Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus David Stobbe ’16 is featured in Leapfest XIV, a festival of politically-minded new plays presented by Stage Left Theatre in association with Chicago Dramatists. Stobbe, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Musical Theatre, is featured in Bad Date, by Liam Fitzgerald, which will be performed Wednesday, July 19, and Tuesday, July 25. Both shows start at 8 PM at Chicago Dramatists, 1105 W. Chicago Ave., in Chicago. Both performances will be followed by a discussion among the artists and audience.
Bad Date addresses the issue of date rape in the world of academia. The play concerns a woman fighting an uphill battle to convince her community, her friends, and even her attacker of the truth of what happened. For tickets, click here.