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      • A Kid Like Jake
      • Romeo and Juliet
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    • 2021-2022 Season >
      • Art
      • 12 Angry Jurors
      • Niles West Theatre Fringe Festival
      • Eurydice
      • Pippin
    • 2020-2021 Season >
      • Niles West Theatre Saves The World
      • Charlotte's Web
      • 2020 Festival of One Act Plays
      • Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom
      • The Theory of Relativity
    • 2019-2020 Season >
      • The Fundamentals
      • Little Shop of Horrors
      • Reveal @ Open
      • Wendy and Peter Pan
    • 2018-2019 Season >
      • Proof
      • The Diary of Anne Frank
      • The Director's Studio (2018)
      • Macbeth
      • Disney's The Little Mermaid
    • 2017-2018 Season >
      • White Guy on a Bus
      • The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
      • Law & Order: Fairy Tale Unit
      • Machinal
      • Les Miserables: School Edition
    • 2016-2017 Season >
      • On Stars Not Falling
      • Almost, Maine
      • The Director's Studio (2016)
      • A Streetcar Named Desire
      • RENT: School Edition
    • 2015-2016 Season >
      • Songs for a New World
      • A Midsummer Night's Dream: Detention Edition
      • Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse
      • Prospect High: Brooklyn
      • Annie
    • 2014-2015 Season >
      • She Kills Monsters
      • Dead Man's Cell Phone
      • The Director's Studio (2014)
      • On the Razzle
      • Shrek: The Musical
    • 2013-2014 Season >
      • The Dream of the Burning Boy
      • [title of show]
      • The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon
      • Romeo and Juliet
      • Avenue Q: School Edition
    • 2012 - 2013 Season >
      • The Laramie Project
      • The Musical Adventures of Freddie the Frog
      • The Director's Studio (2013)
      • The Importance of Being Earnest
      • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
    • 2011-2012 Season >
      • The House of Blue Leaves
      • Xanadu
      • The Phantom Tollbooth
      • The Taming of the Shrew
      • Chicago
    • 2010-2011 Season >
      • Rabbit Hole
      • Steel Magnolias
      • The Jungle Book
      • The Director's Studio (2010)
      • Air Guitar High
      • The King and I
    • 2009-2010 Season >
      • Urinetown
      • James and the Giant Peach
      • The Sparrow
      • Lysistrata
      • Fame
      • Medea
    • 2008-2009 Season >
      • The Complete History of America: Abridged
      • The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood
      • The Director's Studio (2008)
      • Thoroughly Modern Millie
      • Our Town
  • Students
    • Thespian Troupe 1714
    • Digital Resources
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2022-2023 Season:


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A Kid Like Jake
THE 10th ANNUAL THESPIAN PRODUCTION
by Daniel Pearle
Directed by Sam Rosenfeld


Thursday, Sep 1: 10am (Free Community Performance) & 4pm
Friday, Sep 2: 5pm
Saturday, Sep 3: 2pm & 6pm
Black Box Theatre
Join us for a contemporary play that deals with themes of belonging, loss, love, and what it means to be a family. Set in modern day Brooklyn, A Kid Like Jake centers on a young couple and their four year old son Jake. Jake is a young boy who does not subscribe to gender norms, loves princesses, and playing dress up. Beloved and accepted for who he is by both of his parents, they wonder whether to “play the gender card” when applying to private elementary school programs. In conversations with each other and Jake's preschool director the couple struggle with how to move forward with their applications and parenting styles as Jake’s behavior becomes increasingly erratic and concerning to those in his life. Join us for this moving piece that asks the question, what does unconditional love really look like?

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Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare

Directed by Sam Rosenfeld
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Thursday, Nov 3: 10am (Free Community Performance) & 4pm
Friday, Nov 4: 5pm
Saturday, Nov 5: 2pm & 6pm
Black Box Theatre
Niles West Theatre is proud to join with the Niles West Orchestra program to tackle a true classic. The orchestra program will be joining us to play live on stage with original music for perhaps the most famous play ever written. A play filled with deep themes of young love, feuding families, death, and tragedy. The feelings and themes in Romeo and Juliet are so big that it feels like at moments the play sings, and needs music to express the size of the emotions. We are excited to explore this classic piece through a lens of timelessness and youth.

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2022 Festival of One Act Plays
Directed by the students of the Directing Class

Thursday, Dec 15: 10am (Free Community Performance) & 4pm
Friday, Dec 16: 5pm
Saturday, Dec 17: 2pm & 6pm
Black Box Theatre
For our winter play we will be putting on The 2022 Festival of One Act Plays. This every other year festival is a chance for our Juniors and Seniors in the Directing class to lead a cast and put together their own 10 minute play. We are excited to see what shows the students choose to direct. Some have already committed to directing shows that were written for the Playwright Project from Niles West Fringe Festival this past season. We can not wait to see what themes and ideas these young artists will bring to our stage.

