Sheldon Patinkin Archive

The Columbia College Chicago School of Theatre and Dance was proud to help celebrate Columbia College Chicago Honorary Doctorate of Arts recipient Jim Jacobs HDR ’14 on the occasion of his induction into the Illinois Rock & Roll Hall...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre alums are in the cast and creative team of a new production of the hit musical Grease, which has been extended through October 26 at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in the Chicago suburb of Arlington...
The Columbia College Chicago School of Theatre and Dance lovingly honors the memory of Sheldon Patinkin – longtime head of the Columbia College Theatre Program, noted director and teacher, and cherished friend and mentor to many in the Chicago...
Manifest: Imagine, the 2025 edition of Columbia College Chicago‘s annual student-powered Manifest Arts Festival, takes place Friday, May 16, at multiple locations in Chicago’s buzzing South Loop community to celebrate student achievements at the end of the 2024-25 school...
Columbia College Chicago Theatre alumnus Joseph Sikora ’98, a graduate of the Theatre Program’s BA Program in Acting, will be a featured speaker at Columbia’s commencement ceremony for graduating students majoring in American Sign Language, audio arts, dance, design, fine arts,...
Dino Stamatopoulos
The Columbia College Chicago School of Theatre and Dance heartily congratulates film and TV writer-producer Dino Stamatopoulos, an alumnus of Columbia College Chicago‘s Theatre Program, whose 2005-2008 stop-motion-animation TV series Moral Orel has been named the best stop-motion animated TV...
The Columbia College Chicago School of Theatre and Dance‘s 2024-25 Mainstage Season at the Getz Theatre Center of Columbia College continues with You on the Moors Now, running March 5 through 15 at the Getz Theatre Center’s Sheldon Patinkin...
Congratulations to the Columbia College Chicago School of Theatre and Dance alumni and faculty cited in Newcity Stage‘s annual new year’s salute to movers and shakers in Chicago’s vibrant performing-arts scene. Among those celebrated in “Players 2025: The 50...
The Columbia College Chicago School of Theatre and Dance‘s 2024-25 Mainstage Season at the Getz Theatre Center of Columbia College continues with Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine, by Lynn Nottage. The 2004 play features an all-student cast and...
The Columbia College Chicago School of Theatre and Dance wishes a happy birthday to actor-playwright-songwriter Jim Jacobs HDR ’14, co-author of the hit musical Grease and benefactor of the Jim Jacobs Musical Theatre Scholarship at Columbia College, who turns 82...