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Middle school students watch Mariachi Fuego perform during the Mariachi Festival April 12, 2024, at UIC. The day of mariachi performances and workshops with local students kicked off UIC's first Latin American Music Festival. (Photo: Martin Hernandez/University of Illinois Chicago)

April 15, 2024

Local students take part in mariachi workshops as part of UIC’s first Latin American Music Festival  

Students connect and learn from each other and from professional musicians

Michael Gross attending Theatre 421 class

October 31, 2023

UIC alumnus, ‘Family Ties’ actor Michael Gross donates papers

The television, film and theatrical actor graduated from UIC in 1970 and sponsors the Michael Gross Acting Award for UIC drama students

November 24, 2020

For the School of Theatre & Music, the show must go on, even during a pandemic

Using new technologies to learn and perform online

September 24, 2020

2020-2021 UIC Theatre season offers free shows to the public

All fall shows are being planned as virtual productions and are free

April 22, 2020

UIC’s Lydia Diamond wins Horton Foote Playwriting Award

The author of 12 plays says of UIC, “Our students inspire me daily”

Theatre Season poster opener

October 8, 2019

UIC theatre season remembers instrumental leader

Shows dedicated to the memory of longtime faculty member Anthony Graham-White

June 17, 2019

UIC project helps CPS kids learn science through art, movement

A focus of the joint initiative is to create and disseminate an arts-enriched science learning model that can be adopted nationwide.