Month: January 2018
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Featured in ‘Speech & Debate’ at Edge Theatre Feb 2-March 4
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Darren Patin ’17, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, is featured in Speech and Debate, the 2006 comedy by Stephen Karam, whose Broadway hit The Humans plays in Chicago January 30-February 11 in its national touring production. Presented by the Brown Paper Box Co. February 2-March…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Teacher Praised for Calif. Production of ‘Pirates of Penzance’
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Andra Velis Simon — musical director for The Hypocrites theatre company’s acclaimed interactive production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta Pirates of Penzance — was praised by Los Angeles Times critic Charles McNulty in his January 26 review of the show, which runs through February 25 at the Pasadena…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Featured in Steppenwolf’s ‘You Got Older’ Jan. 25-March 11
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Caroline Neff ’07, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, is featured in You Got Older, running January 25-March 11 at the internationally acclaimed Steppenwolf Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted, Chicago. Neff plays the lead role of Mae, a brokenhearted and unemployed young woman, who returns home…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alum Featured in American Theatre Company’s ‘We’re Gonna Be Okay’ Jan. 25-March 4
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum BrittneyLove Smith ’11, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Acting Program, is featured in the Chicago premiere of We’re Gonna Be Okay, running January 25-March 4 at the American Theatre Company. Set during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, Basil Kreimendahl’s play confronts the fears of the American middle class as…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alums Featured in ‘Joan of Arc’ at Rhinoceros Theatre Festival Jan. 25-Feb. 22
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums Sierra Buffum ’16, Kim Fukawa ’07, and Alexander Stuart ’17 — all graduates of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting — are featured in Joan of Arc, running January 25-February 22 as part of the Rhinoceros Theatre Festival, Chicago’s longest-running fringe theatre festival. The play by Alexandra Ranieri…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre and Music Alumni Featured in ‘Hatfield & McCoy’ Jan. 19-March 11
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Ann Delaney ’14, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, is featured in Hatfield & McCoy, presented by The House Theatre of Chicago. Also in the cast are Khloe Janel, a senior in the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, and Kyle Ryan, a junior…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alums Bring Ibsen’s ‘Pillars of the Community’ to Strawdog Theatre Jan. 19-March 3
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are in the cast and production team of Henrik Ibsen’s classic drama Pillars of the Community, running January 19-March 3 at Strawdog Theatre, 1802 W. Berenice, Chicago. This acclaimed adaptation of Ibsen’s 1877 play tells the story of the return of a fugitive brother who puts the future of…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Makes ‘The Case for Normalizing Fatness Onstage’ in ‘American Theatre’ Magazine
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Maggie Rogers ’14, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Theatre with a concentration in directing, published an article titled “All Sizes Fit All: The Case for Normalizing Fatness Onstage” in the January 2018 issue of American Theatre magazine, the nation’s leading publication for the nonprofit theatre…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alums Present ‘Mortal Kombat’ and ‘Sailor Moon’ Parodies in January and February
Otherworld Theatre, a company founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, has two science-fantasy action productions coming up. On Friday, January 19, at 7:30 PM, the company presents Mortal Kombat: A Parody Staged Reading of the Cinematic Masterpiece, a spoof of the 1990s movie based on one of the bloodiest video games…
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Columbia College Chicago Alumni and Student Talent Drive New Musical ‘Black Vs. All’ Jan. 17
Black Vs. All, a new musical by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Mondisa Monde ’14, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Musical Theatre, will be presented in a developmental reading on Wednesday, January 17, at ETA Creative Arts Foundation. Revised since its first performance last year, the show addresses pressing issues…