Tag: Heather Gilbert
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alums Bring ‘Bug’ to Broadway
Alumni and former faculty members of Columbia College Chicago are in the cast and creative team for the Manhattan Theatre Club and Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s Broadway co-production of Bug, the creepy-crawly psychological thriller by Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning Steppenwolf ensemble member Tracy Letts. The show, which began previews December 16, 2025, at the Manhattan…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alums Featured in ‘Color Purple’ Musical at Goodman Theatre June 21-July 27
Columbia College Chicago Theatre alums are in the cast of the musical The Color Purple, running June 21 through July 27 at the Goodman Theatre, located at 170 N. Dearborn in downtown Chicago. Student discounts are available. For tickets, click here. The show’s cast includes Columbia College alums Shantel Renee Cribbs ’17 and Juwon Tyrel Perry…
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(VIDEO) Former Columbia College Chicago Theatre Student and Teacher David Cromer’s Broadway Hit ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ Airs Live June 7 on CNN
For the first time ever, a live performance of a Broadway play will be broadcast for free on TV – and that play is directed by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Program former student and faculty member and Columbia College Honorary Degree recipient David Cromer HDR ’17. The play is the record-breaking box-office hit Good Night,…
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Former Columbia College Chicago Theatre Student and Teacher David Cromer Nominated for 2025 Tony Award for Directing ‘Gorgeously Perverse’ New Broadway Hit ‘Dead Outlaw’
The Columbia College Chicago School of Theatre and Dance proudly congratulates former student and faculty member and Columbia College Honorary Degree recipient David Cromer HDR ’17, who has been nominated for a 2025 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for Dead Outlaw. The show, which opened April 27 at the Longacre Theatre in…
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Former Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Student and Teacher David Cromer’s New Broadway Show ‘Dead Outlaw’ Opens April 27
Former Columbia College Chicago Theatre student and faculty member and Columbia College Honorary Degree recipient David Cromer HDR ’17, winner of the 2018 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for The Band’s Visit, has re-teamed with his Band’s Visit collaborators on a new Broadway production, Dead Outlaw. The show, which began previews April…
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(VIDEO) Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alums Bring Sam Shepard’s ‘Fool for Love’ to Steppenwolf Theatre Jan. 30-March 16
Columbia College Chicago Theatre alumni and faculty are in the cast and creative team of Steppenwolf Theatre Company‘s first production of 2025, a highly anticipated revival of Sam Shepard’s drama Fool for Love. The show runs January 30 through March 16 at Steppenwolf, which is located at 1650 N. Halsted in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood.…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alums and Faculty Bring ‘Full Monty’ Musical to Paramount Theatre Aug. 21-Oct. 6
Alums and faculty members of the Theatre Program at the Columbia College Chicago School of Theatre and Dance are in the cast and creative team of the musical The Full Monty, running August 21 through October 6 at the Paramount Theatre, located at 23 E. Galena Blvd. in downtown Aurora, Illinois. For tickets, click here.…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Faculty and Student Honored by Michael Merritt Design Awards May 13
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member and Tony Award-winning sound designer Mikhail Fiksel, a teacher in the Theatre Department’s BA Program in Theatre Design and Technology, is the recipient of the 2024 Michael Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration. Fiksel won a 2022 Tony Award – the top prize for Broadway theatre…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Teacher’s Lighting Design for New Off-Broadway Show ‘Dead Outlaw’ Featured on ‘Theater Wow’
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty member Heather Gilbert is featured in an article posted April 12 in the Substack blog Theater Wow. The focus of the interview – “A Million Lovely Moments: Dead Outlaw‘s Lighting Designer Heather Gilbert,” by blogger Jim McDermott – is Gilbert’s work as lighting designer for the acclaimed off-Broadway production…
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(VIDEO) Former Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Student and Teacher David Cromer’s New Off-Broadway Show ‘Is So Strange It Can Only Be True’
Former Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department student and faculty member and Columbia College Honorary Degree recipient David Cromer HDR ’17, who won the 2018 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for The Band’s Visit, has re-teamed with his Band’s Visit collaborators on a new Off-Broadway production, Dead Outlaw. With a script by…