Theatre Design Archive

The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s blog “The Green Room” has chronicled the professional activities of our talented and accomplished alumni, faculty, and students over the past year. We covered news as it poured in not only from Chicago but...
  Congratulations to the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, faculty, and former students who have been nominated for BroadwayWorld.com‘s 2017 BroadwayWorld Chicago Awards, which honor Chicago-area theatre productions that opened between October 1, 2016, and September 30, 2017....
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Jesse Klug ’05, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Design Program, won a 2017 Joseph Jefferson Award — Chicago’s top theatrical prize — for his lighting design for the musical Sweeney Todd...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Cody Estle ’11, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program, has been named artistic director of Chicago’s venerable, award-winning Raven Theatre. The appointment, effective immediately, was announced Monday, November 6, 2017,...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Callie Johnson ’12, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, plays the tragic heroine Desdemona in a new production of William Shakespeare’s Othello: The Moor of Venice, running...
Congratulations to Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Pablo Ponce ’13, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Design BA program, for his 2017 Black Excellence Award from the African American Arts Alliance of Chicago. Ponce won the award for...
The Portrait, a one-person play by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department associate professor Susan Padveen, will be performed Saturday, October 21, at the Judith Racht Gallery in Harbert, Michigan. Produced by The Neapolitans theatre company, The Portrait stars Matt...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are on the creative/production team for the world premiere of 1980 (Or Why I’m Voting for John Anderson), running October 17-December 20. Presented by Jackalope Theatre, an ensemble founded and led by Columbia...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty and alumni are helping the Savoyaires musical theatre troupe bring Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic operetta The Pirates of Penzance to the stage October 6-15. Amy Uhl, a coordinator of the Theatre Department’s Musical...
Faculty members and alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are on the design and production team of the Chicago-area premiere of The Legend of Georgia McBride, running Sept. 14-Oct. 22 at Northlight Theatre in the Chicago suburb...