Monthly Archive:: March 2016

Anna D. Shapiro
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...