Month: April 2016
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alumni and Faculty Talent Honored with Jeff Award Nominations
Several alumni, students, and/or faculty members of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department have been honored with nominations for 2016 Joseph Jefferson Awards for Non-Equity Theatre, which were announced April 26, 2016. The Non-Equity Jeff Awards, the top prize in Chicago’s lively non-Equity theatre scene, celebrate excellence in Chicago theatres not under a union contract.…
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Michael Merritt Awards Honor Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Design Student and Faculty
The 2016 Michael Merritt Awards and Design Exposition, named in memory of set designer and former Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Michael Merritt, will be held Monday, May 16, starting at 5 PM at Loyola University Chicago’s Mundelein Center for the Fine and Performing Arts, 1020 W. Sheridan Rd., in Chicago. Among those being…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumni and Faculty Bring ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ to American Blues Theatre April 29-June 26
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and faculty members are bringing the rock musical Little Shop of Horrors to Chicago-area theatregoers this spring. The show, presented by American Blues Theatre, runs April 29-June 26 at the Greenhouse Theatre Center, 2257 N. Lincoln, Chicago. A special “College Night” performance on Thursday, May 12, costs only $10…
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Columbia College Chicago Alumni and Students Bring Classic Comedy ‘Once in a Lifetime’ to Strawdog Theatre April 22-June 4
Strawdog Theatre Company, whose ensemble includes several Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents the classic American comedy Once in a Lifetime April 22-June 4. The production will be Strawdog’s last show in its longtime space at 3829 N. Broadway, Chicago. (The company is moving to a new location next season.) The cast of Once…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumni Open ‘Fight Quest’ Fantasy Play April 17
Otherworld Theatre Company, an ensemble founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, opens its next production Sunday, April 17: Fight Quest, Module One: The Bandits of Hollow Hill. The fantasy-oriented production runs Sundays at 7 PM from April 17 through May 22 at the Public House Theatre, 3914 N. Clark, Chicago. For…
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‘The Producers’ Features Columbia College Chicago Musical Theatre Alumni April 14-June 26 at Mercury Theater
Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s musical theatre program are featured in The Producers, playing at Chicago’s Mercury Theater starting April 14. The Producers, the hit musical comedy about two crooked Broadway producers trying to put on a sure-to-fail show, co-stars Harter Clingman (BFA ’11), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre…
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Columbia College Chicago Musical Theatre Alum Chester Gregory Heads Back to Broadway in ‘Motown’
Chester Gregory Chester Gregory (BA ’95), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Musical Theatre, is headed to Broadway as the star of Motown The Musical. Gregory portrays Berry Gordy, founder of Motown Records, in this hit show, which features the music of the legendary Motown catalogue and a book by…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Presents Nobel Prize-Winning African Writer Wole Soyinka’s ‘Death and the King’s Horseman’ April 13-23
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department concludes its 2015-16 mainstage season with Death and the King’s Horseman, by Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian playwright and poet Wole Soyinka. Directed by Theatre Department faculty members Sonita L. Surratt and John Hildreth, the show employs an all-student cast and creative/production team. It runs April 13-23 in Studio 404 at…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumni Talent Featured in California Production of ‘Sister Act’
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Cindy Sciacca (BA ’99 Musical Theatre) and Michael Matthews (BA ’99 Acting) are collaborating on a new production of the musical Sister Act, running April 8-24 in Long Beach, California. This stage version of the hit movie, about a nightclub singer posing as a nun while hiding from her…
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Columbia College Chicago Musical Theatre Teacher Sharon Carlson Headlines April 16 at Open Door Theatre
Veteran Chicago actor-singer and Columbia College Chicago Music Department faculty member Sharon Carlson, who teaches singing classes and private voice lessons for students in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Musical Theatre BA and Musical Theatre Performance BFA programs, will star in her one-woman cabaret show From Hot Flashes to Spandex on Saturday, April 16,…