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
| October 18, 2022
NIU School of Theatre and Dance will host its third production of the season. Next up is “She Kills Monsters” by Qui Nguyen, directed by guest director Kendra Holton.
Holton chose to be a part of this play because she was excited to work on...
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.
Time travel is still impossible, but the School of Theatre and Dance is doing the best it can. Siècle de Ballet, French for “Century of Ballet,” runs 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the O’Connell Theatre in the Stevens...
There’s a mountain on the O’Connell Theatre stage.It was built as part of the set for The Ascent of F6, a play by W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood.The Ascent of F6 will run Thursday through Sunday, Feb. 23 through 26 and March 1 through 4. Performances...
"Step, kick, kick, leap, kick, touch - again!" The line is the first line to the musical A Chorus Line, one of many musicals featured in NIU's School of Theatre and Dance's Best of Broadway. Within the first act alone, the audience will get a taste of...
Shakespeare has been done before but never quite like this. The Winter's Tale opened Thursday in O'Connell Theatre in the Stevens Building. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. The tragicomedy follows King Leontes of Sicilia...
"Moby Dick Rehearsed" was originally written and directed by Orson Welles. Performed for the first time in 1955, this modernist spin on the Melville classic has arrived to the O'Connell theatre at NIU. Director Stanton Davis has fought through blizzards...
