Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Archive

Alumni and students of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Musical Theatre Program are featured in the classic musical Gypsy, presented by Chicago’s Porchlight Music Theatre October 12 through November 25. The show’s cast includes current Columbia College students...
  Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Koray Tarhan ’13, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Musical Theatre, plays the title role in Pippin, running October 11 through November 18 at the Mercury Theater Chicago, 3745...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department proudly congratulates alumnus Marvin Quijada ’05, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, for winning the 2018 ALTA Award for Outstanding Performer in a Sketch or Review from the Alliance...
Columbia College Chicago will host the 2018 Black Theater Alliance/Ira Aldridge Awards on Monday, October 15. The awards ceremony takes place at the college’s Hokin Lecture Hall, located at 623 S. Wabash in Chicago’s South Loop. The event begins...
Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are in the cast and creative/production team of Les Innocents/The Innocents, a Halloween season thriller set in the mysterious catacombs of 19th-century Paris. This world premiere opens October 11 and runs...
Jonathan Elkins, a freshman in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s BA Program in Musical Theatre, is in the Off-Broadway production Antigone in Ferguson, running through October 13 at the Harlem Stage in New York City. Conceived in the...
Columbia College Chicago alumni and faculty talent are on display in Eclipsed, presented October 4 through November 4 by Pegasus Theatre Chicago. The drama by Danai Gurira, set during the Liberian civil war of 2003, is a deeply felt...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are in the cast and production team of Crumbs From the Table of Joy, running October 4 through November 18 at Raven Theatre in Chicago’s Edgewater Theatre District. The drama by Pulitzer Prize-winning...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Aidy Bryant ’09, a regular cast member on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, added a new character to her repertoire of roles on the comedy show September 29. In an opening sketch lampooning the...
  Otherworld Theatre Company, an ensemble founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents the Midwest premiere of All I Want Is One More Meanwhile . . . , a superhero comedy by Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons....