Monthly Archive:: May 2019

Behzad Dabu
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Behzad Dabu ’08 — a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Acting Program and a regular cast member on ABC TV’s How to Get Away with Murder — stars in La Jolla Playhouse‘s world-premiere...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Barbara Robertson stars in Firebrand Theatre‘s Chicago premiere of Queen of the Mist, Michael John LaChiusa’s musical about Anna (Annie) Edson Taylor, the first woman to go over Niagara Falls. For tickets,...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department congratulates Chicago’s cutting-edge Trap Door Theatre, whose managing director is Columbia College alum Nicole Wiesner ’00, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting. As reported May 22 by BroadwayWorld.com, Trap...
Nothing Without a Company, an experimental theatre ensemble founded by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Anna Rose Ii-Epstein ’07, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Acting program, is seeking submissions for its second annual New World Play Festival, a...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Caroline Neff ’07, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, is featured in next season’s Broadway production of Linda Vista, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts. Neff and Letts are...
Jonathan Elkins, a student in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Comedy Writing and Performance, is in the Off-Broadway production Antigone in Ferguson, running through July 13 at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church at...
Alumni and student talent from the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department is on display in Storefront Theatre Musical, the new show from Chicago’s Corn Productions. This parody of Disney’s High School Musical concerns a small Chicago storefront theatre threatened...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are featured in the classic musical comedy A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, running May 16 through June 29 at Metropolis Performing Arts. The 1962 show by Larry Gelbart,...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department proudly congratulates Natalie Day, Izzy French, Aryn Henderson, and Nikki Konomos — all 2019 graduates of the Theatre Department’s Stage Management program. The four are hitting the ground running, professionally speaking, having secured...