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Albert Williams

Alumni and former faculty members of Columbia College Chicago are in the cast and creative team for the Manhattan Theatre Club and Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s Broadway co-production of Bug, the creepy-crawly psychological thriller by Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning...
Three Columbia College Chicago Theatre alums were singled out by the Chicago Tribune for its “Best of 2025” salute to the “Top 10 Performances on Chicago Stages This Year.” In the article, published December 26, 2025, Tribune theatre critic...
The Columbia College Chicago School of Theatre and Dance‘s 2025-26 Mainstage Season continues with the rollicking rock ‘n’ roll musical Grease, running November 13 through 22 in the Courtyard Theatre of the Getz Theatre Center of Columbia College, located...
The Columbia College Chicago School of Theatre and Dance was proud to help celebrate Columbia College Chicago Honorary Doctorate of Arts recipient Jim Jacobs HDR ’14 on the occasion of his induction into the Illinois Rock & Roll Hall...
The Columbia College Chicago School of Theatre and Dance‘s 2025-26 Mainstage Season kicks off with Iphigenia and Other Daughters, running October 22 through November 1 in Studio 404 of the Getz Theatre Center of Columbia College, located at 72 E....
Columbia College Chicago Theatre alum Precious Brady-Davis ’13 has been named to Out magazine’s 2025 Out100 list, honoring her as one of “the LGBTQ+ people making the world bolder and brighter in 2025.” As previously reported in this blog, Brady-Davis, who...
Congratulations to the Columbia College Chicago Theatre and Dance alums and faculty members who are nominated for the Black Arts & Culture Alliance of Chicago‘s 2025 Black Excellence Awards honoring and celebrating Chicago theatre, dance, music, film, literary, and...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre alum Keith Surney ’13, a graduate of the Theatre Program’s BA Program in Acting, is making his debut as a stage director with an acclaimed revival of Amiri Baraka‘s controversial 1964 drama Dutchman. The production, in which...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre alums are in the cast and creative team of Babes with Blades Theatre Company‘s new show The Mark, running October 15 through November 22 at the Edge Theater, located at 5451 N. Broadway in Chicago’s...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre alums are in the cast of the musical Jekyll & Hyde, running October 9 through Dec. 21 at the Chopin Theatre, located at 1543 W. Division in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood. The show – based...