City Lit Theater is proudly presenting the last show that the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s longtime chairperson, Sheldon Patinkin, was working on when he passed away in 2014. I’ve Got the World on a String:  Harold Arlen’s Songs...
  Steep Theatre, one of Chicago’s most honored storefront ensembles, will mark its 15th anniversary with a performance of one of its most successful productions, Harper Regan, with a cast headed by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty and...
Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble, a cutting-edge dance/theatre company whose artistic director, Sara Maslanka (BA ’13), is a Columbia College Chicago Dance Department alum, continues its 15th season with Bindis and Bruises, conceived and co-choreographed by ensemble member Priya Narayan and...
Columbia College Chicago alumni are working together to bring the keenly anticipated The Effect, by British playwright Lucy Prebble, to U.S. audiences. The London hit will be directed in its North American premiere by David Cromer, an alumnus of...
Ren Griffith (BFA ’15), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, has two projects coming to fruition the first week of March. She’s the assistant choreographer for Applause, the musical based...
Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are featured in the Chicago premiere of Heathers: The Musical, running February 28–April 24 at Theater Wit. Based on the cult-classic 1988 movie satire about murderous high school high jinks, the show,...
Pat Whalen (BA ’10), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Acting, is featured in the world premiere of Rolling, running February 24-April 2 at Broadway Armory Park, 5917 N. Broadway, in Chicago’s Edgewater...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Grant Sabin (BFA ’05) and Paul Deziel (BA ’14) are winning rave reviews for their design work on The Hypocrites‘ production of Tennessee Williams’ classic drama The Glass Menagerie, running through March 6 at the...
Chicago’s Raven Theatre is presenting William Inge’s rarely-revived drama A Loss of Roses, with a cast and production team that includes Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, students, and faculty members. The 1959 play will be directed by Raven’s...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Kaiser Ahmed (BA ’08), a graduate of Columbia College’s theatre directing program, is featured in the Chicago premiere of the Off-Broadway drama The Awake, presented by the First Floor Theater at Collaboraction’s Room...