Musical Theatre Archive

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...
Congratulations to the Columbia College Chicago alumni and students in the new production of the classic rock musical Hair, running through July 1 at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in the northern Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights. The show got...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Lauren Vogel ’16, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Musical Theatre, will appear in the cabaret show Gilbert & Sullivan Unplugged: A Modern Twist on the Major Hits on Wednesday, June 21,...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Ashton Byrum, a coordinator of the Theatre Department’s Musical Theatre Performance BFA Program, is directing the musical Beauty and the Beast as the opening production of the 60th anniversary season at the...