Musical Theatre Archive

Courtney Mack
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Courtney Mack (BFA ’15), a graduate of Columbia’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, received the 2016 Joseph Jefferson Award for Non-Equity Theatre for Actress in a Principal Role in a Musical for...
Several Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are in the cast and production team for The Green Bird, presented by The Cuckoo’s Theatre Project June 3-19. The cast includes Kegan Witzki (BA ’14), a graduate of the Theatre Department’s...
Elya Faye Bottiger, a senior in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Musical Theatre Performance BFA program, is featured in the classic musical Gypsy, running June 2-12 at Timber Lake Playhouse in Mt. Carroll, Illinois. Bottiger will play Tessie...
Katie Hanley (left) and Jim Jacobs.
Actor-writer Jim Jacobs — co-author of the hit musical Grease and benefactor of the Jim Jacobs Musical Theatre Scholarship at Columbia College Chicago — and Broadway and film actress Katie Hanley will headline a special event at Chicago’s American...
Metropolis Performing Arts Centre‘s new production of the rock opera Rent, whose cast and creative team boasts alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Musical Theatre and Acting programs, received a rave review from the Northwest Herald newspaper,...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Kevin Wiczer (BA ’05), a graduate of Columbia College’s BA Program in Acting, is directing the Tony Award-winning musical Urinetown for Theatre Nebula, a company located in Chicago’s northwest suburbs. The cast includes...
Firebrand Theatre, a new company co-founded by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Harmony France, presents P!nk: Sung by Her!, a tribute to celebrated music artist P!nk featuring some of Chicago’s best female talent. The concert takes place Memorial...
Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s musical theatre program are featured in the world premiere of Johanna Faustus, presented by The Hypocrites theatre company. Adapted from Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Johanna Faustus runs...
Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Musical Theatre and Acting programs are featured in Rent, running May 19-July 3 at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre , located at 111 W. Campbell in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights....
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, located at 72 E. 11th Street in Chicago’s South Loop, will host a day of free performances on Friday, May 13, as part of Columbia College Chicago‘s 16th annual Manifest Urban Arts Festival....