The Illinois Shakespeare Festival partnered with Illinois State’s Ewing Cultural Center to present ShakesFEAR, a haunted tour through Shakespeare’s most gruesome imagery.
Video: Scary Shakespeare inspires ISU Halloween event
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Video: Sisters share Big Red Marching Machine legacy
Together, the three Vasel sisters are part of an Illinois State marching band tradition that stretches back more than 80 years. Big Red, or BRMM, has 285 members this fall and thousands of alumni.
Video: My experience as an art major at Illinois State
Senior Lucero Aguirre shares what it’s like to be an art major at Illinois State University, from classes to arts clubs to building up your portfolio. Part of our #BirdofMouth video series.
Video: Big Red Marching Machine performs at Fox TV event
Illinois State’s Big Red Marching Machine recently traveled to Shriners Hospital for Children in Chicago to meet patients and promote a new Fox TV show.
Video: Christian Stoinev returns to Illinois State
The Gamma Phi Circus star was in Normal rehearsing for his next appearance but took time out to visit the Thomas Metcalf School and a broadcasting class in Fell Hall.
Much ado about Shakespeare
The Illinois Shakespeare Festival’s 2014 season, starting Friday, July 11, will intertwine its three productions, Much Ado About Nothing, Elizabeth Rex, and Antony and Cleopatra, with original Shakespearean practices.
Video: Fight director shines at Illinois Shakespeare Festival
The professor in Illinois State University’s School of Theatre and Dance is teaching acting majors how to be believable (and safe) while fighting on stage.
Video: Dancer becomes Gamma Phi Circus star
For Jasmine Yu and her dedicated Gamma Phi Circus teammates, what they learn stays with them long after Spring Shows end.
Video: Student designers shine at AMDA Fashion Show
What is your muse? That’s the question that student designers explored as they created looks for the 2013 Apparel Merchandising and Design Association Fashion Show.
ISU’s theatre program prepared Steppenwolf founders
What is now lauded as the nation’s premier ensemble theater had humble beginnings with two Illinois State alums. Terry Kinney ’76 and Jeff Perry ’78 partnered with Gary Sinise to create Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company in the mid-1970s. They did so out of a resolve to continue developing as actors, never anticipating they would ultimately
