Musical Theatre Archive

Pulse Theatre Chicago, a company founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents a new production of Edward Albee’s landmark 1962 drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? August 4-20 at City Lit Theatre, located in the Edgewater Presbyterian Church at...
A group of Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department and Columbia College Chicago Music Department alumni have partnered to form the Bittersweet Arts Company, described as “a collective of multi-talented artists whose unique ambitions and spirits are brought together through...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are featured in The Food Show, a new devised, site-specific performance piece created by the Neo-Futurists, one of Chicago’s leading experimental theatres, in partnership with Metropolitan Brewing. The show runs July 27-September 2 at Metropolitan Brewing’s new location...
Short plays by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are featured in the Chicago Theatre Marathon, a weekend-long developmental showcase of new work celebrating the diversity of the Chicago-area theatre community. Columbia College alum Cassandra Rose ’10, a graduate of the Theatre...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus David Stobbe ’16 is featured in Leapfest XIV, a festival of politically-minded new plays presented by Stage Left Theatre in association with Chicago Dramatists. Stobbe, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program...
Teressa LaGamba
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Teressa LaGamba ’13 is featured in the Chicago premiere of Michael John LaChiusa’s 2003 musical Little Fish, running July 9-August 20 at Theatre Wit in Chicago’s Belmont Theatre District. Described as “an oblique...
As reported previously in this blog, Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Lauren Vogel ’16, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Musical Theatre, appeared in the cabaret show Gilbert & Sullivan Unplugged: A Modern Twist on the Major Hits June 21 at the...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna and faculty member Stephanie Shaw ’92 is directing a staged reading of the 1977 Italian horror film Suspiria as part of “It Came from the Neo-Futurarium XII: Dawn Of The Neo-Futurarium!,” the Neo-Futurist theatre...
Three Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department students and two alumni have been accepted into the prestigious School at Jacob’s Pillow Musical Theatre Dance Program for a Summer 2017 intensive. The current students are Andrew Casey, Evelyn Finne, and Isaiah...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Ron Geronimo ’00, a graduate of the BA Program in Musical Theatre, is the featured DJ at Chicago’s massive 2017 Pride Celebration Saturday, June 24, at Navy Pier, 600 E. Grand, on Chicago’s...