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(VIDEO) Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Praised for ‘Fantastic’ Performance in Chicago Premiere of Pulitzer Prize-Winning Drama ‘Sweat’

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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Tyla Abercrumbie ’98 stars in the Goodman Theatre’s Chicago premiere of Lynn Nottage’s play Sweat, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The production, which runs through April 14, was hailed as...
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Preston Allen: ‘Musicals Can Tackle Real Things and They Don’t Need To Be Huge, They Just Need To Be Honest’

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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Preston Max Allen ’13, whose new musical We Are the Tigers is currently running Off-Broadway at Theatre 80 St. Marks in New York City’s East Village, is profiled in an interview posted March 14...
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Anna D. Shapiro to Direct Elton John’s New Broadway Musical ‘The Devil Wears Prada’

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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Anna D. Shapiro ’90, HDR ’15, winner of the 2008 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for the Broadway hit August: Osage County, returns to Broadway soon as director of Elton...
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department’s 2018-19 Mainstage Season Features ‘Home/Land’ March 13-23

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The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department continues its 2018-2019 Mainstage Season with Home/Land, running March 13 through 23 in Studio 404 of the Getz Theater Center of Columbia College,  located at 72 E. 11th in Chicago’s South Loop. For...
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(VIDEO) Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Anna D. Shapiro Leads Steppenwolf Theatre in Its ‘Monumental Moment’

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The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department proudly congratulates Columbia College alum Anna D. Shapiro ’90, HDR ’15, artistic director of Chicago’s internationally acclaimed Steppenwolf Theatre, on the theatre’s bold new building plans. On Tuesday, March 5, 2019, Shapiro announced...
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alums Bring Pulse Theatre’s ‘In the Blood’ to the Stage March 8-31

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Pulse Theatre Company Chicago, a troupe founded by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, is presenting In the Blood, by Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks. The show is directed by Columbia College alum Aaron Reese Boseman ‘12, a graduate...
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Chester Gregory Named Co-Chair of 2019 National Black Theatre Festival

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The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department proudly congratulates alumnus Chester Gregory ’95, HDR ’15, on his appointment as co-chair of the 2019 National Black Theatre Festival. Gregory is a 1995 graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Musical...
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Preston Allen Recounts His Journey as a Musical Theatre Writer and a Proud Trans Man in Playbill Interview

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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Preston Max Allen ’13, whose new musical We Are the Tigers is currently running Off-Broadway at Theatre 80 St. Marks in New York City’s East Village, is profiled in an interview posted March 3...
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumni Celebrate at Los Angeles’ Celebration Theatre

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Columbia College Chicago’s Development and Alumni Relations office organized a Columbia Theatre Alumni Social for Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and former students at the renowned Celebration Theatre in Los Angeles on Wednesday, February 20, 2019. The alums...
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