Tag: Tyla Abercrumbie
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alum Tyla Abercrumbie’s Acclaimed New Drama ‘Relentless’ Adds On-Demand Remote Viewing Option
Relentless, the acclaimed new play by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Tyla Abercrumbie ’98, has added an on-demand remote viewing option to expand its audience outreach. The show, which Chicago Tribune critic Chris Jones calls “the finest new play to emerge in Chicago since the days before the COVID-19 crisis . . . fully…
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‘The Best New Work Here in Years’: Rave Reviews for Columbia College Chicago Theatre Dept. Alum’s Play ‘Relentless’
Relentless, the new play by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Tyla Abercrumbie ’98, has received rave reviews for its world premiere production from Chicago’s TimeLine Theatre. As previously reported in this blog, rhe show, which opened January 27, is scheduled to run through February 26 at Theatre Wit, located at 1229 W. Belmont in Chicago’s Belmont…
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(VIDEO) Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alum Tyla Abercrumbie’s Drama ‘Relentless’ Premieres at TimeLine Theatre Jan. 21-Feb. 26
Relentless, a new play by Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Tyla Abercrumbie ’98, is receiving its world premiere from Chicago’s TimeLine Theatre as part of the award-winning company’s return to live performance with its 25th anniversary season. The production begins previews January 21 and opens January 27, with a run scheduled through February 26 at Theatre…
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(VIDEO) Playwright, Actor, and Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alum Tyla Abercrumbie: ‘I’m so much more than being an artist, but I am still very much an artist’
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Tyla Abercrumbie ’98 is profiled in a feature published November 24, 2021, in the Chicago Reader, Chicago’s leading alternative publication. Headlined “Tyla Abercrumbie is About More Than The Chi,” the article recounts that Abercrumbie, who grew up in Chicago’s west-side Austin neighborhood, enrolled at Columbia College after dropping out…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alum Cody Estle on Raven Theatre’s Return to Live Performance as an Equity Company: ‘Slow and Steady Wins the Race’
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Cody Estle ’11, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program, was interviewed in the Chicago Tribune‘s digital edition about his plans for guiding Chicago’s venerable, award-winning Raven Theatre back to live performance for the 2021-22 theatre season. Estle, who has been Raven’s artistic director since 2017, told…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alumni Lead Chicago’s Raven Theatre Back to Live Performance with 2021-22 Season
Chicago’s venerable, award-winning Raven Theatre, whose artistic director is Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumnus Cody Estle ’11, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program, has announced exciting news: it will return to live performance with its 2021-22 season beginning in October, with three productions previously postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The…
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Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department Alumni Launch New Playwriting Initiative at Chicago’s Raven Theatre
The Chicago Tribune reports that Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Tyla Abercrumbie ’98 has been selected as the inaugural playwright in a new $25,000 play development initiative by Chicago’s Raven Theatre, whose artistic director is Columbia College alumnus Cody Estle ’11, a graduate of the Theatre Department’s Theatre Directing program. The new program will…
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Columbia College Chicago Alumni Playwright Tyla Abercrumbie: ‘There is no turning back’
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Tyla Abercrumbie ’98 is profiled in a post by Chicago Theater, a Facebook group by and for Chicago’s theatre community. The group was created by a group of Chicago theatre artists and administrators as “a public platform for Chicago Theater Community to come together during the [Coronavirus] pandemic, and…
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Columbia College Chicago Hosts 25th Annual Black Theatre Alliance Awards Oct. 14; Columbia Alumni and Faculty Among Nominees
Columbia College Chicago will host the 25th Annual Black Theatre Alliance/Ira Aldridge Awards on Monday, October 14, 2019. The awards ceremony takes place at the college’s Conaway Center, located at 1104 S. Wabash in Chicago’s South Loop. The event begins with a reception at 7 PM followed by the awards ceremony at 8 PM. Tickets…
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(VIDEO) Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alum Praised for ‘Fantastic’ Performance in Chicago Premiere of Pulitzer Prize-Winning Drama ‘Sweat’
Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department alumna Tyla Abercrumbie ’98 stars in the Goodman Theatre’s Chicago premiere of Lynn Nottage’s play Sweat, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The production, which runs through April 14, was hailed as “better than Broadway’s” by the Chicago Tribune, whose theatre critic Chris Jones praised Abercrumbie for her…