Theatre Design Archive

Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are on the production team of the world premiere of Dead Children, a new play by Robert Tenges, Assistant Provost for Continuing & Community Education at Columbia College. The production’s set designer,...
  Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are in the cast and production team of The Bardy Bunch: The War of the Families Partridge and Brady, an Off-Broadway hit musical receiving its Chicago premiere September 15–November 27 at the Mercury...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and faculty are in the cast and production team of You on the Moors Now, a new production from The Hypocrites, one of Chicago’s most innovative theatre companies. The show, a Chicago premiere, is...
  Otherworld Theatre Company, an ensemble founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, is bringing a world premiere adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic sci-fi novel A Princess of Mars to the stage September 9-23. The...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty and alumni have been nominated for 2016 Joseph Jefferson Awards, Chicago’s top theatre award. The list of nominees, announced August 30, includes Jesse Klug ’05, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Design...
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...