Theater

Glenbard West Theatre will present a production of “Animal Farm” at 7:30 p.m. from Jan. 30 through Feb. 1 in the Larry Shue Auditorium at Glenbard West High School, 670 Crescent Blvd. in Glen Ellyn

April Noel is a playwright, actress and comedy improv founder about to step into another realm – that of film screenwriter and producer.

Students from eleven area high schools will compete in the Student Silent Film Festival, a film competition where area students create original motion pictures that contain no sound.

Sedaris is the author of “Calypso,” “Naked,” “Me Talk Pretty One Day,” “Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim” and is a regular National Public Radio contributor.

"Native Gardens" runs Jan. 30 – March 2 at the McAninch Arts Center on the College of DuPage campus.

The Tony Award-winning show reaps bushels of laughs.

Get back in tune this January with some Joliet-area live music, music trivia, storytelling that begins with music and more.

The award-winning Broadway musical opens Feb. 12 and runs through March 30.

A wide range of musicals will warm up winter for theater lovers.

Friends of the Woodstock Opera House is sponsoring a production of “Treasure Island” for children for the 13th year.

Performance times are at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday.

Grand opening planned for early March.

The Performing Arts Guild of Mt. Morris will present a dessert theater titled “Christmas Eve in Chaos” from Jan. 10-12.

The powerhouse performance features more than 40 taiko drums at this benefit gala event Feb. 23.

The enchanting acrobatic show will be at the NOW Arena in Hoffman Estates Feb. 13-16.

Fight cabin fever with anticipation of theater productions under the stars in just a few months, presented by American Players Theatre and Peninsula Players.

The auditions are open to anyone age 18 and up

Dragons & Mythical Beasts will take the stage ar the Rialto Square Theatre in downtown Joliet Tuesday, Feb. 18.

Now in its 13th season, Aurora's Paramount Theatre has emerged as the nation’s largest subscription theater with more than 37,000 subscribers.

Theater construction upgrades still underway; grand opening will be March 2 with the National Touring Broadway Show, “Spamilton."

Improv Playhouse Theatre joyfully returns to bring audiences an immersive live-staged radio play of Frank Capra’s timeless classic “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

The new musical comedy cabaret gets creative with nostalgic inspiration from the television specials of those "happy golden days of yore."

This touring production is funny, sweet and deserving of a longer run.

The Polo Area Community Theatre will perform “Fruitcakes,” a holiday play is about a quirky Southern community and a runaway boy who comes to appreciate the town’s residents.

Polo Area Community Theatre perform "Fruitcakes" on Dec. 13 to 15 at Polo Town Hall.

Stephen Connell reprises his role as Ebenezer Scrooge in this holiday treasure.

The Polo Area Community Theatre is preparing for its annual Christmas show, “FrUiTCaKeS,” which will be performed Dec. 6, 7, 8, 13 and 14 at the Polo Town Hall, 117 N. Franklin Ave. in Polo.

Here's a list of where you can find holiday performances in Chicago and surrounding suburbs.

Events include special visits and breakfasts with Santa, annual interactive dinner theater.

Going to the theatre to see 'The Nutcracker' ballet is a special holiday tradition for many families.

With a change of venues from St. Charles for the past seven years to Elmhurst, a new collection of original plays will have their time to shine at GreenMan Theatre.

A superb cast stars in the Marriott's Theatre for Young Audiences production of the Rodgers & Hammerstein classic, crystallized into one beautiful hour of entertainment.

Glenbard West High School student Sia Erter will portray the role of "Clara" in Salt Creek Ballet's "The Nutcracker."

"Million Dollar Quartet" is a fictionalized account of an impromptu December 1956 meeting between rock ‘n’ roll pioneers Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley at the Sun Records studio in Memphis, Tennessee.

“Scrooge the Comedy” is an interactive dinner theater loosely based on Charles Dickens’ classic, “A Christmas Carol.” White Pines has been putting on the holiday show at 6712 W. Pines Road for over 30 years.

The classic holiday ballet will be at the McAninch Arts Center on Dec. 14 & 15.

Performances are Jan. 10–12 at the Allure of Pinecrest Grove Theater, 500 Evergreen Lane, Mt. Morris.

The beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life as a live 1940s radio broadcast.

The Copley Theatre in Aurora, Rialto Square Theatre in Joliet, Sandwich Opera House and more have dazzling holiday productions scheduled in November and December.

Engage Dance Theatre and Raue Center for the Arts present “The Nutcracker” Dec. 21 and 22 in Crystal Lake.

The beloved film, now a musical, is a heartwarming family show that entertains all ages.

Captivating performances and puppetry charm audiences of all ages.

At the Goodman, the 8-year-old impressed audiences last summer playing 4-year-old Tommy in the Broadway-bound “The Who’s Tommy” rock opera.

The smartly written book for this biographical show elevates “A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical” above the din of many jukebox musicals.

Elmhurst’s GreenMan Theatre Troupe presents “The Cover of Life,” a play filled with charm, humor, heartache and hope based on the true-life story of three sisters-in-law living with their husbands’ mother while their men serve in World War II.

The Rialto Square Theatre's holiday performance lineup is filled with music, film and theatre events for the whole family in downtown Joliet.

In another stunner for Paramount Theatre, the Midwest regional premiere proves to be an enchanting spectacle.

The Irving Berlin musical is a nostalgic treat performed by a superlative cast and ensemble.

Mannheim Steamroller Christmas will be at the Rialto Square Theatre in downtown Joliet on Thursday, Nov. 14.

For more than 50 years, the Northern Illinois University College of Visual and Performing Arts has sought to nurture the arts. But the college’s reach has extended far beyond DeKalb and the school’s impact only continues to lengthen and deepen.