Theatre Directing Archive

The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s 2023-24 Mainstage Season continues with The Bluest Eye, Lydia R. Diamond‘s stage adaptation of the groundbreaking novel by Toni Morrison. The production runs through March 23 in Studio 404 of the Getz Theatre Center of Columbia College, located at 72 E. 11th...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s 2023-24 Mainstage Season continues with The Bluest Eye, Lydia Diamond‘s stage adaptation of the groundbreaking novel by Toni Morrison. The production runs March 13 through 23 in Studio 404 of the Getz Theatre Center of Columbia College,...
Otherworld Theatre, a company founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, has extended its hit production of Twihard! A Twilight Musical Parody. The show, co-written and directed by Columbia College alum Tiffany Keane Schaefer ’12, a graduate of...
Blue, a new drama directed by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Michael Matthews ’99, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, will run March 5 through 30 at the Seven Dials Playhouse in London, England, following a successful engagement...
Alumni and faculty of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department and the Columbia College Chicago Music Department are on the design team for the Chicago premiere of In Quietness, extended through March 10 at A Red Orchid Theatre, located...
Jackalope Theatre, a company founded and led by alumni and former students of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, presents the Chicago premiere of The Smuggler, starring Jackalope cofounder Andrew Burden Swanson, a former student in the Columbia College...
Alumni and faculty of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department and Columbia College Chicago Music Department are in the cast and creative team of Invictus Theatre Company’s production of Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog, running February 13 through March...
Otherworld Theatre, a company founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents Twihard! A Twilight Musical Parody, co-written and directed by Columbia College alum Tiffany Keane Schaefer ’12, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program. Schaefer...
Congratulations to the alumni and faculty of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department and Columbia College Chicago Music Department who have been nominated for Joseph Jefferson Awards, Chicago’s top theatre award. The Non-Equity “Jeff Awards” honor excellence in Chicago’s non-Equity...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum and former faculty member Joanie Schultz ’00, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program, is the director and co-author of a new adaptation of Dracula, the classic vampire novel by Bram...