Theatre and Dance News Archives

Longtime costume designer, advisor, and associate dean Melanie Parks remembered for her talent, style, advocacy and wit

Beloved artist, designer, educator, student advocate and administrator Melanie Parks passed away July 28 after a long battle with cancer. Parks came to the NIU School of Theatre and Dance in 1990 as costume director and taught all of the technical costume classes. In...

Kane Repertory Theatre presents outdoor production of Twelfth Night

Kane Repertory Theatre, founded in 2019 by a group of alumni from the NIU School of Theatre and Dance, in partnership with the St. Charles Park District, presents a live outdoor production of the Shakespeare classic "Twelfth Night" at the Historic Pavilion on the Fox...

Support NIU during Huskies United June 22-23

Show your support for Northern Illinois University by making a donation during this year's Huskies United, June 22-23. Want to learn more? Check out this video hosted by Kate Drury, a BFA Acting candidate in our very own School of Theatre and Dance....

CVPA alums feature prominently in Netflix’s “Senior Year”

The new Netflix movie Senior Year features Rebel Wilson playing Stephanie, who was injured in a cheerleading stunt when she was 17 only to wake from a coma 20 years later and insisting on returning to finish out her senior year of high school and attend her prom. Mary...
The story behind the dance that sent NIU to the Kennedy Center

The story behind the dance that sent NIU to the Kennedy Center

  Students from the NIU Dance program performed at the Central Conference of the American College Dance Association (ACDA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on March 17-18.  Their performance was of such high quality that they earned the top honor...

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NIU dancers invited to perform at the Kennedy Center

NIU dancers invited to perform at the Kennedy Center

The weekend of March 17-18 students from the NIU Dance Program attended the Central Conference of the American College Dance Association (ACDA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  The students performed "ENUF," a work choreographed by NIU School of...

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