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New Student Convocation 2017
Join us in welcoming new students to Loyola at the Theatre, Music, and Fine Arts Convocation events this fall! -
Summer Registration Begins February 15
Check out which classes the DFPA is offering this summer!
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Loyola Alum Works with Youth to Promote Diversity in Broadway
Osh Ghanimah (BA, BS 2006) is the founder of Broadway for All, a non-profit conservatory that offers tuition-free training to middle and high school students of all income levels and ethnicities.
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DFPA performers at LUMA benefit
DFPA performers will be represented during the LUMA benefit: Divine Decade on Friday, October 9.
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J-Term Registration Begins October 12
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Loyola Partnership with Caring for Our Common Home: Conversations on Ecology & Justice
Join the Loyola University Chicago community on September 9th for a day-long series of events responding to, reflecting upon, and enacting the recent encyclical from Pope Francis on the environment - Laudato Si.
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Loyola student to perform in Crime Scene: Breathe Life
Come see Loyola student Molly Hernandez in Crime Scene: Breathe Life, performed by the Collaboraction Theatre Company. This weekend is the show’s closing weekend, with performances on Thursday and Friday at Loyola Park at 7:00 pm.
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Faculty Update: Director Colin Holman
Over the next few months, Colin Holman, our Director of Orchestra, will be conducting The Fox Valley Orchestra and Concert Band around the city. -
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Faculty Update: Anthony Molinaro
We always love spotlighting the professional work of our DFPA faculty and staff and this week we're proud to announce the upcoming concerts of our Assistant Professor of Music, Anthony Molinaro. -
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Universal Statuary featuring Matthew Groves
The Department of Fine and Performing Arts always love spotlighting the professional work done by our students, faculty, and alumni in Chicagoland. Assistant Professor of Fine Art Matthew Groves will exhibit a solo exhibition entitled ”Universal Statuary” at the Chicago Cultural Center in fall 2013. We've compiled some images of Matt's work on our blog. Click here to view an exclusive interview with the artist. -
Photography Contest
Lights, camera…photo! Loyola University Chicago is pleased to re-launch the Ignatian Heritage Month photography contest November 1–8, 2013, during the first week of Ignatian Heritage Month. -
2014 Annual Student Show Prospectus is Available
2014 Annual Student Show Prospectus is now available for all Fine Arts students.
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Spring 2014 registration begins NOV 4
Registration for Spring 2014 classes begins on NOV 4. Are you ready? Consult this checklist to make the most of your registration experience.
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DFPA Annual Costume Sale
The DFPA will be sponsoring its annual Costume Sale this week on Thursday October 24th from 12-4PM on the first floor of Mundelein.
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Water of Life
MAR 17 | Sun. 3 PM | Madonna della Strada Student music ensembles accompany dance majors in a performance that celebrates the role of water in our lives. Featuring collaborations among the Schola Cantorum, Chamber Choir, University Chorale, and the Women’s Chorus, this event promotes sustainable use of water resources. -
Delia Surratt Concert
MAR 13 & 14 | Wed. 4-5:30PM / Thurs. 7:30-9 PM | Music Hall | Free
Vocal technique professor of the John Felice Rome Center and acclaimed vocal artist, Delia Surratt, will offer a free lecture entitled, Unleashed Emotion: Opera’s Transformation of Sacred Music, and free concert to the public this March. -
More than Naked
JUNE 28 – AUG 10 | Ralph Arnold Annex | Free Reception: JUNE 28 | Fri. 5-6:30 PM | Free Some people choose to shop local. Others eat local. Here at Loyola, we exhibit local with an exhibition of Chicago’s own emerging artists. -
New Plays Festival
APR 27 – 28 | Sat. 7:30 PM / Sun. 5 PM | Newhart Family Theatre | $6
In Loyola’s annual theatre festival, students perform plays written and directed by their peers. Come celebrate the ingenuity of our most creative students as their original works are brought to life before your very eyes. -
Senior Exhibition
APR 20 – JUNE 22 | Ralph Arnold Fine Arts Annex & the Newhart Promenade| Free
Graduating students in the Fine Arts program exhibit recent creations including ceramics, painting, drawing, digital prints, and more. As graduation looms near, students are challenged to create and display an entirely new body of work. -
Bob Newhart '52 featured in Chicago's "TBS Just For Laughs Festival"
Loyola alumnus Bob Newhart '52 will be featured in the annual "TBS Just for Laughs Festival" here in Chicago this month! You can catch the comedy legend at the Chicago Theatre this June 15.
