The Weekend Ahead: Performances and events to catch for Week 6
April 27, 2023
If you’re looking for weekend plans, here are some performances and events on and off campus you won’t want to miss.
Refresh Undercover
Ryan Family Auditorium
Friday 9 p.m. and Saturday 7 and 10 p.m.
Tickets: $5 for students, $10 general admission
Refresh Dance Crew, a Northwestern choreography and freestyle dance team, is performing its seventh annual spring show.
ODBeyonce: Renaissance
Shanley Pavilion
Friday and Saturday 7 and 10 p.m.
Tickets: $5 for students, $10 general admission
Out Da Box, Northwestern’s only multicultural improv and sketch comedy group, is paying homage to Beyonce’s “Renaissance” with its spring show this weekend.
Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Friday 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $5 for students, $8 general admission
The Bienen School of Music’s Symphonic Band, conducted by Mallory Thompson, is performing Cindy McTee’s “Notezart” and the finale to Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide,” titled, “Make Our Garden Grow.”
Creating Small Thunder
Mussetter-Struble Theater
Friday 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Saturday 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Written and directed by Bienen and Communication sophomore Mya Vandegrift, “Creating Small Thunder” is a new opera about a queer family confronting what haunts its cattle farm.
Splinter: A Romantic Comedy
Puth Family Theater of Music Institute of Chicago
Saturday 7 p.m., Sunday 6 p.m.
Tickets: $30
Based on French drama masterpieces, “Splinter” is about love of the theater, friendship, fidelity and the ability to dream. Directed by Dmitriy Yakubov, the one-act play stars Amy Beth Hart, George Dougherty and K.C. Khan.
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