For six straight decades, only one unstoppable force has flat-out dominated popular culture - breaking down barriers, pushing boundaries, and letting nothing and no one ...
UIS Performing Arts Center Announces Temporary Closures In 2025/26
by A.A. Cristi - December 17, 2024
Sangamon Auditorium and the UIS Studio Theatre, housed within the University of Illinois Springfield's Public Affairs Center building, will temporarily close for an extensive plumbing improvement project that will modernize critical infrastructure in the building. The temporary closure will begin in...
Cast Set for HERO: THE BOY FROM TROY, A NEW MUSICAL ABOUT YOUNG JOHN LEWIS Tour
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 15, 2024
From the same creative team as JABARI DREAMS OF FREEDOM, HERO: THE BOY FROM TROY, book by Nambi E. Kelley with lyrics, composition, and music direction by Joe Plummer, directed by Daniel Carlton, will tour. Learn how to purchase tickets....
New Cast Set For National Tour of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
by Stephi Wild - September 13, 2023
Casting has been announced for the next season of the Olivier Award-winning production of Regents Park Open Air Theatre’s Jesus Christ Superstar. Learn more about the non-equity tour here, and find out who is leading the cast!...
THE BOOK OF MORMON Is Coming to the UIS Performing Arts Center for the First Time in April
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 02, 2022
Single tickets for the national tour of THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, will go on sale to the general public on Monday, December 5th at 10 am....
MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET CHRISTMAS to Launch 26-City National Tour
by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 14, 2022
The heartwarming holiday musical, Million Dollar Quartet Christmas, will launch a 26-city national tour beginning Saturday, November 12, 2022 in Oklahoma City, OK....
Jerry Seinfeld Returns To The UIS Performing Arts Center, February 17, 2023
by A.A. Cristi - September 30, 2022
UIS Performing Arts Center and JS Touring has announced that America's premier comedian, Jerry Seinfeld, will perform on the Sangamon Auditorium stage on February 17, 2023, at 7pm....
Past Shows
Declared “one of the most remarkable shows in musical theater history” by the Washington Post, DEAR EVAN HANSEN is the first musical to take a ...
Hadestown (Non-Equity)
10/23
Following two intertwining love stories — that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone — Hadestown invites audiences on ...
After 25 years, CHICAGO is still the one musical with everything that makes Broadway shimmy-shake: a universal tale of fame, fortune, and all that jazz, ...
Come From Away
4/14
book: David Hein and Irene Sankoff; lyrics: David Hein and Irene Sankoff; music: David Hein and Irene Sankoff; dir: Christopher Ashley. World Premiere...
On Your Feet
3/5
ON YOUR FEET! is the inspiring true story about heart, heritage and two people who believed in their talent—and each other—to become an international sensation: ...
Jesus Christ Superstar (Non-Equity)
2/17 - 2/18/2024
Jesus Christ Superstar is an iconic musical phenomenon with a world-wide fan base. In celebration of its 50th Anniversary, a new mesmerizing production comes to ...
Mean Girls (Non-Equity)
11/16
Direct from Broadway, MEAN GIRLS is the hilarious hit musical from an award-winning creative team, including book writer TINA FEY ("30 Rock"), composer JEFF RICHMOND ...
The King and I
4/15
Lincoln Center Theater’s critically acclaimed production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s THE KING AND I directed by Tony Award® Winner Bartlett Sher won four 2015 Tony ...
Rent
1/30
In 1996, an original rock musical by a little-known composer opened on Broadway… and forever changed the landscape of American theatre. Two decades later, Jonathan ...
Inspired by true events, KINKY BOOTS takes you from a gentlemen's shoe factory in Northampton to the glamorous catwalks of Milan. Charlie Price is struggling ...
Dirty Dancing
9/20 - 9/21/2016
Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage is an unprecedented live experience, exploding with heart-pounding music, passionate romance and sensational dancing. Seen by millions ...
Disney's Beauty and the Beast features the animated film's Academy Award-winning score with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by the late Howard Ashman, with ...
Ragtime
5/3
Ragtime is a musical with a book by Terrence McNally, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and music by Stephen Flaherty. Based on the 1975 novel by ...
42nd Street
3/6
The quintessential backstage musical comedy classic, 42nd Street is the song and dance fable of Broadway with an American Dream story and includes some of ...
Elf the Musical
11/6 - 11/7/2015
ELF is the hilarious tale of Buddy, a young orphan child who mistakenly crawls into Santa's bag of gifts and is transported back to the ...
Based on the screenplay of the acclaimed 1994 film by Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath, BULLETS OVER BROADWAY brings the talents of Woody Allen and ...
PETER AND THE STARCATCHER, the swashbuckling prequel to Peter Pan, takes a hilarious romp through the Neverland you never knew. PETER AND THE STARCATCHER is ...
Videos
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Waitress
PARAMOUNT THEATRE (2/12 - 3/30) | |
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No Such Thing
Rivendell Theatre Ensemble (3/23 - 4/27) | |
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The Book of Grace
Steppenwolf Theatre Company (3/27 - 5/18) | |
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Mauritius by Theresa Rebeck
The Barrington Theater (4/25 - 5/11) | |
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The Lifespan of a Fact
Elsinore (4/3 - 5/4) | |
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Complexions
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts (4/13 - 4/13) | |
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Tina – The Tina Turner Musical
Cadillac Palace Theatre (6/3 - 6/8) | |
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Retrograde: The Spirit of 70s Rock
Raue Center For The Arts (6/3 - 6/3) | |
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Bob Seger Tribute
Raue Center For The Arts (5/16 - 5/16) | |
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