Northwestern University Arts Circle

07/22/2021

July 31 at 7 p.m., American Music Theatre Project presents a never-before-seen concert, featuring songs and videos made by the 2021 cohort of young songwriters from the Johnny Mercer Foundation Songwriters Project.

Collaborating across multiple countries and four different time zones, this group spent a week in June with master teachers Craig Carnelia, Andrew Lippa, and Lindy Robbins, writing and workshopping new material. More info at https://planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/578018

06/15/2021

The Waa-Mu Show is now streaming through June 20 and trust us it's "out of this world." Reservations and more info on The 90th Annual Waa-Mu Show presents: THE SECRET OF CAMP ELLIOTT at https://wirtz.northwestern.edu/waa-mu-show/

05/14/2021

Tune in to the livestream concert from Pick-Staiger stage by the Contemporary Music Ensemble presented by Concerts at Bienen on Friday, May 21 at 7:30 p.m. CDT.

The program closes with Bienen alumna Alex Temple's "The Man Who Hated Everything," a rollicking, genre-bending tribute to—and critique of—Frank Zappa that music critic George Wallace dubbed "a total blazing hoot."

Full details and the link to the livestream here:

This performance will be presented as a live stream. Visit https://www.music.northwestern.edu/live after 7:20 p.m. CDT to view the performance. Ben Bolter, conductor/director Jessie Cox, Quantify Ruud Roelofsen, Memento Mori Alex Temple, The Man Who Hated Everything For its final concert of the seas...

03/31/2021

American Music Theatre Project has been nurturing new music theatre works and training talented singer-songwriters and music-theater makers for 15 years. Chicago Reader looks at the inaugural Capstone Festival set to launch in April.

The new-works program unveils three student-created pieces in this year's online Capstone Festival.

03/04/2021

A 9-year-old boy overcomes challenges of being an outsider in the classroom in this play for young audiences based on the true story of American educational leader and author Tomás Rivera.

02/17/2021

Do you miss visiting The Block Museum of Art? Pop in for one of the Art Talks! Docents in Dialogue online events. At noon, Feb. 26, student docent Brianna Heath, discusses a pair of works from the Block's collection, "She's Mighty, Mighty" (2017) by Deborah Roberts and "Twixt" (from the portfolio AGB encore, 1997) by Jim Nutt. https://planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/572993

02/08/2021

Celebrate Black History Month with Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts's Vision and Voices virtual playreading series. Feb. 12 - 14 MFA directing candidate Manna-Symone Middlebrooks directs Suzan Lori-Parks play The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World AKA the Negro Book of the Dead by. Tickets and more info here:

A woman tries to feed her husband a fried drumstick. Dragons roam a flat earth. The last Black man in the whole entire world dies again. And again. Careening through memory and language, Parks explores and explodes archetypes of Black America with piercing insight and raucous comedy. A riotous theat...

02/04/2021

The Bienen School of Music Contemporary Music Ensemble presents two works by pioneering women composers exploring the role of the individual within a collective setting. Watch the livestream Feb. 5 at 7:30 pm CST: Visit https://www.music.northwestern.edu/live

Join the Contemporary Music Ensemble Friday, February 5 at 7:30 p.m. CST for music of Pauline Oliveros and inti figgis-vizueta, and a conversation with figgis-vizueta about her work: http://spr.ly/6189Hdn3h

01/14/2021

"It's not only the story of Orfeo...but a historical time capsule of the moment." Watch Bienen School of Music director of opera Joachim Schamberger discuss the making of "Orfeo remote," an ambitious new opera miniseries featuring student musicians and singers debuting Jan. 15!

01/07/2021

Northwestern theater students are helping kids cope with pandemic life creatively with stories, songs, crafts and more. Join the National Theatre Washington, D.C. Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts and Northwestern University School of Communication for three episodes of "Saturday Morning Live!" starting Jan. 16.

Beginning Jan. 16, a diverse cast of Northwestern University students and alumni will present Imagine U episodes created for “Saturday Morning Live! at The National Theatre.” Exploring the theme of “Life Now,” the episodes feature stories, songs, movement and crafts created to help families ...

12/01/2020

Stream Bienen School of Music professor Hans Thomalla's opera "Dark Spring" now through Dec. 7. The "corona-staged" production premiered Sept. 11 at National Theater Mannheim.

Based on Frank Wedekind’s 19th-century play “Spring Awakening,”which dramatizes the impact of the oppressive culture of the 19th century on a group of young adults, Thomalla’s opera shifts the focus to the contemporary stigma around mental health issues and provides an ambio-techno soundtrack for the piece.

Dark Spring, a new opera by Professor Hans Thomalla, is now available for streaming on the Mannheim National Theatre website until December 7, 2020.