Musical Theatre Archive

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are in the cast and production team of Porchlight Music Theatre‘s New Faces Sing Broadway 1971, playing Monday and Wednesday, Aug. 1 and 3, at 7:30 PM both nights. The cast of this...
Hail Mary, a new comedy by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Ann Delaney ’14, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, will be performed in an online reading Monday, July 18, as part...
  Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Natalie Renee Savoy ’18, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, plays Deloris Van Cartier in the musical comedy Sister Act, running July 14 through August 27...
Congratulations to the cast and creative team of Kokandy Productions’ Chicago storefront premiere of Cruel Intentions: The ’90 Musical, including several alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department. Due to popular demand, the show has been extended through...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Anna D. Shapiro ’90, HDR ’15, directs the world premiere of the Broadway-bound new musical The Devil Wears Prada by composer Elton John, lyricist Shaina Taub, and playwright Paul Rudnick. The show, based...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are in the cast and production team of The Playboy of the Western World, the classic Irish comedy by J.M. Synge, presented by City Lit Theatre July 1 through August 14. The show’s...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Ann Delaney ’14, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, is featured in the world premiere of It Came From Outer Space, a new musical comedy adapted from...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are in the cast and production team of the Chicago premiere of Marie Antoinette and the Magical Negroes, running June 30 through July 17 at Raven Theatre, located at 6157 N. Clark in...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department remembers composer, author, and teacher William Russo on the anniversary of his birth. Russo, who founded what is now the Columbia College Chicago Music Department in 1965, was born in Chicago on June...