Jeff Award-winning musical theatre performer Callie Johnson, a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BFA program in Musical Theatre Performance, will be a guest artist at Tap Out with Bailiwick, a benefit for the adventurous Bailiwick Chicago...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Laura Korn is producing artistic director of The LIVINGroom, a solo performance project that showcases work by other Columbia alumni and students. “The LIVINGroom is a theatrical assembly of individual, autobiographical performances that...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty and alumni are bringing two new plays to Chicago stages this month. Susan Padveen, coordinator of the Theatre Department’s BFA program in Theatre Directing, is staging the world premiere of Anna in the...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Michael Allen Harris and Eric Burgher are participating in this year’s edition of “arciTEXT,” a festival of short new works for the theatre presented by The Arc Theatre. This year’s festival explores the...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Aaron Henrickson (BA, Theatre/Directing, 2009) is directing the professional world premiere of Badfic Love, opening April 6 at the Den Theatre, 1333 N. Milwaukee, Chicago. Presented by Strange Bedfellows Theatre, this comedy by...
The Hypocrites theatre company’s reimagined production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta The Mikado received a rave review from the Boston Globe in its engagement at American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. The show, which features musical direction by Columbia...
Columbia College Chicago alumnus Ryan Patrick Dolan‘s new play, Moraine, is running through April 19 at CIC Theater, 1422 E. Irving Park, Chicago. The play concerns a young man trying to keep his best friend alive, his ex from leaving...
The Columbia Chronicle, Columbia College Chicago’s award-winning student newspaper, highlighted three Columbia College Theatre Department alumni in its March 30, 2015, edition. In “Columbia Alums Shine in Goodman Theatre Play,” contributing writer Sadie Miller interviewed Columbia grads A.C. Smith and Chester...