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Albert Williams

Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are featured in the Chicago premiere of Heathers: The Musical, running February 28–April 24 at Theater Wit. Based on the cult-classic 1988 movie satire about murderous high school high jinks, the show,...
Pat Whalen (BA ’10), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Acting, is featured in the world premiere of Rolling, running February 24-April 2 at Broadway Armory Park, 5917 N. Broadway, in Chicago’s Edgewater...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Grant Sabin (BFA ’05) and Paul Deziel (BA ’14) are winning rave reviews for their design work on The Hypocrites‘ production of Tennessee Williams’ classic drama The Glass Menagerie, running through March 6 at the...
Chicago’s Raven Theatre is presenting William Inge’s rarely-revived drama A Loss of Roses, with a cast and production team that includes Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, students, and faculty members. The 1959 play will be directed by Raven’s...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Kaiser Ahmed (BA ’08), a graduate of Columbia College’s theatre directing program, is featured in the Chicago premiere of the Off-Broadway drama The Awake, presented by the First Floor Theater at Collaboraction’s Room...
Michael Matthews
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department is thrilled to announce that alumnus Michael Matthews (BA ’99), artistic director of the Celebration Theatre in Los Angeles, will be honored for career achievement in direction by the Los Angeles Drama Critics...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and faculty members are on the creative/production team for the world premiere of Cocked, by Sarah Gubbins, at Chicago’s Tony Award-winning Victory Gardens Theatre. The show is directed by Joanie Schultz (BA ’00),...
Zachary Gray (BA ’15), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Musical Theatre, will direct Fugitive Songs, presented by BoHo Theatre February 11-March 13 at the Heartland Studio Theatre, located at 7016 N. Glenwood...
The 2016 symposium of the Network of Ensemble Theatres will take place in Chicago May 20-22, 2016. Titled “Intersection: Ensembles + Universities,” the event will be presented in partnership with the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department and the League...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s first mainstage production of the Spring 2016 semester, the musical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, runs February 10-20 in the Getz Theatre, 72 E. 11th St. With a book by...