David Cromer

Congratulations to former Columbia College Chicago 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 and 2017 recipient of a 2017 Honorary Doctorate of Arts from Columbia College. The Playbill show-business news site reports that his staging of the Off-Broadway world premiere of A Case for the Existence of God, presented by the Signature Theatre, has been extended twice and now runs through May 29 at the Pershing Square Signature Center, located at 480 W. 42nd St. in New York City’s midtown Manhattan theatre district.

As previously reported in this blog, the drama, set in a small office in southern Idaho, concerns two men struggling to meet the confounding terms on a loan. For tickets, click here.