Theatre

Valparaiso High School Drama Club presents VHS Telethon! The scripted “telethon” was, in other words, April Antics 2016! On Friday, April 22, at 7:00 pm in the Valparaiso High School auditorium, talented students took the stage and wowed the...

Complete with a knife-wielding Little Red Riding Hood, a Rapunzel that chokes on her extremely long hair, and a student in a cow costume, Portage High School’s “Into the Woods” had the audience laughing from start to finish. Directed by Kevin...

Over ninety years ago prohibition, flappers, and speakeasies existed in the town of Porter. In the days of Capone, secret casinos and bootleggers parties were thrown with extravagance. Taking a note from the past, Chicago Street Theatre brought the...

Mr. VHS is a time honored tradition at Valparaiso High School, but with this year’s pageant modeled after the country’s current election season 18 senior boys were competing to be crowned President Mr. VHS. Participants were sponsored by their...

Family News! Our La Crosse co-director/producer Molly Hilligoss welcomed a baby boy this week, arriving at 8lbs 2oz, 19 3/4 inches! Congratulations to the whole family! Chicago alum Hyacynth Worth and her husband John are rejoicing over the the...

NIETF is pleased to announce the cast of the 2016 This is My Brave Chicagoland! This is My Brave is a live storytelling event with real life stories of mental illness. These cast members have chosen to ‪#‎LiveBrave‬ by telling their story in...

On a very special night before the Valparaiso Memorial Opera House’s production of The Wizard of Oz, the cast invited a special guest to their warm ups: the world’s biggest Oz fan. Ryan Gagliardi and his mother got VIP treatment, a prop from the...

On the front of the ‘Harlem: A Black History Celebration’ program for Wirt-Emerson Visual Performing Arts Academy, there’s a quote from poet Langston Hughes that reads: “An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must...

Have you ever had breakfast with a scarecrow? It’s a wonderful time, and you must know, That lions love to dine in the morning time With tin men and young ladies in tow. There is one girl of which I speak. She had a terribly unlucky streak. Her...

The Memorial Opera House has stood the test of time and is one of Valparaiso’s proudest achievements. Known and loved by many in the region, the Opera House is finally getting some much needed upgrades that will exponentially accentuate the...