Theatre Directing Archive

A short play by Kyle Hamlin, a senior in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Writing for Performance/Playwriting, will be showcased in “College Night: Histories,” a program of readings of works by student writers, presented Wednesday,...
  Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Pat Whalen (BA ’10), a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, headlines a “Special Budgetary Edition” of his monthly show Good Evening with Pat Whalen on Friday, July 1, at 11 PM at...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department is proud that two theatres headed by Columbia College Theatre alums were ranked tops in the “Best of Chicago 2016” poll published in the June 23, 2016, edition of the Chicago Reader, the...
Otherworld Theatre Company, an ensemble founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, is presenting a new edition of its interactive production Fight Quest, playing Wednesday nights through July 27 at CSz Theatre Chicago, 929 W. Belmont,...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Julia Farrell Diefenbach (BA ’15), a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program with a Minor in Stage Combat, is directing a long-delayed North American premiere — The Dark Ages: Otho the...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Pat Whalen (BA ’10), a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, headlines a “Special Deja Vu Edition” of his monthly show Good Evening with Pat Whalen on Friday, June 3, at 10:30 PM at...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Joanie Schultz (BA ’00), a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program, is staging the U.S. premiere of Irish playwright Deirdre Kinahan’s drama Spinning, running May 25-July 3 at the Den Theatre....
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Cody Estle (BA ’11), a graduate of Columbia College’s Theatre Directing program, is directing a new production of Anton Chekhov’s classic drama The Seagull at The Artistic Home, 1376 W. Grand, Chicago. Estle,...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, located at 72 E. 11th Street in Chicago’s South Loop, will host a day of free performances on Friday, May 13, as part of Columbia College Chicago‘s 16th annual Manifest Urban Arts Festival....
Arianna Soloway
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Arianna Soloway (BFA ’13), a graduate of Columbia College Chicago’s BFA Program in Theatre Directing, recently contributed an essay to the theatre website HowlRound in which she discussed a common concern of young...