Musical Theatre Archive

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....
Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are collaborating to bring the Chicago premiere of the bold drama The Effect to the stage of Strawdog Theatre Company. The show runs October 13 through November 23 at 1802 W....
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty, alumni, and student talent is featured in the Third Eye Theatre Ensemble‘s production of Darkling, a one-act opera that tells the story of the descendants of the Holocaust. The multimedia production is directed...
Alumni and faculty of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are on the creative team of the Savoyaires‘ production of The Yeomen of the Guard, the 1888 operetta by librettist William S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan. Columbia College...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Kevin Wiczer ’05, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, has directed his first theatrical production as a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers union:The Addams Family, the musical...