Theatre Archive

August 27 would have been the 82nd birthday of Sheldon Patinkin–longtime chair of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, noted director and teacher, and cherished friend and mentor to many in the Chicago theatre community. Sheldon passed away on September...
Alumni and faculty of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department and the Columbia College Chicago Music Department have been nominated for 2017 Joseph Jefferson Awards, Chicago’s top theatre award. The list of this year’s “Jeff Award” nominees, announced August...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumus Rob Colletti ’11 will star in the national tour of the Broadway hit School of Rock, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical about a wannabe rock star who poses as a prep school teacher. The tour begins September...
Faculty members and alums of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are working with Route 66 Theatre Company on the Chicago premiere of the dark comedy A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at...
LoudMouth Theater, a new company created by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums and students, makes its debut August 24-26 with Mouthing Off, an evening of theatre and music by local artists. LoudMouth Theater is led by its co-founders:...
Pulse Theatre Chicago, a company founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, has received national attention for its critically praised new production of Edward Albee’s landmark 1962 drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, running through August 20 at City...
Walkabout Theater Company, whose artistic director, Thom Pasculli, is a Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member, celebrates summer with A Persephone Pageant, an outdoor spectacle performance weaving together mythic tales of nature gods and true stories of environmental justice....
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Alison Dornheggen ’01, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, and Columbia College Theatre Department faculty member Scott Olson are featured in the midwest premiere of The Veil, an Irish...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Christopher McClellan ’17, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, is featured in Sister Africa, a world premiere drama about efforts to aid female and child victims of the Congo’s ongoing...
The LIVINGroom, an ensemble of solo writer/performers including alumni and students from the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, will present three nights of new solo performance on Sunday, August 13, 20, and 27, at Stage 773, located at 1225...