Musical Theatre Archive

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department students and alumni are featured in the classic musical Bye Bye Birdie, running July 14-23 at the Wallace Bowl Starlight Theatre in Gillson Park, located in the northern Chicago suburb of Wilmette. David Servillo, an...
The LIVINGroom, an ensemble of solo writer/performers including several alumni and students from the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, presents a “celebration of self” with its midsummer event, The LIVINGroom: Block Party, on Sunday, July 10, at Stage 773,...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Teressa LaGamba (BA ’13) is featured in the musical Tomorrow Morning, presented by Kokandy Productions July 9-August 28 at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont, Chicago. The 2006 show focuses on two couples — a...
Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Musical Theatre Program are featured in Bite: A Pucking Queer Cabaret, presented by Pride Films & Plays July 8-August 14. Nathan Cooper (BFA ’13), a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BFA...
A short play by Kyle Hamlin, a senior in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Writing for Performance/Playwriting, will be showcased in “College Night: Histories,” a program of readings of works by student writers, presented Wednesday,...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department is proud that two theatres headed by Columbia College Theatre alums were ranked tops in the “Best of Chicago 2016” poll published in the June 23, 2016, edition of the Chicago Reader, the...
Otherworld Theatre Company, an ensemble founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, is presenting a new edition of its interactive production Fight Quest, playing Wednesday nights through July 27 at CSz Theatre Chicago, 929 W. Belmont,...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Oliver Austin Berger (BA ’14), a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Acting BA program, is featured in the musical comedy Friends: The One Where They Sing! (An Unauthorized Musical Parody). This stage musical...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Kelsie Huff (BA ’03), Alannah Courtney (BA ’16), and Lea Ciastko (BA ’16) are appearing in the Chicago Women’s Funny Festival at Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont, in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood. Huff will...
Columbia College Chicago alumnus Brad Kemp (BMus ’12), who graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Columbia College Chicago Music Department‘s Bachelor of Music in Composition program and also took courses in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Musical Theatre...