The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario RobletoOngoing Evanston What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts? For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations... | Visual Arts | February 2023 | 1675879200 |
Night Side SongsStarting February 11, 2023 Chicago “Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.” – Susan Sontag Yasmine Holly i... | Theatre and Dance | February 2023 | 1676165400 |
Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)Starting February 23, 2023 Evanston Joachim Schamberger, director; Andrew Bisantz, guest conductor; Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra A handsome prince and an abducted princess are caught between the warring forces of the Quee... | Music | February 2023 | 1677202200 |
Imagine U: The Snowy Day and Other Stories By Ezra Jack KeatsStarting February 24, 2023 Evanston Adapted for the stage by Jerome HairstonBased on the book by Ezra Jack KeatsDirected by Detra Payne The wonder of a fresh snowfall, the delight of whistling for the first time, being inclusive in one’... | Theatre and Dance | February 2023 | 1677286800 |
Danceworks 2023: Nostalgia in the NightStarting March 3, 2023 Evanston What do cabarets, 1960s surf movies, gritty partnering, and flesh-centric activism have in common? Danceworks 2023: “Nostalgia for the Night” asks how memory, imagination and camaraderie can guide us ... | Theatre and Dance | March 2023 | 1677893400 |
Imagine U: The Snowy Day and Other Stories By Ezra Jack KeatsStarting March 5, 2023 Evanston Adapted for the stage by Jerome Hairston Based on the book by Ezra Jack Keats Directed by Detra Payne The wonder of a fresh snowfall, the delight of whistling for the first time, being inclusive in on... | Theatre and Dance | March 2023 | 1678046400 |
Evanston Dance Ensemble: The Lion, the Witch and the WardrobeStarting March 9, 2023 Evanston The magical world of Narnia returns with theEvanston Dance Ensemble’s unforgettable productionof The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. This performance uses original music, beautiful costumes, and exc... | Theatre and Dance | March 2023 | 1678411800 |
IndecentStarting April 21, 2023 Evanston By Paula Vogel Directed by Kelsey Leigh Ervi Indecent, a deeply moving play with music, inspired by the true events surrounding the controversial 1923 Broadway debut of Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance ... | Theatre and Dance | April 2023 | 1682123400 |
IndecentStarting April 21, 2023 Evanston By Paula Vogel Directed by Kelsey Leigh Ervi Indecent, a deeply moving play with music, inspired by the true events surrounding the controversial 1923 Broadway debut of Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance ... | Theatre and Dance | April 2023 | 1682123400 |
MFA Collaboration Series: SweatStarting April 28, 2023 Evanston By Lynn Nottage Directed by Tor Campbell This Pulitzer Prize-winning play examines race, class, and the costs of capitalism. In once prosperous Rust Belt town, a group of friends spend their lives sha... | Theatre and Dance | April 2023 | 1682728200 |
The Waa-Mu ShowStarting April 28, 2023 Evanston Northwestern’s oldest theatrical tradition, The Waa-Mu Show, provides undergraduates with an unparalleled education in new musical theatre development. More than 100 students participate every year as... | Theatre and Dance | April 2023 | 1682728200 |
EverybodyStarting May 19, 2023 Evanston By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Directed by Katie Lupica This modern riff on the fifteenth-century morality play Everymanfollows Everybody (who is chosen from amongst the cast by lottery at each performance... | Theatre and Dance | May 2023 | 1684542600 |
MFA Collaboration Series: SandblastedStarting May 26, 2023 Evanston By Charly Evon Simpson Directed by Manna-Symone Middlebrooks Angela and Odessa are searching for something that might not be real, but they are determined to make a way out of no way. They seek out Ad... | Theatre and Dance | May 2023 | 1685147400 |
Warnock Lecture Series: Emine Fetvaci (Boston College), "The Wonder of Paper Joinery at the Ottoman Court"February 8, 2023 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston This talk will examine a stunning example of paper cutting and joining prepared by the Ottoman courtier, album maker, and "paper joiner" Kalender Pasha (d. 1616). The folio’s aesthetic qualities help ... | Visual Arts | February 2023 | 1675897200 |
