Stage Combat Archive

  Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty members and alums are heading to Scotland in August to participate in the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Branded as “the world’s greatest platform for creative freedom,” the fringe festival runs August 4...
The Columbia College Chicago Office of Development and Alumni Relations has posted the video of a panel of Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and former faculty discussing “Intimacy for Stage and Screen.” The panel, which took place via Zoom...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Lukas Brasherfons ’14, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Acting with a Minor in Stage Combat, is the director of the Shakespearean Youth Theatre‘s new production of William Shakespeare’s The...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty members and alums  are collaborating on a new comedy, Macbeth by the Sea, which is headed for the prestigious Edinburgh Festival Fringe for a two-week run August 4 through 19. Before they bring...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums and faculty members are in the cast and production team of the family musical Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, running July 14 through August 20 at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, located on Navy Pier...
Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s nationally recognized Stage Combat Program are taking center stage in two productions that celebrate the art of theatrical combat the weekend of June 24 and 25, 2023. The Babes With Blades...
A panel of Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and former faculty – including Tony Award-winning Broadway director David Cromer – will participate in a free Zoom discussion of the work of staging and performing intimate scenes in theatre...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums Jayme Woj ’10 and Sarah Alysse ’10, both graduates of the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, have formed a music group called maybesoon and are releasing their debut single, “Maybe...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department mourns the passing of Columbia College alum David Yondorf ’08, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting and a longtime teacher in the Theatre Department’s Stage Combat Minor. Yondorf passed away May...
The 2023 edition of Columbia College Chicago‘s student-powered Manifest Arts Festival takes place Friday, May 12, to celebrate student achievements at the end of the 2022-23 school year, and the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department is proudly participating, with...