Theatre Design Archive

Jackalope Theatre Company, a collective founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents its 7th Annual Living Newspaper Festival August 25-29. In homage to the 1930s Living Newspapers of the Federal Theatre Project, Jackalope has assembled...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are featured in the musical Cabaret at Dunes Summer Theatre at 288 Shady Oak Drive in Michigan City, Indiana, running July 14-24. The show is presented by the Dunes Arts Foundation. Kellen Marie (BA...
The Portrait, a new one-person play by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department associate professor Susan Padveen, receives its world premiere July 15-August 14 as part of “Solo Celebration!,” an eight-month series of provocative and powerful one-person plays. Padveen, coordinator...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are in the cast and creative/production team of Anon(ymous), presented by the Cuckoo’s Theatre Project. Written by Naomi Iizuka, and inspired by Homer’s Odyssey, the play concerns a young refugee wandering the U.S....
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Oliver Austin Berger (BA ’14), a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Acting BA program, is featured in the musical comedy Friends: The One Where They Sing! (An Unauthorized Musical Parody). This stage musical...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are in the cast and design team of Writers Theatre‘s new production of Stephen Sondheim’s musical Company. Jess Godwin (BA ’05), a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, plays “April”...
Heather Gilbert
Heather Gilbert, one of Chicago’s top theatrical lighting designers and head of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s lighting design program, is profiled in the May 2016 issue of Live Design, a magazine serving the live entertainment industry with...
American Blues Theatre‘s hit production of the musical Little Shop of Horrors has been extended through July 31 at the Greenhouse Theatre Center, 2257 N. Lincoln, Chicago. The show, directed by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department adjunct faculty member Jonathan...
Haven Theatre Company, a Chicago-based troupe whose executive director and co-founder Carol Cohen studied Theatre Design at the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, is presenting the U.S. premiere of The Distance, by British playwright Deborah Bruce. The show’s cast...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Cody Estle (BA ’11), a graduate of Columbia College’s Theatre Directing program, is directing a new production of Anton Chekhov’s classic drama The Seagull at The Artistic Home, 1376 W. Grand, Chicago. Estle,...