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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums, students, and faculty are in the cast and creative team of the U.S. premiere of the experimental and innovative new British musical London Road, presented by Chicago’s Shattered Globe Theatre. The show runs...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s 2022-23 Mainstage Season continues with Bat Boy: The Musical, by Keythe Farley, Brian Flemming, and Laurence O’Keefe. The production, featuring an all-student cast and a production team composed of students, alumni, and faculty,...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s 2021-22 Mainstage Season concludes with the musical Head Over Heels, running April 27 through May 7 in the Courtyard Theatre of the Getz Theatre Center of Columbia College, located at 72 E. 11th...
As previously reported in this blog, the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department presents the musical Cabaret February 16 through 19 in the Courtyard Theatre of the Getz Theatre Center of Columbia College, located at 72 E. 11th Street in...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s 2021-22 Mainstage Season features three productions for the Spring 2022 semester—two musicals, Cabaret and Head Over Heels, and the drama Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams. Cabaret, with a book by Joe Masteroff and...
Alumni and faculty of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are bringing the musical theatre event Songs for Nobodies to Northlight Theatre, located at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts at 9501 Skokie Boulevard in the Chicago...
Congratulations to the alumni and faculty of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, the Columbia College Chicago Music Department, and the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago who have been nominated for 2020 Joseph Jefferson Awards, Chicago’s top theatre...
The country musical Always . . . Patsy Cline, which features faculty and former students of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department in its cast and creative team, has been extended due to popular demand at the Den Theatre...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Cody Estle ’11, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program, directs the opening production of the 2019-2020 season at Chicago’s award-winning Raven Theatre, located at 6157 N. Clark in Chicago’s Edgewater/Andersonville...
Congratulations to the alumni and faculty of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, the Columbia College Chicago Music Department, and the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago who have been nominated for 2019 Joseph Jefferson Awards, Chicago’s top theatre...