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DePaul's Student Newspaper — Since 1923

The DePaulia

DePaul's Student Newspaper — Since 1923

The DePaulia

Actors perform during a dress rehearsal for "The 4th Witch" at the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina, in June 2025. The show is loosely inspired by Macbeth.

Witches, Shadows, Sight and Sound: The puppeteers of Manual Cinema

The story of the puppeteers behind Emmy-winning documentary “The Forger,” the credits and flashbacks of “Candyman” (2021) and their own catalogue of original live puppet shows.
Finn Morse, Theater Beat Writer / February 2, 2026
The story of the puppeteers behind Emmy-winning documentary “The Forger,” the credits and flashbacks of “Candyman” (2021) and their own catalogue of original live puppet shows.
Rainn Wilson stars as two different characters in "Doppelganger: (an international farce)" alongside recent DePaul Theatre School graduate Celeste Cooper.
(Photo courtesy of Steppenwolf Theatre)

‘Doppelgänger’ brings farce to Chicago

Zoey Barnes, Focus Editor / April 23, 2018

A recent DePaul graduate walks on stage in front of a completely filled audience, before fluffing pillows on a brown, leather couch center stage and spreading assorted African flora around the room. Not...

Orfeh and cast member Eric Anderson at "Pretty Woman: The Musical" rehearsal. (Photo courtesy of Margie Korshak, INC)

The stage welcomes “Pretty Woman”

Carina Smith, Nation & World Editor / March 12, 2018

A new musical is about to hit the Chicago theater scene, and it’s bound to elicit the memories of the ‘90s. “Pretty Woman: The Musical” is coming to the Oriental Theater on March 13, bringing the...

Borkey on stage in one of her many performances. She has excelled in theater despite not being a student at the Theatre School. (Photo courtesy of Chinese Studies Association)

An improvised life

Meredith Melland / March 5, 2018

The promise of dodgeball and capture the flag during the warm Ohio summer was enough to entice tomboy Christian Borkey to attend theater camp with her three older brothers in the summer after third grade. Borkey...

Kayla Forde as Bart Simpson in "Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play."  (Photo by Michael Brosilow)

“Mr. Burns” and the art of storytelling

April Lane, Assistant Online Editor / February 2, 2018

This weekend, the Theatre School is presenting the last few showings of the post-apocalyptic production, "Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play." Written by playwright Anne Washburn, the three-act play hinges...

Junie B. is back

Junie B. is back

April Lane, Assistant Online Editor / January 26, 2018

This winter, DePaul’s Theatre School is showcasing a theatrical production of “Junie B. Jones Is Not A Crook,” presented by Chicago Playworks for Families and Young Audiences.    The play, written...

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