The Mercy Street Theatre Company, an ensemble founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, celebrates the winter holidays with Merry Christmas, Mulch Pile!, a new comedy by resident playwright Dakota Parobek (BA ’15), a graduate of...
Linda Fortunato
Linda Fortunato, a faculty member in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Musical Theatre BA and Musical Theatre Performance BFA programs, has been named artistic director of Theatre at the Center in Munster, Indiana, one of America’s leading regional...
Actor, photographer, and Jeff Award-winning stage combat choreographer Ryan Bourque (BFA ’09), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s acting program, will unveil an exhibit of photographic portraits of Chicago theatre artists on Monday, December 7, at...
  The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s 2015-16 mainstage season continues with Blues for an Alabama Sky, Atlanta writer Pearl Cleage‘s powerful drama about a group of friends navigating high times and dire challenges in 1930 New York —...
Singer-songwriter-actor Jess Godwin (BA ’05), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Acting, headlines Jess Godwin: 12 at the historic Athenaeum Theatre on Friday, December 4, at 8 PM.  The concert is the culmination...
Michael Stahl-David
Actor Michael Stahl-David (BA ’05), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Acting, visited the Theatre Department on November 20 to facilitate a workshop for students in the acting program. Stahl-David shared his industry...
Actor/comedian Willy J. Sasso (BA ’14), a graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Comedy Writing and Performance, is the co-creator and co-star of an online sketch show called The Drew & Bill Show. The...
Several current and former Columbia College Chicago students are performing in the Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus‘ winter production, Miracle on Thirty-Funk Street. The show features the entire CGMC chorus of 150 singers, dancers, and a six-piece band to provide...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Tom Mula‘s play Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol has become a popular item with theatres locally, nationally, and internationally as the winter holidays approach. The play, adapted from Mula’s 1995 novel, retells the...