Month: September 2015
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumni Bring Midwest Premiere of ‘Washer/Dryer’ to Rasaka Theatre Sept. 17-Oct. 11
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are helping Rasaka Theatre Company, the midwest’s only theatre ensemble illuminating the South Asian American experience, to bring the midwest premiere of Nandita Shenoy’s Washer/Dryer to Chicago September 17-October 11. Kaiser Ahmed (BA ’08), a graduate of Columbia College’s Theatre Directing program, is staging Rasaka’s production of this new…
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Columbia College Musical Theatre Faculty and Alumni Bring ‘Spamalot’ to Theatre at the Center Sept. 17-Oct. 18
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Musical Theatre Dance teacher Linda Fortunato is choreographing Monty Python’s Spamalot, the opening show in the 2015-16 season at the Theatre at the Center, located at 1040 Ridge Rd. in Munster, Indiana. This popular musical version of the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail runs…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Faculty, Alumni, and Students Salute Female Pirates in ‘Nobody’s Wench’ Sept. 17-Oct. 4
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A crew of Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department teachers, alumni, and students are on board for Nobody’s Wench: Six Tales of Pirate Women on the Rolling Seas, presented by Fury Theatre and Badass Broads September 17-October 4 at Chase Park, 4701 N. Ashland, Chicago. This collection of short plays about real-life female pirates is the…
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Columbia College Chicago Students Help Bring ‘Scottsboro Boys’ to Raven Theatre Sept. 16-Nov. 14
Raven Theatre‘s Midwest premiere of Direct From Death Row The Scottsboro Boys (An Evening of Vaudeville and Sorrow) employs the talents of current and former Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department students. The production employs vaudeville-style music and dance to satirically recount the true story of a group of African-American teenagers falsely accused of raping two…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumnus Michael Matthews Directs World Premiere in L.A.
Michael Matthews (BA ’99), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Acting, is directing the world premiere of Lisa Loomer’s new drama Homefree, inspired by a real-life homeless philosopher whom Loomer encountered in Ashland, Oregon, where Loomer lives. Described as “a dark urban fairy tale about three cast-out…
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Columbia College Chicago Alumnus Behzad Dabu Featured in Pulitzer Prize-Winning Drama ‘Disgraced’ at Goodman Theatre Sept. 12-Oct. 18; Special $10 ‘College Night’ Set for Sept. 29
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Behzad Dabu (BFA ’08) is featured in the Goodman Theatre‘s keenly anticipated fall opener — the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Disgraced. The show begins previews September 12 and opens September 20, running through October 18 at the Goodman Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn, in downtown Chicago. A special College Night on…
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Columbia College Chicago Musical Theatre Alumni Help Bring ‘Side Show’ Back to Chicago Sept. 11-Oct. 18
Graduates of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Musical Theatre Program are in the company of Side Show, the first show in Porchlight Music Theatre‘s 2015-2016 season. This production is the exclusive first post-Broadway staging of the newly revised version of Side Show, Bill Russell and Henry Krieger’s Tony Award-nominated musical about Daisy and Violet Hilton,…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumnus Michael Stahl-David to Play Bobby Kennedy in Rob Reiner’s Film ‘LBJ’
Michael Stahl-David (BA ’05), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Acting, has been cast to play Robert F. Kennedy in Rob Reiner’s forthcoming film LBJ, according to a September 9 report in Deadline.com. The movie will explore the animosity between President Lyndon Johnson and Kennedy, whose slain brother, John F.…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumnus Jesse Klug Designs Lights for Two Major Openings in September
Jesse Klug (BFA ’05), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Theatre Design Program, is designing the lights for two major Chicago-area stage openings in September. Funnyman, a world premiere, stars George Wendt as a vaudeville comic trying to revive his career in an avant-garde Off-Broadway play. The show runs September 11-October 18…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Featured in August Wilson’s ‘Gem of the Ocean’ at Court Theatre Sept. 10-Oct. 11
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus A.C. Smith (BA ’86) is featured in August Wilson’s drama Gem of the Ocean, being presented in a major revival at Court Theatre in Chicago. The play–the first installment of “The Pittsburgh Cycle,” Wilson’s epic, decade-by-decade, ten-play chronicle of the African-American experience in the 20th century–concerns a former slave…