Musical Theatre Archive

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...
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...