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Visit the Pivot Arts Festival
Learn more about Pivot, a brand new home for innovative music, theater and dance on Chicago’s far north side -
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DFPA Faculty and Alumni Featured in "The Liar"
We are proud to announce that three of our faculty and staff members, as well as two of our alumni, will be working in a new Jeff nominated production, The Liar. -
Audition Information
Looking to audition? Incoming first-year students are now able to register for auditions for the fall semester. Contact James at dfpa@luc.edu with any questions. -
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Gruesome Playground Injuries Auditions
The audition sign-up for the 2 week theater project Gruesome Playground Injuries is now live! -
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Jack Trahey Mustard Seed Scholarship Auditions
Attention incoming students! Information about our Jack Trahey Mustard Seed Scholarship Auditions are now available. John T. Trahey Mustard Seed Scholarships are tuition awards that enable talented students to train in all areas of theatre. -
2014-2015 Second Stage Documents
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2014 Annual Student Art Competition
While it is often the business of students to examine and admire the creative output of professional artists, the tables are turned in the annual student show. Join us Jan 23-Feb 22 in the Ralph Arnold Gallery for our Annual Student Art Competition. -
From the Mississippi Delta
Book your seat today for our 2014 mainstage theatre production of "From the Mississippi Delta"! FEB 21 – MAR 2 | Thurs. – Sat. 7:30 PM / Sun. 2 PM | Newhart Family Theatre | $5 – 20 Preview: FEB 20 | Thurs. 7:30 PM | $5 -
The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow
Book your seat today for our Second Stage Theatre production of Jenny Chow, the story of Jennifer Marcus, the modern-day genius, obsessive-compulsive agoraphobic, and adopted daughter who creates a robot replica of herself to travel across the world in search of her biological mother. -
re-located
Join us for the free opening reception of Jay Wolke's, re-located, on Thursday, February 27th from 5-630PM in the Ralph Arnold Gallery. Re-located is a body of work that attempts to relocate the viewers’ perceptions of image and place. -
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Planning a Visit?
We're now taking reservations for tours for prospective and newly admitted students for the spring semester. Sign up here! -
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James Wesley White, Jr. Scholarship Now Accepting Applications
Attention all upcoming Sophomores and Juniors majoring in Theatre! The James Wesley White, Jr. Scholarship Fund is now accepting applications for the 2014-2015 school year in honor of the late James "Jay" Wesley White, Jr. -
Anthony Molinaro featured in the "Chicago Tribune"
DFPA Assistant Professor of Music, Anthony Molinaro, was featured in the "Chicago Tribune" for his upcoming concerts featuring the music of the Beatles, "Here, There, and Everywhere." -
Past, Present, and Future: The Inaugural Dance Concert
After years of anticipation, months of rehearsal, and a week of tech, we are thrilled to perform Past, Present, and Future: Loyola’s Inaugural Dance Concert this weekend at the Mullady Theatre from February 13 to 16. -
John T. Trahey Mustard Seed Scholarship Renewal
Attention all Mustard Seed Scholarship Recipients! Information about renewing your scholarship is now available. Scholarship re-applications are due on March 31, 2014. -
Directing Scenes and New Play Lab Auditions
Attention students! Auditions for Directing Scenes and New Play Lab are now taking place. Sign up for your time slot today. -
Dance Major Audition Dates
Attention all aspiring dance major students! Information on auditions is now available!
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Weekend of Excellence: Angela Sandall
Angela Sandall fell in love with acting when she was a child—and she’s been on stage ever since. A veteran of several Loyola productions including “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “12th Night,” Sandall also will appear on stage during this year’s Weekend of Excellence when she plays Yum-Yum in “Hot Mikado.” -
Weekend of Excellence Concert 2014
This past weekend, Loyola hosted their annual Weekend of Excellence Awards and for the first time, the show included a concert that featured Loyola's musical groups. Check out some of the pictures from the very successful event! -
McElroy Shakespeare Celebration
On April 15 at 7:30 PM, Loyola’s Departments of English and Theatre collaborate to present the twenty-third annual McElroy Shakespeare Celebration in the Newhart Family Theatre. -
Honors Convocation
Attention graduating seniors! The Honors Convocation would like to recognize YOU! Come join us on April 30th, a day dedicated to acknowledging your accomplishments!
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2015 Senior Exhibition
It's that time of year again! Our annual Senior Exhibition is back and will open with a reception on Saturday, April 18 from 2-5 PM.
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Organ Concert Series June
Join us for June's installment of our Organ Concert Series!
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LUC Dance Theatre in Vietnam
Watch Cloudburst by Eric Witacre performed by the International Choir and Orchestra of Ho Chi Minh City featuring Loyola University's very own Dance Theatre!
