Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Tyler Anthony Smith ’17, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, stars in the premiere of his one-person show The Kindness of Mangers, running December 15 through 18 at the Den Theatre, located at 1331 N. Milwaukee in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood. Presented by Sweetback Productions, the campy comedy focuses on Stella Kowalski, sister of A Streetcar Named Desire‘s Blanche DuBois, as she finds herself pregnant in Bethlehem, surrounded by allergy-inducing hay, talking livestock, and a rude innkeeper named Cathy Moriarty. The show is directed by Columbia College alum and faculty member Stephanie Shaw ’92 (Theatre), MFA ’09 (Creative Writing). For tickets, click here.