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Porchlight Music Theatre
9/3 - 12/31/2025


Porchlight Music Theatre has appointed Jenna Deja as its interim executive director as it celebrates its 30th anniversary. Deja takes over from Jeannie Lukow, who ...


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Porchlight Young Professionals to Present WICKED Movie Watch Party With Cast Veterans


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 21, 2024

Join Porchlight Young Professionals for a WICKED film watch party featuring cast veterans. Enjoy an evening of musical magic and community engagement. Learn how to attend....

Porchlight Music Theatre Names Jenna Deja As Interim Executive Director


by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 03, 2024

Porchlight Music Theatre named Jenna Deja as interim executive director. Learn more about Deja and about th position!...

50th Anniversary Non-Equity Jeff Awards Ceremony Reveals Production Team


by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 21, 2024

At the milestone 50th Anniversary Joseph Jefferson Awards for Non-Equity Theater, more than 100 recognized artists and new emerging faces and voices will be honored. Learn more about the ceremony!...

Cast and Creative Team Set for ANYTHING GOES at Porchlight Music Theatre


by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 06, 2023

Porchlight has revealed the cast and creative team for ANYTHING GOES starring Meghan Murphy. Get all the details for this upcoming production....

Porchlight Young Professionals Host Their Inaugural Special Event: BROADWAY OPEN MIC at The Understudy


by Stephi Wild - October 13, 2023

Porchlight Music Theatre’s Porchlight Young Professionals has announced its fall fundraiser, Broadway Open Mic, a live karaoke special event during Porchlight’s Cole Porter Festival: A Celebration of the Man and his Music, Friday, Nov. 17 at 8 p.m. at The Understudy Coffee and Books....

ANYTHING GOES, The Cole Porter Festival & More Set for Porchlight Music Theatre 29th Season


by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 11, 2023

Award-winning Porchlight Music Theatre has unveiled its 29th season. The new season launches with The Cole Porter Festival - A Celebration of the Man and his Music. Learn more details about the season!...

Photos: Go Inside Opening Night Of Porchlight Music Theatre's ERNEST SHACKLETON LOVES ME


by Blair Ingenthron - May 12, 2023

Porchlight Music Theatre is presenting the Chicago premiere of the critically acclaimed musical comedy Ernest Shackleton Loves Me, music by Brendan Milburn, lyrics by Val Vigoda, orchestrations and additional music by Ryan O’Connell and book by Joe DiPietro, at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, now...

Cast and Creative Team Announced for for 'Porchlight Revisits' I AM A CAMERA


by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 29, 2022

Porchlight Music Theatre is continuing its 2022 - 2023 season with Porchlight Revisits I am a Camera, book by John Van Druten, directed by Nate Cohen+. Porchlight Revisits I am a Camera is presented for two performances only Wednesday, Feb. 8 at 7:30 p.m. and Thursday, Feb. 9 at 1:30 p.m....

Past Shows

New Faces Sing Broadway NOW
New Faces Sing Broadway NOW
11/11 - 11/12/2024


CHICAGO – Porchlight Music Theatre announces the return of its popular series with New Faces Sing Broadway NOW, hosted by Adrian Aguilar, directed by former ...

New Faces Sing Broadway NOW
11/11 - 11/12/2024


New Faces Sing Broadway NOW features a vibrant array of emerging talent in a showcase that highlights recent Broadway hits. Hosted by Adrian Aguilar and ...

PORCHLIGHT’s FREE CONCERT SERIES: BROADWAY IN YOUR BACKYARD, JUNE 6 - AUGUST 6


CHICAGO – Porchlight Music Theatre is proud to announce the return of its free summer concert series Broadway in your Backyard, now in its fourth ...


THE ADDAMS FAMILY, a comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family, features an original story and it’s every father’s nightmare: Wednesday Addams, the ...

Anything Goes
Anything Goes
2/14 - 3/10/2024


Chicago will get a kick out of this 90th anniversary production of Cole Porter’s smash-hit musical comedy, Anything Goes. Launching Porchlight’s 29th season, this legendary ...

