Musical Theatre Archive

Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are in the cast of a new all-black production of the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, running through May 28 at the Paramount Theatre in the Chicago suburb of Aurora. Alumni Travis...
Alumni, faculty, and former students of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are in the cast and creative/production team for Not About Nightingales, the rarely-seen early drama by Tennessee Williams that Chicago’s award-winning Raven Theatre is presenting through June...
Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are featured in two world premiere Chicago theatre productions opening this week. Marvin Quijada ’05, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, is featured in the world premiere...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Erin Renee Baumrucker ’06, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Musical Theatre, is featured in the musical comedy Ruthless!, running through April 30 at the Steel Beam Theatre in the...
  No Stakes Theater Project, a company founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents the classic musical Cabaret April 20-May 6 at the Berger Park Coach House, 6205 N. Sheridan, in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood. The...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Adrian Danzig is directing the world premiere of The? Unicorn? Hour?, a devised theatre piece presented by Chicago’s cutting-edge Neo-Futurists theatre company. The production also involves the talents of three Columbia College...
Otherworld Theatre Company, an ensemble founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, is reprising its 2016 hit A Princess of Mars , adapted from Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic sci-fi novel. The play — directed and co-authored by Otherworld’s...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department student Tristin Hall is featured in Interrobang Theatre Project‘s Chicago premiere of the drama Falling, running March 16-April 16 at the Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport, Chicago. The play concerns a woman’s attempt to raise...
The talents of Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are featured in New Faces Sing Broadway 1969, a musical theatre revue presented March 14 and 15 by Chicago’s Porchlight Music Theatre. David Stobbe ’16, a graduate of the Theatre...
Students from the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are featured in 24WORDS: The Equal Rights Rock Musical, running in March at two different locations in Chicago in celebration of Women’s History Month. The show is an original rock musical that...