Monthly Archive:: September 2016

  Otherworld Theatre Company — a troupe founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni — presents its second annual Paragon—A Sci-Fi/Fantasy Theatre Short Play Festival Saturday and Sunday, October 1 and 2, at the Public House Theatre, 3914 N. Clark,...
Dawn Renee Jones
Dawn Renee Jones, assistant to the chair of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, has been named to the Goodman Theatre’s 2016-17 Playwrights Unit, a year-long residency offered by Goodman in partnership with Chicago Dramatists. The playwrights in this...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department associate chairperson Paul Amandes, coordinator of the Theatre Department’s Playwriting/Writing for Performance BA Program, will co-host and perform in Banned Together: A Censorship Cabaret on Monday, September 26, at 8 PM at Davenport’s Piano Bar, 1383...
  The No Stakes Theater Project, a company founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents a staged reading of Carson Kreitzer’s drama Self Defense, or Death of Some Salesmen on Monday, September 26, at 7 PM at...
Pulse Theatre Company Chicago, a company founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents George C. Wolfe’s satire of African-American stereotypes, The Colored Museum, September 23-October 23 at ETA Creative Arts Foundation, 7558 S. South Chicago, on...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Kaiser Ahmed ’08 and Arianna Soloway ’13 — both graduates of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing Program — have been selected to participate in Victory Gardens Theatre‘s 2016-17 Season Directors Inclusion Initiative, which...
Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are on the production team of the world premiere of Dead Children, a new play by Robert Tenges, Assistant Provost for Continuing & Community Education at Columbia College. The production’s set designer,...
Longtime Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Barbara Robertson is featured in Life Sucks, the highly acclaimed new production at Chicago’s Tony Award-winning Lookingglass Theatre. Written by Aaron Posner, the play is an update of Anton Chekhov’s classic...
Graduates of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Musical Theatre Program are featured in the musical Young Frankenstein, running September 22-November 6 at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights.   In this stage adaptation...