Sam Bailey, a former student in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department’s Acting program, has been nominated for a 2017 Emmy Award as co-producer of the OpenTV web series Brown Girls, which Bailey also directs. The series was nominated...
A new play by Dawn Renee Jones, the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s administrative assistant and also a part-time faculty member, will receive a staged reading at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago’s premier institutional nonprofit theatre, on Sunday, July 16....
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Klahr Thorsen ’91, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Theatre, is joining the International Actors Ensemble, a company formed in 2015 devoted to “exploring the power of international voices and...
Performance companies led by alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department and the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago are participating in “An Evening with the Edgewater Theatre District” on Thursday, August 3, at 7 PM. This benefit...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Behzad Dabu ’08, whose acting career is on a roll with his recurring role on the hit TV series How to Get Away with Murder, is making his debut as a theatrical producer with the world...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Teressa LaGamba ’13 is featured in the Chicago premiere of Michael John LaChiusa’s 2003 musical Little Fish, running July 9-August 20 at Theatre Wit in Chicago’s Belmont Theatre District. Described as “an oblique...
As reported previously in this blog, Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Lauren Vogel ’16, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Musical Theatre, appeared in the cabaret show Gilbert & Sullivan Unplugged: A Modern Twist on the Major Hits June 21 at the...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus J. Cody Spellman ’13, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program, is directing the sketch comedy revue The Miseducation of 55th Street, running July 8-August 5 at The Revival, an improv...
Much progress on the renovation of Columbia College Chicago‘s historic Emma and Oscar Getz Theatre — the mainstage auditorium at the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department at 72 E. 11th St. in Chicago’s South Loop — and on other parts...