Veteran Chicago actor-singer and Columbia College Chicago Music Department faculty member Sharon Carlson, who teaches singing classes and private voice lessons for students in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Musical Theatre BA and Musical Theatre Performance BFA programs,...
Anji White, an alumna of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s acting program, has won rave reviews for her performance in Sunset Baby, running through April 10 at TimeLine Theatre, 615 W. Wellington in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood. In what...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Travis Coe (BA ’15), a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Acting BA program, is featured in The Few, running April 9-May 21 at Steep Theatre. This Chicago premiere of Samuel D. Hunter’s drama...
  Columbia College Chicago alumni are featured in the musical Dreamgirls, presented by Porchlight Music Theatre starting April 8 at Stage 773. Porchlight’s Dreamgirls co-stars Candace Edwards (BA ’08), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Journalism Department‘s Broadcast...
  The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department will host the annual TEDxColumbiaCollegeChicago conference on Saturday, April 9, from 9 AM to 3:30 PM at the Getz Theatre, 72 E. 11th St., in Chicago’s South Loop. The 2016 conference’s theme...
  Writer-director Cassie Ahiers (BA ’13), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s theatre directing program, will unveil a new musical she has co-authored, The Mountain Digby, on Thursday, April 7, at MCL Chicago Comedy Theater, 3110...
Anna D. Shapiro
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Anna D. Shapiro (BA ’90), artistic director of Chicago’s acclaimed Steppenwolf Theatre Company, is directing the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts’ new drama, Mary Page Marlowe. Shapiro’s previous collaborations with...
The Factory Theatre, which has devoted itself to presenting original work in Chicago for 22 years, has moved into a new permanent home on Chicago’s northern border. The company, whose ensemble includes several Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni,...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Jason Epperson (BA ’14) and Abigail Trabue (BA ’04) — artists, entrepreneurs, and husband and wife — have launched PerformInk, an online publication devoted to Chicago’s thriving theatre scene. PerformInk will be a...