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The Monthly: April Edition

The Monthly: April Edition

April 18, 2019

In this edition of The Monthly: Comedian and NU alum Jen Spyra talks writing for Stephen Colbert and finding her voice in a male-dominated industry. Further Reads: Northwestern student production “Better...

A conductor leads an orchestra at the Sound of Silent Film Festival. The festival commissions composers to write scores for silent films.

Northwestern grad student competes in Sound of Silent Film Festival

April 17, 2019

When Access Contemporary Music executive director Seth Boustead recalls planning and organizing the first Sound of Silent Film Festival, he admits that he had absolutely no idea what he was doing. Fourteen...

Kingsley Day acts as The Learned Judge in “Trial by Jury.” The actor said he likes the intimacy of City Lit Theater.

Northwestern alumni, staff star on and off stage in ‘Two Days in Court’

April 17, 2019

In City Lit Theater’s upcoming show, the courtroom is filled with demons in the first act and described as “riotous” in the second. And no, it’s not a live showing of C-SPAN. “Two Days in...

Communication senior Simi Ball plays Natalie, the teenage intern, in Redtwist Theatre’s “Herland.”

NU senior stars in Chicago play ‘Herland’

April 17, 2019

A tale as old as time: A trio of long-time friends in their 70s turned Bruce Springsteen cover band find an unlikely friend in a recent high school graduate. While it’s no fairytale, this relationship...

Vince Staples will headline Ball 2019 at Metro Chicago in Wrigleyville on April 19. Kodie Shane, an Atlanta-based rapper and singer who was raised in Chicago, will open.(Source: Sherise Fan)

Vince Staples sells out 2019 A&O Ball

April 17, 2019

Every year, A&O Productions sends out a poll asking Northwestern students who they’d like to see perform at A&O Ball, the group’s annual spring concert. This year, more than half of the entries...

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