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Captured: ‘Guys and Dolls’

Captured: ‘Guys and Dolls’

February 21, 2019

Welcome to The Daily’s photo blog: Captured. This will be a space for The Daily’s photographers to share their best work, including photos from weekend performances and events around the community....

 Director Nick Bowling tries to break down gender stereotypes in his adaptation of “Guys and Dolls.”

Director challenges gender roles in Wirtz production of ‘Guys and Dolls’

February 14, 2019
The musical tells the story of a New York gangster who attempts to throw the biggest craps game in underground Manhattan.
Communication junior Ziare Paul-Emile performs at the 2017 “Black Lives, Black Words” event. This year’s production will add a food drive and performances by the Northwestern Community Ensemble and a cappella group Soul4Real.

Second year of ‘Black Lives, Black Words’ to feature food drive, musical performances

February 25, 2018

After helping bring black students’ work to the stage in last year’s “Black Lives, Black Words” play festival, Communication Prof. Aaron Todd Douglas said he is expanding the event this year to...

In “Urinetown: The Musical,” a group of townspeople rebels against a company who is charging them to use toilets. The production will run Friday through Feb. 26 in the Ethel M. Barber Theater.

Urinetown cast satirizes musical theater, politics

February 8, 2017

In a dystopian world marked by the dilapidated “L” train stop that looms onstage, 16 actors balance humor and political satire as they fight over the right to pee for free. “Urinetown: The Musical,”...

Students and faculty raise lights at the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday as part of the nationwide Ghostlight Project. The movement aims to demonstrate the role theater has in providing a safe space in the face of oppression.

Students, faculty ignite ghostlight to promote inclusion on eve of inauguration

January 20, 2017

More than 150 students and faculty simultaneously lit flashlights at the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday as part of a nationwide movement to support inclusion the day...

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