Skip to main content
Shop Merch Add a Show Listing
My Shows
News on your favorite shows, specials & more!

North Shore Center for Performing Arts

9501 Skokie Blvd
Skokie, IL 60077

North Shore Center for Performing Arts is a theatre in Chicago.

Upcoming Shows

Giordano Dance Chicago: Untamed Passion

Nov 6 – Nov 7, 2026

Giordano Dance Chicago returns to the North Shore Center for Performing Arts in Skokie, Illinois for its 64th season, titled Untamed Passion. The engagement features a mix of new and popular repertoire works showcasing the company's signature blend of power, grace, and joy...

Hairspray

Dec 17 – Jan 3, 2027

Hairspray follows Tracy Turnblad, a big-dreaming teen who lands a spot on The Corny Collins Show and sets out to integrate the dance floor in Baltimore, featuring songs including Good Morning Baltimore and You Can't Stop the Beat. The production is directed by Keely Vasquez...

Articles

Review: Dance Theatre of Harlem's FIREBIRD at The Auditorium

Review: Dance Theatre of Harlem's FIREBIRD at The Auditorium

by Lauren Sheely · October 20, 2026

Saturday night brought the long-awaited return of Dance Theatre of Harlem to The Auditorium for a celebratory evening of dance that showcased the range and versatility of this 57-year old company, which had not been seen in Chicago since 2016.…

Review: Backyard Theatre's RED BIKE at Berger Park Coach House

Review: Backyard Theatre's RED BIKE at Berger Park Coach House

by Angela Lin · October 19, 2026

Backyard Theatre Company’s production of Red Bike is an enchanting, imaginative story from a kid’s perspective about growing up and seeing the town you’ve grown up in change, and the formative stuff and thoughts that shape who we are as a result. …

Review: Tin Drum Theatre's A DARK WOOD at Greenhouse Theater Center

Review: Tin Drum Theatre's A DARK WOOD at Greenhouse Theater Center

by Angela Lin · October 18, 2026

Whether you leave the theater with intensified despair or renewed hope is up to you — and that’s what makes this terrifying and achingly sad story, with just the right dose of humor, hope, and humanity, a brilliant piece of art. …

Review: PREMONITIONS INC. at Kermess

Review: PREMONITIONS INC. at Kermess

by Rachel Weinberg · October 16, 2026

Premonitions Inc. is an oddball new cabaret and acrobatics show in the Spiegeltent of the Loop’s Cambria Hotel.…

Review: A STRANGE LOOP at Raven Theatre

Review: A STRANGE LOOP at Raven Theatre

by Rachel Weinberg · October 15, 2026

Michael R. Jackson’s wildly inventive and unique 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical A Strange Loop now makes its Chicago premiere. A Strange Loop is a “big Black and queer-ass American Broadway show,” in the main character Usher’s words, about the lead trying to write a musical called A Str…

Review: DEAD GIRL’S QUINCEAÑERA at Goodman Theatre

Review: DEAD GIRL’S QUINCEAÑERA at Goodman Theatre

by Rachel Weinberg · October 7, 2026

Dead Girl’s Quinceañera brings a missing person case to the stage — and the detectives are a group of three Latina teen girls in Miami, Florida. Phanésia Pharel’s play capitalizes on the pop culture obsession with true crime and murder mysteries — though Dead Girl’s Quinceañera is ultim…

Past Shows

38 total · showing 11–20

Mozart and his Mentors

Mozart and his Mentors

Apr 6

Mozart learned a great deal from talented musicians around him. Dame Jane Glover explores symphonies by two of his most admired mentors—Josef Mysliveek and Johann Adolph Hasse. Imogen Cooper returns to Music of the Baroque for Mozart's playful and virtuosic Piano Concerto No...

Handel’s Theodora

Handel’s Theodora

Mar 2

In celebration of Principal Guest Conductor Nicholas Kraemer’s 80th birthday, a world-renowned cast of soloists—Sherezade Panthaki, Iestyn Davies, Allyson McHardy, David Portillo, and Jonathan Woody—join the Chorus and Orchestra for one of Handel’s great dramatic masterpieces...

