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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are featured in the classic musical comedy A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, running May 16 through June 29 at Metropolis Performing Arts. The 1962 show by Larry Gelbart,...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department proudly congratulates Natalie Day, Izzy French, Aryn Henderson, and Nikki Konomos — all 2019 graduates of the Theatre Department’s Stage Management program. The four are hitting the ground running, professionally speaking, having secured...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department will host the 26th annual Merritt Awards for Excellence in Design and Collaboration on Monday, May 13. The event will take place at the Getz Theater Center of Columbia College Chicago, located at...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department will present a day of free performances and exhibits on Friday, May 10, as part of Columbia College Chicago‘s 19th annual Manifest Urban Arts Festival. The Getz Theater Center of Columbia College Chicago,...
Former Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department student and faculty member David Cromer HDR ’17, winner of the 2018 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for The Band’s Visit, directs the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal at...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Katie Ruppert ’17, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Comedy Writing and Performance, has been named managing director of Otherworld Theatre Company, a Chicago theatre dedicated to science-fiction and fantasy...
Kudos to Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Claire Chrzan ’11, a graduate of Columbia’s Theatre Design program. As previously reported in this blog, she is nominated for two 2019 Non-Equity Joseph Jefferson Awards, for her lighting designs for...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department and the Columbia College Chicago Business and Entrepreneurship Department are partnering for “The Third Mask: A Festival of New Devised Performance,” to be held May 2 through 4 at three different spaces on...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department is delighted to welcome actor, director, and teacher Carin Silkaitis as its new chair. Silkaitis — whose appointment was announced on April 25 by Rosita Sands, Interim Dean of Columbia College’s School of Fine...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Callie Johnson ’12, a graduate of the Theatre Department‘s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, makes her Chicago Shakespeare Theatre debut in the company’s eagerly anticipated new production of Hamlet, William Shakespeare’s classic revenge...