[Communications] Celebrate nature, see WILD FLOWERS dance and sing!

[Northwestern University | Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts]

Get tickets today!   SAVE YOUR SEATS NOW! April 19 - 28 Experience the magic of the prairie – flowers dance, animals hop, grasses sway Co-created by Julie Marie Myatt and Jessica Thebus with members of the Northwestern community A theatrical ritual of communal healing, this multi-disciplinary piece is inspired by the first field guide for flowers in America called How to Know the Wild Flowers by Mrs. William Starr Dana (Frances Theodora Parsons). It was published in 1893, three years after the Russian flu pandemic of 1890 took the life of Frances’ husband. Frances' long walks in the woods cataloging wildflowers allowed her to heal her grief.  Surrounding Frances' story is the modern-day story of four young adults, and their own personal journeys through the timeless beauty of the prairie toward peace and rejuvenation. Drawing from Frances' life story, the rich poetic language of her guidebook, and contemporary stories and songs of nature, this is a buoyant celebration of the beauty surrounding and sustaining us as we journey toward healing. Friday 4/19 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 4/20 at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, 4/21 at 2 p.m.* Thursday, 4/25 at 7:30 p.m. Friday, 4/26 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 4/27 at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, 4/28 at 2 p.m. Ethel M. Barber Theater 30 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston   GET TICKETS *Special pre-show event at NU's Block Museum of Art! ART TALKS! Actions for the Earth Sunday, April 21 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. The Block Museum 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston Step next door before the show and join Block Museum Student Associates for a closer look at the Block's current exhibition Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology.   Block Museum Student Associates are Northwestern undergraduates representing interdisciplinary fields of study from across the university. They engage the Block’s visitors in conversations about artworks, sparking curiosity and ideas that are relevant to our lives today. Open to all, on a first-come first-served basis.   Save your seats for WILD FLOWERS today! GET TICKETS   See what else is springing to our stages! April 26 - May 5 Now in its 93rd year, the Waa-Mu show features original work written, performed and produced by more than 100 students. This year's work is a unique presentation of three short-form musicals, connected by the poignant exploration of something being Taken Away.    The Art of the Heist is a supernatural tale about an artist who must steal back the last portrait of her late lover. Stolen Thunder reimagines a Greek myth, portraying an epic struggle for power between Zeus and Athena. A Bird's Song transports audiences to a magical forest town where melodies have transformational consequences. This collaboratively shaped trilogy makes for an emotionally resonant, visually spectacular, and multi-faceted look at themes of loss and resilience. Cahn Auditorium, 600 Emerson, Evanston Friday, April 26 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 27 at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 28 at 2 p.m. Friday, May 3 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 4 at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, May 5 at 2 p.m. TICKETS   May 3 - 5 By Tracy C. Davis  Directed by David Catlin  Designed by Marcus Doshi   The Great Sea Serpent portrays the laying of the first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable–a technological feat that revolutionized communications and ushered in global capitalism–and links it with a tale by Hans Christian Andersen that tells of the cable’s arrival from the perspective of sea creatures. This great “serpent” is a marvel to humans, who see it as the birth of the Information age, and a threat to sea life, for whom it portends the arrival of more and more man-made industrial detritus in the sea.  Clare, Lu, ‘n Em Theater, 1949 Campus Drive, Evanston  Friday 5/3 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 5/4 at 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Sunday, 5/5 at 2 p.m. TICKETS   May 17 - 26 By William Shakespeare  Directed by Manna-Symone Middlebrooks   Trickery and magic, romance, and revenge set the stage for one of Shakespeare’s late masterpieces, The Tempest, in which sprites, goddesses, and fools hold court. Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan and now a powerful magician, raises a great storm to wreck the vessel-bearing betrayers on the shores of the mysterious island Prospero has made home. There, attended upon by Miranda, Prospero’s child, a magical sprite, and a villainous prisoner, Prospero leads them through a mysterious dream on a course from vengeance to reconciliation.  Josephine Louis Theater, 20 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston Friday, 5/17 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 5/18 No performance Sunday, 5/19 at 2 p.m. Thursday, 5/23 at 7:30 p.m. Friday, 5/24 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 5/25 at 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Sunday 5/26 at 2 p.m. TICKETS   Questions? E-mail our audience services team at wirtz at northwestern.edu or call 847-491-7282. The Wirtz Center Box Office is located in the Barber Theater lobby, 30 Arts Circle Drive. Tickets to current productions can be purchased wirtz.northwestern.edu. Northwestern University | Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts | 10 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 Unsubscribe communications at chicagocommunitygardens.org Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice Sent by wirtz at northwestern.edu
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