Musical Theatre Archive

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Spencer Meeks ’15, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Musical Theatre, appears in That’s Weird, Grandma: Stories on Sunday Afternoons, presented by the Barrel of Monkeys arts education theatre ensemble...
Underscore Theatre Company, a Chicago troupe devoted to presenting new musical theatre works, presents the world premiere of Carrie 2: The Rage (An Unauthorized Musical Parody) October 13-November 19 at The Arkham, located at 4609 N. Clark in Chicago’s Uptown...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni A.C. Smith ’86 and Chester Gregory ’95, HDR ’15, are featured in the Kansas City Repertory Theatre‘s production of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Fences, running October 13-November 5. Set in 1950s Pittsburgh...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Alex Newkirk ’11, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, is featured in Carrie 2: The Rage (An Unauthorized Musical Parody), running October 13-November 19 at The Arkham,...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty and alumni are helping the Savoyaires musical theatre troupe bring Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic operetta The Pirates of Penzance to the stage October 6-15. Amy Uhl, a coordinator of the Theatre Department’s Musical...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Ryan Jendrycki ’14, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, and Emma Jo Schumacher ’11, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Musical Theatre, are featured in 26...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, students, and faculty are in the cast and production team of Choir Boy, running September 27-November 12 at Chicago’s award-winning Raven Theatre. The drama, by Oscar-winning writer Tarell Alvin McCraney, concerns a gay...
Tyler Symonè, a junior in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s preprofessional BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, is featured in Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre‘s production of A New Brain, William Finn and James Lapine’s musical about a composer...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Courtney Mack ’15 and Michael Kurowski ’16, both graduates of the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, are in the company of the rock musical Million Dollar Quartet, running September 13-October...
Columbia College Chicago will host the 2017 Black Theater Alliance/Ira Aldridge Awards on Monday, October 23, at the college’s Conaway Center, 1104 S. Wabash, in Chicago’s South Loop. The evening will begin with a reception at 7 PM followed...