Month: July 2019
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumni and Students Bring ‘Freaky Friday’ to Raue Arts Center Aug. 2-Sept. 1
Alumni and current students from the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Musical Theatre Program are featured in the Chicago-area premiere of the musical Freaky Friday, presented August 2 through September 1 by Williams Street Repertory at the Raue Center for the Arts, located at 26 N. Williams in Crystal Lake, Illinois. The show’s cast includes…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alums Present ‘Wild Party Variety Hour’ at Steppenwolf Aug. 3
The Silent Theatre Company, an ensemble founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents The Wild Party Variety Hour: The Strange Case of Dr. Marvin and Mr. Shhhhh! on Saturday, August 3, at Steppenwolf Theatre’s 1700 Theatre, located at 1700 N. Halsted in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. The show is hosted by…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Featured in Chicago Premiere of Broadway’s ‘Come From Away’ at Cadillac Palace Theatre July 30-Aug. 18
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Harter Clingman ’11, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, is featured in the national touring company of the Broadway hit Come From Away, Irene Sankoff and David Hein’s musical based on the true story of what transpired when 38 airplanes were ordered to…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alum’s New Musical ‘Notes & Letters’ To Be Performed July 29-Aug. 2
Notes & Letters, a new musical by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Annabelle Revak ’19, will be presented in a workshop production by Underscore Theatre Company July 29 through August 2 at the Understudy, located at 4609 N. Clark in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. The audience is encouraged to stay after the performance to answer…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Faculty Bring ‘Invitation to a Beheading’ to Steppenwolf July 25-28
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Michael Brown, co-director of the Theatre Department’s MA/MFA Program in European Devised Performance Practice, is the co-creator and principal producer of Invitation to a Beheading, a devised work of puppet and mask theatre based on Vladimir Nabokov’s novel. Presented by Brown in association with Rough House Theatre, Invitation…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alumni and Student Talent Featured in Rock Musical ‘Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story’ July 25-Aug. 24 at Metropolis
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and student talent is featured in the rock musical Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, running July 25 through August 24 at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in the Chicago suburbs of Arlington Heights. For tickets, click here. The cast includes Columbia College alum Josh Pablo Szabo ’19, a graduate of…
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Columbia College Chicago Alums’ New Sci-Fi Musical ‘Abduction’ Presented at New York Musical Festival July 19-21
Abduction, an original science-fiction musical comedy created by Columbia College Chicago alumni T.J. Pieffer ’18 and Brad Kemp ’12, is being presented in the 2019 New York Musical Festival July 19 through 21 at the prestigious Off-Broadway theatre Playwrights Horizons, 416 W. 42nd, in New York’s midtown Manhattan Theatre District. Performances are Friday, July 19,…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alums Featured in U.S. Premiere of British Rock Musical ‘Six’; Show Moves to American Repertory Theatre Aug. 21 Following Chicago Run
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums Courtney Mack ’15 and Mallory Maedke ’14, both graduates of the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, will head to Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the American Repertory Theatre‘s upcoming production of Six, the British rock musical about the six wives of medieval England’s King Henry VIII. Mack —…
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(VIDEO) Columbia College Chicago Named No. 1 School for Comedy Students
Columbia College Chicago has been named No. 1 in College Magazine‘s list of “Top 10 Colleges for Aspiring Comedians,” published July 11, 2019. With its nationally recognized BA Program in Comedy Writing and Performance at the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, Columbia topped a list of schools that also includes New York University, Harvard, Northwestern,…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alum Brings Youth Theatre Festival to Chicago July 11-14
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Luis Crespo ’01, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Theatre, is director of Youth Programming for Chicago’s Collaboraction Theatre Company, which presents The Light: A Chicago Youth Theatre Festival July 11 through 14 at the Pentagon Theatre for Social Justice at Collaboraction Studios, located in the…