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“Rest Stop,” a student-written play produced by student theatre group Sit & Spin, takes audiences inside the mundane walls of a seemingly generic highway rest stop and on a raw, emotional ride. The show, written by Communication senior Lena...




March 11, 2025

A crowd of students in the McCormick Auditorium chanted, “Claire! Claire! Claire!” as author and YouTuber Claire Saffitz walked onstage at A&O Productions’ winter speaker...

From playing piano at five years old to a stolen viola in middle school and learning music production in GarageBand, Misty Re: — the stage name for Weinberg senior Misty Roe — seems...

Student band Static Transmission won “Best Band” at the Songwriters Association at Northwestern’s third Battle of the Bands Friday night. The showcase, held at the Technological...

Before the quarter’s final Mee-Ow Show Saturday, Communication senior and co-Director Brenden Dahl warned audience members sitting on the Shanley Pavilion floor that they were in...

This article contains minor spoilers. With Chaka Khan, Hugh Grant and Tinder, Bridget Jones is back and better than ever. This past Valentine’s Day, rom-com princess Bridget...

Lovers & Madmen brings America’s most infamous criminals to life this weekend with “Assassins.” The Tony Award-winning musical chronicles the story behind America’s presidential...

For four hours, Weinberg sophomore Beatriz Sturn stood in front of The Rock, withstanding near-freezing temperatures for an endurance performance titled “I promise I am here legally”...

The Treblemakers’ winter concert “Senator, I’m Singaporean” takes the stage this weekend, kicking off the countdown to the group’s upcoming spring break trip to Singapore. Eighteen...

With guitar solos and crashing cymbals, all-female indie rock band Inertia performed its first concert in the Northwestern Room of Norris University Center Saturday night. The band’s...

The Waa-Mu Show, Northwestern’s student-written musical and oldest theatrical tradition, was just that for 92 years — one musical. Last year, it became a trilogy. And this...

The Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts’ production “February House” invites audiences into a brownstone for two and half hours, whisking viewers away to an...

With a resume that spans working with CNN, TIME and The New York Times, Medill Prof. Craig Duff has seemingly done it all. In 2012, he started at Northwestern as a journalism professor,...

WAVE productions’ “Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage” modernizes an ancient story for today’s audience with a unique twist: puppets. Written sometime between 650 and...

Folk-pop duo Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites, founding members of The Lumineers, celebrated 20 years of songwriting together with the release of “Automatic” on Friday. The album...

Purple Crayon Players hops onto the Northwestern stage once again to produce theatre for young audiences with its sold-out show “A Year with Frog and Toad” this weekend. The musical...