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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...
Current and former students in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Musical Theatre Program are featured in the musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood, running December 7 through 29 at the Edge Theatre, located at 5451 N. Broadway in...
Congratulations to  Columbia College Chicago alumni T.J. Pieffer ’18 and Brad Kemp ’12, whose science-fiction musical comedy Abduction has been selected for a 2020 production by MTAP–Musical Theatre Artists of Pittsburgh. This will be the first staging of the...
THIS JUST IN: Playbill, the American theatre industry news site, reports on November 27, 2019: “Due to a sudden injury, Abby Mueller has withdrawn from the upcoming engagement of Six at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums Courtney Mack ’15 and Mallory Maedke ’14, both graduates of the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, are headed to Broadway next year with Six, the British rock musical about the...
The Columbia College Chicago Music Department hosts the world premiere of Heat, a new one-act musical by Columbia students Martin Brablec and Corbin Eaton, on Friday, November 22, at the Columbia College Music Center, located at 1014 S. Michigan...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department will host a special program on devised theatre presented by the Dramatists Guild of America, the membership association of playwrights, librettists, composers, and lyricists writing for the stage in the United States. The...