Month: March 2016
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Jane Lynch to Speak at Columbia College Chicago Commencement for Theatre Majors
Emmy Award-winning actor Jane Lynch, a former Chicago actor known for her roles in TV and film, will be the keynote speaker at the 2016 commencement ceremony for Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department graduates on Saturday, May 14, at 1:30 PM at the Chicago Theatre. Lynch will also receive an honorary degree from the college.…
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Columbia College Chicago Alum Anna D. Shapiro Directs New Tracy Letts Play Running March 31-May 29 at Steppenwolf
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Anna D. Shapiro (BA ’90), artistic director of Chicago’s acclaimed Steppenwolf Theatre Company, is directing the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts’ new drama, Mary Page Marlowe. Shapiro’s previous collaborations with Letts include the Steppenwolf world premiere and subsequent Broadway production of his play August: Osage County,…
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(VIDEO) Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumni Reopen Factory Theatre With New Show March 25
The Factory Theatre, which has devoted itself to presenting original work in Chicago for 22 years, has moved into a new permanent home on Chicago’s northern border. The company, whose ensemble includes several Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, opens its new space at 1623 W. Howard St. in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood with the…
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Columbia College Chicago Alumni Launch ‘Performink’ Theatre News Website
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Jason Epperson (BA ’14) and Abigail Trabue (BA ’04) — artists, entrepreneurs, and husband and wife — have launched PerformInk, an online publication devoted to Chicago’s thriving theatre scene. PerformInk will be a rolling-news website with a weekly e-mail edition. The new PerformInk is a reboot of a Chicago…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department’s Exchange Program with British Drama School Continues
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department continues its faculty and student exchange program with England’s Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance with a production of Lion in the Streets, by Canadian playwright Judith Thompson, running March 17-19 at Rose Bruford’s Barn Theatre in Lamorbey Park, Southeast London. The play concerns the ghost of a nine-year-old…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre and Dance Alumni Talent Featured in ‘West Side Story’ at Paramount
Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are in the cast and production team of West Side Story at the Paramount Theatre in Aurora, Illinois. Allyson Graves (BFA ’12), a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Musical Theatre Performance BFA program, is playing Graziella and is also the production’s dance captain. Graves has previously appeared…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Faculty Publish Articles on Acting and Musical Theatre Training
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty members Kathleen Perkins and Ashton Byrum recently published articles in academic journals concerning their ongoing research related to theatre training in the United States. Perkins, co-coordinator of the Theatre Department’s Acting with International Performance Study BFA program, published an article in the 2016 issue of Teaching & Learning Inquiry…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Directs ‘Picasso at the Lapin Agile’ March 16-17 at The Stage in Tel Aviv
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Amber Carey Gitter is directing a production of Steve Martin’s comedy Picasso at the Lapin Agile for The Stage in Tel Aviv, Israel. The play concerns a fictitious meeting between young Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso at the legendary Paris art bar Le Lapin Agile. It was produced in 1993…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Staffer Wins National Playwriting Award from Southern Rep Theatre
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department staff member Dawn Renee Jones has won the 2015 Ruby Prize for her play A Heap See. The Ruby Prize, named in honor of American activist Ruby Bridges, is presented by Southern Rep Theatre in New Orleans, Louisiana. The news was announced by Southern Rep on February 29. The Ruby…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Probes ‘Love and Information’ March 9-19
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s mainstage season continues March 9-19 with Love and Information, by acclaimed British playwright Caryl Churchill. Directed by Theatre Department chair John Green, with choreography by Musical Theatre students Jennifer Marie Ledesma and Ligia Sandoval, the play is performed in the Sheldon Patinkin Theatre of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre…