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The Third Onion, a student-initiated and produced performance program of Northern Illinois University’s School of Theatre and Dance, will premiere an original play, “The Porno Factory.” Performances are scheduled at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 26, and Saturday, March 28, in Holmes Student Center Diversions Lounge Theatre. The play stars its author, NIU writing instructor Loren...
It took a British playwright and satirist named Peter Barnes to find humor in one of the darkest events in all of human history. Opening Thursday, March 26, the NIU School of Theatre and Dance presents Barnes’ “Red Noses,” a darkly comedic take on the five-year period when the Bubonic Plague, or Black Death, decimated...
Great Depression
The Great Depression was named so for a reason. As the backdrop to its next theater performance offering, the NIU School of Theatre and Dance’s upcoming production of “Awake and Sing!” presents the idea that before the nation’s current economic woes, there were once greater ones. “Awake and Sing!” by Clifford Odets, follows the Bergers,...
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Love and relationships in the tumultuous late 1960s is the focus of the next NIU theater production, opening Thursday, Feb. 12, and running through Sunday, Feb. 15. The School of Theatre and Dance will present “Lovers and Other Strangers” by Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna and guest directed by NIU alumna Kerry Perrella. “Both playwrights...
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“Wickedly funny and intensely dark,” is how director Kay Martinovich describes the upcoming Northern Illinois University School of Theatre and Dance production of Martin McDonagh’s “A Skull in Connemara,” opening Thursday, Jan. 29. Faculty member Martinovich is well-suited to direct a play by an Irish playwright, as she has spent the majority of her professional...
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Ready for a bit of musical theater insanity? The Tony Award-winning musical by Peter Weiss, “Marat/Sade,” which opens Thursday, Oct. 23, presents the story of inmates in a lunatic asylum who want to present a play about an assassination. Several years after the end of the French Revolution, the inmates of the lunatic asylum of...
Time Stands Still
For its first offering of its 2014-15 Mainstage Series season, the NIU School of Theatre and Dance will present “Time Stands Still” by Pulitzer-winning playwright David Margulies. Directed by faculty member Patricia Ridge, “Time Stands Still” takes place against a backdrop of the war in Iraq, though it is not a story about warfare or...
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“One would think that Shakespeare had the college audience in mind when developing ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost,’ a play about young adults torn between a life of the mind and a life of pleasure,” says Lara Crowley, an NIU assistant professor of English. Opening Thursday, April 10, in the Holmes Student Center Diversions Lounge, the School...
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“It’s true that it’s a coming of age story, but it’s a little more than that. It’s the coming of age story of an artist,” Director Patricia Skarbinski said about her upcoming theater production, “Look Homeward, Angel,” based on the novel of the same name by author Thomas Wolfe. Opening Thursday, March 27, the Northern...
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NIU’s School of Theatre and Dance will present “Intimate Apparel” by award winning playwright Lynne Nottage. The play runs Thursday, Feb. 13, through Sunday, Feb. 16, in the Holmes Student Center Diversion Lounge on the NIU campus. Performances will start at 7:30 p.m. weekdays and Saturdays and at 2 p.m. Sunday. Set in 1905 New...
“We’re not trying to justify a murderer but rather to understand him,” Director Alexander Gelman says about the Northern Illinois University School of Theatre and Dance’s upcoming play, “Woyzeck.” Opening Thursday, Feb. 20, “Woyzeck” tells the story of Franz Woyzeck, a lowly German soldier and wig maker who is slowly driven to insanity and who...
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“We’ve laughed our way through rehearsals,” Patricia Ridge says of her upcoming theater production of “The Underpants” at NIU. “There are a lot of fun surprises along the way.” Adapted from Carl Sternheim’s classic farce, “Die Hose,” by renowned comedian and actor Steve Martin, “The Underpants” is a fast-paced comedy that will kick off the School...
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