Musical

Dixon High School students rehearse their rendition of Pippin Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Show dates are April 19 and 20 at 7 p.m. and April 21 at 2 p.m. at the Wiltz Auditorium at Dixon High School.Tickets can be purchased at www.onthestage.tickets/show/dixon-high-school-theatre/

Newman Central Catholic High School will perform "Little Shop of Horrors" this Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Centennial Auditorium on the campus of Sterling High School. Show times are 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and at 2 p.m. Sunday.

Newman High School will be performing "Little Shop of Horrors" this Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Centennial Auditorium on the campus of Sterling High School. Show times are 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and at 2 p.m. Sunday.

The directors have assembled an amazing cast of 13 to tell this story, with Michael Metcalf delivering a tremendously impressive performance as Frankie Valli, who matures before our eyes,

The "Peter Pan" musical is a great show to introduce children to the experience of live theater.

“Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Musical” is so new that Raue Center School For The Arts is one of the very first venues to produce the show. Youth will star with professional actors in staging it.

Tickets to the April performance of this award-winning show are free to the public.

If you want to see a fun show that’ll appeal to folks from 8 to 80, you undoubtedly need “Mrs. Doubtfire.”

“Billy Elliot: The Musical” is a stellar, emotional show.

Construction is underway on a newly conceived immersive theater experience set to open this summer with "Million Dollar Quartet" off the Fox River in downtown Aurora.

What “Airplane” was to disaster movies, this “Wizard of Oz” is to the original 1939 film. It’s Toto-ly fun.

The program includes selections from such musicals as “Phantom of the Opera,” “Miss Saigon,” “Jersey Boys” and “Les Misérables,” as well as hits by Queen, Elton John and The Beatles.

The musical is a blockbuster of compelling joy. The Marriott audience’s enthusiastic standing ovation was lengthy, full of cheers and most deserved.

A carefully crafted mix of favorites and first-time musicals is on tap for 2024 at the theater which celebrates its 50th anniversary next year.

We raise the curtain on two individuals who play an important offstage role for two of the region’s premier performance venues: Raue Center For The Arts in Crystal Lake and Paramount Theatre in Aurora.