Month: April 2019
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Columbia College Chicago Hosts ‘Third Mask’ Festival of New Devised Performance May 2-4
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department and the Columbia College Chicago Business and Entrepreneurship Department are partnering for “The Third Mask: A Festival of New Devised Performance,” to be held May 2 through 4 at three different spaces on Columbia College’s South Loop campus. The Third Mask Festival is a platform for new performative works…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Welcomes Carin Silkaitis as Its New Chair
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department is delighted to welcome actor, director, and teacher Carin Silkaitis as its new chair. Silkaitis — whose appointment was announced on April 25 by Rosita Sands, Interim Dean of Columbia College’s School of Fine and Performing Arts — started her new position as the Allen and Lynn Turner Chair of…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alum Featured in Chicago Shakespeare Theatre’s ‘Hamlet’ April 25-June 9
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Callie Johnson ’12, a graduate of the Theatre Department‘s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, makes her Chicago Shakespeare Theatre debut in the company’s eagerly anticipated new production of Hamlet, William Shakespeare’s classic revenge tragedy. Johnson, winner of a Joseph Jefferson Award for her performance in Porchlight Music Theatre’s Pal Joey,…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre, Communication, Music, and Cinema/TV Arts Dept. Alumni and Faculty Nominated for 2019 Joseph Jefferson Awards
Kudos to the alumni, faculty, and current and former students of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, the Columbia College Chicago Communication Department, the Columbia College Chicago Music Department, and the Columbia College Chicago Cinema and Television Arts Department who have been nominated for 2019 Joseph Jefferson Awards, Chicago’s top theatre award. The Non-Equity “Jeff Awards”…
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Columbia College Alumni Bring Broken Nose Theatre’s Dark Comedy ‘Language Rooms’ to the Stage April 22-May 18
Broken Nose Theatre, a non-Equity company whose ensemble and staff include several Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents the Midwest premiere of Yussef El Guindi’s dark comedy Language Rooms. The show opens Monday, April 22, and runs through May 18 at the Den Theatre, located at 1331 N. Milwaukee in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood.…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alums Featured in Babes With Blades’ Non-Traditional ‘Othello’ April 20-May 25
Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are bringing the Babes With Blades Theatre Company‘s non-traditional production of Shakespeare’s Othello to the stage April 20 through May 25. The show runs at the Factory Theater, located at 1623 W. Howard in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood. Columbia College alum Kathrynne Wolf ’96, a graduate of…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Students Meet Tony Award-Winning Director and Former Columbia Theatre Teacher David Cromer
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department was proud to welcome former Theatre Department student and faculty member David Cromer HDR ’17, winner of the 2018 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for The Band’s Visit, back to campus on April 15, 2019. Cromer, now based in New York, was in Chicago to direct…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre and Dance Department Alums Present New Works April 18-19
Synapse Arts, a dance-theatre company co-founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Rachel Damon ’05, presents Synapse Arts–New Works, a program that includes performances by Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago alumni. The program takes place Thursday and Friday, April 18 and 19, at the Hamlin Park Fieldhouse Theater, 3035 N. Hoyne, Chicago.…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Presents Musical ‘Xanadu’ April 18-27
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department concludes its 2018-2019 Mainstage Season with the musical Xanadu, running April 18 through 27 in the Courtyard Theater of the Getz Theater Center of Columbia College, located at 72 E. 11th in Chicago’s South Loop. For tickets, click here. The show has a book by Douglas Carter Beane and…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alums Bring Sci-Fi/Fantasy Adaptations of Greek Myth to Otherworld Theatre Through May 19
Otherworld Theatre Company, an ensemble founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents “The Greeks,” a package of two new plays inspired by Greek mythology. The rotating repertory of Medusa Undone and Corona, two modern retellings of ancient myths seen through a sci-fi/fantasy lens, runs through May 19 at Otherworld Theatre, 3914…