Theatre Archive

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni bring Porchlight Music Theatre‘s New Faces Sing 1959 to the Skokie Theatre on Monday, February 26, and then to the Arts Club of Chicago on Tuesday, February 27. The show — a revue...
As reported previously in this blog, the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Center, located at 72 E. 11th St. in Chicago’s South Loop, has undergone extensive renovations since last summer. The large first-floor Getz Theatre auditorium has been reconfigured into...
A play by Niv Elbaz, a senior student in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Playwriting, will be performed on Wednesday, February 21, at Chicago’s Tony Award-winning Victory Gardens Theatre. Elbaz’s play, Lightning, will be performed...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Khanisha Foster ’02, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, is performing her new solo show Joy Rebel at the Penumbra Theatre in St. Paul, Minnesota, through February 18. The...
Jackalope Theatre, a company founded and led by alumni and former students of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, is featured in the Fall/Winter 2017 edition of Demo, the alumni magazine of Columbia College Chicago. The article, “The Birth of...
The 2017 film LBJ, costarring Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Michael Stahl-David ’05, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, has just been released on Blu-ray and iTunes. Stahl-David costars as American political icon Robert...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Vanessa Stalling is directing The Wolves, running February 9-March 11 at the Goodman Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn, in downtown Chicago. This comedy concerns a suburban high school girls’ soccer team whose nine...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, students, and faculty members are in the cast and creative/production team of Bertolt Brecht’s 1938 play Fear and Misery in the Third Reich, presented by Haven Theatre Company February 8-March 11 at the...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Cassandra Rose ’10, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Playwriting program, unveils The Dictionary Project Volume V: The Final Volume, a program of short plays written on commission, February 8-11. This is the fifth...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are in the cast and creative team for a new revival of Eugene O’Neill’s classic drama A Moon for the Misbegotten, running February 7-March 18 at Writers Theatre in the northern Chicago suburb of Glencoe....