These works provide opportunities to reflect, to illuminate voices and viewpoints, and to help us be inspired and shine on during these socially distanced times.
We invite you to engage with us this fall, take part and share your thoughts and feedback about our programs (before, during and after) so we can respond as we finalize our winter and spring programs. We plan to share details about our winter quarter programs in December to reflect the most current guidance related to the pandemic.
All three of our fall works (Visions and Voices fall reading "Wine in the Wilderness.," Antigone NOW and Call and Response) are available as a package to our patrons for only $30 (general public) and $15 for full-time, non-NU students. Fall performances are free to all Northwestern students with a valid NU e-mail address who complete the required registration form on the Wirtz Center website.
Patrons who have a credit on file from a canceled show earlier this year will be able to apply the credit to this fall or subsequent quarter packages in 2021.
A hallmark of the Wirtz Center is collaboration, bringing people together, creating a sense of connection and sharing and reveling in the joy of the arts as a community. As we have reimagined our fall productions, we have collaborated with our faculty, taken into account the realities of the pandemic, and importantly have provided tailored opportunities for our students to practice their learning in a safe and professional space with the benefit of an engaged audience that goes beyond their peers.
We very much appreciate your dedication to the Wirtz Center and to our students, staff and faculty. Thank you for your continued support.
Sincerely,
Al Heartley, Managing Director
Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts
BUY YOUR FALL TICKET PACKAGE: ALL 3 FOR $30
NOVEMBER 6 - 8
Available On-Demand via Vimeo
Included in the Fall 2020 package
The Black Playwrights' Reading Series presented by the Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts and features first year Master of Fine Arts directing students and undergraduate and graduate actors. The three plays were chosen by the directors in consultation with faculty and the center’s managing director from among hundreds and hundreds of scripts some which are familiar and others that deserve a wider audience and center around Racism in America, Police Brutality, Anti-Blackness, the Fight for Justice, and the Celebration of Black Lives. Play readings include:
Nov. 6-8: Wine in the Wilderness by Alice Childress, directed by Jasmine B. Gunter
Run time: 90 minutes, a talk back is planned, details to come
WINTER QUARTER - (Not yet on sale.)
Jan. 22, 2021: A Few Short Plays to Save The World and What You Did by Steve Harper, directed by Tor Campbell
Feb. 12, 2021: The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World AKA the Negro Book of the Dead by Suzan Lori-Parks, directed by Manna Middlebrooks.
Questions? Questions? Please e-mail our audience service team at wirtz@northwestern.edu or call 847-491-7282 Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. We appreciate your patience while our team works remotely. The Wirtz Center Box Office is currently closed for in person service.
Tickets are only being sold as a package and tickets for individual shows are not available.
NOVEMBER 12 - 19
Available On-Demand via Vimeo
Run time: 20 minutes, talk back planned details to come
Included in the Fall 2020 package
In the midst of a bombed-out city still feeling the aftershocks of war, the rebellious and intense Antigone defies her uncle to bury her disgraced brother. This contemporary response to the myth of Antigone brings powerful, modern prose to an ancient and universal story. This short screening is made possible by Northwestern Faculty member Roger Ellis who choreographed the piece. The film will be streamed online with a talkback included.
NOVEMBER 20 - 27
Available On-Demand via Vimeo
Run Time: Estimated to be 90 minutes
Included in the fall 2020 package
Artists gotta art. And making art does not stop in the darkest of times because of a pandemic or protests. It shines on. Artists respond, reflect and reckon with this extraordinary moment in history. Join us for Call and Response, a virtual, multi-disciplinary evening of original work created and shared by some of the most talented artists throughout the Northwestern Community. Plans are in progress for a talk back in connection with the performance.