Month: June 2017
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(VIDEO) Columbia College Chicago Theatre Center Renovation Continues
Update on on the renovation of Columbia College Chicago‘s historic Emma and Oscar Getz Theatre, the mainstage auditorium at the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, and on other parts of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Center: This photo, looking north, is a panorama of the Getz Theatre and its adjacent shop space in what used to be…
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Columbia College Chicago Musical Theatre Students Selected for Jacob’s Pillow Musical Theatre Dance Intensive July 31-August 21
Three Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department students and two alumni have been accepted into the prestigious School at Jacob’s Pillow Musical Theatre Dance Program for a Summer 2017 intensive. The current students are Andrew Casey, Evelyn Finne, and Isaiah Silvia-Chandley, all students in the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance. The alumni are…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alums and Faculty Make the Chicago Reader’s ‘Best of Chicago 2017’ Poll
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department is proud to congratulate Steppenwolf Theatre Company and its artistic director — Columbia College Chicago alum Anna D. Shapiro ’90, HDR ’15 — for being named “Best Established Theatre Company” in the Chicago Reader newspaper’s “Best of Chicago 2017” readers’ poll. The poll was published in the June 22,…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alum Is Featured DJ at Chicago Pride Celebration at Navy Pier June 24
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Ron Geronimo ’00, a graduate of the BA Program in Musical Theatre, is the featured DJ at Chicago’s massive 2017 Pride Celebration Saturday, June 24, at Navy Pier, 600 E. Grand, on Chicago’s lakefront. Free and open to the public, this family-friendly event is the largest Pride celebration in…
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(VIDEO) Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumni ‘Let the Sunshine In’ in ‘Hair’ Through July 1 at Metropolis
Congratulations to the Columbia College Chicago alumni and students in the new production of the classic rock musical Hair, running through July 1 at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in the northern Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights. The show got a rave review from the northwest suburban Daily Herald, which called the show “bold, exuberant and…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alumnus Performs at Sunset Strip’s Famed Viper Room June 23
Columbia College Chicago alumnus Curt Clendenin ’98, host of Los Angeles’ “Inspirado Projecto” radio show, will perform at the world-famous Viper Room nightclub located on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California, on Friday, June 23, with his vocal group Yächtley Crëw, a “yacht rock band” that performs the best soft rock of the ’70s…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alum Performs in June 21 ‘Gilbert & Sullivan Unplugged’ Show at Feinstein’s/54 Below in New York
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Lauren Vogel ’16, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Musical Theatre, will appear in the cabaret show Gilbert & Sullivan Unplugged: A Modern Twist on the Major Hits on Wednesday, June 21, at the prestigious Feinstein’s/54 Below supper club in New York’s Broadway theatre district. The show features…
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(VIDEO) Video Tour of Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department’s Getz Theatre Renovation
Work continues apace on the renovation of Columbia College Chicago‘s historic Emma and Oscar Getz Theatre, the mainstage auditorium at the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, and on other parts of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Center as well. Click here for a VIDEO TOUR of the ongoing demolition of the Getz and adjacent first-floor space…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Student Named Company Manager of California’s Summer Repertory Theatre Festival
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department student Nicholas Bader is the company manager for the Summer Repertory Theatre Festival in Santa Rosa, California. Bader, a senior in the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Theatre Technology, worked at Summer Rep last summer as an assistant stage manager, and was asked to return as the summer stock company’s…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department’s Getz Theatre Renovation Well Underway — Update
Update on the renovation of Columbia College Chicago‘s historic Emma and Oscar Getz Theatre, the mainstage auditorium at the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department. As documented in this week’s edition of the visual chronicle of the project, demolition of the theatre balcony continues and workers are setting up scaffolding for the removal of the ceiling. The…