Tag: Columbia College Chicago Music Department
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alums Featured in Metropolis’ ‘Avenue Q’ May 17-June 30
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Alex Newkirk ’11, Emily Bailey ’15, and Aaron Lockman ’17 are featured in the musical Avenue Q at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in the northwest Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights. Newkirk, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, plays Princeton, a recent college graduate…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alum Directs Halcyon Theatre’s ‘De Troya’ Running May 16-June 30
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Rinska Carrasco-Prestinary ’10, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Theatre, is directing De Troya, a drama by Caridad Svich that runs May 16 through June 30. Presented by the Halcyon Theatre, the drama concerns two families who wrestle with rebellion, regret, and loss of faith. The…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre, Music, and Cinema/TV Dept. Alumni and Faculty Nominated for 2018 Jeff Awards
Alumni and faculty of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, the Columbia College Chicago Music Department, and the Columbia College Chicago Cinema and Television Arts Department have been nominated for 2018 Joseph Jefferson Awards, Chicago’s top theatre award. The Non-Equity “Jeff Awards” honor excellence in Chicago’s non-Equity theatre. The list of this year’s Non-Equity “Jeff…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre, Music, and Television Arts Students and Alumni Collaborate on New Sci-Fi Musical ‘Abduction’ April 18-19
Abduction, an original science-fiction musical comedy created and performed by students and alumni from Columbia College Chicago‘s Theatre, Music, and Cinema and Television Arts departments, will be performed in a staged concert version on Wednesday and Thursday, April 18 and 19, at Columbia College’s Conaway Center, 1104 S. Wabash in Chicago’s South Loop. As previously…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alums in Drury Lane Theatre’s ‘South Pacific’ April 5-June 17
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Harter Clingman ’11 and Nathaniel Braga ’06 are featured in the classic musical South Pacific, running April 5 through June 17 at Drury Lane Theatre in the Chicago suburb of Oakbrook Terrace. Written by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Joshua Logan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1949 show concerns American…
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Columbia College Chicago Alumni and Faculty Bring Pulitzer Prize-Winning Drama ‘How I Learned to Drive’ to Artistic Home March 21-May 6
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums are on the production team for The Artistic Home‘s production of How I Learned to Drive, Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about a teenage girl who is sexually abused by her uncle. Columbia College alum Kevin Rolfs ’17, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Theatre Design,…
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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 Alum Featured in American Theatre Company’s ‘We’re Gonna Be Okay’ Jan. 25-March 4
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum BrittneyLove Smith ’11, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Acting Program, is featured in the Chicago premiere of We’re Gonna Be Okay, running January 25-March 4 at the American Theatre Company. Set during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, Basil Kreimendahl’s play confronts the fears of the American middle class as…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre and Music Alumni Featured in ‘Hatfield & McCoy’ Jan. 19-March 11
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Ann Delaney ’14, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, is featured in Hatfield & McCoy, presented by The House Theatre of Chicago. Also in the cast are Khloe Janel, a senior in the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, and Kyle Ryan, a junior…
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Columbia College Chicago Student and Alumni Talent Featured in Black Ensemble Theatre’s New Sammy Davis Jr. Musical Dec. 9-Jan. 21
Columbia College Chicago student Michael Adkins and alumnus Nathan Cooper ’13 are featured in the holiday musical Sammy: A Tribute to Sammy Davis Jr., running December 9-January 21 at the Black Ensemble Theatre, 4450 N. Clark, in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Adkins, a sophomore in the Columbia College Chicago Business and Entrepreneurship Department‘s BA Program in…