Theatre Archive

Alumni, former students, and faculty of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are featured as performers, writers, directors, and designers in the 31st annual Rhinoceros Theater Festival (Rhinofest 2020), running January 11 through February 23 at Prop Thtr, 3502...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are featured in Ten 2020, a festival of short plays presented January 9 through 18 at the Gift Theatre, located at 4802 N. Milwaukee in Chicago’s Jefferson Park neighborhood. The program consists of...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and former students are in the cast and production team of the Midwest premiere of Thirst, running January 9 through February 15 at Chicago’s Strawdog Theatre. Tamarus Harvell, a former student in the...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department will host the 33rd annual Young Playwrights Festival presented by Pegasus Theatre Chicago, running January 8 through 25 at the Courtyard Theater in the Getz Theater Center of Columbia College Chicago, located at...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and teaching artists Christopher Ellis ’94, Luis Crespo ’01, and Brian Shaw ’86 have launched Growing Voices, a serial podcast that showcases the process of youth theatre from building an ensemble to the...
Jared Grant
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Jared David Michael Grant ’12, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Musical Theatre, is featured in Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre’s production of Working, which runs through January 26, 2020. Based...
Jackalope Theatre, a company founded and led by alumni and former students of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, has announced a change in leadership for its 2020-2021 season. Columbia College alum Kaiser Ahmed ’08, a graduate of the...
Congratulations to the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni whose theatres have received $150,000 grants from the Bayless Family Foundation’s “Stepping Stone” program. According to a report in Block Club Chicago, the foundation, established by celebrity chef Rick Bayless,...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are featured in TSCS: T4lk N3rdy 2 M3, the latest installment in Underscore Theatre Company‘s Tiny Storefront Concert Series, on December 15 and 16 at the Understudy Theatre, located at 4609 N. Clark...
The country musical Always . . . Patsy Cline, which features faculty and former students of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department in its cast and creative team, has been extended due to popular demand at the Den Theatre...