Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are in the cast of August Wilson’s drama Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, running April 13 through May 12 at the Goodman Theatre, located at 170 N. Dearborn in downtown Chicago’s Loop Theatre...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums and faculty are in the cast and production team of the classic musical The Music Man, running April 10 through June 2 at Marriott Theatre in the Chicago suburb of Lincolnshire. For tickets, click here. The...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Alex Newkirk ’11, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, leads the monthly Broadway Open Mic Night at Theo Ubique Theatre on Wednesday, April 10. Newkirk will accompany...
Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are in the cast and creative team of The S Paradox, a world premiere presented by the Babes with Blades Theatre Company. The show runs April 7 through May 18 at the...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Tyla Abercrumbie ’98, a regular cast member of the Showtime series The Chi, will join the of the new CBS TV series NCIS: Origins, which debuts in the 2024-2025 broadcast season. The entertainment news site...
Congratulations to the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni who won Joseph Jefferson Awards, Chicago’s top theatre award, at the 50th anniversary Non-Equity “Jeff Awards” ceremony on March 25, 2024. The awards honor excellence in Chicago’s non-Equity theatre during...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Koray Tarhan’13, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Musical Theatre, will make his Broadway principal debut in the lead role of Charley Kringas in the acclaimed Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s musical Merrily...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department honors the memory of former chair Fritzie Sahlins on the 100th anniversary of her birth on March 21, 1924. From 1974 through 1976, Fritzie co-chaired (with speech teacher Phyllis Griffin) the Theatre Department of...
Former Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department student and faculty member and Columbia College Honorary Degree recipient David Cromer HDR ’17, who won the 2018 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for The Band’s Visit, has re-teamed with...