Monthly Archive:: August 2019

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 of Invitation to a Beheading, a devised work of puppet and mask theatre based on...
Ariel Triunfo, a senior in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Musical Theatre Program, is in the cast of Monty Python’s Spamalot, running August 30 through November 3 at the Mercury Theatre, 3733 N. Southport, Chicago. Lovingly ripped off...
Sheldon Patinkin (August 27, 1935-September 21, 2014)
August 27, 2019, would have been the 84th birthday of Sheldon Patinkin–longtime chair of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, noted director and teacher, and cherished friend and mentor to many in the Chicago theatre community. Born August 27,...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Danielle Jackman ’15, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Musical Theatre with a Minor in Dance from the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, is featured in an article on...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Chester Gregory ’95, HDR ’15 stars in Higher and Higher, a Feel-Good Rock ‘n Soul Shindig on Sunday, August 25, at Marriott Theatre, located at 10 Marriott Drive in the Chicago suburb of...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are bringing new plays to life in Bechdel Fest 7: Momentum, Broken Nose Theatre‘s seventh annual feminist festival of new short plays featuring an ensemble of female-identifying and non-binary actors talking about things...
Congratulations to Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Aalon Smith ’19, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, and to current Musical Theatre Performance BFA student Bre Jacobs. They are celebrated as two of...
Otherworld Theatre Company, an ensemble founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents A Taste of Man Flesh: A Parody About a Fellowship August 15 through 24. The show runs at Otherworld Theatre’s space at 3914...
The 2017 Broadway hit The Band’s Visit, winner of the 2018 Tony Award for Best Musical, comes to Chicago September 3 through 15 in a national tour directed by former Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department student and faculty member...
Columbia College Chicago will host the 25th Annual Black Theatre Alliance/Ira Aldridge Awards on Monday, October 14, 2019. The awards ceremony takes place at the college’s Conaway Center, located at 1104 S. Wabash in Chicago’s South Loop. The event...