Singer-pianist Alex Newkirk, a 2011 graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, is performing in WOZ: A Rock Cabaret on Friday, May 22 and June 5, at Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont,...
Columbia College Chicago celebrates the end of the 2014-2015 school year on Friday, May 15, with Manifest, its annual urban arts festival of student work. Manifest, free and open to the general public, is a South Loop showcase of...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department associate professor Amy Uhl is joining the Broadway company of the new musical Amazing Grace, which opens July 17 at the Nederlander Theatre in New York. Uhl is a coordinator of Columbia College’s Musical...
Alex Newkirk, a graduate of Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, is musical director for the FWD Theatre Project’s new show Swift as Desire on Monday, May 11, at 7:30 PM at City Winery,...
Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Bachelor of Arts in Acting major are featured in several new productions opening on local stages in the coming month. Alumna BrittneyLove Smith plays the lead role in Xtigone, a contemporary...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and faculty members are involved in the musical Big Fish at Theatre at the Center in Munster, Indiana. Big Fish–based on the 2003 Tim Burton film of the same title and on the...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty, alumni, and students figured heavily in the nominations for the 2015 Non-Equity Joseph Jefferson (“Jeff”) Awards honoring excellence in Chicago theatres not operating under an Actors’ Equity union contract. Columbia teachers and graduates...
Tony Award-winning theatre director and Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member Anna D. Shapiro, a 1990 graduate of Columbia College Chicago, will speak at Columbia’s graduation ceremony for Theatre majors on Saturday, May 16, at 1:30 PM. Also speaking during the...
The Hypocrites theatre company’s reimagined production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta The Mikado received a rave review from the Boston Globe in its engagement at American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. The show, which features musical direction by Columbia...
The Columbia Chronicle, Columbia College Chicago’s award-winning student newspaper, highlighted three Columbia College Theatre Department alumni in its March 30, 2015, edition. In “Columbia Alums Shine in Goodman Theatre Play,” contributing writer Sadie Miller interviewed Columbia grads A.C. Smith and Chester...