Nick Sandys

Swing State, Rebecca Gilman's play which premiered at the Goodman Theatre last year, is headed off-Broadway. Learn more about how to catch the production when it heads to New York here!

Grippo Stage Company will present the world premiere of Shaw vs. Tunney, written by Douglas Post and directed by Nick Sandys, based on the book “The Prizefighter and The Playwright” by Jay R. Tunney, May 25 - July 8, at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Ave.

Grippo Stage Company presents the world premiere of Shaw vs. Tunney, written by award-winning playwright Douglas Post and directed by Nick Sandys, based on “The Prizefighter and The Playwright” by Jay R. Tunney, May 25 - July 8, at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Ave. in Chicago.

 The Dallas Opera’s 2023/2024 Season has been announced! See how to purchase tickets!

Ruthless ambition, supernatural forces, and cold-blooded violence collide in the Canadian Opera Company’s thrilling new Macbeth featuring epic sets and costumes, and the powerhouse vocals of Quinn Kelsey and Sondra Radvanovsky.

Grippo Stage Company presents the world premiere of Shaw vs. Tunney, written by Douglas Post and directed by Nick Sandys, based on the book “The Prizefighter and The Playwright” by Jay R. Tunney, May 25 - July 8, at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Ave.

All new photos have been released from the Opening Night of the Equity production of JEEVES INTERVENES at First Folio Theatre in Oakbrook, IL directed by Michael Goldberg.

Music Theater Works' production of Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot is now playing through November 13 at the North Theatre in the North Shore Center For The Performing Arts. Get a first look at photos and video here!

Music Theater Works has announced the cast and creative team for Camelot at the North Theatre in the North Shore Center For The Performing Arts In Skokie, 9501 Skokie Blvd, Skokie, October 20 - November 13. 

First Folio Theatre is opening their final season by returning to the very first adventure of Bertie and Jeeves: JEEVES INTERVENES, by Margaret Raether, directed by Michael Goldberg. Returning for their sixth foray into the famous duo are Jim McCance as the perfect butler Jeeves and Christian Gray as the befuddled but ever optimistic Bertie Wooster.

Governors State University’s Center for Performing Arts announces the world premiere of Red Summer written by Lookingglass Theatre’s Andrew White and MPAACT’s Shepsu Aakhu, composed by Shawn Wallace, directed by Lydia J. Dymond. Red Summer will play at the Center for the Performing Arts stage, just 35 miles from Chicago in University Park, IL, September 16-25, 2022. 

Music Theater Works presents the regional premiere of Zorro: The Musical at the North Shore Center For The Performing Arts In Skokie, 9501 Skokie Blvd, Skokie, August 11 -  August 21.

Over the course of five years, 1300 young people were asked what matters to them, how they see themselves in the world and how to change it. Their texts and drawings became the basis for a new musical play premiering June 23-26 in Chicago.

In the World of Future Perfect, what is a Draglion?  If you said a cross between a Dragon and a Lion, you're more than ready to meet one, along with flutterbys and other creatures in the musical and magical world of Future Perfect. The characters and lyrics of this modern tale of curiosity by librettist Christine Steyer are based on writings and drawings from 1,300 Chicago area school children. 

In October 2014, Christine Steyer embarked on a partnership with Chicago Public Schools: performing opera excerpts for five different classes at Senn High School, and facilitating a space for the students to think and write through what it feels like to be labeled… what words like “Diversity” and “interconnectedness” and “transcendence” mean to them…  and what a future perfect world would look like.

The Magic Flute meets The Wizard of Oz in this fantastical world premiere perfect for all ages! From Bellissima Opera's award-winning Transcendence Series, Future Perfect tells the adventures of Miranette, a curious youth who leaves a forbidding society to go towards a future that she wants to see.

Northlight Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans, is continuing its 2021–2022 season with the World Premiere of Mr. Dickens’ Hat, A Play with Music written by Michael Hollinger, directed by David Catlin, with music direction by Chuck Larkin.

Music Theater Works will present 'Billy Elliot: The Musical' at the North Shore Center For The Performing Arts In Skokie (9501 Skokie Blvd, Skokie, IL 60076) from December 23, 2021 through January 2, 2022 as the final production of the 2021 Season.

First Folio Theatre’s Board of Directors has announced that Founding Executive Director David Rice will be stepping down in the spring of 2024. In conjunction with that decision, the Board has also determined that First Folio will cease operations at the end of the 2023-2024 season.

Northlight Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans, continues its 2021–2022 season with the World Premiere of Mr. Dickens’ Hat, A Play with Music written by Michael Hollinger, directed by David Catlin, with music direction by Chuck Larkin.