Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and faculty members are involved in the world premiere of The Sundial, Northwestern University professor Paul Edwards’ new stage adaptation of the 1958 novel by Shirley Jackson. The show, which runs January 6-February 12 at City Lit Theatre, is a philosophical ghost story set in a haunted mansion.

Sheila Willis

Patti Roeder

David Yondorf

The cast includes Columbia College Theatre Department alum Sheila Willis ’94. The production team includes costume designer Patti Roeder, a Columbia College faculty member and manager of the Theatre Department’s costume shop. And alumnus David Yondorf ’08, a graduate of the Acting program and now a teacher of stage combat in the Columbia College Theatre Department’s Stage Combat Minor, is the production’s violence choreographer. City Lit’s artistic director, Terry McCabe, is a Columbia College Theatre Department faculty member.

City Lit Theatre is located at 1020 W. Bryn Mawr in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood. For tickets, call 773-293-3682 or click here.