NILES WEST THEATRE
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    • Previous Productions >
      • 2025-2026 Season >
        • Show 1
        • Show 2
        • Show 3
        • Show 4
      • 2024-2025 Season
      • 2023-2024 Season
      • 2022-2023 Season >
        • A Kid Like Jake
        • Romeo and Juliet
        • Festival of One Act Plays 2022
        • Akiko and the Unknown
        • Workshopped Selections From Angels in America
        • The SpongeBob Musical
      • 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
    • Curricular Classes
    • Staff
  • Students
    • Thespian Troupe 1714
    • Digital Resources
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  • Ticket Information
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Niles West Theatre is an active and passionate group of actors, technicians and artists at Niles West High School in Skokie, Illinois.  There are nearly 150 students who participate in the curricular and co-curricular activities of Niles West Theatre.

Each year, Niles West Theatre presents a production season of four mainstage plays and several studio productions in one of our two performance spaces: A 1300 seat proscenium auditorium and a state of the art Black Box Theatre.

Check the the home page of this website or see Ms. Wernecke in her office (Rm. 1640) for more information.
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Our student Thespian Board has created the following mission and vision statements for Niles West Theatre:

Mission Statement

Niles West Theatre is an inclusive community of students and staff dedicated to creating bold and professional productions that combine artistic and realistic perspectives to reflect the past, present, and future of our world.

Vision Statement

Our aim is to broaden the horizons of our audiences by creating art that reflects the voices of our students and staff and adapting text to fit into contemporary settings. We seek to create art that sparks conversations in our community, and moves beyond the boundaries of our school. This can be accomplished by equipping students with the tools to understand and translate challenging topics in society into theatre going forward.
Click here to see the Niles West Theatre Anti-racism Statement
Click here to see the Niles West Theater ​Land Acknowledgment
"Act well your part; there all the honour lies" - Alexander Pope
CLICK HERE to donate to the Niles West Theatre Patrons
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  • Home
  • 2025-26 Season
  • Info
    • Previous Productions >
      • 2025-2026 Season >
        • Show 1
        • Show 2
        • Show 3
        • Show 4
      • 2024-2025 Season
      • 2023-2024 Season
      • 2022-2023 Season >
        • A Kid Like Jake
        • Romeo and Juliet
        • Festival of One Act Plays 2022
        • Akiko and the Unknown
        • Workshopped Selections From Angels in America
        • The SpongeBob Musical
      • 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
    • Curricular Classes
    • Staff
  • Students
    • Thespian Troupe 1714
    • Digital Resources
  • Patrons
  • Ticket Information
  • Alumni