Kai Young Archive

Alumni of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are featured in the fight team for Lyric Opera of Chicago’s eagerly awaited brand-new production of Macbeth, Giuseppe Verdi’s thrilling operatic adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy. The production runs September 17...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni and faculty are on the creative team of Mr. Burns, a post-electric play, Anne Washburn’s comedy/drama/musical about a post-apocalyptic world comforted by memories of The Simpsons, which begins performances August 27 at Theater Wit,...
Otherworld Theatre Company, an ensemble founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents “The Greeks,” a package of two new plays inspired by Greek mythology. The rotating repertory of Medusa Undone and Corona, two modern retellings...
  Otherworld Theatre Company, an ensemble founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents the Midwest premiere of All I Want Is One More Meanwhile . . . , a superhero comedy by Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons....
Otherworld Theatre Company, an ensemble founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents a new installment of its interactive fantasy combat series Fight Quest, running June 15 through July 7 at Otherworld’s new home base, located...
Otherworld Theatre Company, an ensemble founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, presents its 6th Annual Juggernaut Film Festival, a two-day celebration of science fiction and fantasy films and filmmakers from around the world. The festival...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department students and alumni are in the cast and creative team of She Kills Monsters, presented by the Cuckoo’s Theatre Project March 16-April 21. The cast includes Columbia students Katy Campbell, a senior in the...
Otherworld Theatre, a company founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, has two science-fantasy action productions coming up. On Friday, January 19, at 7:30 PM, the company presents Mortal Kombat: A Parody Staged Reading of the...
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...
Otherworld Theatre Company, an ensemble founded and led by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumni, is presents a new interactive production Fight Quest 3: The Lair of Lost Heroes, running May 26-June 9 at Strawdog Theatre, 1802 W. Berenice,...