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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 outside of the Patrick G. and Shirley Ryan Center for the Musical Arts building at night.

Wirtz Center to premiere dark comedy “peerless” this weekend

February 17, 2022

Playwright Jiehae Park’s dark comedy “peerless” is set to hit the stage at the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts this weekend. A modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,”...

Dean E. Patrick Johnson on left, Heather Headley on the right, background contains purple paint splotches.

School of Communication hosts Dialogue with the Dean featuring actress Heather Headley

February 16, 2022

School of Communication Dean E. Patrick Johnson hosted a Dialogue with the Dean Tuesday featuring former Northwestern attendee Heather Headley, winner of a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.  Johnson...

An actor holds a lute and points down towards a crowd of actors reaching up.

Wirtz Center premieres Renaissance romp and Broadway musical “Something Rotten!”

February 11, 2022

The summer before his freshman year of high school, Communication junior Sean Zuckerman watched “Something Rotten!” on Broadway. Fast forward to this weekend (and the next), Zuckerman will be performing...

Two people embrace on stage. A third stands in the background. The photo is mostly dark with a ring of light hanging above the stage.

“In His Hands” explores queer love, trauma and faith at the Wallis Theater

January 24, 2022

Content warning: This article contains mentions of conversion therapy and suicide. In summer 2019, Ismael Lara, Jr. sat in a coffee shop and read a new play by Yale MFA playwriting candidate Benjamin...

A cast member of Last Stop on Market Street plays the guitar on a blue bus while being watched by other actors in the show.

“We need a bit more kindness”: Imagine U debuts “Last Stop on Market Street”

November 11, 2021

Imagine U’s production of “Last Stop on Market Street” will bring kindness, empathy and curiosity to the Wirtz Center from Nov. 12-21.  Based on the Caldecott Medal, Coretta Scott King Award...

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