Columbia College Chicago School of Theatre and Dance Archive

Columbia College Chicago Theatre faculty and alumni are in the cast and creative team of Steep Theatre’s Chicago premiere of A Slow Air, by Scottish playwright David Harrower. The show runs January 18 through March 1 at the Edge...
Columbia College Chicago School of Theatre and Dance alum Marvin Quijada ’05, a graduate of the Theatre Program’s BA Program in Acting, is the co-creator of Kid Prince and Pablo, a contemporary hip-hop musical based on Mark Twain’s classic...
Congratulations to the Columbia College Chicago School of Theatre and Dance alumni and faculty cited in Newcity Stage‘s annual new year’s salute to movers and shakers in Chicago’s vibrant performing-arts scene. Among those celebrated in “Players 2025: The 50...
The Columbia College Chicago School of Theatre and Dance‘s 2024-25 Mainstage Season at the Getz Theatre Center of Columbia College continues with Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine, by Lynn Nottage. The 2004 play features an all-student cast and...
The Columbia College Chicago School of Theatre and Dance proudly congratulates LGBTQ-rights advocate, environmental activist, and Columbia College Chicago alum Precious Brady-Davis ’13 on her election to the Board of Commissioners for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater...
Columbia College Chicago School of Theatre and Dance faculty member Grace Kessler Overbeke is the author of First Lady of Laughs: The Forgotten Story of Jean Carroll, America’s First Jewish Woman Stand-Up Comedian, published September 17, 2024, by NYU...
The Columbia College Chicago School of Theatre and Dance‘s 2024-25 Mainstage Season at the Getz Theatre Center of Columbia College begins Thursday, October 10, 2024, with Comedy Cabaret, an evolving program of improv and sketch comedy. Shows are Thursdays,...
The Columbia College Chicago School of Theatre and Dance wishes a happy birthday to actor-playwright-songwriter Jim Jacobs HDR ’14, co-author of the hit musical Grease and benefactor of the Jim Jacobs Musical Theatre Scholarship at Columbia College, who turns 82...
Congratulations to the alumni of the Columbia College Chicago School of Theatre and Dance and the Columbia College Chicago School of Audio and Music who won 2024 Joseph Jefferson Awards, Chicago’s top theatre award, at the 56th annual “Jeff...
The Columbia College Chicago School of Theatre and Dance warmly congratulates Columbia College alum John Zuiker ’05, a graduate of the Theatre Program’s BA Program in Theatre Design, who won the 2024 Emmy Award for Outstanding Production Design for a Variety...