Columbia College Chicago celebrates the end of the 2014-2015 school year on Friday, May 15, with Manifest, its annual urban arts festival of student work. Manifest, free and open to the general public, is a South Loop showcase of...
A new play by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Skye Robinson Hillis, a 2011 graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program, will be performed in a staged reading at Chicago Dramatists, Chicago’s leading center for the development...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department associate professor Amy Uhl is joining the Broadway company of the new musical Amazing Grace, which opens July 17 at the Nederlander Theatre in New York. Uhl is a coordinator of Columbia College’s Musical...
Alex Newkirk, a graduate of Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, is musical director for the FWD Theatre Project’s new show Swift as Desire on Monday, May 11, at 7:30 PM at City Winery,...
Theater Unspeakable presents The American Revolution, directed by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Marc Frost, running May 7-20 at Victory Gardens Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln, Chicago. In this production, seven actors–confined to a 21-square-foot platform–recreate the American...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department will be represented in the prestigious international NEU/NOW Festival 2015, sponsored by the European League of Institutes of the Arts, the primary independent network organization for higher arts education in Europe. Two theatre...
The Off-Broadway hit Churchill marks its 100th performance Monday, May 4, at New World Stages in New York City. Adapted and performed by Chicago actor Ronald Keaton, the show has scenic and lighting design by Columbia College Chicago Theatre...
Leslie Taylor Rochette, a 2008 graduate of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Bachelor of Arts program in Musical Theatre, returns to Chicago with the national tour of Jersey Boys, the hit musical about Frankie Valli and the Four...
Jackalope Theatre Company, a collective founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, is presenting the world premiere of a new work by resident playwright Andrew Burden Swanson. The company also has just received the prestigious 2015...