Seven-hundred and thirty seats sit empty in the Englert Theatre, as they have since last March. While seats remain vacant as the coronavirus pandemic continues to prevent audiences from gathering safely,...
Beginning next weekend, University of Iowa actors will dress in corsets, suspenders, and petticoats for the Theatre Department’s spring mainstage production, The People Before the Park. For many...
On Wednesday night, the JACK Quartet concert was streamed live on the University of Iowa School of Music website. The performance featured six pieces written by UI composition students.
JACK Quartet...
Although many theatre lights are still down, Young Footliters Youth Theatre will be lighting up the virtual Zoom stage for the Iowa City community from March 12 to 14, presenting an original play titled...
I believe we all experience a desire to escape sometimes, be it from a job, our school, our families, or any of our different non-glamorous realities. Where do we go when we want to escape, and what...
For her 13th birthday, Rachel Cox received a simple but important gift — a Polaroid camera. Immediately, she was hooked. Pursuing a lifelong passion for photography ever since, Cox said her art has...
The loss of spring break hit hard at the University of Iowa campus, joining many other universities, such as Purdue and Yale. Students are feeling burnt out because of piling assignments and the approach...
As a trans individual, playwright Matthew Neal noticed the lack of trans stories in mainstream media. This observation led the third-year theatre arts major to write his play, “Skeleton Closet,”...
In the streaming glow of blue and red lights, singer-songwriter Jordan Sellergren and guitarist Randall Davis opened their 30-minute pre-recorded show with the song, “My Ego is An Eagle” on Englert’s...
Awkward situations, racist remarks, and class in America; these are all aspects of modern culture that author Kiley Reid wanted to explore when she began writing her 2019 debut novel, Such a Fun Age, a...
Citrus Sunday lead singer Travis Siegel once told The Daily Iowan that an album for the band would rise “from the ashes.” The pandemic-born LP, entitled First Light, will release on March 5 with...
Members of the Iowa City community virtually welcomed the Prairie Lights reading experience into their homes on Friday night,
Caryl Pagel, author of Out of Nowhere Into Nothing, spoke with Arena...
