Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Archive

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...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are in the cast and production team of the world premiere of This Is Only a Test, running February 11 through March 12 at the Den Theatre, located at 1331 N. Milwaukee in...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and former faculty members Jason Epperson ’14, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Theatre Design, and Abigail Trabue Epperson ’04, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Musical...
Alumni and faculty of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are in the cast and creative team of the jazzy musical revue Blues in the Night, presented by Porchlight Music Theatre February 9 through March 13 at the Ruth...
Relentless, the new play by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Tyla Abercrumbie ’98, has received rave reviews for its world premiere production from Chicago’s TimeLine Theatre. As previously reported in this blog, rhe show, which opened January 27, is scheduled...
Students at the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are featured in an upcoming episode of The College Tour, a TV series streaming on Amazon Prime that provides an inside look into college campuses around the world, making it accessible...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Nicole Wiesner ’00, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, directs her own adaptation of Polish absurdist playwright Sławomir Mrożek’s The Martyrdom of Peter Ohey, running February 3 through March 12 at the...
Alumni and faculty members from the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are in a new production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical Evita, opening February 3 and running through March 20 at Drury Lane Theatre in the Chicago...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Kerry Reid ’87, the theatre and dance editor of the Chicago Reader newspaper, reported on the Chicago theatre community’s increasing focus on pay inequity and other employment issues in her article “Getting Real...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are in the cast and creative team for the first midwestern regional staging of Groundhog Day: The Musical, the stage version of the Bill Murray film comedy, running January 26 through March 13 at...