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Albert Williams

A.C. Smith
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus A.C. Smith ’86, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Theatre, is featured in a new production of August Wilson’s drama Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, running February 6 through March 17...
Jermaine Hill, a faculty member in the Musical Theatre Program at the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, is the musical director of The Total Bent, a musical by Stew and Heidi Rodewald — creators of the 2008 Broadway musical...
Alumni and students of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are participating in the fifth annual Chicago Musical Theatre Festival, presented by Underscore Theatre Company at the Edge Theatre in Chicago’s Edgewater Theatre District. The 2019 festival runs through...
We Are the Tigers, a new musical by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Preston Max Allen ’13, begins its Off-Broadway run February 7 at Theatre 80 St. Marks, located at 80 St. Marks Place in New York’s East...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department continues its 2018-2019 Mainstage Season with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard’s absurdist take on Shakespeare’s Hamlet as seen through the eyes of two of the classic tragedy’s minor characters. Described as...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Aaron Lockman ’17, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, presents The Gallery of Obsessive Crushes – A Solo Show for two performances only — Tuesday, February 5, and Thursday,...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department is proud to announce that Columbia College alumnus Michael Matthews ’99, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, and former Columbia College Theatre Department student Michael A. Shepperd are co-hosting...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and faculty talent is on display in Porchlight Music Theatre’s production of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, running January 25 through March 10 at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts,...
Chicago playwright, poet, educator, actor, and activist Kristiana Rae Colón is the first recipient of a new residency established by Columbia College Chicago for playwrights whose work demonstrates a commitment to communities of color: the Madeleine Moore Burrell Playwriting...
A new play by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Cassandra Rose ’10, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Playwriting program, will open the first Tutterow Fellows Play Festival on Saturday, January 19, at 10 AM at Chicago Dramatists,...