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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


David Tolchinsky, the co-director of the MFA in Writing for Screen and Stage at the School of Communication and former department chair of the Radio, Television, Film department. Tolchinsky’s new play, “An Attempt to Heal in the Contemporary World,” examines the theories of Wilhelm Reich, a protégé of Sigmund Freud whose radical theories about the body’s influence on the mind were rejected.

Northwestern professor to premiere play on psychoanalyst at New York festival

October 11, 2018

A&E Some argue life is mind over matter, but revolutionary psychoanalyst and the inspiration of an upcoming New York play Wilhelm Reich would beg to differ. Reich was a protégé of Sigmund Freud...

“How I Met Your Mother” actor Josh Radnor shares a story with the sold-out crowd on Thursday night. Radnor was this year’s annual Hillel speaker.

‘HIMYM’ actor Josh Radnor discusses academia, success

April 25, 2013

Actor, writer and director Josh Radnor drew laughter and cheers from Northwestern students Thursday night when he came to campus as Fiedler Hillel Center’s spring speaker. Radnor is best known for...

Communication sophomore Charlie Gingold was the first of three student openers for B.J. Novak.

A&O Winter Speaker B.J. Novak’s props, jokes draw laughs

March 3, 2013

In a fitting fashion for a cast member and writer for “The Office,” B.J. Novak began his stand-up performance at Northwestern on Saturday night by invoking the show’s most beloved joke. “They...

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Aimee Hechler