Musical Theatre Archive

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and faculty are in the cast and production/design team for The Christmas Schooner, running November 24-December 31 at the Mercury Theatre Chicago. This annual holiday favorite retells the true story of the first...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are in the cast and production team for the world premiere of Scrooge and the Ghostly Spirits, a new musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic novel A Christmas Carol. The show runs November...
  Congratulations to the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, faculty, and former students who have been nominated for BroadwayWorld.com‘s 2017 BroadwayWorld Chicago Awards, which honor Chicago-area theatre productions that opened between October 1, 2016, and September 30, 2017....
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Amy Uhl — a coordinator of the Theatre Department’s Musical Theatre Program, which offers both a BA in Musical Theatre and a BFA in Musical Theatre Performance — is currently associate director...
    The LIVINGroom, an ensemble of solo writer/performers including alumni and students from the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, presents a program of new one-person performances — The LIVINGroom: Dada Solo — on Sunday, November 12 and 19,...
Alumni and faculty members of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are helping bring the Chicago premiere of the musical drama Lizzie to the stage of the Den Theatre November 11-December 17. The show is the inaugural production of...
Otherworld Theatre Company, an ensemble founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents its third annual Paragon science-fiction/fantasy play festival November 11 and 12 at the Public House Theater, 3914 N. Clark, in Chicago. Otherworld Theatre...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Rob Colletti ’11, a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, is “totally terrific” as the star of the national tour of the Broadway hit School of Rock, according to...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Jesse Klug ’05, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Design Program, won a 2017 Joseph Jefferson Award — Chicago’s top theatrical prize — for his lighting design for the musical Sweeney Todd...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Cody Estle ’11, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program, has been named artistic director of Chicago’s venerable, award-winning Raven Theatre. The appointment, effective immediately, was announced Monday, November 6, 2017,...