Witch, the story of a devil arriving in a small English village to bargain for souls only to find that the toughest...
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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...
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...
Black Playwrights Reading Series presents: “Sender” by Ike Holter
The final show in the NIU School of Theatre and Dance Black Playwrights Reading Series is "Sender" by Ike Holter, Sunday, November 16. The reading will be live streamed on Zoom (passcode: 697381), at 7:30 p.m. "Doors" will open at 7 p.m. Following the reading, we...
School of Theatre and Dance presents: Black Playwrights Reading Series, beginning Nov. 1
The NIU School of Theatre and Dance is presenting a Black Playwrights Reading Series, beginning Sunday, November 1 at 7 p.m., with Tanya Barfield's "Bright Half Life."The first reading will be streamed free and open to the public on Zoom at 7:30 p.m. November 1....
NIU Artists. Never. Quit. – Penguin Project choreography
The cancellation of the season's final performances in the College of Visual and Performing Arts had an impact on all students, but for senior dance performance majors Chloe McCoy and Katie Meyer it not only wiped out their final dance performance, but left them in...
A brief reflection on art during the Holocaust Days of Remembrance
Written by: Martina Berger, senior dance performance major, NIU School of Theatre and Dance There has been a huge wave of articles that have been published in recent weeks in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is simply one more that will crash onto your screen,...
Huskie Spotlight – Mark Macaranas, School of Theatre and Dance
Marc Macaranas Assistant Professor of Dance Where is your hometown, and where do you reside now? I'm from a little farm town in California called the Delano, in central California just outside of Bakersfield. I did my undergrad in Southern California at UC Irvine. I...
Theatre and Dance presents “The Wolves” Feb 22-23, 27-29
The NIU School of Theatre and Dance presents The Wolves, by Sarah DeLappe in The Sally Stevens Players Theatre, in the NIU Stevens Building, February 22-23 and 27-29. In The Wolves, a stunning first play by DeLappe, an all-girls indoor soccer team warms up for their...
Joan Allen reflects on her Huskie worth ethic
In case you cannot tell by looking at her pages-long resume of Broadway stage productions, television programs and award-winning films, actress Joan Allen has a thing about work ethic. After four decades of stage and screen acting, she has not forgotten what she...
Theatre and Dance presents “A Bright New Boise” through February 15
The NIU School of Theatre and Dance presents, "A Bright New Boise" by American playwright Samuel D. Hunter. Get ready…in the parking lot of a mega arts and crafts store in Idaho, the Rapture is coming. Or is it? In this intimate comedic drama, five small-town...
Theatre and Dance alumna Mary Holland to voice a droid on Disney’s new Star Wars series
Mary Holland, a 2007 graduate of the BFA Acting program in the NIU School of Theatre and Dance will star in a new Star Wars television show on Disney+ beginning in 2020. Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge is a game show set in a galaxy far, far away, will test young...