Musical Theatre Archive

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums Jayme Woj ’10 and Sarah Alysse ’10, both graduates of the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, have formed a music group called maybesoon and are releasing their debut single, “Maybe...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are in the cast of Last Call: A Night of Closing, a world premiere comedy running June 9 through July 22 at the Factory Theatre, located at 1623 W. Howard in Chicago’s Rogers...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are in the cast and production team of the rock musical Passing Strange, running June 9 through July 30 at Theo Ubique Theatre, which is located at 721 Howard in the Chicago suburb...
A new play by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Alex Fortune ’17 — a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Musical Theatre with a Minor in Playwriting — will be presented in the Impostors Theatre Company‘s...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum De’Jah Perkins ’18, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Musical Theatre, is featured in The Real Housewives of Motown, a new musical running through July 9 at the Black Ensemble...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are in the cast and production team of Music Theatre Works’ production of Stephen Schwartz’s musical Pippin, running June 1 through 25 at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie,...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Maddie Sachs ’16, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, is featured in the Grippo Stage Company’s world premiere of Shaw vs. Tunney, a new play written by...
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...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Khanisha Foster ’02, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, has directed a new, gender-expansive production of William Finn and James Lapine’s musical A New Brain, running through June 24...
Columbia College Chicago alum Jay Españo MFA ’16 – a graduate of the college’s MFA program in film directing and recipient of a Graduate Certificate in Laban Movement Analysis from Columbia College’s Dance Movement Therapy program — directs the world...