Minkowski Conducts

Minkowski Conducts

Jan 26

Renowned French conductor Marc Minkowski makes his Music of the Baroque debut with music by three orchestral gods—Handel, Rameau, and Mozart. Handel’s concerto grosso was originally the overture to a lost “magic opera.” The Greek god Apollo saves the day in Rameau’s Suite from...

Bach's Christmas Oratorio

Bach's Christmas Oratorio

Nov 24

From the opening chorus’s joyful, exuberant trumpets and timpani, the Christmas story unfolds in dramatic narrative, moving arias, and stirring chorales. Dame Jane Glover brings together an impressive cast of soloists, including the return of Gwilym Bowen as the Evangelist, with...

The Elements

The Elements

Oct 27

Laurence Cummings, music director of the Academy of Ancient Music, explores life’s basic building blocks—earth, air, fire, and water. The watery Neptune splashes through Rameau’s Suite from Naïs and Ebb und Fluth , Telemann’s own “Water Music.” Vivaldi leads the earthly charge...

Haydn's Creation

Haydn's Creation

Sep 15

The creation of the world as told in the Book of Genesis springs to life through vivid musical pictures. Music Director Dame Jane Glover leads the Music of the Baroque Chorus, Orchestra, and international opera stars Joélle Harvey, Aaron Sheehan, and Brandon Cedel in Haydn’s...

Birds, Frogs, Crickets, & Dogs

Birds, Frogs, Crickets, & Dogs

Apr 14

The animal kingdom comes alive through charming works for orchestra under the direction of Principal Guest Conductor Nicholas Kraemer. Dogs bark in Vivaldi’s “Spring” Concerto from the famous Four Seasons . Crickets chirp in Telemann’s unusually scored Cricket Symphony, while...

The St. John Passion

The St. John Passion

Mar 10

An intimate and deeply human account of Christ’s betrayal, suffering, and death, Bach’s Passion According to St. John sets scripture and poetry in emotionally moving, expressively beautiful music. Dame Jane Glover leads the chorus, orchestra, and a roster of internationally...

Music of the Baroque: Mullova Plays Bach

Music of the Baroque: Mullova Plays Bach

Jan 28

Baroque riches abound as internationally acclaimed violinist Viktoria Mullova joins forces with guest conductor Jonathan Cohen, the newly appointed music director of Boston’s Handel & Haydn Society. Mullova’s unparalleled affinity for Bach shines in his Violin Concertos in A...

Music of the Baroque: Windy City

Music of the Baroque: Windy City

Nov 19

Politics may have prompted Chicago’s nickname, but wind and water are at the heart of its identity. Dame Jane Glover leads a program impishly inspired by our hometown, including a suite from Handel’s grand Water Music . Our wind and horn principals move center stage in Hummel’s...

BroadwayWorld TV


Adirondack Chair Circle in Chicago Adirondack Chair Circle
Steppenwolf's Ensemble Theater (10/22-12/06)
Love Story: A Tribute to Taylor Swift in Chicago Love Story: A Tribute to Taylor Swift
Raue Center For The Arts (11/07-11/07)
Million Dollar Quartet in Chicago Million Dollar Quartet
Stolp Island Theatre (10/07-1/03)
Rotary Rocks The Raue: James Garner's Tribute to Johnny Cash in Chicago Rotary Rocks The Raue: James Garner's Tribute to Johnny Cash
Raue Center For The Arts (10/24-10/24)
The Christmas Carol in Chicago The Christmas Carol
Paramount Theatre (11/11-1/03)
Topdog/Underdog in Chicago Topdog/Underdog
Steppenwolf's Downstairs Theater (9/17-11/01)
Blond Ambition: A Tribute to Madonna in Chicago Blond Ambition: A Tribute to Madonna
Raue Center For The Arts (11/07-11/07)
Memphis The Musical in Chicago Memphis The Musical
Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts Building (10/24-10/25)
When We Were Young and Unafraid in Chicago When We Were Young and Unafraid
Greenhouse Theater Center (11/12-11/29)
They Broke Up in Chicago They Broke Up
Rivendell Theatre (11/06-11/22)