Month: March 2019
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(VIDEO) Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alum Aidy Bryant Plays Atty. Gen. William Barr in ‘Saturday Night Live’ Sketch about Mueller Report
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Aidy Bryant ’09, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting and now a regular cast member on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, appeared as Attorney General William Barr in SNL‘s March 30, 2019, sketch lampooning Barr’s four-page summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s almost-400-page report on…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alum’s Off-Broadway Musical ‘We Are the Tigers’ Cited as One of ’10 Shows Your Teen Is Going to Be So Into’
We Are the Tigers, the new Off-Broadway musical by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Preston Max Allen ’13, is highlighted in an article posted on the New York theatre news site Theatermania. Titled “10 Shows Your Teen Is Going to Be So Into,” the article — posted March 29, 2019 — lists ten musicals…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Playwriting Teacher Named Artistic Director of Chicago Dramatists
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Carson Grace Becker has been named artistic director of Chicago Dramatists. Becker, who launched her playwriting career at Chicago Dramatists in the 1990s, is currently serving in a part-time capacity and will transition to full-time status in May. “Carson has a distinguished career, an astute and creative mind,…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alum Alexander Stuart — Actor and Activist — Stars in ‘Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ at Florida Studio Theatre Through March 29
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Alexander Stuart ’17 — a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting with a Minor in Stage Combat — stars in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the Florida Studio Theatre in downtown Sarasota, Florida. The acclaimed production runs through March 29. For…
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(VIDEO) Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Praised for ‘Fantastic’ Performance in Chicago Premiere of Pulitzer Prize-Winning Drama ‘Sweat’
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Tyla Abercrumbie ’98 stars in the Goodman Theatre’s Chicago premiere of Lynn Nottage’s play Sweat, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The production, which runs through April 14, was hailed as “better than Broadway’s” by the Chicago Tribune, whose theatre critic Chris Jones praised Abercrumbie for her…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Aidy Bryant on Her New Series ‘Shrill’: ‘It Truly Is My Baby’
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Aidy Bryant ’09, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting and now a regular cast member on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, is getting lots of media attention for her new series Shrill, now streaming on Hulu. The show, which premiered March 15, was featured in a…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Preston Allen: ‘Musicals Can Tackle Real Things and They Don’t Need To Be Huge, They Just Need To Be Honest’
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Preston Max Allen ’13, whose new musical We Are the Tigers is currently running Off-Broadway at Theatre 80 St. Marks in New York City’s East Village, is profiled in an interview posted March 14 on the TodayTix theatre website. We Are the Tigers, which runs through April 1, is a…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Anna D. Shapiro to Direct Elton John’s New Broadway Musical ‘The Devil Wears Prada’
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Anna D. Shapiro ’90, HDR ’15, winner of the 2008 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for the Broadway hit August: Osage County, returns to Broadway soon as director of Elton John’s new musical The Devil Wears Prada. Based on Lauren Weisberger’s best-selling 2003 novel and its…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department’s 2018-19 Mainstage Season Features ‘Home/Land’ March 13-23
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department continues its 2018-2019 Mainstage Season with Home/Land, running March 13 through 23 in Studio 404 of the Getz Theater Center of Columbia College, located at 72 E. 11th in Chicago’s South Loop. For tickets, click here. Created and originally performed by the Albany Park Theatre Project, a Chicago-based ensemble…
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(VIDEO) Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Anna D. Shapiro Leads Steppenwolf Theatre in Its ‘Monumental Moment’
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department proudly congratulates Columbia College alum Anna D. Shapiro ’90, HDR ’15, artistic director of Chicago’s internationally acclaimed Steppenwolf Theatre, on the theatre’s bold new building plans. On Tuesday, March 5, 2019, Shapiro announced Steppenwolf’s exciting plan to build a new multi-use venue next to its current space in the 1600…