Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are in the cast and creative team of the hit musical A Taste of Soul, which has been extended through October 29 at the Black Ensemble Theatre, located at 4450 N. Clark in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. For tickets and more information, click here.

The show’s cast includes Columbia College alum Caitlin Dobbins ’20, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Musical Theatre BA program.

The show’s production team includes Columbia College alum D.J. Douglass ’12, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Musical Theatre, who is the show’s sound designer and projection co-designer. And former Columbia College Chicago Music Department student Robert Reddrick is the show’s music director.

A Taste of Soul is a musical tribute to a genre of music that has influenced popular culture worldwide. With songs from some of Soul’s greatest hit makers like Tina Turner, Patti LaBelle, Barry White, Lou Rawls, Al Green, Bobby Caldwell, Gladys Knight, Peaches & Herb, and Ashford & Simpson, it is a musical feast full of fun and laughter – with a little history for good measure.

The production is written and directed by Daryl Brooks, producing managing director of Chicago’s Black Ensemble Theatre, who – as previously reported in this blog – directed the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s 2023 mainstage season production of Sunday in the Park with George.