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Albert Williams

Joel Reitsma (BFA ’08), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s acting program, is featured in Eclipse Theatre‘s production of The Lisbon Traviata, running through December 13 at the Athenaeum Theatre. Reitsma plays a gay doctor whose...
The Mercy Street Theatre Company, an ensemble founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, kicks off its second season with The Mercy Street Affair, an evening of new plays, live jazz, pastries, and craft cocktails inspired...
Several Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department teachers and current or former students are pooling their talents for “Broadway in Oak Park,” a benefit concert to raise money for Open Door Repertory Company in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park....
Ryan Bourque (BFA ’09), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s acting program, is in the cast of A Red Orchid Theatre‘s keenly anticipated world premiere of Pilgrim’s Progress, by Bret Neveu. Bourque will share the stage...
Jackalope Theatre, a company founded and led by alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, launches its eighth season with The Raid, a new drama about abolitionist John Brown’s plans to free and arm black slaves across the...
Otherworld Theatre, a company founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, celebrates Halloween with Gone Dark, a new gothic thriller. Directed by Tiffany Keane (BA ’12), a graduate of the Theatre Department’s theatre directing program, this...
Broadway performer Darius de Haas, a Chicago native and Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus, returns to his hometown to headline Lush Life: The Music of Billy Strayhorn, an evening of music and dance honoring the centenary of legendary...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department kicks off its 2015-2016 mainstage season with the musical The Drowsy Chaperone, running October 28-November 7 at the Theatre Department’s Getz Theatre, 72 E. 11th St. in Chicago’s South Loop. The Drowsy Chaperone,...
October 27, 2015, marks the 30th anniversary of the official dedication of the Emma and Oscar Getz Theatre, the proscenium main stage of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Center at 72 E. 11th St. in Chicago’s South Loop. On...
  Rose Freeman (BA ’07), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s theatre directing program, is directing the midwest premiere of Arab-American composer Mohammed Fairouz‘s opera Sumeida’s Song, running October 23-November 8 at Prop Thtr, 3502-04 N....