ANYTHING GOES
1/13 - 1/25/2024

ERNEST SHACKLETON LOVES ME
ERNEST SHACKLETON LOVES ME
5/12 - 6/1/2023


Ernest Shackleton Loves Me   is the critically acclaimed new musical comedy with a tongue-in-cheek script by Tony Award-winner  Joe DiPietro + ( Diana,  Memphis, All Shook Up ...

PORCHLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE ANNOUNCES CHICAGO’S COLE PORTER FESTIVAL - A CELEBRATION OF THE MAN AND HIS MUSIC LAUNCHES THIS OCTOBER


Award-winning Porchlight Music Theatre launches its 29th season with Chicago’s Cole Porter Festival - A Celebration of the Man and his Music , launching October ...

Cabaret
1/14 - 2/12/2023


The original 1966 version of Cabaret, the groundbreaking musical by John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Joe Masteroff, offered a stark and satirical look at pre-war ...

The Apple Tree
12/7 - 12/8/2022


The brilliant songwriting team behind Fiddler on the Roof and She Loves Me bring us another witty, tuneful and utterly charming musical in The Apple ...

RENT
10/29 - 11/27/2022


RENT: DOWNTOWN LA takes place in a warehouse in industrial downtown Los Angeles, where an artistic renaissance is underway in the vein of 1990s Alphabet ...

Spring Awakening
4/23 - 6/2/2022


Spring Awakening explodes onto the stage with a raw and powerful exploration of teenage angst and sexual awakening in a repressed society. Set in late ...

Passing Strange by
5/18 - 5/23/2022


The Apple Tree
5/18 - 5/23/2022


The brilliant songwriting team behind Fiddler on the Roof and She Loves Me bring us another witty, tuneful and utterly charming musical in The Apple ...


Porchlight Music Theatre is partnering with Hershey Felder Presents - Live from Florence on its next live streaming production: Hershey Felder as "Sholem Aleichem" in ...


Burning Bluebeard, now in its ninth year, was created and performed by the critically acclaimed theatre troupe The Ruffians. A magical story is told with ...


Debuting during the holiday season, Tchaikovsky is based on Felder's original Our Great Tchaikovsky and now has an extended focus on The Nutcracker ballet....

Zoot Suit
11/27 - 12/20/2020


In a special arrangement with L.A. Theatre Works, playwright Luis Valdez masterfully uses the Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the unrest in Los Angeles following ...

New Faces Sing Broadway 1987
11/30 - 12/13/2020


Filmed on-site at Chicago's historic Studebaker Theatre, the popular New Faces Sing Broadway cabaret series returns, virtually, this fall with host Larry Adams and a ...


After sold out engagements in 2018 and 2019 at Harlem's world-famous Apollo Theater, Shoshana Bean returns to the legendary stage, this time for a global ...

Working
11/30 - 12/6/2020


In a special arrangement with L.A. Theatre Works, Porchlight will host the first revised and updated version of this 1970s cult classic based on the ...


Porchlight Music Theatre has announced its newest virtual offering, the first online production of its New Faces Sing Broadway series, New Faces Sing Broadway 1987, ...


A Paris Love Story is a very personal journey through the beloved city of Paris through the music of Claude Debussy ("Clair de Lune," Prélude ...

Sophisticated Ladies
Sophisticated Ladies
1/24 - 3/6/2020


A celebration of the artist many consider “the most important composer in the history of jazz,” this stylish salute to “The Duke” will transport audiences ...

Call Me Madam
11/20 - 11/21/2019


A CHORUS LINE
6/28 - 8/28/2019


The show won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, one of the few musicals ever to receive this honor, and the New York Drama Critics' ...

1776
1/25 - 3/17/2019


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 ...


Old Globe Theatre: - book: Robert L. Freedman; lyrics: Robert L. Freedman, Steven Lutvak; music: Steven Lutvak; dir: Darko Tresnjak....

GYPSY
10/12 - 12/20/2018


Gypsy: A Musical Fable is a classic American musical known for its powerful characters and exploration of ambition, fame, and the complexities of family. Loosely ...

1776
11/14 - 11/15/2018


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, ...

MEMPHIS
4/19 - 6/10/2018


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. ...

