If you’re looking for weekend plans, here are some of the student performances you won’t want to miss.

Playback Theatre: Playing with Fire Goes Camping
Saturday in Norris University Center Wildcat Room, Sunday in Seabury Hall 250
Saturday and Sunday, 8:30 p.m.
Free

Bring your best camp or ghost story and hear Playback Theatre perform it back to you. Whether that story is told through physical, metaphorical or musical means, it’s sure to be a fire performance.

Boomshaka: Boomshaka Remastered
Shanley Pavilion
Friday and Saturday, 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.
Tickets: SOLD OUT

Twenty-five years after its conception, Boomshaka will premiere its spring show in Shanley Pavilion as the group celebrates a quarter-century of rhythm. Boomshaka is a student-run drum, dance and rhythm group that uses a variety of instruments to create energetic performances that feature a combination of percussion with hip-hop and contemporary dance styles.

Late, A Cowboy Song 

Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts

Friday 7:30 p.m., Saturday 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m.

For NU students: $6 in advance, $10 at door (See ticket site for other pricing)

Female empowerment meets cowboy boots in this new take on a Western love story. 

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo 

Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts

Friday and Saturday 7:30 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m.
For NU students: $6 in advance, $10 at door (See ticket site for other pricing)

Two U.S. Marines and an Iraqi translator traverse a war-torn Baghdad after an encounter with a tiger. This show is suitable for audiences 18 years old and up.

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