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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


The cast of “The Great Sea Serpent” portrays sea creatures using puppets and physical movement.

‘The Great Sea Serpent’ incorporates research, physical storytelling for multidimensional play

May 6, 2024

A metaphorical show about the first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable, the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts’ “The Great Sea Serpent” explored the intrusive impact humankind can...

Cast members of “Working” sit on top of benches and pantomime driving cars onstage.

Wirtz Center’s ‘Working’ features stories of Evanston workers in documentary musical

January 30, 2024

“Working: A Musical – Localized Version” at the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts highlights the experiences of local Evanston workers through song, speech, dance and video....

The Wirtz Center instituted a pause on extracurricular use of their space for Winter Quarter.

Performing arts groups struggle to rehearse after Wirtz Center pauses extracurricular practices

January 8, 2024

Northwestern performing arts students say they are struggling to find rehearsal spaces after the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts announced a pause on facility usage for extracurricular...

The Wirtz Center’s “Heroes of the Fourth Turning” grapples with the cultural schisms of the United States during the Trump presidency.

Wirtz Center’s ‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning’ complicates mechanisms of empathy

November 20, 2023

Will Arbery’s “Heroes of the Fourth Turning” is the type of play that leaves you quietly unraveled. It’s almost painful to conjure words of reflection.  Right now, I find myself in the same...

Frida (Weinberg junior Isadora Coco Gonzalez) and Alex (Communication senior Matheus Barbee) share a moment in the recently opened “Frida Libre” production.

Imagine U opens ‘Frida Libre’ celebrating youth ambitions, Latine culture

October 22, 2023

The Josephine Louis Theater resembled a children’s storybook coming to life when Northwestern theater group Imagine U opened “Frida Libre” on Friday.  The show, which draws inspiration from the...

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