Musical Theatre Archive

Current and former students in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Musical Theatre Program are featured in the musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood, running December 7 through 29 at the Edge Theatre, located at 5451 N. Broadway in...
Congratulations to  Columbia College Chicago alumni T.J. Pieffer ’18 and Brad Kemp ’12, whose science-fiction musical comedy Abduction has been selected for a 2020 production by MTAP–Musical Theatre Artists of Pittsburgh. This will be the first staging of the...
THIS JUST IN: Playbill, the American theatre industry news site, reports on November 27, 2019: “Due to a sudden injury, Abby Mueller has withdrawn from the upcoming engagement of Six at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums Courtney Mack ’15 and Mallory Maedke ’14, both graduates of the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, are headed to Broadway next year with Six, the British rock musical about the...
The Columbia College Chicago Music Department hosts the world premiere of Heat, a new one-act musical by Columbia students Martin Brablec and Corbin Eaton, on Friday, November 22, at the Columbia College Music Center, located at 1014 S. Michigan...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department will host a special program on devised theatre presented by the Dramatists Guild of America, the membership association of playwrights, librettists, composers, and lyricists writing for the stage in the United States. The...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department continues its 2019-2020 Mainstage Season with A Man of No Importance, the 2002 musical by playwright Terrence McNally, composer Stephen Flaherty, and lyricist Lynn Ahrens. The Columbia College Theatre Department’s production of A...
Congratulations to the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums who have been nominated for 2018-2019 ALTA Awards by the Alliance of Latinx Theater Artists of Chicago (ALTA). ALTA is a volunteering service organization dedicated to furthering the Chicago Latinx...
Congratulations to the current and former faculty and students of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department who were honored with 2019 Joseph Jefferson Awards, Chicago’s top theatre award, at the annual Jeff Awards ceremony on October 21. The winners...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department proudly congratulates the Columbia College alumni and current and former students who were honored with 2019 Black Theatre Alliance/Ira Aldridge Awards at the 25th annual Black Theatre Alliance Awards ceremony on October 14....