With her version of “The Tempest,” third-year directing graduate student Manna-Symone Middlebrooks offered audiences a newly imagined, contemporary version of Shakespeare’s classic at The Wirtz Center on Friday. The show opened on May 17 and will run until May 26. Middlebrooks crafted this staging of “The Tempest” for her MFA thesis. She said the play,.
In-person theatre performances are back at Northwestern and the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts spent the weekend celebrating. The Wirtz Center hosted “Open House: a Weekend for the Arts at Wirtz” from Friday to Sunday. The event ran for two hours at a time and featured 21 rooms, providing a behind-the-scenes.