RESIDUE (2020) with filmmaker Merawi GerimaFebruary 9, 2023 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Evanston Drawing from his upbringing, Merawi Gerima’s debut feature film RESIDUE (2020) follows a young filmmaker returning to Washington DC’s Q Street, a community that raised him, to find it nearly unrecogni... | Film | February 2023 | 1675990800 |
X: THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES (1963) on 35mmFebruary 10, 2023 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Evanston Roger Corman’s visionary sci-fi classic follows a scientist (Ray Milland) who develops eyedrops that allows him to see beyond the spectrum of visible light, penetrating mysteries of the human body and... | Film | February 2023 | 1676077200 |
Contemporary Music EnsembleFebruary 10, 2023 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Alan Pierson and Ben Bolter, conductors; Jennifer Huang, graduate assistant conductor; Emily Levin and Michelle Gott, harp Dallas Symphony Orchestra principal harpist Emily Levin and Michelle Gott, a... | Music | February 2023 | 1676079000 |
Symphonic BandFebruary 10, 2023 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Shawn Vondran, conductor; Schyler Adkins, doctoral assistant conductor The Symphonic Band’s first concert of the winter brings together multiple art forms, beginning with a celebration of dance. Rob ... | Music | February 2023 | 1676079000 |
Sara Davis Buechner, pianoFebruary 11, 2023 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Part of the Skyline Piano Artist Series Sara Davis Buechner, piano Lauded for her “intelligence, integrity and all-encompassing technical prowess” (New York Times) and “thoughtful artistry in the full... | Music | February 2023 | 1676165400 |
Northwestern University Jazz Orchestra: The Music of Wayne ShorterFebruary 14, 2023 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Derrick Gardner, conductor Jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader Wayne Shorter rose to prominence in the late 1950s as a member of, and composer for, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. He later ... | Music | February 2023 | 1676424600 |
Shamanic Cinema: Trance as Resistance with Colectivo Los IngrávidosFebruary 15, 2023 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Evanston "Shamanic Cinema: Trance as Resistance" brings together six short films by the Mexican independent artist group Colectivo Los Ingrávidos which depict what they call the “violent relational trance of o... | Film | February 2023 | 1676509200 |
Dover QuartetFebruary 15, 2023 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston This concert has been relocated from Pick-Staiger Concert Hall to Galvin Recital Hall. The Dover Quartet’s residency is sponsored in part by the generous support of the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation.... | Music | February 2023 | 1676511000 |
Reading with Kao Kalia Yang, Distinguished Visiting Writer-in-ResidenceFebruary 16, 2023 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston Please join us for a reading with Kao Kalia Yang at 5pm in University Hall, 201! Kao Kalia Yang is a Hmong-American writer. She is the author of the memoirs The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir,... | Literary Arts | February 2023 | 1676588400 |
Percussion EnsembleFebruary 16, 2023 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston She-e Wu, director Clay Condon, Fractalia Nina Young, Etched in Sand Mike Burritt, Fandango 13 Andy Akiho, Pillar VII Alejandro Viñao, "Hommage to Nancarrow" from Estudios de Frontera Joseph Blah... | Music | February 2023 | 1676597400 |
Saxophone EnsembleFebruary 16, 2023 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Taimur Sullivan, director Vibrant new works composed for saxophones, including the world premiere of Hawk’s Nest by Berlin Prize winner Laura Schwendinger and Portal by Lawrence Dillon, plus the US pr... | Music | February 2023 | 1676597400 |
OUR VOICE OF EARTH, MEMORY & FUTURE (1981)February 17, 2023 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Evanston “The land belongs to those who work it, not the thieves who stole it.” --Nuestra Voz An essential yet underseen work of Latin American political cinema, NUESTRA VOZ DE TIERRA, MEMORIA Y FUTURO (Our Vo... | Visual Arts | February 2023 | 1676682000 |
Symphonic Wind EnsembleFebruary 17, 2023 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Mallory Thompson, conductor On the subject of her work Magneticfireflies, Augusta Read Thomas explains, “One of the main intentions of this music is the juxtaposition between stark, bold, individual c... | Music | February 2023 | 1676683800 |
