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Stage Center Theatre | 2024-2025 Season

Fall 2024

8th Annual Nuevas Voces Playwriting Festival

Directed by Lisa Harriman, CMT alumna

Founded by alumnus and former Å·²©ÓÎÏ·¹ÙÍø professor Jim Blair to create a platform at Å·²©ÓÎÏ·¹ÙÍø Illinois University for new playwrights, Nuevas Voces is a thrilling launch point for new work from Å·²©ÓÎÏ·¹ÙÍø and its vibrant community. Featuring multiple prize-winning short plays selected from an extensive competition, Nuevas Voces reveals the complexity of our human experience through the many lenses that make up Å·²©ÓÎÏ·¹ÙÍø.

• 1st Place, $250: THE HUMAN GOLDFISH by Tyris Manney (Current NEIU Student)

• 2nd Place, $200: IT IS WHAT IT IS by Kelly Bork (Current NEIU Student)

• 3rd Place, $150: INEVITABLE by Myrcedes Edwards (Current NEIU Student)

• Honorable Mentions ($100 each):

  • MANNING THE MIDDLE by Nathan Baltudis (NEIU Alum)

  • YOU BETCHA! YIPPEE! by Brenda Gilmore (Community Member)

Performance Dates

• 7:30 p.m. Oct. 3; an opening reception begins at 6:30 p.m. and talkback session at the conclusion of the opening night.
• 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4
• 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. Oct. 5

Hundreds and Hundreds of Stars*

by Sandra Delgado

*Pending performance rights

Directed by Guest Artist Denise Serna

Co-produced in partnership with Teatro Vista.

Like millions of Americans, Clara’s days are consumed with juggling work and family. Recently divorced, she’s taking care of her tween-age daughter, her aging father – and paying alimony to her under-employed ex-husband. But in the midst of all that stress, she’s got something to look forward to: a long planned for trip to Europe with her daughter Stella. In preparation, Clara, who immigrated to the US with her family as a child, decides to apply for full citizenship. She wants to be able to stand in the same customs line as Stella. But when her citizenship application is flagged, it sets off an unfathomable series of events that threaten to force her out of the only home she’s ever known. Timely and provocative, Felons and Familias asks challenging questions about our country’s most fundamental values. Visit Sandra Delgado's .

Featured in The Goodman Theatre's New Stages Festival in September 2018.

Performance Dates

• 7:30 p.m. Nov. 14 - Nov. 16
• 7:30 p.m. Nov. 20 - Nov. 22
• 2:00 p.m. Nov. 23

Nov. 16 will be . 

Spring 2025

Witch

by Jen Silverman

*Pending performance rights

Directed by CMT Faculty Member Dan Wirth

A charming devil arrives in the quiet village of Edmonton to bargain for the souls of its residents in exchange for their darkest wishes. Elizabeth should be his easiest target, having been labeled a "witch" and cast out by the town, but her soul is not so readily bought. A darkly comedic retelling of a Jacobean drama, and a biting work by a vital playwright, this subversive fable debates how much our souls are worth when hope is hard to come by.

Performance Dates

• 7:30 p.m. Apr. 17 - Apr. 19
• 7:30 p.m. Apr. 23 - Apr. 25
• 2:00 p.m. Nov. 23

Apr. 19 will be .