Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Archive

As reported previously in this blog, Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Lauren Vogel ’16, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Musical Theatre, appeared in the cabaret show Gilbert & Sullivan Unplugged: A Modern Twist on the Major Hits June 21 at the...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus J. Cody Spellman ’13, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program, is directing the sketch comedy revue The Miseducation of 55th Street, running July 8-August 5 at The Revival, an improv...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member James Sherman‘s 1985 comedy/drama The God of Isaac is receiving a new production by Grippo Stage Company July 8-August 27 at the Piven Theatre in the northern Chicago suburb of Evanston. Sherman,...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna and faculty member Stephanie Shaw ’92 is directing a staged reading of the 1977 Italian horror film Suspiria as part of “It Came from the Neo-Futurarium XII: Dawn Of The Neo-Futurarium!,” the Neo-Futurist theatre...
Nothing Without a Company, an experimental theatre ensemble founded by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alum Anna Rose Ii-Epstein ’07, presents 4PLAYs, a one-night showcase of new one-acts by local writers. The four one-acts are all set in bars. In keeping...
Roisin Brehony, a former student at the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, has co-founded a new theatre group in Manchester, England, called FilthyCOW (Collective of Women). Brehony studied in the Columbia College Theatre Department’s Acting program in Fall 2012 as an...
Three Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department students and two alumni have been accepted into the prestigious School at Jacob’s Pillow Musical Theatre Dance Program for a Summer 2017 intensive. The current students are Andrew Casey, Evelyn Finne, and Isaiah...
Mercy Street Theatre, a company founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents the world premiere of Luz Estrada, an updated adaptation of Aristophanes’ classic antiwar comedy Lysistrata. Running June 25-July 16, Luz Estrada is performed...
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department is proud to congratulate Steppenwolf Theatre Company and its artistic director — Columbia College Chicago alum Anna D. Shapiro ’90, HDR ’15 — for being named “Best Established Theatre Company” in the Chicago...