The Freed Center on the Ohio Northern University campus has lined up an impressive selection of performances for the 2017-18 school year.

Here’s a capsule of the first two headliners, both appearing in September. Tickets are available through the Freed Center ticket office or by clicking here

Catapult and the ONU Dance Company
Homecoming - Saturday, Sept. 23, 7:30 p.m.
Biggs Theatre

Catapult is, technically, a shadow dance company. What it really is: a theatrical art form that is an amazingly imaginative combination of dance, story-telling, and sculpture.  Founded in 2009, by Adam Battlestein (choreographer, Creative Director and Master Teaching Artist for Pilobolus Dance Theatre for 19 years), Catapult catapulted to fame on Season 8 of America’s Got Talent, earning their way to the finals of the NBC-TV hit show.

Angels in America
Part 1: Millennium Approaches
By Tony Kushner

Thursday, Sept. 28 - 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 29  - 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 30 - 7:30 p.m.
Freed Center: Stambaugh Studio Theatre
Saturday, Sept. 30  - 2 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 1 – 2 p.m.

Tony Kushner’s 1993 Pulitzer Prize winner has been described as the most influential play of the last 25 years.

Set in 1985 in Manhattan, in the age of Reagan and at the onset of the AIDS epidemic, Kushner’s play faces head on the central crises of American culture. Political, religious and social conflicts underpin a story with extraordinarily compelling characters whose personal crises of love and abandonment interconnect with larger societal questions.