Theatre Directing Archive

Pulse Theatre Chicago, a company founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents a new production of Edward Albee’s landmark 1962 drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? August 4-20 at City Lit Theatre, located in the Edgewater Presbyterian Church at...
Faculty, students, and alumni from the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are traveling to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland — the world’s largest annual arts festival — with the comedy Our Christian Nation, a satirical look at what the...
Otherworld Theatre Company, founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Tiffany Keane Schaefer, presents Moon! Prism! Power!: A Sailor Moon Musical Parody Epishow #3!, the third installment of its five-part series “Moon, Prism, Power! A Sailor...
Performance companies led by alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department and the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago are participating in “An Evening with the Edgewater Theatre District” on Thursday, August 3, at 7 PM. This benefit...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus J. Cody Spellman ’13, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program, is directing the sketch comedy revue The Miseducation of 55th Street, running July 8-August 5 at The Revival, an improv...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member James Sherman‘s 1985 comedy/drama The God of Isaac is receiving a new production by Grippo Stage Company July 8-August 27 at the Piven Theatre in the northern Chicago suburb of Evanston. Sherman,...
Nothing Without a Company, an experimental theatre ensemble founded by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Anna Rose Ii-Epstein ’07, presents 4PLAYs, a one-night showcase of new one-acts by local writers. The four one-acts are all set in bars. In keeping...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department is proud to congratulate Steppenwolf Theatre Company and its artistic director — Columbia College Chicago alum Anna D. Shapiro ’90, HDR ’15 — for being named “Best Established Theatre Company” in the Chicago...
Congratulations to the Columbia College Chicago alumni and students in the new production of the classic rock musical Hair, running through July 1 at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in the northern Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights. The show got...
Congratulations to the Columbia College Chicago alumni and students in the new production of the classic rock musical Hair at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in the northern Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights. The show got a rave review from...