Additional performers in the 2025-2026 season include the Soweto Gospel Choir, comedian Pat Tomasulo, Cirque Kalabanté and many more.

Timber Lake Playhouse in Mount Carroll will hold world-premiere performances of the musical “Glü” from Friday, Aug. 22, through Sunday, Aug. 31.

The Mainstage season wraps up with 'Bridges of Madison County' Sept. 12-21, but concerts continue through early December.

'Come From Away' tells the story of a group of stranded passengers who were diverted to Newfoundland on September 11, 2001.

The proposed development, dubbed Heritage Station, includes 8,000 square feet for a performing arts center, possibly a satellite site for Crystal Lake’s Raue Center for the Arts, and 6,000 square feet for retail space.

When the curtain falls on Paramount Theatre’s stellar revival of “True West” later this month, the Copley Theatre in Aurora, home of Paramount’s Bold series, goes dark.

Goodly Creatures Theatre will perform the comedy “Much Ado About Nothing” at 6 p.m.

"True West" runs through Aug. 31 at Paramount's Copley Theatre in downtown Aurora.

Reimagined adaptation of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ runs this weekend