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“Legally Blonde” explores gender roles on college campuses

February 13, 2020

“Omigod You Guys!” Looks like “Legally Blonde: The Musical” is coming to Northwestern this Valentine’s Day! Based on the 2001 film starring Reese Witherspoon, the musical adaptation will...

The cast rehearses a scene in which Hans Christian Andersen accepts his father's name after refusing to go by Hans for much of his life. The musical was written by Timothy Allen McDonald.

Wirtz performs new musical about Hans Christian Andersen

July 24, 2019

As he lay on stage, dying in his quilt-covered bed, Hans Christian Andersen’s father requested that his son tell him a story. Accompanied by both his parents, fairytale writer Andersen sang his story,...

 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.
“The Wolves” follows a high school girls’ soccer team through their warm-ups before a series of weekly soccer games. The play opens Friday and will run through Saturday at the Hal & Martha Hyer Wallis Theater.

‘The Wolves’ explores challenges of young womanhood through soccer

February 6, 2019

When getting ready for a soccer game, the warm-up is the most important part. It’s also the focus of Sarah DeLappe’s “The Wolves,” a play about the inner workings of a high school girls’ soccer...

Kaja Burke-Williams plays Eliza Doolittle in Wave Productions’ performance of “My Fair Lady” in February. Wave Productions is part of the Student Theater Coalition — one of the organizations a new student petition is calling to move away from paper forms for general auditions.

Petition advocates for paperless general auditions in student theater

January 22, 2018

As Communication sophomore Shane Eichstaedt sat in general auditions for spring productions Saturday and Sunday, they said they watched hundred of sheets of paper go to waste. “I was heartbroken to...

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