Porchlight Music Theatre is proud to announce its 30th Anniversary Season including in its Mainstage Series: Fun Home, January 16 - March 2, 2025 and the Chicago premiere of Titanique, in association with Broadway In Chicago, March 25 - May 18, 2025. Renewal subscriptions are now on sale with new subscriptions for Fun Home and Titanique available beginning Tuesday, Aug. 13 for $150 at PorchlightMusicTheatre.org. In addition, the ICONS Gala, September 22, New Faces Sing Broadway NOW, November 11 and 12 and Chicago Sings 30 Years of Porchlight, May 12, 2025, may be added to any subscription. Porchlight’s box office is open Tuesday - Friday, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m. at 773.777.9884.
The 2024 - 2025 30th Anniversary Season includes:
CHICAGO LIVE AT NAVY PIER
Saturday, Sept. 21 at 2:30 p.m.
Directed by Producing Artistic Associate Frankie Leo Bennett
Music Directed by Linda Madonia
Lake Stage, Navy Pier, 600 E. Grand Ave.
FREE
Porchlight Music Theatre presents Broadway hits and selections from its 30th season as it joins more than 110 artists and organizations for Navy Pier’s free two-day celebration of Chicago’s vibrant arts and cultural community. Performances take place across Pier-wide on five stages.
ICONS GALA
Sunday, Sept. 22 at 11 a.m.
Directed by Artistic Director Michael Weber
Music Directed by Linda Madonia
Associate Music Director Justin Kono
The Ritz-Carlton Chicago at Water Tower Place, 160 E. Pearson St.
Tickets: $350 - $500 with sponsorship opportunities available
The ICONS Gala may be added to 2024 - 2025 subscriptions.
Tickets on sale now at PorchlightMusicTheatre.org
In 2024, Porchlight celebrates three decades of productions at its annual fundraiser, the ICONS Gala, with performances, highlights from its educational and community initiatives, the presentation of the 2024 Luminary Award to longtime supporters Michelle and Steve Cucchiaro, an exciting auction and a deluxe brunch buffet with mimosas and wine sponsored by Uvae Kitchen and Wine Bar.
NEW FACES SING BROADWAY NOW
Directed by Producing Artistic Associate Frankie Leo Bennett
Music Directed by Carolyn Jean Brady
Hosted by Adrian Aguilar
Monday, Nov. 11 at 7:30 p.m.
Evanston SPACE, 1245 Chicago Ave., Evanston
Tickets: $45
Tuesday, Nov. 12 - Wine & Cheese Reception at 6:30 p.m. and Performance at 7:30 p.m.
The Arts Club of Chicago, 201 E. Ontario St.
Tickets: $75
New Faces Sing Broadway may be added to 2024 - 2025 subscriptions.
Single Tickets go on sale: Tuesday, Sept. 3 at 12 p.m.
The popular New Faces Sing Broadway series returns in Porchlight’s 30th Anniversary Season. Chicago’s up-and-coming talent join Broadway’s Adrian Aguilar for a revue featuring the hottest shows on Broadway today including Hell’s Kitchen, The Notebook, The Outsiders and others as well as sing-alongs, a trivia contest with prizes and more!
ICONS GALA
Sunday, Sept. 22 at 11 a.m.
Directed by Artistic Director Michael Weber
Music Directed by Linda Madonia
Associate Music Director Justin Kono
The Ritz-Carlton Chicago at Water Tower Place, 160 E. Pearson St.
Tickets: $350 - $500 with sponsorship opportunities available
The ICONS Gala may be added to 2024 - 2025 subscriptions.
Tickets on sale now at PorchlightMusicTheatre.org
In 2024, Porchlight celebrates three decades of productions at its annual fundraiser, the ICONS Gala, with performances, highlights from its educational and community initiatives, the presentation of the 2024 Luminary Award to longtime supporters Michelle and Steve Cucchiaro, an exciting auction and a deluxe brunch buffet with mimosas and wine sponsored by Uvae Kitchen and Wine Bar.
CHICAGO PREMIERE
TITANIQUE
Presented in association with Broadway In Chicago
March 25 - May 18, 2025
Co-Written by Marla Mindelle, Constantine Rousouli and Tye Blue
Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place, 175 E. Chestnut St.
Titanique is part of Porchlight’s 2024 - 2025 subscription series.
Renewal Subscriptions begin Tuesday, July 23 at 12 p.m.
New Subscriptions are available beginning Tuesday, Aug. 13 at 12 p.m.
