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Theatre and Dance News Archives
Reserve your spot for an admissions interview, audition or portfolio review Feb. 17
Interview and Audition Days Contact the School of Theatre and Dance to make an appointment to attend an audition,...
Fall Dance Concert features Paquita and two world premieres
The fall semester production season in the School of Theatre and Dance concludes with the Fall Dance Concert featuring...
NIU School of Theatre and Dance presents “You Are You”
The NIU School of Theatre and dance presents a new work by alumnus Matthew C. Yee titled "You are You" based on characters from Karel Čapek's play "RUR." Before "RUR" there were automatons and androids, but this is the play that gave us the word “robot.” Čapek’s 1921...
“Hit the Wall” runs Feb. 4-6 and 10-12 in the School of Theatre and Dance
The NIU School of Theatre and Dance presents "Hit the Wall" running February 4-6 and 10-12 in the Sally Stevens Players Theatre in the Stevens Building on NIU's main campus. It’s 1969, summer in New York, and Judy Garland is dead. Police raid the Stonewall Inn on June...
Theatre and Dance faculty and staff members help SpaceX post-landing party take flight
On September 20, a SpaceX four-person crew who had spent three days in orbit splashed down off the Florida coast. One of those four crew members was Hayley Arceneaux, a 29-year old physician assistant at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. When...
Free NIU student tickets for Jazz at the Egyptian, Feb. 5
DeKalb's iconic Egyptian Theatre hosts the Fifth Annual Jazz at the Egyptian, Saturday night, February 5 at 7 p.m. The concert features the NIU Jazz Orchestra, Jazz in Progress, the DeKalb High School Jazz Ensemble and the Sycamore High School Jazz Ensemble. Tickets...
Father-daughter CVPA alumni score big on Shark Tank
What happens when you let Huskies into the shark tank? We found out in March, when Lindsey Valiulis Fleischhauer, ’04, and her father Stan Valiulis, ’84, presented their Totes Babies product to ABC’s critically acclaimed and multi-Emmy® Award-winning...
Fall Dance Concert runs from November 18-21
A celebration of Broadway musicals is the theme of this year's NIU School of Theatre and Dance annual Fall Dance Concert. The Best of Broadway opens with a performance Thursday, October 18 at 7 p.m. with subsequent performances Friday, October 19 at 7 p.m., Saturday...
Thousands Strong kickoff featured several CVPA students
NIU's annual Thousands Strong day of giving got off to a great start on Wednesday night thanks to the hard work and talents of several students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. The kickoff show was hosted by Kate Drury, a BFA acting candidate and dance...
Second annual Thousands Strong event begins Nov. 10 at 5:30 pm
Thousands Strong is an opportunity for alumni and friends to engage with NIU in an exciting, virtual initiative that will increase and expand alumni pride and engagement, and celebrate the impact of philanthropy at Northern Illinois University. This year, this day of...
New adaptation of “Three Sisters” opens in School of Theatre and Dance
A new adaptation of Anton Chekhov's classic "Three Sisters" opens Friday, November 5 in the NIU School of Theatre and Dance. This world-premiere of a new adaptation translated and directed by Alexander Gelman, the school's Distinguished Engagement Professor and Head...