Tag: Susan Padveen
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department’s Getz Theatre Center Resumes LIVE PERFORMANCE April 14 with Two Productions
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department‘s Getz Theatre Center resumes LIVE IN-PERSON PERFORMANCE April 14-17 with two simultaneous productions (both performed with attention to safety and COVID awareness): Tales of Berlin, a live, site-specific, immersive theatrical event, takes the audience on a journey through WWII Berlin – the music, the dance, and the stories that…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Mourns Longtime Faculty Member Bradley Mott
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department honors the life and mourns the passing of longtime faculty member Bradley Mott, who died Saturday, October 10, at 64, following a battle with pancreatic cancer. Bradley, a graduate of Northwestern University, was a beloved mentor for generations of theatre students at Columbia College, where he taught alongside his…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Presents ‘Failure: A Love Story’ Feb. 13-22
The Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department continues its 2019-2020 Mainstage Season with Failure: A Love Story, running February 13 through 22 in Studio 404 of the historic Getz Theater Center of Columbia College, located at 72 E. 11th in Chicago’s South Loop. The production features a student cast under the direction of Theatre Department associate…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Faculty and Alums Bring Third Eye Theatre Ensemble’s Opera ‘Darkling’ to the Stage Oct. 11-27
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty, alumni, and student talent is featured in the Third Eye Theatre Ensemble‘s production of Darkling, a one-act opera that tells the story of the descendants of the Holocaust. The multimedia production is directed by Theatre Department associate chair Susan Padveen. The cast includes Columbia College alum Teresa Elj ’19,…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Faculty and Alums Featured in New Book ‘Ensemble: An Oral History of Chicago Theater’; Hull-House Museum Hosts Launch Party Aug. 12
Numerous alumni and faculty of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department are featured in the new book Ensemble: An Oral History of Chicago Theater, being published August 13, 2019, by Chicago-based Agate Publishing. Authored by oral historian Mark Larson, the book chronicles the development of a grassroots professional theatre movement in Chicago following World War…
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Former Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Student and Teacher David Cromer Returns to Broadway — On Stage This Time — With Elaine May in ‘The Waverly Gallery’
Former Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department student and faculty member David Cromer HDR ’17, who recently won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for the Broadway hit The Band’s Visit, returns to Broadway in the fall — this time onstage — as a cast member of The Waverly Gallery, according to a…
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Jackalope Theatre Featured in Columbia College Chicago Alumni Magazine
Jackalope Theatre, a company founded and led by alumni and former students of the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, is featured in the Fall/Winter 2017 edition of Demo, the alumni magazine of Columbia College Chicago. The article, “The Birth of a Jackalope,” recounts how Jackalope began as a senior project in a theatre management techniques course,…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Faculty, Alumni, and Student Talent Featured in ‘The Portrait’ Oct. 21
The Portrait, a one-person play by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department associate professor Susan Padveen, will be performed Saturday, October 21, at the Judith Racht Gallery in Harbert, Michigan. Produced by The Neapolitans theatre company, The Portrait stars Matt Maxwell as Gustav Klimt, the renowned painter of The Kiss, as he wrestles with a life-altering…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Faculty, Alumni, and Students Bring Historical Drama ‘Red Velvet’ to Raven Theatre; Performance on Thursday, Nov. 3, Features Discount Tickets and Postshow Discussion
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department faculty, alumni, and students are involved in Raven Theatre‘s current production of Red Velvet, Lolita Chakrabarti’s drama about Ira Aldridge, the 19th-century African-American who became the first black actor to portray Shakespeare’s Othello on the London stage. Set in 1833, the acclaimed play is receiving its Chicago premiere. It runs…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Faculty, Alumni, and Student Talent Featured in ‘The Portrait’ July 15–Aug. 14
The Portrait, a new one-person play by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department associate professor Susan Padveen, receives its world premiere July 15-August 14 as part of “Solo Celebration!,” an eight-month series of provocative and powerful one-person plays. Padveen, coordinator of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing BFA program, is also directing The Portrait, which will star…