Monthly Archive:: October 2017

Underscore Theatre Company, a Chicago troupe devoted to presenting new musical theatre works, presents the world premiere of Carrie 2: The Rage (An Unauthorized Musical Parody) October 13-November 19 at The Arkham, located at 4609 N. Clark in Chicago’s Uptown...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni A.C. Smith ’86 and Chester Gregory ’95, HDR ’15, are featured in the Kansas City Repertory Theatre‘s production of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Fences, running October 13-November 5. Set in 1950s Pittsburgh...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Alex Newkirk ’11, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, is featured in Carrie 2: The Rage (An Unauthorized Musical Parody), running October 13-November 19 at The Arkham,...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Jen Ellison, a faculty member in the Comedy Writing and Performance BA Program, directs the Neo-Futurists theatre company’s new production, Tangles & Plaques, running October 12-November 18 at the Neo-Futurarium, located at...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s 2017-2018 Mainstage Season begins Wednesday, October 11, with Servant of Two Masters, the classic comedy by 18th-century Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni. Directed by Theatre Department faculty member Ric Walker, the play runs through...
Otherworld Theatre Company, an ensemble founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents the “cerebral science fiction adventure” Speed of Light October 6-21 at the Berger Park Coach House, 6205 N. Sheridan, in Chicago’s Edgewater Theatre...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty and alumni are helping the Savoyaires musical theatre troupe bring Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic operetta The Pirates of Penzance to the stage October 6-15. Amy Uhl, a coordinator of the Theatre Department’s Musical...
Michael Allen Harris
Punk, a provocative new drama by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Michael Allen Harris ’11, will receive its world premiere October 4-November 5 at the Den Theatre, 1333 N. Milwaukee, in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood. Produced by The...