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

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Four student actors sit in chairs positioned to look like a makeshift car and read the play off of their scripts.

Annual Vertigo Productions series showcases three student-written plays

February 11, 2025

Three student playwrights will have the chance to spotlight their scripts at Vertigo Productions’ annual Winter Reading Series this weekend.  The Winter Reading Series features minimal tech in each...

Three people and an anthropomorphic seagull stand in front of a blue sky and construction site.

Vertigo Productions’ ‘The Seagullman’ paints a hopeful picture of individual impacts on environmental crisis

November 10, 2024

In Vertigo Productions’ latest show, “The Seagullman,” an oil-addicted, anthropomorphic seagull complicates two Coast Guard volunteers’ mission to save the world. The show premiered Friday at...

The Weekly: 2024 election preview, Bessie Rhodes uncertainty, response to House committee antisemitism report

November 3, 2024

What’s on the ballot for Evanston voters this election season? What will happen to the seventh and eighth grade classes at the Dr. Bessie Rhodes School of Global Studies? The Daily answers these questions...

Choir teacher Ms. Sanders (Communication junior Caroline Drapeau) speaks to her wife on the phone while choir member Mary (Communication freshman Mila Levit) eavesdrops.

From the Wings: Vertigo’s ‘Pity the Woman Who Never Spills’ is a love letter to high school classmates — or is it a hate letter?

April 14, 2024

Vertigo Productions’ spring play “Pity the Woman Who Never Spills” follows no prom queens or quarterbacks. The gauntlet of high school has left the five characters seeking refuge in the choir room,...

Vertigo Productions’ “Blood Pact,” which played in Shanley on Friday and Saturday, highlights the anger and arguments of girlhood.

Friendship bracelets and murder: ‘Blood Pact’ weaves anger, pain of girlhood

November 5, 2023

Content warning: This story contains mention of sexual assault. Forget summer camps and tie-dye T-shirts. Vertigo Productions’ “Blood Pact” points a lens on the darker aspects of girlhood, where...

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