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The Daily Northwestern

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

The Daily Northwestern


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...

Five dimly lit actors dance and sing on a stage dance together in costumes made of beads, fabric, plastic cutlery and buttons.

Backstage costume producers bring theatre to life through design

May 1, 2023

Piecing together a large brain made of fabric is not a part of most Northwestern students’ typical agenda. Neither is crafting a mermaid tail out of plastic forks or creating deer masks out of bark pieces.  But...

A person in a white and red shirt and blue jeans paints white lines on a black stage with an “A” shaped wooden beam. In the background, a ladder sits in the center of the stage with other people painting on the floor.

Jim Weber brings experience and spontaneity to the scenic arts

April 4, 2023

Jim Weber’s love for the arts began in fifth grade with a production of Meredith Willson’s “The Music Man” at his elementary school in Colorado. Between performances, Weber would lend a hand behind...

Two silhouettes peek out from behind a red stage curtain.

Student understudy experiences lead to Wirtz Center policy changes

February 8, 2023

Due to safety concerns brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, theaters everywhere have turned to understudies as a saving grace. Northwestern’s Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts recently began to standardize...

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