VioletFebruary 17, 2023 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM, Evanston Music by Jeanine Tesori Lyrics and book by Brian Crawley Based on “The Ugliest Pilgrim” by Doris Betts Directed by Mikael Burke As a girl, Violet was struck by a wayward axe blade when her father was ... | Theatre and Dance | February 2023 | 1676683800 |
Science on Screen: FIRST MAN (2018)February 18, 2023 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Evanston Damien Chazelle’s meticulously-realized film follows astronaut Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling) and wife Janet (Claire Foy) on the long and difficult path that led from the death of their daughter Karen ... | Film | February 2023 | 1676746800 |
Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal EnsembleFebruary 18, 2023 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Andrew Megill, guest conductor; Charles Foster, keyboard One of America’s leading choral musicians, Andrew Megill returns to lead a program on the eve of Lent—a season rich in introspective works from... | Music | February 2023 | 1676770200 |
VioletFebruary 18, 2023 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM, Evanston Music by Jeanine Tesori Lyrics and book by Brian Crawley Based on “The Ugliest Pilgrim” by Doris Betts Directed by Mikael Burke As a girl, Violet was struck by a wayward axe blade when her father was ... | Theatre and Dance | February 2023 | 1676770200 |
Chicago Saxophone DayFebruary 19, 2023 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, Evanston Bienen saxophone professor Taimur Sullivan and Dr. J. Michael Weiss-Holmes (Roosevelt University) co-lead a whirlwind day of master classes, clinics, and recitals. This year’s featured guest artist is... | Music | February 2023 | 1676818800 |
A Mirror is Not a Window: Roe Versus WadeFebruary 19, 2023 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Evanston A reading of a new play by award-winning novelist, non-fiction writer and playwright Sarah Schulman, directed by Obie-winner Lisa Peterson. Two women, the lawyer and the plaintiff, argued the case for... | February 2023 | 1676833200 | |
VioletFebruary 19, 2023 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, Evanston Music by Jeanine Tesori Lyrics and book by Brian Crawley Based on “The Ugliest Pilgrim” by Doris Betts Directed by Mikael Burke As a girl, Violet was struck by a wayward axe blade when her father was ... | Theatre and Dance | February 2023 | 1676836800 |
Guitar EnsembleFebruary 19, 2023 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM, Evanston Anne Waller, director Music for guitar soloists, duos, trios, and full ensemble. | Music | February 2023 | 1676838600 |
Baroque Music Ensemble: Classical LightningFebruary 19, 2023 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Stephen Alltop, conductor The talented members of the Baroque Music Ensemble once again venture into the early Classical period in notably virtuosic concertos and symphonies by C. P. E. Bach, Joseph H... | Music | February 2023 | 1676856600 |
LOVE, WOMEN & FLOWERS (1989)February 23, 2023 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Evanston Filmed over the course of five years, AMOR, MUJERES & FLORES is a two-part documentary by Colombian duo Marta Rodriguéz and Jorge Silva exposing the harmful working environment of flower cultivation l... | Film | February 2023 | 1677200400 |
VioletFebruary 23, 2023 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM, Evanston Music by Jeanine Tesori Lyrics and book by Brian Crawley Based on “The Ugliest Pilgrim” by Doris Betts Directed by Mikael Burke As a girl, Violet was struck by a wayward axe blade when her father was ... | Theatre and Dance | February 2023 | 1677202200 |
DRY GROUND BURNING (2022) with filmmaker Joana PimentaFebruary 24, 2023 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Evanston A visionary hybrid of documentary and science-fiction, DRY GROUND BURNING takes place in an alternate present, in which a group of outlaw women dares to pirate, refine, and distribute petrol in the fa... | Film | February 2023 | 1677283200 |
VioletFebruary 24, 2023 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM, Evanston Music by Jeanine Tesori Lyrics and book by Brian Crawley Based on “The Ugliest Pilgrim” by Doris Betts Directed by Mikael Burke As a girl, Violet was struck by a wayward axe blade when her father was ... | Theatre and Dance | February 2023 | 1677288600 |
