Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty and alumni talent is bringing the world premiere of Hinter, by Chicago playwright Calamity West, to the stage of Steep Theatre January 19-March 3. This darkly comic thriller, set in 1922, concerns the discovery of bodies in a remote community in the German state of Bavaria in the aftermath of World War I.

The show’s lighting designer is Columbia College Theatre Department production manager Pete Dully, a Steep Theatre company member. Columbia College alum Almanya Narula ’12, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, is the assistant director. Sasha Smith, a former student in the Theatre Department’s Acting BA program, is in the cast and also serves as the production’s violence and intimacy choreographer. Steep Theatre is located at 1115 W. Berwyn, in Chicago’s Edgewater Theatre District. For tickets, call 773-649-3186 or click here.