Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Archive

Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are in the cast and production team of Distracted, presented by the Cuckoo’s Theatre Project September 8-October 7 at Prop Thtr, 3502 N. Elston, Chicago. The cast includes alums Sierra Buffum ’17, a...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni are in the ensemble and production team of an exciting new, intimate, diversely cast, reimagined production of Thornton Wilder’s classic American drama Our Town, running September 6-October 8 at Redtwist Theatre, 1044 W....
Award-winning stage director David Cromer HDR ’17, a former Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department student and faculty member and recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from Columbia College, is starting the fall 2017 New York theatre season with...
The talents of alumni and former students from the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are featured in Night in Alachua County, a new thriller by Chicago’s horror-focused WildClaw Theatre. The show’s cast includes alumnae Kathryn Acosta ’11 and Mandy Walsh ’99, both...
The House Theatre of Chicago is presenting a return engagement of its acclaimed 2016 production United Flight 232, adapted and directed by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Vanessa Stalling. Based on Laurence Gonzales’ book Flight 232, the show won 2016 Joseph...
Nothing Without a Company, an experimental theatre group co-founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums, presents 24-Hour Fest Volume V, a showcase of six new site-specific ten-minute plays written, rehearsed, and performed in a 24-hour period....
  Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alums Nathan Carroll ’09 and Ann Delaney ’14 are featured in the Chicago premiere of the musical Bonnie & Clyde, running August 27-October 15 at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont, in Chicago’s Belmont...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Emma Ladji ’14 will present a new work-in-progress, created and performed in collaboration with multimedia artist Maxime Chudeau, on Monday, August 28, at Links Hall at Constellation, Chicago’s leading venue for cutting-edge performance...
August 27 would have been the 82nd birthday of Sheldon Patinkin–longtime chair of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, noted director and teacher, and cherished friend and mentor to many in the Chicago theatre community. Sheldon passed away on September...
Alumni and faculty of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department and the Columbia College Chicago Music Department have been nominated for 2017 Joseph Jefferson Awards, Chicago’s top theatre award. The list of this year’s “Jeff Award” nominees, announced August...