Musical Theatre Archive

  Columbia College Chicago alumni are featured in the musical Dreamgirls, presented by Porchlight Music Theatre starting April 8 at Stage 773. Porchlight’s Dreamgirls co-stars Candace Edwards (BA ’08), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Journalism Department‘s Broadcast...
  The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department will host the annual TEDxColumbiaCollegeChicago conference on Saturday, April 9, from 9 AM to 3:30 PM at the Getz Theatre, 72 E. 11th St., in Chicago’s South Loop. The 2016 conference’s theme...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Jason Epperson (BA ’14) and Abigail Trabue (BA ’04) — artists, entrepreneurs, and husband and wife — have launched PerformInk, an online publication devoted to Chicago’s thriving theatre scene. PerformInk will be a...
Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are in the cast and production team of West Side Story at the Paramount Theatre in Aurora, Illinois. Allyson Graves (BFA ’12), a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Musical Theatre Performance...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty members Kathleen Perkins and Ashton Byrum recently published articles in academic journals concerning their ongoing research related to theatre training in the United States. Perkins, co-coordinator of the Theatre Department’s Acting with International...
Alanna Taylor
Columbia College Chicago alum Alanna Taylor (BA ’15), a graduate of the Columbia College Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Musical Theatre, has released her debut music video. Called “Crash,” the song was produced by Johnathan “Skipper” and Jamuel of...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Nathan Cooper (BFA ’13) headlines “Let’s Sing About It: A Cabaret” on Monday, March 7, at Davenport’s Piano Bar and Cabaret, located at 1383 N. Milwaukee in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood. Cooper, a...
Ren Griffith (BFA ’15), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, has two projects coming to fruition the first week of March. She’s the assistant choreographer for Applause, the musical based...
Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are featured in the Chicago premiere of Heathers: The Musical, running February 28–April 24 at Theater Wit. Based on the cult-classic 1988 movie satire about murderous high school high jinks, the show,...
Zachary Gray (BA ’15), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Musical Theatre, will direct Fugitive Songs, presented by BoHo Theatre February 11-March 13 at the Heartland Studio Theatre, located at 7016 N. Glenwood...