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The UIS Performing Arts Center Hosts Writing for the Stage: A Three-Session Course on Writing Short Plays"


by Stephi Wild - June 21, 2023

The UIS Performing Arts Center will offer 'Writing for the Stage: A Three-Session Course on Writing Short Plays' through the Our Stage / Our Voices program. ...

Cast Set For THE LINCOLNS OF SPRINGFIELD at Hoogland Center for the Arts


by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 22, 2023

MATTHEW PATRICK DAVIS, DEBORAH ROBIN, ROSEMARY BLANKSON, and MICHAL DAWSON CONNOR will bring Terrence L. Cranert's stirring new musical love story to life at Hoogland Center for the Arts....

THE LINCOLNS OF SPRINGFIELD Comes to Springfield Ahead of Potential New York Run


by Stephi Wild - March 28, 2023

Springfield, IL – historically significant as the State Capitol AND the place Abraham Lincoln called home from 1837-1861- when he began his tenure in The White House as one of the most lauded presidents in history-will serve as host for a joyous and riveting new musical love story....

Terence L. Cranert's New Musical THE LINCOLNS OF SPRINGFIELD To Open in Illinois This Summer


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 27, 2023

Terence L. Cranert's stirring new musical for the whole family, THE LINCOLNS OF SPRINGFIELD, premieres in Springfield, Illinois, with sights set on New York....

University of Illisnois Springfield Performing Arts Center Creates OUR STAGE / OUR VOICES Program


by Marissa Tomeo - April 09, 2022

The UIS Performing Arts Center is announcing the creation of Our Stage / Our Voices, a new on-going program to address the many barriers to full participation faced by members of historically underrepresented groups within the regional performing arts community. These groups include, but are not lim...

GEM OF THE OCEAN Comes to Springfield Theatre Centre


by Stephi Wild - February 17, 2022

When Citizen Barlow comes to her Pittsburgh’s Hill District home seeking asylum, she sets him off on a spiritual journey to find a city in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Gem of the Ocean is the ninth work in Wilson’s ten-play cycle, which has recorded the American Black experience and helped to d...

Past Shows


Hoogland Center for the Arts Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, newly adapted by Wendy Kesselman...

The Sunset Limited
4/17 - 4/19/2020


Trinity Street Players is excited to announce the Austin premiere of The Sunset Limited by American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and playwright Cormac McCarthy (whose novels ...

Into The Woods
3/27 - 4/5/2020


The Brothers Grimm hit the stage with an epic fairytale about wishes, family and the choices we make....


This celebration of the mating game takes on the truths and myths behind that contemporary conundrum know as “the relationship.” Through sketches and songs, Act ...


Evening Standard, Mail on Sunday, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Express, Independent, Daily Mail Winner of seven 2013 Olivier Awards, this highly- acclaimed National Theatre production embarks ...

Memphis
8/23 - 9/1/2019


n the electrifying world of Memphis the Musical, get ready for a powerful story set against the backdrop of the 1950s rock and roll revolution. ...


A joyous girl power romp! This is the story of an extraordinary girl who, armed with a vivid imagination and a sharp mind, dares to ...

1776
10/5 - 10/14/2018


The seminal event in American history blazes to vivid life in this most unconventional of Broadway hits. 1776 puts a human face on the pages ...

1776
9/28 - 10/8/2018


The Tony Award winning musical 1776 is based on the events leading up to the drafting and signing of the Declaration of Independence. John Adams, ...

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
2/16 - 2/25/2018


A Little Night Music was Sondheim's eighth Broadway musical and features music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. Inspired by the ...

A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS
12/8 - 12/17/2017


All of your favorite peanut characters come to life in the this stage production of "A Charlie Brown Christmas". When Charlie Brown complains about the ...

THE WIZARD OF OZ (RSC)
3/17 - 3/26/2017



Godspell book by John-Michael Tebelak music & lyrics by Stephen Schwartz conceived & originally directed by John-Michael Tebelak based on The Gospel According to St. ...


SHOW BOAT (Goodspeed Version) Created for a Reduced Cast and Orchestra. Spanning the years from 1880 to 1927, this lyrical masterpiece concerns the lives, loves ...

PETER PAN
3/4 - 3/13/2016


Peter Pan, like its namesake, is a tale which never ages. Children and adults alike have all fallen under the spell of Neverland, a place ...


Roald Dahl's fantastical tale of a boy, his insect friends and their amazing journey across the ocean on a giant piece of fruit. (One-Act Version)...

NEXT TO NORMAL
5/22 - 5/31/2015


Next to Normal delves into the raw and complex world of mental illness, specifically focusing on bipolar disorder. The story centers around Diana, a wife ...

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
3/20 - 3/29/2015


Rich with musical hits you know and love, including “Tradition,” “Sunrise, Sunset,” “If I Were A Rich Man,” “Matchmaker, Matchmaker” and “To Life (L’Chaim!),” FIDDLER ...

TARZAN
3/6 - 3/15/2015


Tarzan swings its way onto the Arizona Broadway Theatre stage with technical and lighting wizardry galore! With music and lyrics by Grammy Award-winning composer Phil ...

FOREVER PLAID
1/30 - 2/8/2015


The heavenly male quartet returns for their final chance to reach musical glory. Including songs “Love is a Many Splendored Thing”, “Moments to Remember”, and ...

The Mikado
The Mikado
8/22 - 8/31/2014


Gilbert and Sullivan are the undisputed masters of comic operetta and the proud parents of the modern musical. That their works are more in demand ...

LES MISERABLES
4/25 - 4/27/2014


This international smash-hit may be the most popular musical in the world. In 19th century France, Jean Valjean is released from 19 years of unjust ...

SHREK THE MUSICAL
3/21 - 3/30/2014


SHREK THE MUSICAL , based on the Oscar ® winningDreamWorks film that started it all, brings the hilarious story ofeveryone's favorite ogre to dazzling new ...


In a magical kingdom fathoms below, the beautiful young mermaid Ariel longs to leave her ocean home to live in the world above. But first, ...


Leiber and Stoller, as much as anyone, virtually invented rock 'n' roll, and now their songs provide the basis for an electrifying entertainment that illuminates ...

THE FANTASTICKS
1/11 - 1/20/2013


Talk about a time-provenaudience-pleaser! "Try To Remember" a time when this romantic charmerwasn't enchanting audiences around the world. THE FANTASTICKS is thelongest-running production of any ...

JOSEPH...DREAMCOAT (93' U.K. Tour w/Optional `Megamix`)


The Biblical saga of Joseph and his coat of many colors comes to vibrant life in this delightful musical parable. Joseph, his father's favorite son, ...

RAGTIME
9/30 - 10/2/2011


Called by Time Magazine "A triumph for the stage," and by the International Herald Tribune "the best musical in twenty years," this acclaimed musical won ...

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