Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Archive

Underscore Theatre Company, a Chicago troupe devoted to presenting new musical theatre works, presents the world premiere of Carrie 2: The Rage (An Unauthorized Musical Parody) October 13-November 19 at The Arkham, located at 4609 N. Clark in Chicago’s Uptown...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni A.C. Smith ’86 and Chester Gregory ’95, HDR ’15, are featured in the Kansas City Repertory Theatre‘s production of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Fences, running October 13-November 5. Set in 1950s Pittsburgh...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Alex Newkirk ’11, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance, is featured in Carrie 2: The Rage (An Unauthorized Musical Parody), running October 13-November 19 at The Arkham,...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s 2017-2018 Mainstage Season begins Wednesday, October 11, with Servant of Two Masters, the classic comedy by 18th-century Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni. Directed by Theatre Department faculty member Ric Walker, the play runs through...
Otherworld Theatre Company, an ensemble founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents the “cerebral science fiction adventure” Speed of Light October 6-21 at the Berger Park Coach House, 6205 N. Sheridan, in Chicago’s Edgewater Theatre...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty and alumni are helping the Savoyaires musical theatre troupe bring Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic operetta The Pirates of Penzance to the stage October 6-15. Amy Uhl, a coordinator of the Theatre Department’s Musical...
Michael Allen Harris
Punk, a provocative new drama by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Michael Allen Harris ’11, will receive its world premiere October 4-November 5 at the Den Theatre, 1333 N. Milwaukee, in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood. Produced by The...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni Ryan Jendrycki ’14, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, and Emma Jo Schumacher ’11, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Musical Theatre, are featured in 26...
Joanie Schultz (Photo: Joe Mazza)
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Joanie Schultz ’00, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program, is featured in the October 2017 issue of American Theatre magazine, the U.S. nonprofit theatre community’s leading publication. Schultz — who...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Michael Stahl-David ’05, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Acting, co-stars as American political icon Robert F. Kennedy in Rob Reiner’s forthcoming film LBJ, due for a November 3 release....