Category: Devised Performance
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Columbia College Chicago Getz Theatre Center’s 2025-26 Mainstage Season Presents ‘We Make Monsters’ March 11-21
The Columbia College Chicago School of Theatre and Dance‘s 2025-26 Mainstage Season continues with We Make Monsters, an immersive theatrical experience that unearths the creatures lurking in our stories, our homes, and ourselves—blurring the line between the familiar and the terrifying. The show runs March 11 through 21 in Studio 404 of the historic…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alums Bring ‘Adult Clown Show’ to Labyrinth Club May 30-June 15
The Silent Theatre Company, an ensemble founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre alumni, presents The Missing Box Top, described as “an adult clown show that juggles conspiracies and woo-woo.” This new devised theatre piece runs May 30 through June 15 at the Labyrinth Club, 3658 N. Pulaski, Chicago. For tickets, click here. Tickets…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum’s New Play ‘Alex in Windyland’ Runs May 17-23 at Filament Theatre
Alex in Windyland, a new devised theatre piece created by Columbia College Chicago Theatre alum Abby Thompson ’19, a graduate of the Theatre Program’s BA Program in Acting with a Minor in Voiceover, runs May 17 through 23, in honor of Foster Care Awareness Month, at the Filament Theatre, located at 4041 N. Milwaukee, Chicago.…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alums Bring ‘The F*ggots and Their Fr*ends Between R*volutions’ to Bramble Arts Loft July 25-Aug. 4
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are in the company of the devised theatre piece The F*ggots and Their Fr*ends Between R*volutions, a new theatrical adaptation of the 1977 book The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions by writer Larry Mitchell and illustrator Ned Asta. Described as “an imaginative adventure filled with laughter, dancing, puppets,…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Performances and Displays Highlight Manifest Arts Festival May 12
The 2023 edition of Columbia College Chicago‘s student-powered Manifest Arts Festival takes place Friday, May 12, to celebrate student achievements at the end of the 2022-23 school year, and the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department is proudly participating, with performances in the areas of Playwriting, Musical Theatre, Stage Combat, Solo Performance, Devised Performance, and Comedy…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Mourns Teacher Paola Coletto
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department mourns the passing of Paola Coletto, a former Theatre Department teacher and Academy Director of the PadovArts Academy conservatory for the performing arts in Padua, Italy. The academy is an outgrowth of The School for Theatre Creators, which Coletto founded in Chicago in 2012, prior to moving back to…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Seeks Chair and Faculty for 2023 Academic Year
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in Acting, Acting and Contemporary Performance Making, Comedy Writing and Performance, Devised Performance, Diversity Equity Inclusion, Dramaturgy, Improv, Intimacy Direction, Musical Theatre, Playwriting, Stage Combat, Stage Management, Theatre, Theatre Design, Theatre Directing, Theatre Studies, Theatre Technology, Uncategorized, Writing for PerformanceThe Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, located in the historic Getz Theatre Center of Columbia College in Chicago’s South Loop, is inviting applications for the position of Chair of the Theatre Department. Qualified and interested candidates are urged to reply by December 9, 2022, for best consideration. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alums and Students Bring About Face Youth Theatre’s ‘Gayme Changer’ to the Stage June 18-24
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums and students are in the cast and creative team of About Face Youth Theatre‘s new ensemble-devised comedy Gayme Changers, running June 18 through 24 at the Den Theatre, located at 1331 N. Milwaukee in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood. Kirsten Baity ’21, who graduated Summa cum Laude with a BA…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alum Named Co-Artistic Director of Double Edge Theatre in Massachusetts
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department proudly congratulates alumnus Travis Coe ’15, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, on his appointment as co-Artistic Director of Double Edge Theatre, a multigenerational, experimental ensemble located in Ashfield, Massachusetts. As previously reported in this blog, Coe was appointed Associate Artistic Director of the company…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department’s ‘American Origami/#HereToo-CCC’ Ends Sold-Out Run with Free Livestream Performance Oct. 23
“American Origami/#HereToo-CCC” (Photo: Jenni Carroll) “American Origami/#HereToo-CCC” (Photo: Jenni Carroll) The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s production of American Origami/#HereToo-CCC, the opening show of the department’s 2021-2022 Mainstage Season, concludes its run this weekend with two performances — Friday, October 22, at 7:30 PM, and Saturday, October 23, at 2 PM. Both shows are SOLD…