Theatre Technology Archive

  Congratulations to the alumni and faculty of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department and the Columbia College Chicago Music Department who have been nominated for 2024 Joseph Jefferson Awards, Chicago’s top theatre award. The Equity “Jeff Awards” honor excellence...
Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are on the design team for the world premiere of the new musical The Last Wide Open, running July 5 through August 18 at American Blues Theatre, 5627 N. Lincoln, Chicago....
Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are in the cast and creative/production team of The Prodigal Daughter, a world premiere drama about a Black family in Chicago during the “Red Summer” of 1919. The show runs through...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member and Tony Award-winning sound designer Mikhail Fiksel, a teacher in the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Theatre Design and Technology, is the recipient of the 2024 Michael Merritt Award for Excellence in...
Manifest: Breakthrough, the 2024 edition of Columbia College Chicago‘s annual student-powered Manifest Arts Festival, takes place Friday, May 10, to celebrate student achievements at the end of the 2023-24 school year, and the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department is proudly...
Alumni and faculty of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department and the Columbia College Chicago Music Department are on the design team for the world premiere of Turret, starring Oscar and Tony nominee Michael Shannon. Produced by A Red Orchid Theatre, the...
Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are in the cast and creative team of The S Paradox, a world premiere presented by the Babes with Blades Theatre Company. The show runs April 7 through May 18 at the...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Elya Faye Bottiger ’17, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, is featured in Sondheim Tribute Revue, running March 8 through April 28 at Theo Ubique Theatre, located at 721 Howard...
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...