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Albert Williams

  The No Stakes Theater Project, a company founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents a staged reading of Carson Kreitzer’s drama Self Defense, or Death of Some Salesmen on Monday, September 26, at 7 PM at...
Pulse Theatre Company Chicago, a company founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents George C. Wolfe’s satire of African-American stereotypes, The Colored Museum, September 23-October 23 at ETA Creative Arts Foundation, 7558 S. South Chicago, on...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Kaiser Ahmed ’08 and Arianna Soloway ’13 — both graduates of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing Program — have been selected to participate in Victory Gardens Theatre‘s 2016-17 Season Directors Inclusion Initiative, which...
Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are on the production team of the world premiere of Dead Children, a new play by Robert Tenges, Assistant Provost for Continuing & Community Education at Columbia College. The production’s set designer,...
Longtime Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Barbara Robertson is featured in Life Sucks, the highly acclaimed new production at Chicago’s Tony Award-winning Lookingglass Theatre. Written by Aaron Posner, the play is an update of Anton Chekhov’s classic...
Graduates of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Musical Theatre Program are featured in the musical Young Frankenstein, running September 22-November 6 at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights.   In this stage adaptation...
  Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are in the cast and production team of The Bardy Bunch: The War of the Families Partridge and Brady, an Off-Broadway hit musical receiving its Chicago premiere September 15–November 27 at the Mercury...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus and Broadway musical theatre performer Chester Gregory ’95, HDR ’15, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Musical Theatre, will appear at the City of Chicago’s third annual Fifth Star Awards on...
Anna D. Shapiro
Columbia College Chicago alum Anna D. Shapiro ’90, artistic director of Chicago’s internationally acclaimed Steppenwolf Theatre Company, will direct the opening production of the troupe’s 41st season — the world premiere of Visiting Edna, by Tony Award-winning playwright David Rabe. Shapiro, who...