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Viterbo Days features Alumni Choir concert

Ava Stoeckly, Arts and Entertainment Editor October 25, 2024

Viterbo University proudly hosted the highly anticipated Alumni Choir concert, a standout event in the lively Viterbo Days celebration on October 12, 2024. This enchanting evening unfolded within the serene...

Sweeny Todd, played by Zach Sullivan and Judge Turpin played by CJ Zimmer

“Sweeny Todd” excites audiences

Ava Stoeckly, Arts and Entertainment Editor October 24, 2024

Immerse yourself by stepping into the shadowy realm of Sweeney Todd, the notorious Demon Barber of Fleet Street at Viterbo University on Oct. 10 through 13, 2024, in the Main heater, under the Conservatory...

Film Club to debut first ever short films

Film Club to debut first ever short films

Braydon Schoeffling, Freelance Writer April 25, 2024

The Viterbo Film Club has been very busy these past few months producing their first ever short films.  They include “We’re Not Laughing at You, We’re Laughing with You,” written by Sophie Fave...

Godspell Rehearsals

Viterbo to present “Godspell” starring Jesus as popstar

Braydon Schoeffling, Freelance Writer April 25, 2024

Prepare ye! The hit 1970’s musical, “Godspell” is hitting the Viterbo Fine Arts Center main stage April 19-21. Directed by conservatory professor Erin Jerozal, “Godspell” tells the story of a...

Art Education students Cheyenne Sanders and Camille Olson

Students hold after-school art workshop  

Gretchen Cortez, Arts and Entertainment Editor March 7, 2024

Viterbo University is holding an afterschool art workshop from Feb. 27 to April 23. It is running every Tuesday from 5:00 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. on the third floor of the Fine Arts Center in room 317. This...

Katie Kostner (Ruthie) makes a bat shadow puppet while rehearsing.

“Bat Boy” Makes for a Bloody Good Show 

Braydon Schoeffling, Freelance Writer March 7, 2024

During the first weekend of March, Viterbo University’s Conservatory for the Performing Arts presented “Bat Boy: The Musical.” The blood-drenched horror show was hosted in the LaCroix Black Box Theatre...

Ceramic Animal Plate and Bowls

Visiting artists featured in “Desk & Table” Show 

Gretchen Cortez, Arts and Entertainment Editor February 16, 2024

On Friday, Feb. 2, visiting artists Frank and Denise Gosar were at Viterbo for the opening night of their show, “Desk & Table.” The reception was held in the third-floor gallery of the Fine Arts...

Cast of Tar Beach. Zach Sullivan on the right, Ruby Brisco and Ellie Parish in the front and Laurelle Bandy and Savannah DeShazo in the back.

Five-student cast performs “Tar Beach” 

Sailor Zarecki, Campus Life Editor February 16, 2024

Performing for a sold-out audience on opening night, Viterbo’s Conservatory for the Performing Arts put on the production of “Tar Beach” in the Black Box Theatre on February 2-4. “Tar Beach”...

Drawing studio converted to second dance studio    

Drawing studio converted to second dance studio    

Gretchen Cortez, Arts and Entertainment Editor December 14, 2023

During summer break this year, Viterbo’s only drawing studio was converted into a dance studio. This new dance studio includes a shiny wood floor. It also includes beams surrounding the floor and large...

Behind the scenes at She Kills Monsters

“She Kills Monsters’” lead actors share insights 

Gretchen Cortez, Arts and Entertainment Editor November 16, 2023

Viterbo’s Conservatory for the Performing Arts is putting on another spectacular show this fall called “She Kills Monsters” by Qui Nguyen. The storyline holds a powerful, dramatic comedy yet steps...

Mexican Folk Art works from a distance.

Mexican Folk Art Collective beams bright at Pump House for Hispanic Heritage Month 

Gretchen Cortez, Arts and Entertainment Editor October 30, 2023

Now through November 4, the Mexican Folk Art Collective Exhibition is up and beaming for Hispanic Heritage Month at La Crosse’s Pump House Regional Arts Center. This exhibition has two focuses, which...

Dance minors in Conservatory’s Dance Kaleidoscope

Dance minors in Conservatory’s Dance Kaleidoscope

Anna Vande Krol, Arts and Entertainment Editor April 30, 2023

“Dance Kaleidoscope,” produced by the Conservatory of the Performing Arts under the direction of Shane Rhoades, is a show where dance minors have the opportunity to choreograph each number in the show....

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