Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart, which deals with the conflict between Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots in the...
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CVPA students invited to a free tailgate before Saturday’s home football game
When the #23 NIU Huskie football team returns to action for their first game since their upset win over then...
NIU to dedicate new Stevens Building sculpture Sept. 26 with ribbon cutting and cookout
A walk around the Northern Illinois University reveals a campus filled not just with students, faculty, staff and...
Annual Spring Dance Concert wraps up School of Theatre and Dance production season
The 2023-2024 performance season in the NIU School of Theatre and Dance concludes with the annual Spring Dance Concert opening Thursday, April 25 with a 7:30 p.m. performance in the O'Connell Theatre in NIU's Stevens Building. Subsequent performances will be held at...
Something for everyone this April in the College of Visual and Performing Arts
April is the busiest month in the NIU College of Visual and Performing Arts, which means you have more opportunities to sample the great music, theater, dance and art of our very talented students. The School of Theatre and Dance features the premiere of Alexander...
Theatre and Dance presents a new take on showbiz in the 21st century
The NIU School of Theatre and Dance presents Booked and Blessed...OR BUST! a heartfelt examination of the many struggles that self-made actors go through. Written by Alexander Perez, the production directed by Frankie DiCiaccio runs April 5-7 and April 11-13 in the...
STEM Cafe on theatrical special effects to feature School of Theatre and Dance’s Tracy Nunnally
As you watch a live performance, every minute of entertainment represents hours of work behind the scenes by entertainment engineers. Technical directors and designers use mathematics, engineering and artistry to keep performers and audiences safe while producing...
School of Theatre and Dance presents “Witch”
Witch, the story of a devil arriving in a small English village to bargain for souls only to find that the toughest adversary is a woman cast out as a "witch," is the second show of the spring in the NIU School of Theatre and Dance. Based on a 400 year old play, "The...
Anxious People! opens spring productions at NIU School of Theatre and Dance
Anxious People! by Carol Lee is a play about anxious people. And it is the first production in the spring season of the NIU School of Theatre and Dance opening Friday, February 16 in the Sally Stevens Players Theatre in the NIU Stevens Building. An hour and a half...
Marlon Wayans to perform at NIU in free show for students, faculty and staff
NIU Campus Activities Board and the NIU College of Visual and Performing Arts jointly present An Evening with Marlon Wayans! We are thrilled to invite you to this exciting event taking place on February 15 for a night filled with laughter, entertainment, and...
CVPA students invited to check out NIU Athletics’ Beauty and the Beast meet
College of Visual and Performing Arts students, support our friends in NIU Athletics by attending the unique Beauty and the Beast Meet, Friday, Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. Check out the action as the NIU Gymnastics team and NIU Wrestling team will be competing simultaneously in...
Indiana University African American Dance Company to hold workshop and performance at NIU
As part of Northern Illinois University's Black Heritage Month events, the NIU Center for Black Studies and the NIU School of Theatre and Dance are hosting a workshop and performance by Indiana University's African American Dance Company. The workshop includes a...