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Photos: First Look at Music Theater Works’ ANNIE


by Nicole Rosky - December 19, 2025

Music Theater Works’ Annie, in the George Van Dusen Theatre, at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie, 9501 Skokie Blvd, Skokie, is now playing through January 4, 2026. Annie, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and book by Thomas Meehan, is directed by Produc...

DRAG RACE Star Mrs. Kasha Davis Joins HAIRSPRAY At Music Theater Works


by A.A. Cristi - December 17, 2025

Music Theater Works will cast RuPaul’s Drag Race alum and drag performer Mrs. Kasha Davis as Edna Turnblad in its production of HAIRSPRAY. The production will take place in the George Van Dusen Theatre at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie....

Music Theater Works Reveals Cast And Creative Team For ANNIE At North Shore Center


by A.A. Cristi - November 03, 2025

Music Theater Works will close its 2025 season with a new production of Annie, running December 18, 2025 through January 4, 2026, at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts....

Photos: GODSPELL At Music Theater Works


by A.A. Cristi - October 24, 2025

Music Theater Works has released new production photos from Godspell, now playing through November 16 in the North Theatre at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie. ...

Giordano Dance Chicago to Present Fall 2025 Engagement at North Shore Center


by A.A. Cristi - September 26, 2025

Giordano Dance Chicago will bring its 63rd Ignite the Soul season to the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie on October 18–19, 2025. The program will include Al Blackstone’s Gershwin in B, Brock Clawson’s Give & Take, Simon Schuh’s Interlinked, and more. ...

Giordano Dance Chicago to Present Fall 2025 Engagement at North Shore Center


by A.A. Cristi - September 26, 2025

Giordano Dance Chicago will bring its 63rd Ignite the Soul season to the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie on October 18–19, 2025. The program will include Al Blackstone’s Gershwin in B, Brock Clawson’s Give & Take, Simon Schuh’s Interlinked, and more. ...

Cast Announced for GODSPELL at Music Theater Works


by Emmy Rice - September 06, 2025

Music Theater Works has announce the cast and creative team for the third production of its 2025 season, Godspell, sponsored by the Whirled Peas Foundation and presented in partnership with Curt’s Café, in the North Theatre at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie, 9501 Skokie Blv...

Cast and Crew Set for for GODSPELL at Music Theater Works


by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 05, 2025

Music Theater Works has revealed the cast and creative team for the third production of its 2025 season, Godspell. See who is starring and learn more here!...

Tickets for 20 to Offer $20 Tickets to Chicago Theatergoers


by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 29, 2025

The League of Chicago Theatres is presenting the return of Tickets for a 20. Now through Sunday, September 14, theatregoers can grab $20 tickets to some of Chicagoland’s most exciting shows, exclusively through Hot Tix....

Review: FIDDLER ON THE ROOF at Music Theater Works at The North Shore For The Performing Arts


by Tina St. Angelo - August 10, 2025

The new production at Music Theater Works at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie is Fiddler on the Roof. ...

Past Shows

Godspell
Godspell
10/23 - 11/16/2025


Day by day for more than 50 years, audiences have delighted in this modern musical fable.  Godspell  weaves together music, improv and infectious pop and ...

Handel’s Theodora


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 Elements
The Elements
10/27


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 ...

Music of the Baroque: Mullova Plays Bach


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 & ...

THE PRODUCERS A Mel Brooks Musical


Music Theater Works’ third production in the 2023 season,THE PRODUCERS A Mel Brooks Musical will run from August 10 - 20 at the Center Theatre ...

Music of the Baroque: Circles of Friends


Dame Jane Glover takes the podium for a joyful evening of music written centuries ago by four friends in Vienna—and performed today by good friends ...

Montero Plays Mozart


Dame Jane Glover joins forces with “La Divina del Piano,” Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero, for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21. The Symphony No. 1 in ...

Irving Berlin’s White Christmas


Music Theater Works is proud to announce the cast and creative team for Irving Berlin’s White Christmas in the Center Theatre at the North Shore ...

Camelot
Camelot
10/20 - 11/13/2022


Return to magic and majesty of Lerner and Loewe’s classic musical Camelot as it recounts the enduring legend of King Arthur, Queen Guenevere, Sir Lancelot ...

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