Ashton Byrum Archive

The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s 2017-2018 Mainstage Season resumes Wednesday, March 14, with Sweet Charity, the hit 1966 musical by Neil Simon, Cy Coleman, and Dorothy Fields. The show runs through March 17 at the Dance Center of...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Ashton Byrum, a coordinator of the Theatre Department’s Musical Theatre Performance BFA Program, is directing the musical Beauty and the Beast as the opening production of the 60th anniversary season at the...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s final mainstage production of the Fall 2016 semester, the musical Once on This Island, runs November 30-December 10 in Studio 404 of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Center, located at 72 E. 11th St.,...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department students and alumni are featured in the classic musical Bye Bye Birdie, running July 14-23 at the Wallace Bowl Starlight Theatre in Gillson Park, located in the northern Chicago suburb of Wilmette. David Servillo, an...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty members Kathleen Perkins and Ashton Byrum recently published articles in academic journals concerning their ongoing research related to theatre training in the United States. Perkins, co-coordinator of the Theatre Department’s Acting with International...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and faculty members are bringing the rock musical [title of show] to the Open Door Theatre in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park starting January 15. Directed for the Open Door Repertory Company...
Several Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department teachers and current or former students are pooling their talents for “Broadway in Oak Park,” a benefit concert to raise money for Open Door Repertory Company in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park....
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department will host Broadway Bound!, an evening of musical theatre presented by the Sarah Siddons Society, on Tuesday, March 17. This festival of young talent performing a program of scenes and songs is presented in...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Spring 2015 Mainstage Musical — the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic Oklahoma! — opens Wednesday, March 11, at 6:30 PM at the Getz Theatre of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Center, 72 E. 11th St....
Open Door Theater’s The Marvelous Wonderettes, whose cast and creative/production team include several Columbia College faculty, students, and alumni, got a glowing review from Oakpark.com blogger Doug Deuchler. “If you’re looking for a night out that is pure escapism,...