Acting Archive

Columbia College Chicago will host the 2018 Black Theater Alliance/Ira Aldridge Awards on Monday, October 15. The awards ceremony takes place at the college’s Hokin Lecture Hall, located at 623 S. Wabash in Chicago’s South Loop. The event begins...
Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are in the cast and creative/production team of Les Innocents/The Innocents, a Halloween season thriller set in the mysterious catacombs of 19th-century Paris. This world premiere opens October 11 and runs...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are in the cast and production team of Crumbs From the Table of Joy, running October 4 through November 18 at Raven Theatre in Chicago’s Edgewater Theatre District. The drama by Pulitzer Prize-winning...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Aidy Bryant ’09, a regular cast member on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, added a new character to her repertoire of roles on the comedy show September 29. In an opening sketch lampooning the...
  Otherworld Theatre Company, an ensemble founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents the Midwest premiere of All I Want Is One More Meanwhile . . . , a superhero comedy by Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons....
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and faculty are in the cast and creative team for the North American premiere of the London hit Nell Gwynn, running September 20 through November 4 at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. The music- and...
Alumni and former faculty of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are in the cast and creative team for Metropolis Performing Arts Centre‘s new production of the landmark musical A Chorus Line, running September 20 through November 3. The...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Alexander Stuart ’17,, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, stars in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the prestigious Actors Theatre of Louisville in Kentucky...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Dior J. Stephens ’15, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, has a new collection of poetry coming out September 15. Titled 001, the volume “captures and conveys the mind...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Hannah Starr ’14, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, is celebrated as one of this year’s “Hot New Faces of Chicago Theatre” by Chicago Tribune theatre critic Chris Jones....