Alumni and faculty of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are in the cast and creative team of the jazzy musical revue Blues in the Night, presented by Porchlight Music Theatre February 9 through March 13 at the Ruth...
Relentless, the new play by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Tyla Abercrumbie ’98, has received rave reviews for its world premiere production from Chicago’s TimeLine Theatre. As previously reported in this blog, rhe show, which opened January 27, is scheduled...
Students at the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are featured in an upcoming episode of The College Tour, a TV series streaming on Amazon Prime that provides an inside look into college campuses around the world, making it accessible...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Nicole Wiesner ’00, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, directs her own adaptation of Polish absurdist playwright Sławomir Mrożek’s The Martyrdom of Peter Ohey, running February 3 through March 12 at the...
Alumni and faculty members from the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are in a new production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical Evita, opening February 3 and running through March 20 at Drury Lane Theatre in the Chicago...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Kerry Reid ’87, the theatre and dance editor of the Chicago Reader newspaper, reported on the Chicago theatre community’s increasing focus on pay inequity and other employment issues in her article “Getting Real...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are in the cast and creative team for the first midwestern regional staging of Groundhog Day: The Musical, the stage version of the Bill Murray film comedy, running January 26 through March 13 at...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Joseph Sikora ’98, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, stars in the new Starz TV series Power Book IV: Force, a spinoff of his previous hit Starz series Power. Sikora plays drug dealer Tommy...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum A.C. Smith ’86, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Theatre, is featured in August Wilson’s drama Gem of the Ocean, running January 22 through February 27 at the Goodman Theatre, located at...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Elizabeth Swanson has been named artistic director of Chicago’s award-winning BoHo Theatre. Swanson succeeds Stephen Schellhardt, who announced his intentions of leaving in September 2021 after six years with the company. Swanson is...