VioletFebruary 25, 2023 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, Evanston Music by Jeanine Tesori Lyrics and book by Brian Crawley Based on “The Ugliest Pilgrim” by Doris Betts Directed by Mikael Burke As a girl, Violet was struck by a wayward axe blade when her father was ... | Theatre and Dance | February 2023 | 1677355200 |
Álvaro Pierri, guitarFebruary 25, 2023 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Part of the Segovia Classical Guitar Series Álvaro Pierri, guitar “Fluent technique, golden tone and singing musicality poured from his guitar. Pierri matched panache with reflectiveness and superb rh... | Music | February 2023 | 1677375000 |
VioletFebruary 25, 2023 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM, Evanston Music by Jeanine Tesori Lyrics and book by Brian Crawley Based on “The Ugliest Pilgrim” by Doris Betts Directed by Mikael Burke As a girl, Violet was struck by a wayward axe blade when her father was ... | Theatre and Dance | February 2023 | 1677375000 |
VioletFebruary 26, 2023 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, Evanston Music by Jeanine Tesori Lyrics and book by Brian Crawley Based on “The Ugliest Pilgrim” by Doris Betts Directed by Mikael Burke As a girl, Violet was struck by a wayward axe blade when her father was ... | Theatre and Dance | February 2023 | 1677441600 |
Concert BandFebruary 26, 2023 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston Daniel J. Farris, conductor Talented students from across the Northwestern campus present a concert of band standards. | Music | February 2023 | 1677445200 |
Jazz Small Ensembles: Composition 1402—New BeginningFebruary 27, 2023 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Derrick Gardner and Kevin Fort, conductors An evening of brand new compositions and arrangements by jazz studies students. | Music | February 2023 | 1677547800 |
Patrice Michaels and FriendsFebruary 28, 2023 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Patrice Michaels, soprano and composer; Julian Velasco, saxophone; the Cavatina Duo (Eugenia Moliner, flute and Denis Azabagic, guitar); Nick Photinos, cello; Jason Carlson, Alan Darling, and Kuang-Ha... | Music | February 2023 | 1677634200 |
FOG LINE (1970) and HORIZONS (1973) with filmmaker Larry GottheimMarch 1, 2023 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, Evanston A key figure in American avant-garde cinema since the 1970s, Larry Gottheim has influenced countless filmmakers, both through his patient, sensuous 16mm films, and through his role in founding the Cin... | Film | March 2023 | 1677718800 |
GIUSEPPINA (1960) and THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (1964)March 2, 2023 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM, Evanston The two films in this program offer brightly-hued glimpses of the optimistic image that oil companies sought to project into the popular imagination of the 1950s and 60s. Commissioned by British Petro... | Film | March 2023 | 1677803400 |
ONE IMAGE, TWO ACTS (2020) with filmmaker Sanaz SohrabiMarch 3, 2023 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Evanston ONE IMAGE, TWO ACTS with filmmaker Sanaz Sohrabi (SANAZ SOHRABI, 2020, 44 MIN, DIGITAL) IN PERSON: SANAZ SOHRABI In ONE IMAGE, TWO ACTS, Montreal-based Iranian filmmaker Sanaz Sohrabi draws on the p... | Film | March 2023 | 1677891600 |
University Chorale: A Simple SongMarch 4, 2023 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, No Location A. J. Keller, conductor This winter, University Chorale explores the simpler side of choral music, with a program exploring a variety of traditional and contemporary pieces based on minimal musical ma... | Music | March 2023 | 1677979800 |
PhilharmoniaMarch 5, 2023 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston Robert G. Hasty, conductor Louis Joseph F. Hérold, Overture to Zampa Aram Khachaturian, Masquerade: Suite Sergei Prokofiev, Symphony No. 7 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131 | Music | March 2023 | 1678050000 |
University Singers: a little bird told me...March 5, 2023 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Evanston A. J. Keller, conductor The University Singers’ winter program explores traditional and contemporary selections based on the backbone of Western choral music: Gregorian chant. Their performance featur... | Music | March 2023 | 1678057200 |
