Musical Theatre Archive

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...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s first mainstage production of the Spring 2016 semester, the musical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, runs February 10-20 in the Getz Theatre, 72 E. 11th St. With a book by...
Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Musical Theatre Performance BFA Program will be featured in LaunchingFWD : Season 2, an industry concert on Monday, February 8, presented by the FWD Theatre Project, a company dedicated to the...
Otherworld Theatre Company, an ensemble founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, is presenting a new sci-fi adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing called Messina 3004 opening February 5. The show will be performed as...
Actor-musician Spencer Meeks (BA ’15), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Musical Theatre, is the musical director for Pop Waits, the new prime-time production by Chicago’s acclaimed Neo-Futurists theatre company. Created and performed...