Musical Theatre Archive

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Barbara Robertson and alumnus Harter Clingman (BFA ’11) are in the company of The Tempest at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. In this inventive re-imagining of William Shakespeare’s great comedy, Robertson, who teaches “Professional...
Congratulations to the current and former Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department students honored at the 2015 Joseph Jefferson Awards on Monday, October 5. Former Columbia College Chicago Theatre acting student Anthony Fleming III won the Jeff Award for Actor in...
A new musical by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department teacher Peter Gwinn (Emmy Award-winning writer for The Colbert Report) and Columbia College Musical Theatre Program alumnus Jody Shelton (co-author of the off-Broadway hit 50 Shades! The Musical) will have...
        Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Musical Theatre Dance teacher Linda Fortunato is choreographing Monty Python’s Spamalot, the opening show in the 2015-16 season at the Theatre at the Center, located at 1040 Ridge Rd. in...
Graduates of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Musical Theatre Program are in the company of Side Show, the first show in Porchlight Music Theatre‘s 2015-2016 season. This production is the exclusive first post-Broadway staging of the newly revised version...
Spamalot, the fall season opener at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, features the talents of alumni and faculty from the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Musical Theatre. Musical Theatre Dance teacher Christie Kerr is choreographing this popular...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty, alumni, and students are involved in The Hypocrites‘ keenly anticipated production of American Idiot–the Chicago premiere of the influential rock musical by Green Day, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Michael Mayer. The ensemble includes...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and faculty figure prominently in the nominations for the 2015 Joseph Jefferson (“Jeff”) Awards for Equity theatre in the Chicago area, which were announced August 21. Among them were: Caroline Neff, nominated for...
Otherworld Theatre Company , an ensemble founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, is presenting Paragon, a festival of short sci-fi and fantasy plays, on August 22-23 — Saturday, 11 AM to 7 PM, and Sunday,...
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, faculty, and students are bringing British playwright Jim Cartwright’s The Rise and Fall of Little Voice to the stage of Chicago’s Theater Wit August 14-September 5. Presented by the No Stakes Theater Project,...