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Akiko and the Unknown
by Devon Hayakawa
Directed by Carl Alexander

Thursday, Feb 23: 10am (Free Community Performance) & 4pm
Friday, Feb 24: 5pm
Saturday, Feb 25: 2pm & 6pm

Black Box Theatre
For our spring play we are excited to commission playwright Devon Hayakawa to write a piece that will premiere at Niles West High School. We are excited to be the first ever performance of Akiko and the Unknown. Inspired by Japanese culture and traditional anime films, like those of Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki, this fantastical journey will surely enthrall our audiences.

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Directing Showcase
Directed by Sam Rosenfeld

Dates to be announced.
Black Box Theatre
The Directing class will be at the helm for our first ever Directing Showcase. This will consist of work (scenes, monologues, songs, etc) selected by the students in the classes that will center around a theme that we will collectively choose. The works will be produced and rehearsed in class and will be shown as a process based project to our audience free of charge.

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The SpongeBob Musical
Book by Kyle Jarrow
With original songs by 
Yolanda Adams, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Sara Bareilles, Jonathan Coulton, Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, The Flaming Lips, Lady A, Cyndi Lauper, John Legend, Panic! At the Disco, Plain White T’s, They Might Be Giants, T. I., and songs by David Bowie, Tom Kenny & Andy Paley, with additional lyrics by Jonathan Coulton and additional music by Tom Kitt.
Directed by Sam Rosenfeld

Thursday, May 11: 10am (Free Community Performance) & 4pm
Friday, May 12: 5pm
Saturday, May 13: 1pm & 6pm

Auditorium
Join us as a not so simple sponge struggles to find their place. Though surrounded by true friends they feel a sense of isolation and a longing to change the world. The stakes could not be higher as we watch a word crumble in the face of total annihilation. Nominated for twelve Tony Awards this critically acclaimed musical is sure to capture the hearts and imaginations of audiences of all ages. Life and death hang in the balance as we can only hope for an unlikely hero to save us all. A small hero. A hero with optimism. A hero with ambition. A hero with square pants. The SpongeBob Musical is sure to delight all.
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  • Home
  • 2022-2023 Season
  • Info
    • Curricular Classes
    • Staff
  • Previous Productions
    • 2022-2023 Season >
      • A Kid Like Jake
      • Romeo and Juliet
      • Festival of One Act Plays 2022
    • 2021-2022 Season >
      • Art
      • 12 Angry Jurors
      • Niles West Theatre Fringe Festival
      • Eurydice
      • Pippin
    • 2020-2021 Season >
      • Niles West Theatre Saves The World
      • Charlotte's Web
      • 2020 Festival of One Act Plays
      • Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom
      • The Theory of Relativity
    • 2019-2020 Season >
      • The Fundamentals
      • Little Shop of Horrors
      • Reveal @ Open
      • Wendy and Peter Pan
    • 2018-2019 Season >
      • Proof
      • The Diary of Anne Frank
      • The Director's Studio (2018)
      • Macbeth
      • Disney's The Little Mermaid
    • 2017-2018 Season >
      • White Guy on a Bus
      • The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
      • Law & Order: Fairy Tale Unit
      • Machinal
      • Les Miserables: School Edition
    • 2016-2017 Season >
      • On Stars Not Falling
      • Almost, Maine
      • The Director's Studio (2016)
      • A Streetcar Named Desire
      • RENT: School Edition
    • 2015-2016 Season >
      • Songs for a New World
      • A Midsummer Night's Dream: Detention Edition
      • Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse
      • Prospect High: Brooklyn
      • Annie
    • 2014-2015 Season >
      • She Kills Monsters
      • Dead Man's Cell Phone
      • The Director's Studio (2014)
      • On the Razzle
      • Shrek: The Musical
    • 2013-2014 Season >
      • The Dream of the Burning Boy
      • [title of show]
      • The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon
      • Romeo and Juliet
      • Avenue Q: School Edition
    • 2012 - 2013 Season >
      • The Laramie Project
      • The Musical Adventures of Freddie the Frog
      • The Director's Studio (2013)
      • The Importance of Being Earnest
      • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
    • 2011-2012 Season >
      • The House of Blue Leaves
      • Xanadu
      • The Phantom Tollbooth
      • The Taming of the Shrew
      • Chicago
    • 2010-2011 Season >
      • Rabbit Hole
      • Steel Magnolias
      • The Jungle Book
      • The Director's Studio (2010)
      • Air Guitar High
      • The King and I
    • 2009-2010 Season >
      • Urinetown
      • James and the Giant Peach
      • The Sparrow
      • Lysistrata
      • Fame
      • Medea
    • 2008-2009 Season >
      • The Complete History of America: Abridged
      • The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood
      • The Director's Studio (2008)
      • Thoroughly Modern Millie
      • Our Town
  • Students
    • Thespian Troupe 1714
    • Digital Resources
  • Patrons
    • Tile Project
  • Ticket Information
  • Alumni