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‘Dreamgirls’ Features Columbia College Chicago Alumni April 8-May 15 at Stage 773

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  Columbia College Chicago alumni are featured in the musical Dreamgirls, presented by Porchlight Music Theatre starting April 8 at Stage 773. Porchlight’s Dreamgirls co-stars Candace Edwards (BA ’08), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Journalism Department‘s Broadcast...
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(VIDEO) Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Hosts TEDx 2016 Conference April 9; Sold-Out Event Will Be Livestreamed

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  The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department will host the annual TEDxColumbiaCollegeChicago conference on Saturday, April 9, from 9 AM to 3:30 PM at the Getz Theatre, 72 E. 11th St., in Chicago’s South Loop. The 2016 conference’s theme...
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre and Music Department Alumni Unveil New Musical Comedy April 7-21

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  Writer-director Cassie Ahiers (BA ’13), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s theatre directing program, will unveil a new musical she has co-authored, The Mountain Digby, on Thursday, April 7, at MCL Chicago Comedy Theater, 3110...
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Columbia College Chicago Alum Anna D. Shapiro Directs New Tracy Letts Play Running March 31-May 29 at Steppenwolf

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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Anna D. Shapiro (BA ’90), artistic director of Chicago’s acclaimed Steppenwolf Theatre Company, is directing the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts’ new drama, Mary Page Marlowe. Shapiro’s previous collaborations with...
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(VIDEO) Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumni Reopen Factory Theatre With New Show March 25

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The Factory Theatre, which has devoted itself to presenting original work in Chicago for 22 years, has moved into a new permanent home on Chicago’s northern border. The company, whose ensemble includes several Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni,...
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Columbia College Chicago Alumni Launch ‘Performink’ Theatre News Website

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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Jason Epperson (BA ’14) and Abigail Trabue (BA ’04) — artists, entrepreneurs, and husband and wife — have launched PerformInk, an online publication devoted to Chicago’s thriving theatre scene. PerformInk will be a...
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department’s Exchange Program with British Drama School Continues

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The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department continues its faculty and student exchange program with England’s Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance with a production of Lion in the Streets, by Canadian playwright Judith Thompson, running March 17-19 at...
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre and Dance Alumni Talent Featured in ‘West Side Story’ at Paramount

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Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are in the cast and production team of West Side Story at the Paramount Theatre in Aurora, Illinois. Allyson Graves (BFA ’12), a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Musical Theatre Performance...
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Faculty Publish Articles on Acting and Musical Theatre Training

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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty members Kathleen Perkins and Ashton Byrum recently published articles in academic journals concerning their ongoing research related to theatre training in the United States. Perkins, co-coordinator of the Theatre Department’s Acting with International...
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