A crew of Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department teachers, alumni, and students are on board for Nobody’s Wench: Six Tales of Pirate Women on the Rolling Seas, presented by Fury Theatre and Badass Broads September 17-October 4 at Chase...
Raven Theatre‘s Midwest premiere of Direct From Death Row The Scottsboro Boys (An Evening of Vaudeville and Sorrow) employs the talents of current and former Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department students. The production employs vaudeville-style music and dance to...
Michael Matthews (BA ’99), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Acting, is directing the world premiere of Lisa Loomer’s new drama Homefree, inspired by a real-life homeless philosopher whom Loomer encountered...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Behzad Dabu (BFA ’08) is featured in the Goodman Theatre‘s keenly anticipated fall opener — the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Disgraced. The show begins previews September 12 and opens September 20, running through October...
Graduates of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Musical Theatre Program are in the company of Side Show, the first show in Porchlight Music Theatre‘s 2015-2016 season. This production is the exclusive first post-Broadway staging of the newly revised version...
Jesse Klug (BFA ’05), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Theatre Design Program, is designing the lights for two major Chicago-area stage openings in September. Funnyman, a world premiere, stars George Wendt as a vaudeville comic...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus A.C. Smith (BA ’86) is featured in August Wilson’s drama Gem of the Ocean, being presented in a major revival at Court Theatre in Chicago. The play–the first installment of “The Pittsburgh Cycle,”...
Spamalot, the fall season opener at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, features the talents of alumni and faculty from the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Musical Theatre. Musical Theatre Dance teacher Christie Kerr is choreographing this popular...
Hella Theatre Company, an interdisciplinary ensemble of Columbia College Chicago artists with the common goal of creating relevant and meaningful theatre in uniquely collaborative ways, launches the 2015-16 school year at the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department with Shelter,...