Category: Playwriting
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumni and Students Present Solo Performance Event Feb. 25
Alumni and current students from the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are pooling their talents for The 24 Hour Solo Show, an evening of one-person performances, on Saturday, February 25. The event starts at 9 PM at the Pendulum Theatre, 1803 W. Byron, in Chicago. The venue is located a short walk from the Irving…
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Columbia College Chicago Alumni Work Featured in 2017 Chicago One-Minute Play Fest Feb. 21-22
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums Cassandra Rose ’10, Reeny Hofrichter ’10, and Skye Robinson Hillis ’11 are among the playwrights whose new work will be featured in the 2017 Chicago One-Minute Play Festival: “America Is . . .” The marathon evening of one-minute plays by more than 60 of Chicago’s established and emerging playwrights…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Playwriting Alum Cassandra Rose Presents ‘The Dictionary Project’ Jan. 10-15
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Cassandra Rose ’10, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Playwriting program, unveils The Dictionary Project: Volume IV, a program of short plays written on commission, performed by an ensemble that includes several Columbia College Theatre Department alumni. The Dictionary Project is a self-produced project in which each play is created for…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumni and Students Present Solo Performance Event Dec. 18
Alumni and current students from the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are pooling their talents for The 24 Hour Solo Show, an evening of one-person performances, on Sunday, December 18. The event starts at 8 PM at the Pendulum Theatre, 1803 W. Byron, Suite 216, in Chicago. The venue is located a short walk from…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alumnus’ New Prison Drama ‘Punk’ Performed Dec. 9-17
Punk, a provocative new drama by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Michael Allen Harris ’11, will be presented in a workshop production December 9-17 by The New Colony at the Den Theatre, 1333 N. Milwaukee, in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood. Set in a maximum-security prison in present-day America, Punk is the story of a group of…
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Columbia College Theatre Alumni Celebrate Holidays with ‘Merry Christmas, Mulch Pile!’ Dec. 8-11
The Mercy Street Theatre Company, an ensemble founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, celebrates the winter holidays with Merry Christmas, Mulch Pile!, a comedy by Columbia alum Dakota Parobek ’15, a graduate of Columbia College’s BA program in playwriting. In the world of Mulch Pile, Santa Claus has quit his job, run away,…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alumni and Students Bring a ‘Faustus’ to the Annoyance Theatre Oct. 28-30
Just in time for Halloween, an ensemble of Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and students present An Apology for the Course and Outcome of Certain Events Delivered by Doctor John Faustus on This His Final Evening. The show runs Friday-Sunday, October 28-30, at 8 PM each night at the Annoyance Theatre, 851 W. Belmont, Chicago. in the basement-level…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Faculty, Alumni, and Students Team Up for ‘Banned Book Week’ Performance Sept. 26
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department associate chairperson Paul Amandes, coordinator of the Theatre Department’s Playwriting/Writing for Performance BA Program, will co-host and perform in Banned Together: A Censorship Cabaret on Monday, September 26, at 8 PM at Davenport’s Piano Bar, 1383 N. Milwaukee, in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood. The event — part of Banned Book Week (September…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumni and Students Present Solo Performance Event July 10
The LIVINGroom, an ensemble of solo writer/performers including several alumni and students from the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, presents a “celebration of self” with its midsummer event, The LIVINGroom: Block Party, on Sunday, July 10, at Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont, Chicago. The evening starts at 7 PM with a block party, at which…
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Columbia College Chicago Playwriting Student’s Work Performed at Victory Gardens ‘College Night’ July 6
A short play by Kyle Hamlin, a senior in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Writing for Performance/Playwriting, will be showcased in “College Night: Histories,” a program of readings of works by student writers, presented Wednesday, July 6, at Victory Gardens Theatre, 2433 N. Lincoln, in Chicago. The free event follows that…