Tag: John Hildreth
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre, Music, and Film/TV Alums Bring ‘War of the Worlds’ to Lifeline Theatre
Columbia College Chicago alums and faculty members are in the cast and production team of a new adaptation of H.G. Wells’ sci-fi classic The War of the Worlds, about a Martian invasion of Earth. The show runs through July 13 at Lifeline Theatre, located at 6912 N. Glenwood in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood. Student discounts…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alumni Win Jeff Awards for Performance and Playwriting
Congratulations to the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni who won Joseph Jefferson Awards, Chicago’s top theatre award, at the 50th anniversary Non-Equity “Jeff Awards” ceremony on March 25, 2024. The awards honor excellence in Chicago’s non-Equity theatre during the 2023 theatre season, which ran from January 1 to December 31, 2023. The list of…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre and Music Alumni and Faculty Nominated for Jeff Awards
Congratulations to the alumni and faculty of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department and Columbia College Chicago Music Department who have been nominated for Joseph Jefferson Awards, Chicago’s top theatre award. The Non-Equity “Jeff Awards” honor excellence in Chicago’s non-Equity theatre during the 2023 theatre season, which ran from January 1 to December 31, 2023. The…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department’s 2018-19 Mainstage Season Features ‘Home/Land’ March 13-23
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department continues its 2018-2019 Mainstage Season with Home/Land, running March 13 through 23 in Studio 404 of the Getz Theater Center of Columbia College, located at 72 E. 11th in Chicago’s South Loop. For tickets, click here. Created and originally performed by the Albany Park Theatre Project, a Chicago-based ensemble…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Presents Nobel Prize-Winning African Writer Wole Soyinka’s ‘Death and the King’s Horseman’ April 13-23
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department concludes its 2015-16 mainstage season with Death and the King’s Horseman, by Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian playwright and poet Wole Soyinka. Directed by Theatre Department faculty members Sonita L. Surratt and John Hildreth, the show employs an all-student cast and creative/production team. It runs April 13-23 in Studio 404 at…
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Columbia College Theatre Department Teacher John Hildreth Named Artistic Director of 2016 Chicago Improv Fest
John Hildreth, a teacher in the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, will be the Artistic Director of the 19th annual Chicago Improv Festival, which runs May 16-22, 2016, at multiple venues around Chicago. Hildreth, who teaches improvisation at Columbia, has been active in Chicago’s thriving improv and theatre scene for more than 30 years. He…