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Albert Williams

The talents of Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are featured in New Faces Sing Broadway 1969, a musical theatre revue presented March 14 and 15 by Chicago’s Porchlight Music Theatre. David Stobbe ’16, a graduate of the 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, received a rave review in the Chicago Reader, Chicago’s leading...
Students from the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are featured in 24WORDS: The Equal Rights Rock Musical, running in March at two different locations in Chicago in celebration of Women’s History Month. The show is an original rock musical that...
Nothing Without a Company, a Chicago nonprofit theatre company co-founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents The Kid Thing, a comedy about a lesbian couple preparing to have a baby, March 13-April 15 at the...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Robyn Coffin ’02, a regular cast member of the TV series Chicago Fire, is featured in the world premiere of Sycamore, a drama by Brooklyn-based playwright Sarah Sander, running March 8-April 29 at...
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...