All aboard NYC’s must-sea musical comedy! When the music of Céline Dion makes sweet Canadian love with the eleven-time Oscar®-winning blockbuster film “Titanic,” you get Titanique, off-Broadway’s most award-winning splash hit, which turns one of the greatest love stories of all time into a hysterical musical fantasia. Want to find out what really happened to Jack and Rose on that fateful night? Just leave it to Céline Dion to enchant the audience with her totally wild take, recharting the course of Titanic’s beloved moments and characters with her iconic song catalog. Sailing on fierce powerhouse voices in show-stopping performances of such hits as “My Heart Will Go On,” “All By Myself” and “To Love You More” – backed by the unparalleled energy of a full live band – Titanique is a one-of-a-kind theatrical voyage bursting with nostalgia, heart and campy chaos.
CHICAGO SINGS 30 YEARS OF PORCHLIGHT
Monday, May 12, 2025
House of Blues Chicago, 329 N. Dearborn St.
Tickets: $75 - $175
Chicago Sings 30 Years of Porchlight may be added to 2024 - 2025 subscriptions.
Single Tickets go on sale: Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025 at 12 p.m.
The spring fundraising concert fittingly concludes the season with an unforgettable night of live performances commemorating 30 years of Porchlight with performances by Chicago theatre luminaries, the presentation of the 2025 Guy Adkins Award for Excellence in the Advancement of Music Theatre in Chicago and more.
Performance dates and times are subject to change.
ABOUT PORCHLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE
Porchlight Music Theatre, entering its 30th season, is the award-winning center for music theatre in Chicago. Through live performance, youth education and community outreach, we impact thousands of lives each season, bringing the magic of musicals to our theatre home at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts in the Gold Coast and to neighborhoods across the city. Porchlight has built a national reputation for boldly reimagining classic musicals, supporting new works and young performers, and showcasing Chicago’s most notable music theatre artists, all through the intimate and powerful theatrical lens of the “Chicago Style.”
Porchlight's history over nearly three decades includes more than 70 mainstage works with 15 Chicago premieres and five world premieres.
Porchlight's education and outreach programs serve schools, youth of all ages and skill levels and community organizations. Porchlight annually awards dozens of full scholarships and hundreds of free tickets to ensure accessibility and real engagement with this uniquely American art form.
The company’s many honors include 178 Joseph Jefferson Award (Jeff) nominations and 49 Jeff awards, as well as 44 Black Theatre Alliance (BTA) nominations and 15 BTA awards. In 2019, Porchlight graduated to the Large Theatre tier of the Equity Jeff Awards and has been honored with seven awards in this tier to date including Best Ensemble for Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies (2019) and Best Production-Revue for Blues in the Night (2022).
Through the global pandemic, Porchlight emerged as one of Chicago’s leaders in virtual programming, quickly launching a host of free offerings like Sondheim @ 90 Roundtables, Movie Musical Mondays, Porchlight by Request: Command Performances and WPMT: Classic Musicals from the Golden Age of Radio. In 2021, Porchlight launched its annual summer series, Broadway in your Backyard, performing at parks and venues throughout the city which continues this summer.
Brenda and James Grusecki Family Foundation is Porchlight Music Theatre’s 30th anniversary season sponsor.
Porchlight Music Theatre is partially supported by generous contributions from Actors’ Equity Foundation; Allstate; Comcast/Xfinity; Cliff Dwellers Arts Foundation; Free for All; Glimpse Vision; James P. and Brenda S. Grusecki Family Foundation; Hearty Boys; the Pritzker Traubert Foundation; Ryan and Spaeth, Inc.; Daniel and Genevieve Ratner Foundation; The Saints; Dr. Scholl Foundation; Service Club of Chicago and The Shubert Foundation.
The season program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency, a state agency, and by a CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events.
Porchlight Music Theatre wishes to thank members of the Matching Gift Corporate Program including Allstate; BDO; Google; Jackson National Life Insurance; Lloyd A. Fry Foundation and The Saints.
Top row: (L to R) Host Adrian Aguilar (NEW FACES SING BROADWAY NOW), Director Frankie Leo Bennett (CHICAGO LIVE. NEW FACES SING BROADWAY NOW), Music Director Carolyn Jean Brady (NEW FACES SING BROADWAY NOW) and Music Director Heidi Josten (FUN HOME)
Second row: (L to R) Associate Music Director Justin Kono (ICONS GALA), Music Director Linda Madonia (CHICAGO LIVE, ICONS GALA), Director Stephen Schellhardt (FUN HOME) and Artistic Director Michael Weber (ICONS GALA)