Main Stage Season
2025-2026
POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
By Selina Fillinger
Directed by Alice DaCunha
SEPTEMBER 25 - OCTOBER 2, 2025 | THU-SAT @ 7:30PM | SUN @2:00PM
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Selina Fillinger’s acclaimed theatrical farce imagines what happens behind the locked doors of that big pearly house. The answer contains, but is not limited to briefings, meetings, backtracking, honoring our veterans, female-pride conventions, breast-pumping, blue razz slushies, drugs, Crocs, with copious amounts of chaos and attempts to contain it. Witness Loyola Theatre transport 1600 Pennsylvania Ave to our Laboratory Underground Theatre in the basement of Mundelein Center for the Fine and Performing Arts.
The Neighborhood of the Loners
By Jimena Marquéz
Directed by Kelly Howe
OCTOBER 23 - NOVEMBER 2, 2025 | THU-SAT @ 7:30PM | SUN @2:00PM
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The Neighborhood of the Loners is a place where residents live without social interactions or contact with the world around them. This sanctuary of solitude is disrupted by a sudden death in the neighborhood. The walls between neighbors come down, as the community must come together to answer the question at hand: Who poisoned Miss Pérez? Absurdist, comedic, and harrowing, this world-premiere translation explores how isolation impacts society.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Mark Lococo
FEBRUARY 12-22, 2026 | THU-SAT @7:30PM | SUN @ 2:00PM
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When fiction isn’t enough, stories must be told as they actually happened. Using verbatim transcripts of real-life interviews, Notes from the Field tackles incarceration, police brutality, and systemic educational issues with heart and hope. Anna Deavere Smith’s striking piece of documentary theatre shows the school-to-prison nexus not in allegorical critique, but in grotesquely real detail. Shattering notions of punishment and the justification of violent force, Notes from the Field interrogates what is activism, what is performance, and what you can do about it.
Rent
By Jonathan Larson
Directed by DeRon S. Williams
MARCH 26-APRIL 12, 2026 | THU-SAT @ 7:30PM | SUN @ 2:00PM
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Lower East Side of New York City. End of the millennium. Mark and Roger are roommates, and they can’t afford rent (again). But they don’t let that stop them from enjoying life while they can. They find solace in their community of fellow artists and activists who are also trying to make ends meet as they struggle through life, love, their art, the AIDS crisis, and paying (or not paying) rent. Jonathan Larson’s final musical still resonates today about the importance of trying to get your voice heard, even if it seems no one is listening.
2025-2026
POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
By Selina Fillinger
Directed by Alice DaCunha
SEPTEMBER 25 - OCTOBER 2, 2025 | THU-SAT @ 7:30PM | SUN @2:00PM
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Selina Fillinger’s acclaimed theatrical farce imagines what happens behind the locked doors of that big pearly house. The answer contains, but is not limited to briefings, meetings, backtracking, honoring our veterans, female-pride conventions, breast-pumping, blue razz slushies, drugs, Crocs, with copious amounts of chaos and attempts to contain it. Witness Loyola Theatre transport 1600 Pennsylvania Ave to our Laboratory Underground Theatre in the basement of Mundelein Center for the Fine and Performing Arts.
The Neighborhood of the Loners
By Jimena Marquéz
Directed by Kelly Howe
OCTOBER 23 - NOVEMBER 2, 2025 | THU-SAT @ 7:30PM | SUN @2:00PM
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The Neighborhood of the Loners is a place where residents live without social interactions or contact with the world around them. This sanctuary of solitude is disrupted by a sudden death in the neighborhood. The walls between neighbors come down, as the community must come together to answer the question at hand: Who poisoned Miss Pérez? Absurdist, comedic, and harrowing, this world-premiere translation explores how isolation impacts society.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Mark Lococo
FEBRUARY 12-22, 2026 | THU-SAT @7:30PM | SUN @ 2:00PM
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When fiction isn’t enough, stories must be told as they actually happened. Using verbatim transcripts of real-life interviews, Notes from the Field tackles incarceration, police brutality, and systemic educational issues with heart and hope. Anna Deavere Smith’s striking piece of documentary theatre shows the school-to-prison nexus not in allegorical critique, but in grotesquely real detail. Shattering notions of punishment and the justification of violent force, Notes from the Field interrogates what is activism, what is performance, and what you can do about it.
Rent
By Jonathan Larson
Directed by DeRon S. Williams
MARCH 26-APRIL 12, 2026 | THU-SAT @ 7:30PM | SUN @ 2:00PM
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Lower East Side of New York City. End of the millennium. Mark and Roger are roommates, and they can’t afford rent (again). But they don’t let that stop them from enjoying life while they can. They find solace in their community of fellow artists and activists who are also trying to make ends meet as they struggle through life, love, their art, the AIDS crisis, and paying (or not paying) rent. Jonathan Larson’s final musical still resonates today about the importance of trying to get your voice heard, even if it seems no one is listening.