Northwestern University Chamber OrchestraMarch 9, 2023 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Robert G. Hasty, conductor; Jakyoung Olivia Huh, cello (Northwestern Concerto Competition winner) A program showcasing the works of British composers. William Walton, Façade: Suite No. 2 Edward Elgar,... | Music | March 2023 | 1678411800 |
Bienen Strings EnsembleMarch 10, 2023 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Matthew Sheppard, conductor Talented Bienen School string students present a concert selected from the vast string repertoire. Heinrich von Biber, Battalia Leoš Janáček, Suite for Strings (conducted ... | Music | March 2023 | 1678498200 |
Contemporary Music EnsembleMarch 10, 2023 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Ben Bolter, conductor The Contemporary Music Ensemble’s second concert of the winter quarter features Bienen faculty composer and Wet Ink Ensemble co-director Alex Mincek’s Pendulum VII; Charlie Piper... | Music | March 2023 | 1678498200 |
Northwestern Camerata: A Circle of InfinityMarch 10, 2023 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Victoria Marshall, conductor; Sandy Li, piano; Bienen String Quartet A program for treble voices and strings, including music by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Edward Elgar, Eric Whitacre, and Joby Talbot, as w... | Music | March 2023 | 1678498200 |
Bandini-Chiacchiaretta Duo with the Dalí QuartetMarch 11, 2023 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Part of the Segovia Classical Guitar Series Giampaolo Bandini, guitar; Cesare Chiacchiaretta, bandoneón; Ari Isaacman-Beck and Carlos Rubio, violin; Adriana Linares, viola; Jesús Morales, cello The Ba... | Music | March 2023 | 1678584600 |
Symphonic BandMarch 11, 2023 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Shawn Vondran, conductor The Symphonic Band’s second winter-quarter concert takes a musical tour around the world, starting in Havana with George Gershwin’s Cuban Overture before traversing the globe ... | Music | March 2023 | 1678584600 |
Unheard-of//Ensemble: An Evening of World PremieresMarch 11, 2023 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Ford Fourqurean, clarinet; Matheus Souza and Erica Dicker, violin; Iva Casian-Lakoš, cello; Daniel Anastasio, piano New York-based contemporary chamber group Unheard-of//Ensemble is dedicated to the d... | Music | March 2023 | 1678584600 |
SOLD OUT: Yefim Bronfman, pianoApril 2, 2023 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston This event has sold out. Part of the Skyline Piano Artist Series Yefim Bronfman, piano “Bronfman is well known as a powerhouse pianist with a tone of crystalline clarity.” –Los Angeles Times Widely pr... | Music | April 2023 | 1680465600 |
Manuel Barrueco, guitarApril 8, 2023 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Part of the Segovia Classical Guitar Series Manuel Barrueco, guitar “A warmth and a singing quality that would undoubtedly have made Segovia smile.” –New York Times During three decades of concertizin... | Music | April 2023 | 1681000200 |
American Pianistic TreasuresMay 5, 2023 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Part of the 2022-23 Keyboard Conversations series Jeffrey Siegel, piano Hallmarks of American musical style, including the rarely heard solo piano transcription of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue a... | Music | May 2023 | 1683333000 |
Waa-Mu: Behind the CurtainMay 6, 2023 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, Evanston Led by Dr. Ryan T. Nelson, School of Communication Part of the IMAGINE U series for young audiences, geared toward children and their families. An interactive musical exploration for young audiences! ... | Theatre and Dance | May 2023 | 1683399600 |
Warnock Lecture Series: Michael Yonan (University of California Davis), "The Bavarian Rococo, the Outlier of Eighteenth-Century Art"May 17, 2023 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, Evanston Bavarian rococo art and architecture has long received both attention and derision from art historians. It is incredibly sophisticated in design and seemingly totally out of sync with the broader narr... | Visual Arts | May 2023 | 1684360800 |
Stewart Goodyear, pianoMay 26, 2023 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Evanston Part of the Skyline Piano Artist Series Stewart Goodyear, piano Proclaimed "a phenomenon" by the Los Angeles Times and "one of the best pianists of his generation" by the Philadelphia Inquirer, Stewar... | Music | May 2023 | 1685147400 |