Tag: Carol Cohen
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alumni and Faculty Mount ‘We’re Gonna Die’ for a Return Engagement at Steppenwolf Theatre March 26-April 16
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are in the cast and design team of We’re Gonna Die, presented by Haven Theatre Company for four Monday evening performances March 26-April 16 at Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s intimate, flexible 1700 Space. Written by Young Jean Lee and directed by Columbia College Theatre Department faculty member Josh Sobel, the show received its Chicago…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumni, Students, and Faculty Bring Brecht’s ‘Fear and Misery in the Third Reich’ to the Stage Feb. 8-March 11
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, students, and faculty members are in the cast and creative/production team of Bertolt Brecht’s 1938 play Fear and Misery in the Third Reich, presented by Haven Theatre Company February 8-March 11 at the Den Theatre, 1333 N. Milwaukee, in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood. The show’s cast includes Columbia College…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alumnus Cody Estle Named Artistic Director of Raven Theatre
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Cody Estle ’11, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program, has been named artistic director of Chicago’s venerable, award-winning Raven Theatre. The appointment, effective immediately, was announced Monday, November 6, 2017, by the theatre company’s board of directors. Estle was recruited as Raven’s associate artistic director in…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alumni and Faculty Bring ‘We’re Gonna Die’ to Den Theatre May 3-June 4
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are in the cast and design team of We’re Gonna Die, the final production of Haven Theatre Company‘s 2016-2017 season. Written by Young Jean Lee and directed by Columbia College Theatre Department faculty member Josh Sobel, this Chicago premiere runs May 3-June 4 at the Den Theatre, 1335 N. Milwaukee, in Chicago’s Wicker…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumni Talent Featured in U.S. Premiere of British Drama May 20–June 26
Haven Theatre Company, a Chicago-based troupe whose executive director and co-founder Carol Cohen studied Theatre Design at the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, is presenting the U.S. premiere of The Distance, by British playwright Deborah Bruce. The show’s cast includes Jon Beal (BA ’11), a graduate of the Columbia College Theatre Department’s Acting BA program.…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Grad Arianna Soloway Joins Haven Theatre’s ‘Director’s Haven’
Haven Theatre Company, whose executive director and co-founder Carol Cohen studied Theatre Design at the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, has established “The Director’s Haven,” a showcase for emerging directors. Dedicated to putting early-career directors at the forefront, “The Director’s Haven” debuts with a program of three one-act plays, each helmed by one of Haven’s…
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Columbia College Theatre Alumni Mount Haven Theatre’s Chicago Premiere of ‘Don’t Go Gentle’ May 31-July 12
Haven Theatre Company, co-founded by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Carol Cohen and Cody Estle, closes its 2014-2015 season with the Chicago premiere of Stephen Belber’s Don’t Go Gentle. The play–about a conservative white judge whose offer of free legal assistance to a black ex-convict creates conflict with his own grown children–is directed by…