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Enlow (Amalia Balash) unknowingly sells a leather music box as a musical candy box and then performs “No More Candy.”

‘She Loves Me’ closes doors after two-week showing

Asha Hoak, Reporter November 12, 2024

“She Loves Me” performed its final show at the Doudna Fine Arts Center Sunday afternoon.   The love drama invoked audible gasps and oohs and ahhs, rife with passion, betrayal and humor.   The...

Grupo Bella vocalist Vanessa Ramirez sings during Grupo Bella's performance in the Dvorak Concert Hall in the Doudna Fine Arts Center Saturday evening.

Grupo Bella brings crowd to feet to dance

Asha Hoak, Reporter October 29, 2024

Latin spirit lit up the stage as five performers of the ensemble Grupo Bella performed on stage in the Dvorak Concert Hall last Saturday night.   The rich songs of the three vocalists roared across...

Ali Ewoldt, Teri Hansen, Ben Micheal and Robert Sims sing "The Time Of My Life " from Dirty Dancing at the Broadway A-Z performance in the Doudna Fine Arts Center Saturday.

Broadway makes its way to Charleston

Alexis Moore-Jones, Feature Reporter September 8, 2024

Drenched in the piercing red overhead light, the pianist for the evening opened the show with the iconic melody from “The Phantom of the Opera.”  The rich notes floating off the piano were enough...

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Hilary Abigana is hoisted up while playing the flute during  the final song of the night labeled as "Straw Yellow" ("La Escoba" traditional by arr. Terry L. Baldrige) "Fruit Flies Like a Banana" at The Theatre in Doudna Fine Arts Center Saturday. During the show, the group integrates acrobatics and dances, while having ample audience engagement.

The Fourth Wall flies into Doudna

Luke Brewer, Reporter August 26, 2024

Over the weekend, a night full of whimsical fun and musical performance filled the Doudna Fine Arts Center as The Fourth Wall kicked off Doudna’s 2024-2025 Premier Events with its performance “Fruit...

The Pulitzer Prize finalist play “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” by Sarah Ruhl is coming to Eastern Thursday and will play until Sunday.

‘Dead Man’s Cell Phone’ to premiere at EIU

Cam'ron Hardy, News Editor March 6, 2024

The Pulitzer Prize finalist play “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” by Sarah Ruhl is coming to Eastern Thursday.  Anne Thibault is not only the director of the play but also teaches acting and directing...

From right Mandy Transon, a senior early childhood special education major, locks hands with Rachel Wisner, a sophomore accounting major, at the end of their duet "The Other Side" from "The Greatest Showman" by Hugh Jackman and Zac Efron during the second dress rehearsal Wednesday at The Theatre at the Doudna Fine Arts Center. The two codirected the show and came up with the show's theme "Time of our Lives" because Transon is graduating and has had the time of her life and Wisner is just now starting to have the time of her life.

EIU dancers present “Time of Our Lives”

Alli Hausman, Copy Chief February 10, 2024

With a flash of the lights, a tap of a shoe and a roll of the body, the EIU dancers took to the stage in the Doudna Fine Arts Center, performing its annual spring showcase.   The show, titled “Time...

Composer Chin Ting Chan performing his piece titled "52 Blue"

Bradley Decker hosts annual Napoleon Electric Music Festival

Alexis Moore-Jones, Feature Reporter February 1, 2024

Driven by his passion for electronic music, eastern professor Bradley Decker orchestrated this year’s Napoleon Electronic Music Festival.  On Tuesday, Jan. 30, 25 selected composers from the U.S....

Lead vocal/ Harmonia of Kashmir Jean Violet. Kashmir was created by vocalist Jean Violet back in 2000. The band is planning on performing at nine  different location during this tour.

Led Zeppelin tribute band coming to Doudna in sold-out show

Chandler Smith, Reporter January 18, 2024

Bringing Eastern's campus back to the 1970s would be a challenge, but this Led Zeppelin tribute band hopes to give everyone the experience of seeing Led Zeppelin live like back then.    The tribute...

A lone student practices in the abnormally empty Dvorak Concert Hall at the Doudna Fine Arts Center. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, performances like "Composers's Forum," "Missoula Children's Theatre," "Spring Bloom" by the Eastern Symphony Orchestra, and a combination concert of Eastern's jazz, orchestra, concert band, and symophnic band were canceled.

What’s hitting the Doudna stages this semester

Gunnar Olson, Reporter January 16, 2024

A 15-time Grammy nominee and a world traveling Celtic rock group are just the tip of the iceberg for the upcoming performances coming to the Doudna Fine Arts Center at Eastern this semester. There...

Karrin Estes sings while Jacob Ramage plays the guitar to Ramage’s composition titled "Home."

Composers’ Forum shows students’ semester-long work

Alli Hausman, Reporter December 11, 2023

The Composers’ Forum was hosted at Doudna Fine Arts Center on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. to showcase the work of this semester’s composition students.  The performance featured the compositions of five...

The cast of Children of Eden hold out their arms mid performance at Doudna Fine Arts Center Sunday evening.

Doudna presents Children of Eden

Alli Hausman, Reporter November 6, 2023

Children of Eden opened Thursday night at the Doudna Fine Arts Center to much praise from audiences.  The 30-person cast alongside the orchestra, tech crew, directors, designers and more have been...

From right, Mitchell Cox (Danny), a freshman theatre major, criticizes Benjamin Woolery (Sonny), a rehearsal theatre major, for wearing roller skates to a business meeting during rehearsal for "Xanadu" Sunday evening in The Theatre.

An in-depth examination of “Xanadu”

Luke Taylor, Senior Reporter March 1, 2023

Everybody wants “Xanadu.” That’s according to Larry Cox, an instructor of musical theater and director for this spring’s musical at the Doudna Fine Arts Center. The cast of Eastern’s production...

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