Having the Time of Her Life — Blumey Awards Best Actress Winner Arella Flur Comes Home with the North American Tour of Mamma Mia!
Liz Rothaus Bertrand – Blumenthal Spotlight – May 15, 2024
Whether your interests are on stage or behind-the-scenes, Flur says there are many meaningful ways to be involved as a theater professional.
“Anytime you go to a show, open your playbill and turn to that back page where you see hundreds of tiny little names. All of those people have full-time careers working to bring the show that you’re seeing on stage to life. What you see on stage is only a tiny portion of so much work that happens behind the scenes.”
25th Anniversary North American Tour of Mamma Mia! Recoups in 13 Weeks
Andrew Gans – Playbill – March 4, 2024
The 25th anniversary North American tour of the international hit musical Mamma Mia!— which kicked off October 26, 2023, at the Clemens Center in Elmira, New York—has recouped its $4.25 million investment after just 13 weeks on the road.
MATILDA THE MUSICAL is The Highest Grossing Dolphin Show in the Organization’s 80-Year History
Stephi Wild – BroadwayWorld – February 14, 2023
The producers, Arella Flur, Daniel Maton, and Rachel Schmaier, attribute this huge success to their team’s efforts sharing, “It was a huge triumph to mount this production and its success is attributed to every single person on and off the stage; We’re really excited that so many people were able to join us at the theatre to see the results of this team’s hard work!”
Matilda the Musical does NU’s Dolphin Show Proud
Wendi Kromash – Evanston Roundtable – January 22, 2023
“Matilda the Musical, the 80th annual Dolphin Show at Northwestern University’s Cahn Auditorium is a delight and well worth seeing…
The Dolphin Show is a herculean effort every year and presenting the 80th show in person after a pandemic is a big deal. Matilda is fun, funny, imaginative and ultimately rewarding, both in the arc of the story and for the audience.”
Heart Strings to Premiere at Atlantic Theater Company
Heart Strings by Lee Cataluna was one of the four plays developed as part of the 14th Annual PLAYGround Festival of Fresh Works. The play will receive its production premiere at Atlantic Theater Company in October 2022.
Purple Crayon Players hosts 14th Annual PLAYground Festival of Fresh Works
Jamie Kim – The Daily Northwestern – April 28, 2022
“Communication junior and Festival Producer Arella Flur said she is excited that PCP looks for original theatre made for young audiences.
“A lot of what you will see at children’s theaters or youth theaters around the country are often based off of books or movies that already have a brand name to them,” Flur said. “We really care about celebrating new voices, diverse voices and bringing these original ideas to the stage.”
PCP focuses on plays that empower youth by centering the young person as the initiator of change, Flur said.”
Purple Crayon Players directs thought-provoking plays for young audiences
Annie Xia – The Daily Northwestern – January 21, 2022
“During the fall, dozens of professional playwrights from around the country submitted scripts for the PLAYground Festival. The Purple Crayon Players executive board selected “Heart Strings,” “The Show Ends When the Stoop Breaks” and “The Dummy Class.” Each will be directed by an NU student.”
Student-directed musical “Our New Town” tackles gun violence on and off the stage
Isabelle Butera – The Daily Northwestern – October 15, 2021
““Our New Town” will premiere Friday and Saturday at the Piven Theatre Workshop. The show features music by David Dabbon, whose credits include “Beetlejuice,” and a libretto by Gabriel Dean and Jessie Dean. The musical is directed by Communication senior Samara Malik, a former Daily staffer, and produced by Communication junior Arella Flur.”
The Show Must Go On
Northwestern Magazine – January 2021
“‘There’s this whole mentality right now that theater is dying,’ says [Arella] Flur. ‘But theater has always been a form that has adapted. We’re still doing what theater has always done by telling stories and building communities.'”
Students work to help their local communities impacted by COVID-19
Julia Karten – The Daily Northwestern – April 27, 2020
“Communication freshman Arella Flur said she saw this time as an opportunity to help the arts community. She became involved in MusicGrams, an online campaign that allows people to send free music video requests to others. The hope, she said, is that customers make a donation to the Musicians Foundation CV19 Emergency Relief Aid Grant Program, which supports all the professional musicians who are currently out of work.”