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‘Magic to Do – Just for You!’: Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department’s Mainstage Season Features ‘Pippin’ at Getz Theatre Center April 25-May 4

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The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s 2023-24 Mainstage Season continues with Pippin, the Tony Award-winning musical by Stephen Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson. The production runs April 25 through May 4 in the Courtyard Theatre of the Getz Theatre Center of Columbia...
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alums Present Annual ‘Juggernaut’ Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film Fest April 19-21

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Otherworld Theatre, a company founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents its 10th annual Juggernaut Film Festival April 19 through 21. This weekend event celebrating science fiction and fantasy films and filmmakers from around the world...
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alum Named Director of Marketing for Shattered Globe Theatre

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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Julia Farrell Diefenbach ’15, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program with a Minor in Stage Combat, has been named director of marketing for Shattered Globe Theatre, one of Chicago’s leading companies....
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Teacher’s Lighting Design for New Off-Broadway Show ‘Dead Outlaw’ Featured on ‘Theater Wow’

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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Heather Gilbert is featured in an article posted April 12 in the Substack blog Theater Wow. The focus of the interview – “A Million Lovely Moments: Dead Outlaw‘s Lighting Designer Heather Gilbert,”...
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alums Featured in August Wilson’s Drama ‘Joe Turner’s Come and Gone’ at Goodman Theatre April 13-May 12

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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are in the cast of August Wilson’s drama Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, running April 13 through May 12 at the Goodman Theatre, located at 170 N. Dearborn in downtown Chicago’s Loop Theatre...
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumni Win Jeff Awards for Performance and Playwriting

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Congratulations to the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni who won Joseph Jefferson Awards, Chicago’s top theatre award, at the 50th anniversary Non-Equity “Jeff Awards” ceremony on March 25, 2024. The awards honor excellence in Chicago’s non-Equity theatre during...
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A Centenary Birthday Salute to Former Columbia College Chicago Theatre Chair Fritzie Sahlins (March 24, 1924-March 9, 1991)

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The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department honors the memory of former chair Fritzie Sahlins on the 100th anniversary of her birth on March 21, 1924. From 1974 through 1976, Fritzie co-chaired (with speech teacher Phyllis Griffin) the Theatre Department of...
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(VIDEO) Former Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Student and Teacher David Cromer’s New Off-Broadway Show ‘Is So Strange It Can Only Be True’

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Former Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department student and faculty member and Columbia College Honorary Degree recipient David Cromer HDR ’17, who won the 2018 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for The Band’s Visit, has re-teamed with...
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department’s Mainstage Season Continues with Toni Morrison’s ‘The Bluest Eye’ at Getz Theatre Center Through March 23

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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...
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department’s Mainstage Season Features Toni Morrison’s ‘The Bluest Eye’ at Getz Theatre Center March 13-23

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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,...
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