BrightSide Theatre will open its 2026 season with Phantom in Concert, a concert staging of the musical by Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit. The production will run January 9–18 at North Central College’s Madden Theatre.
BrightSide Theatre has announced casting for its January 2026 concert staging of PHANTOM, the Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit musical based on The Phantom of the Opera.
BrightSide Theatre has announced the return of its popular SUMMER IN THE PARKS concert series for 2025, offering nine free, one-hour performances of FUN IN THE SUN: A Broadway Musical Revue.
This is the moment – when Dr. Henry Jekyll decides to try an experiment. Jekyll and Hyde in Concert is the newest production from BrightSide Theatre.
BrightSide Theatre reveals its 2024-25 season, 'Spells and Superstitions,' featuring two plays and two musicals including DRACULA, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, and PIPPIN.
Artistic Director Jeffrey Cass and Executive Director Julie Ann Kornak are excited to continue BrightSide Theatre's SEASON 12 – The Season of Passion – with the masterful musical CHESS IN CONCERT.
BrightSide Theatre presents Chess in Concert, a professional theatre performance in Naperville's Historic Downtown District. Don't miss this captivating production of Chess in Concert.
Artistic Director Jeffrey Cass and Executive Director Julie Ann Kornak will celebrate the 12th Season at BrightSide Theatre; 'A Season of Passion'. We start the season with a masterful musical full of elegance and romance, Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music.
Artistic Director Jeffrey Cass and Executive Director Julie Ann Kornak have announced that to end its 10 season BrightSide Theatre will present what is regarded to be the finest musical ever created…GYPSY!
BrightSide Theatre Artistic Director Jeffrey Cass and Executive Director Julie Ann Kornak have announced that they will begin their 10th season with She Loves Me, running from October 14 through 30th.
Artistic Director Jeffrey Cass and Executive Director Julie Ann Kornak will present the final show of BrightSide Theatre’s 10th Anniversary Season – BrightSide is Back! The twice postponed production closes out the season with the music of ABBA in the musical that has entertained over 60 million people around the globe - Mamma Mia!
Artistic Director Jeffrey Cass and Executive Director Julie Ann Kornak are proud to announce BrightSide Theatre's 2021-2022 Season - “Tenth Anniversary Season – BrightSide is Back!”
BrightSide Theatre is bringing a new program to the parks in Naperville this summer. “Summer in the Parks: The Music of Rodgers & Hammerstein” will perform on 3 different Wednesdays throughout the summer at the Wagner Family Pavilion, located at the 95th Street Community Plaza, 3109 Cedar Glade Drive in Naperville.
BrightSide Theatre, Naperville's only professional theatre performing in the historic downtown district, continues their 9th Season a?" Guilty Pleasures a?" with NINE the Musical in Concert Performing at the Bartley & Maricela Madden Theatre at North Central College, 171 East Chicago Avenue in Naperville February 7-9, 2020. Tickets are on sale now at www.brightsidetheatre.com, or by phone at 630-447-TIXS (8497).
BrightSide Theatre continues its commitment to young artists with the belief that involvement in arts programs increases the development in children on both an academic and social scale while building self-esteem. Taught by Artistic Director, JEFFREY CASS, BrightSide Theatre offers fall classes to explore theatre arts in different ways. From Age 4 a?" Adults there is a class that fits everyone!
Artistic Director Jeffrey Cass and Executive Director Julie Ann Kornak are proud to announce BrightSide Theatre's 2019-2020 Season - Season Nine Guilty Pleasures From the pleasure of a holiday favorite A Christmas Carol the Musical, to the pleasure of the women in Nine the Musical in Concert, to the hilarious and touching story of 6 Southern women in Steel Magnolias, and to the guilty enjoyment of the music of ABBA in the musical that has entertained over 60 million people around the globe Mamma Mia!, Season Nine is sure to keep you theatrically satisfied.
BrightSide Theatre, Naperville's only professional theatre performing in the historic downtown district, continues their 8th Season Dreamers & Schemers - with the deliriously funny and Tony Award winning Best Musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Performing at the Theatre at Meiley-Swallow Hall at North Central College, 31 S. Ellsworth Street in Naperville June 7-23, 2019. Tickets are on sale now at www.brightsidetheatre.com or by phone at 630-447-TIXS (8497). The press performance is Friday, June 7 at 8pm.
The BrightSide Theatre Board of Directors, Artistic Director Jeffrey Cass and Executive Director Julie Ann Kornak invite you to BrightSide Theatre's 2018 Annual Benefit today, October 13 from 7-10 pm at the Theatre at Meiley-Swallow Hall, 31 South Ellsworth Street, Naperville, IL 60540.
The BrightSide Theatre Board of Directors, Artistic Director Jeffrey Cass and Executive Director Julie Ann Kornak invite you to BrightSide Theatre's 2018 Annual Benefit on Saturday, October 13 from 7-10 pm at the Theatre at Meiley-Swallow Hall, 31 South Ellsworth Street, Naperville, IL 60540.
Artistic Director Jeffrey Cass and Executive Director Julie Ann Kornak are proud to announce BrightSide Theatre's 2018-2019 Season - "Season Eight- Dreamers & Schemers" From a musical theatre favorite Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat complete with a full children's choir, to the laugh out loud comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, to the musical farce Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, this season has something for everyone!
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