Ethan Cowburn, a soon-to-gradate M.F.A. student in percussion performance in the NIU School of Music, was chosen as...
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Dance Concert opens April 24 in Black Box Theatre
The annual Spring Dance Concert brings a close to the 2024-2025 NIU School of Theatre and Dance production season....
Lighting design student Kev Kollmann featured in video about accessibility improvements for theater technicians
Kev Kollmann, an M.F.A. in lighting design in the NIU School of Theatre and Dance is featured in the Winter 2025...
10th Anniversary NIU New Music Festival to feature two guest alumnae composers and several special guest performers
The NIU New Music Festival celebrates its tenth year with three consecutive evenings of music November 2, 3, and 4, 2022. The evening programs begin at 7 p.m. and tickets are available through the online School of Music Box Office. Here's a look back at the history of...
Theatre and Dance presents “She Kills Monsters” by Qui Nguyen
An exciting performance of sisterhood, queer-identity, and nerd culture! Northern Illinois University’s School of Theatre and Dance will present She Kills Monsters at The O’Connell Theatre in the Stevens Building on Oct. 21-22 and 27-28 beginning at 7:30 each evening...
Upcoming events feature 1619: The Musical and a Rebuilding Democracy Lecture with the author of The 1619 Project
The campus and community are invited to participate in a pair of free, upcoming events focused on the history and ongoing impacts of African slavery in the United States. The musical 1619: The Journey of a People will be performed at DeKalb’s Egyptian Theatre,...
NIU presents Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare's iconic romantic comedy comes to the stage of the NIU School of Theatre and Dance Northern Illinois University’s School of Theatre and Dance will present Much Ado About Nothing in the Sally Stevens Players Theatre on October 7– 9 and October 13 – 15...
School of Music’s Bobby Broom to present master class highlighting release of “Keyed Up”
Update: 10/18/22 - This event will be rescheduled for a later date. Bobby Broom, an internationally renowned guitarist and associate professor of jazz guitar and jazz studies at the NIU School of Music, is hosting a master class, Friday, October 21 at noon in Boutell...
Performing Southeast Asia exhibition open now at NIU’s Pick Museum
"Performing Southeast Asia" has been curated in collaboration with faculty and students from the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, and considers the role of performance in Southeast Asia, from popular music to traditional dance. The exhibition runs from September 8,...
NIU Art Museum to host in-person lectures with award-winning illustrator and author
The Northern Illinois University Art Museum is pleased to present three in-person lectures related to their Children’s Illustrated Literature Exhibition Suite by award-winning illustrator of over 60 books, James E. Ransome. Ransome will be joined by his wife, author...
Student Frederick McClure credits Patterson Scholarship for musical therapy vision
As part of this week's Homecoming festivities, a ceremony is being held at 3 p.m.., Friday, October 7, for the re-naming of New Hall as the Fanny Ruth Patterson Complex, in honor of NIU's first African-American graduate. A scholarship established to honor Patterson...
Music students can see Paragon Ragtime Orchestra live at the Egyptian Theatre for FREE
The 14-piece Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, who plays live scores to complete silent films, will be appearing at DeKalb's historic Egyptian Theatre, Sunday, October 2 at 3 p.m. and NIU School of Music students are invited to attend FREE, simply by showing their NIU...