Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Michael Matthews ’99, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, is directing the world premiere of Blue, a new drama running April 7 through May 14. Presented by the Rogue Machine Theatre at The Matrix, located at 7657 Melrose in Los Angeles, the play is performed on The Matrix’s new Henry Murray Stage. For tickets, click here.

Michael Matthews

As previously reported in this blog, Matthews was honored for career achievement in direction by the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle at the organization’s 2016 awards ceremony.

Blue concerns a Los Angeles police detective investigating the shooting of a Black motorist by a police officer during a traffic stop. The officer under investigation is the former partner of the investigator’s husband, also a cop.