Tag: Alaina Moore
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Margaret Atwood’s ‘Penelopiad’ Opens Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department’s 2018-19 Mainstage Season in New Courtyard Theater Oct. 17-27
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department opens its 2018-2019 Mainstage Season with a rarity: The Penelopiad, Canadian author Margaret Atwood‘s retelling of Homer’s Iliad from the perspective of the women. Performed by an all-female, all-student cast under the direction of Columbia College alum AJ Ware ’09, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program, The…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Faculty, Alumni, and Student Talent Featured in ‘The Portrait’ Oct. 21
The Portrait, a one-person play by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department associate professor Susan Padveen, will be performed Saturday, October 21, at the Judith Racht Gallery in Harbert, Michigan. Produced by The Neapolitans theatre company, The Portrait stars Matt Maxwell as Gustav Klimt, the renowned painter of The Kiss, as he wrestles with a life-altering…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alumni and Faculty Bring Rare Tennessee Williams Drama to Raven Theatre April 25-June 4
Alumni, faculty, and former students of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are in the cast and creative/production team for Not About Nightingales, the rarely-seen early drama by Tennessee Williams that Chicago’s award-winning Raven Theatre is presenting through June 4. Based on real events, the 1938 play concerns a group of prison inmates who fight…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alums Explore Lesbian Parenting in ‘The Kid Thing’ March 13-April 15
Nothing Without a Company, a Chicago nonprofit theatre company co-founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents The Kid Thing, a comedy about a lesbian couple preparing to have a baby, March 13-April 15 at the Berger Park Cultural Center, 6205 N. Sheridan, in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood. For tickets, click here. NWAC’s…
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Columbia College Theatre Alumni Celebrate Holidays with ‘Merry Christmas, Mulch Pile!’ Dec. 8-11
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 comedy by Columbia alum Dakota Parobek ’15, a graduate of Columbia College’s BA program in playwriting. In the world of Mulch Pile, Santa Claus has quit his job, run away,…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Faculty, Alumni, and Student Talent Featured in ‘The Portrait’ July 15–Aug. 14
The Portrait, a new one-person play by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department associate professor Susan Padveen, receives its world premiere July 15-August 14 as part of “Solo Celebration!,” an eight-month series of provocative and powerful one-person plays. Padveen, coordinator of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing BFA program, is also directing The Portrait, which will star…
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Columbia College Theatre Alumni and Faculty Celebrate Holiday Spirit with ‘Merry Christmas, Mulch Pile!’ Dec. 3-6
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 Columbia College’s BA program in playwriting. The play concerns the friendship between Santa Claus and Laura,…
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Columbia College Theatre Faculty, Alumni and Students Bring World Premieres to Chicago Stages
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty and alumni are bringing two new plays to Chicago stages this month. Susan Padveen, coordinator of the Theatre Department’s BFA program in Theatre Directing, is staging the world premiere of Anna in the Afterlife, by Richard Engling, for the Polarity Ensemble Theatre. The show’s cast includes Columbia alumna Sheila…