Washington Park/Hyde Park, Bridgeport, Garfield Park, and Edgewater neighborhoods. Presented by Connect-the-Dots, a collective with which Hastings is affiliated, “gRACE” features workshops…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumni and Students Present ‘Hotheads’ Solo Performance Evening Aug. 9
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and students appear in The LIVINGroom: Hotheads, an evening of solo performance on Sunday, August 9, at 8 PM. Eight performers offer rants about what they just can’t take any more–and in some cases, what they want more of. The show is produced by David Gordezky, a graduate of…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumni Portray ‘Dueling Gentlemen’ in Silent Theatre’s New Show Aug. 9-Sept. 20
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Marvin Eduardo Quijada, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, is the creator of the Silent Theatre Company‘s new production The Dueling Gentlemen. Described as “a love letter to old vaudeville,” the show is performed entirely in silence and accompanied by live original piano music, in…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumni Featured in Musicals at National Black Theatre Festival
The 2015 National Black Theatre Festival, running August 3-8 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, includes two musical theatre productions featuring Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni. Alanna Taylor and Melanie McCullough co-star in At Last: A Tribute to Etta James, playing August 5-8. The show, a musical biography of R&B queen Etta James, was first seen…