Musical Theatre Archive

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department student and alumni talent is featured the musical Big Fish, presented by BoHo Theatre at the Greenhouse Theatre Center. The show has previews October 3 and 4, opens October 5, and runs through November...
Otherworld Theatre Company, an ensemble founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents Countess Dracula, a new adaptation of the classic horror tale. A dramatized retelling of the mother of all vampire stories, Countess Dracula is...
Davon Suttles, a student in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Musical Theatre Program, is producing his first original production: Melanized, a multimedia tap dance show about the strength it takes to live as a person of color, as...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums Brenna Watkins ’19 and Katy Campbell ’19, both graduates of the Theatre Department’s Musical Theatre Program, are featured in Hell in a Handbag Productions‘ world premiere The Facts of Life — Satan’s School...
The Point Theatre Project, a new company founded by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums, debuts with an all-woman adaptation of John Knowles’ classic novel A Separate Peace. The production runs September 29 through October 14 at City Lit...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Cody Estle ’11, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program, directs the opening production of the 2019-2020 season at Chicago’s award-winning Raven Theatre, located at 6157 N. Clark in Chicago’s Edgewater/Andersonville...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Taylor Danae ’19, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, presents a cabaret performance titled Women and Women First: A Feminist Fable on Sunday, September 22, at 7...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and faculty talent is featured in the classic Cole Porter musical comedy Anything Goes, running September 19 through November 2 at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights. The...
Anna D. Shapiro
This blog has previously reported that Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Anna D. Shapiro ’90, HDR ’15, is directing the Broadway-bound new musical The Devil Wears Prada by composer Elton John, lyricist Shaina Taub, and playwright Paul Rudnick....
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty and alumni are in the cast and creative team of The Color Purple, running September 13 through November 3 at Drury Lane Theatre in the Chicago suburb of Oakbrook Terrace. Columbia College alums...