DO RE MI
5/22 - 5/24/2018


MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
1/26 - 3/18/2018


Stephen Sondheim’s remarkable Broadway fable of friendship and the high price of success opens in the present and moves backward in time. The triumphs and ...

BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL
10/6 - 12/31/2017


Billy Elliot the Musical is a joyous celebration of one young boy’s journey to make his dreams come true based on the smash-hit independent film ...

ON A CLEAR DAY...FOREVER
5/9 - 5/11/2017



The Scottsboro Boys, a powerful musical with a tragic historical core, is the brainchild of a creative trio. David Thompson crafted the book, weaving the ...

THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
2/3 - 3/12/2017


The Scottsboro Boys, a powerful musical with a tragic historical core, is the brainchild of a creative trio. David Thompson crafted the book, weaving the ...

LITTLE ME
2/28 - 3/2/2017


“Brian Allen, Beth Barefoot-Jones and a talented cast bring Little Me to us with verve and style. It’s also a professional production at bargain prices. ...

MARRY ME A LITTLE
11/18 - 12/18/2016


MARRY ME A LITTLE uses several unknown songs by the undisputed master of the contemporary Broadway musical to tell a charming and bittersweet tale of ...

AIN'T MISBEHAVIN'
11/14 - 12/20/2015


Assembled under the expert eye of director/lyricist, Richard Maltby, Jr., Ain't Misbehavin' is one of the most popular, well-crafted revues of all time and winner ...

New Faces Sing Broadway


CHICAGO – Porchlight Music Theatre and Artistic Director Michael Weber are proud to announce the first production in a new musical revue series, New Faces ...

Side Show
Side Show
9/11 - 10/18/2015


The recipient of Tony Award-nominations for both “Best Score” and “Book of a Musical,” Side Show is inspired by the true-life story of the legendary ...

Babes in Arms
Babes in Arms
10/6 - 10/8/2015


CHICAGO – Porchlight Music Theatre and Artistic Director Michael Weber are proud to announce the first production in the third season of Chicago’s smash “lost” ...

A FUNNY THING...FORUM
4/18 - 5/24/2015


Broadway's greatest farce is light, fast-paced, witty, irreverent and one of the funniest musicals ever written.  A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE ...

MARRY ME A LITTLE
2/7 - 3/15/2015


MARRY ME A LITTLE uses several unknown songs by the undisputed master of the contemporary Broadway musical to tell a charming and bittersweet tale of ...

SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM
2/6 - 3/15/2015


Hailed as a "revelatory revue full of wonderful moments" and a "funny, affectionate and revealing tribute to musical theater's greatest living composer and lyricist," Sondheim ...

SWEENEY TODD
9/27 - 11/2/2014


The rare instance of a musical thriller, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler 's chilling, suspenseful, heart-pounding masterpiece of murderous barber-ism and culinary crime tells the ...


Power, sex, ambition, greed... it's just another day at the office. From the authors of GUYS AND DOLLS comes one of the most delightfully irreverent musicals ...

AIN'T MISBEHAVIN'
2/1 - 3/9/2014


The outrageously prodigious comic and musical soul of 1930's Harlem lives on in this rollicking, swinging, finger-snapping revue that is still considered one of Broadway's ...


A legendary cult show, this wacky, intelligent, highly unconventional musical satire points ahead to Stephen Sondheim 's groundbreaking work in the 1970's even as it ...

Tick, Tick, Boom!
Tick, Tick, Boom!
4/27 - 5/10/2012


SoHo, the ‘90s, a young composer is on the brink of turning 30 and falling into professional oblivion. His girlfriend wants to get married and ...

A Catered Affair
A Catered Affair
2/17 - 4/1/2012


A couple must decide whether to spend their life savings on the family taxicab company or to celebrate their only daughter’s marriage with a lavish ...

Putting It Together
Putting It Together
9/2 - 10/16/2011


This musical feast of Sondheim favorites weaves a lyrical tapestry around the emotions and relationships of five guests attending an elegant, and ultimately life changing, ...


A revue with a difference? A revue that tells a story? A show that covers one night and forty years? A show that takes place ...


A revue with a difference...brA revue that tells a story...brA show that covers one night and forty years...brA show that takes place today and also ...

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