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Albert Williams

The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department continues its 2016-2017 mainstage season with the hit musical Little Shop of Horrors, running March 8-18 in the Sheldon Patinkin Theatre of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Center, located at 72 E. 11th...
The Inside Out Theatre & Company, an ensemble of students at the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, present their debut production, We’re All Born Naked Cabaret, on Tuesday-Wednesday, March 7 and 8, at the Columbia College Chicago Music Department‘s Sherwood...
Kokandy Productions‘ new staging of the hit musical The Wiz — running March 5-April 16 at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont, Chicago — boasts the talents of Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and student performers. The ensemble includes...
Joanie Schultz (Photo: Joe Mazza)
As previously reported in this blog, Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Joanie Schultz ’00, graduate of the Theatre Department’s theatre directing program, took over the position of Artistic Director of the WaterTower Theatre in Addison, Texas, just north of...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department students Elya Faye Bottiger and Tyler Symonè are featured in Porchlight Music Theatre’s staged concert rendition of the classic musical Little Me, running February 28-March 2 at Stage 773, located at 1225 W. Belmont,...
Firebrand Theatre, a new Chicago-based musical theatre company “committed to employing and empowering women,” will launch on Monday, February 27, with a benefit concert, Nothin’ Like a Dame: A Celebration of Women in Musical Theatre, at the Mercury Theatre,...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Alicia Watley ’16, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, and student Jelani Smith, a senior in the Acting BA program, are featured in By the Apricot Trees, running February 24-April...
Alumni and current students from the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are pooling their talents for The 24 Hour Solo Show, an evening of one-person performances, on Saturday, February 25. The event starts at 9 PM at the Pendulum...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums Cassandra Rose ’10, Reeny Hofrichter ’10, and Skye Robinson Hillis ’11 are among the playwrights whose new work will be featured in the 2017 Chicago One-Minute Play Festival: “America Is . . .”...