Trembling, shaking, gasping for air on a subway train on the way to work, Helen Jones suffers a panic attack. This opening scene of “Machinal” shocks the audience immediately.
The School of Theatre and Dance flourishingly illustrated mental health...
By Tyler Gordon, Lifestyle Writer
| October 2, 2024
“Mary Stuart” is an intense and dramatic play presenting the antagonism between Mary Queen of Scots and Queen Elizabeth I of England. Although it features some historic occurrences and relations, the story is a dramatized account of the struggle of...
By Caleb Johnson, Lifestyle Writer
| October 31, 2022
Editor’s note: This piece contains spoilers and discusses events that take place in “She Kills Monsters.”
As people gathered in the theater, fog rolled over the stage, a booming voice cascaded over the audience. The play opened to thunderous...
By Caleb Johnson, Lifestyle Writer
| September 26, 2022
Editor's note: This piece contains spoilers and discusses events that take place in "Melancholy Play."
Students in NIU’s School of Theatre and Dance are performing “Melancholy Play,” by playwright Sarah Ruhl, this weekend in the school's Black...
Graduate teaching student Shannon Coltrane as Marie Antoinette, discusses her predicament during the French Revolution in the NIU School of Theatre and Dance's production of "The Revolutionists" last Saturday in the O'Connell Theatre.
The NIU School of Theatre and Dance will present a new take with “Hamlet Redux.” The play will run Feb. 13 through Feb. 17 in the Stevens Building Corner. Tickets are $6 and can be purchased at the School of Theatre and Dance box office up to one...
If you haven’t noticed by the decorations and eggnog-flavored everything coming out in stores, it’s time to get into the holiday spirit. The NIU School of Theatre and Dance will be participating in the holiday fever by presenting its Under the Mistletoe...
Quoth the raven, nevermore. When it comes to Edgar Allen Poe's works, though, perhaps "evermore" would fit better. Poe Evermore-Showcase of Verse and Story, a production of the NIU School of Theatre and Dance, opens tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Stevens...