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ALUMNI
Bob Newhart, Comedy Icon, Dies at 94
Bob Newhart, the genteel but sharply satirical comic whose TV series “The Bob Newhart Show” and “Newhart” were huge hits throughout the 1970s and ’80s, died Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 94. -VarietyREAD MORE -
In Memoriam: Jonathan Wilson
We are deeply saddened by the death of Professor of Theatre Jonathan Wilson, who passed away suddenly on Sunday, June 23. Professor Wilson’s contributions to Loyola Theatre, to generations of theatre students and theater artists here and across the nation, as well as the world of American Theatre warrant tribute. Our thoughts are with Professor Wilson’s family, friends, and community.
Plans are underway for a memorial hosted by the Department of Fine and Performing Arts in the Fall. Click to read about Professor Wilson and sign up to receive details about the memorial when they are available.
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arts & culture
Fairview sets stage for difficult discussions, dramatic impact
Loyola Today features Fairview in the Arts & Culture section.
"An antique dining table, an upholstered ottoman, and a blanket draped over an armchair with calculated effortlessness. It might look like your great aunt’s house, but it’s the set of Fairview, a Pulitzer prize-winning play by Jackie Sibblies Drury. DeRon Williams, PhD, is directing the show at Loyola this spring." - Vivian Ewing
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Alumni
An Unexpected Calling
Bob Newhart's improbable journey from Loyola business student to American comedy iconREAD -
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In the Media
Recent Mass Reimagined Concert Reviewed by Chicago Classical Review
"Devised and led by conductor Kirsten Hedegaard, co-founder and artistic director of the EcoVoice Project, the program consisted of two works that leveraged the traditional Catholic mass form to comment on global extinction at the hands of humanity. Both pieces were harmonically and contextually modern but assumed differing rhetorical and aesthetic stances to deliver their urgent warning."READ 
Faculty Spotlight
Sandra Kaufmann discusses Martha Graham's "Suite from Appalachian Spring"
Sandra Kaufmann, Founding Director of the Loyola University Chicago Dance Program, brings her deep knowledge of the Graham technique to Kanopy Dance's Graham: In HER Voice, presented this Spring at the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison, WI.
As a Guest Regisseur for Kanopy Dance Company, Sandra uses her extensive performing career with the Martha Graham Dance Company to restage and contextualize Graham's "Suite from Appalachian Spring." The historic work premiered in 1944, exuding optimism and celebration during a time of war and grief. In the 21st Century, "Suite from Appalachian Spring" continues to spark imagination and harbor hope for a more joyous future.
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Faculty Research
Faculty photographs acquired by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
SFMOMA has recently acquired a series of photographs by Associate Professor and Director of Fine Arts, Noritaka Minami. The acquired photos are from Minami's '1972/Accumulations' series, which documents Tokyo's Nakagin Capsule Tower. The building proposed a radical prototype for a new mode of living and Minami's work captures how this vision of the future appears in retrospect.READ MORE -
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Faculty Research
Recent Art History Publications by Dr. Olivia Wolf
Dr. Olivia Wolf, Assistant Professor in Art History, has published several new peer-reviewed texts over the 2022-23 academic year, engaging with both her primary and secondary areas of research in Latin American and Middle Eastern art, respectively.
Most recently, her article, "Transnational traces in the Espigas repository: Bibí Zogbé's artistic production and early critical reception at the Galerías Witcomb (1934-1937)" was published as part of the bilingual Spanish-English Cuadernos series by the Centro de Estudios Espigas / Centro de Investigaciones en Arte y Patrimonio (CONICET-UNSAM). In this article, Wolf examines the creative production and critical framing of Arab-Argentine artist Bibí Zogbé via a series of exhibition catalogs published by the Buenos Aires-based Witcomb Gallery in the 1930s and 40s.
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Alumni
Leading with Music
Loyola alumna Ayanna Williams is on a mission to make high-quality performing arts education accessible to all children.READ -
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Art with Impact: Empathy on Stage
"The point of learning how to make theatre is to do it, and to do it in community, and to do it in service to the world"READ -
In the Media
How College Dancers Can Marry Their Passion to Activism
The Loyola Dance Program and it's student-led Dance Honor Society are featured in a Dance Magazine article that surveys undergraduate programs that merge the arts and social justice.
“Why should I be dancing now? Shouldn’t I be doing something more ‘serious?’ ”
In the midst of a turbulent political climate, racial injustices and a global pandemic, a lot of dancers might find themselves asking the same questions. But rather than abandoning the arts, college dancers are discovering ways to marry their schoolwork with activism, using movement to respond to the world around them.
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