Month: February 2018
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alumni Bring World Premiere of ‘Kingdom’ to the Stage March 2-31
Kingdom, a new drama by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Michael Allen Harris ’11, receives its world premiere March 2-31 from Chicago’s Broken Nose Theatre. The play centers around an entirely-LGBTQ African-American family living in the shadow of Orlando’s magical kingdom in the wake of the legalization of same-sex marriage. Harris, a graduate of…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Directs Stage Version of ‘The Graduate,’ Running Through March 21
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Michael Matthews ’99, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, has directed a stage version of The Graduate, starring Melanie Griffith. The show has been extended through March 25 at the Laguna Playhouse in Laguna Beach, California. As reported previously in this blog, Matthews is one…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alumnus Stars in His Own Play about Scandal-Plagued Silent Screen Star Fatty Arbuckle
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus and Aaron Muñoz ’01, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, is the star and co-author of Lost Laughs: The Slapstick Tragedy of Fatty Arbuckle, running through March 11 at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre in Lowell, Massachusetts. This world premiere, co-written by Andy Bayiates, recounts the…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumni Bring ‘New Faces Sing 1959’ to Porchlight Music Theatre Feb. 26-27
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni bring Porchlight Music Theatre‘s New Faces Sing 1959 to the Skokie Theatre on Monday, February 26, and then to the Arts Club of Chicago on Tuesday, February 27. The show — a revue of musical theatre songs from 1959 — is directed by Columbia College alumnus Adrian Abel Azevedo…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Renovation Called ‘A Transformational Moment for the School’
As reported previously in this blog, the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Center, located at 72 E. 11th St. in Chicago’s South Loop, has undergone extensive renovations since last summer. The large first-floor Getz Theatre auditorium has been reconfigured into a more intimate and flexible Courtyard Theatre, and the Classic Studio, formerly adjacent to the Getz,…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Student’s Play Featured in Victory Gardens’ ‘College Night’ Event Feb. 21
A play by Niv Elbaz, a senior student in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Playwriting, will be performed on Wednesday, February 21, at Chicago’s Tony Award-winning Victory Gardens Theatre. Elbaz’s play, Lightning, will be performed as part of “College Night: Shifting Identities,” a showcase of new work by Chicago-area college students,…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Explores Her Biracial Identity in Solo Show at St. Paul’s Penumbra Theatre Through Feb. 18
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Khanisha Foster ’02, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, is performing her new solo show Joy Rebel at the Penumbra Theatre in St. Paul, Minnesota, through February 18. The show, presented as part of Penumbra’s Claude Edison Purdy Festival, draws on Foster’s life as a…
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Jackalope Theatre Featured in Columbia College Chicago Alumni Magazine
Jackalope Theatre, a company founded and led by alumni and former students of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, is featured in the Fall/Winter 2017 edition of Demo, the alumni magazine of Columbia College Chicago. The article, “The Birth of a Jackalope,” recounts how Jackalope began as a senior project in a theatre management techniques course,…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumnus Michael Stahl-David’s ‘LBJ’ Film Released on Blu-ray; New Film ‘We Win’ to Premiere in March at SXSW 2018
The 2017 film LBJ, costarring Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Michael Stahl-David ’05, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, has just been released on Blu-ray and iTunes. Stahl-David costars as American political icon Robert F. Kennedy opposite Woody Harrelson as President Lyndon B. Johnson in director Rob Reiner’s drama LBJ,…
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(VIDEO) Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Teacher Directs ‘The Wolves’ at Goodman Theatre Feb. 9-March 11, with College Night Performance Feb. 15
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Vanessa Stalling is directing The Wolves, running February 9-March 11 at the Goodman Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn, in downtown Chicago. This comedy concerns a suburban high school girls’ soccer team whose nine teenage members navigate life’s big questions and wage their own tiny battles. The play was praised…