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Stage Center Theatre | 2025-2026 Season

                                 Fall 2025

A Staged Reading of Alvaro Saar Rios'

In Darkness, Audio Flowers Bloom

Over a hundred years after music is banned, defiant resisters risk everything to make their own. ().

Performance Dates

• 7:30 p.m. Nov. 20
• 7:30 p.m. Nov. 21
• 2:00 p.m. Nov. 22

9th Annual Nuevas Voces Playwriting Festival

Directed by Leo Aranda, CMT alumna

Founded by alumnus and former ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø professor Jim Blair to create a platform at ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø for new playwrights, Nuevas Voces is a thrilling launch point for new work from ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø 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 ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø.

• 1st Place, $250: HANDY DANDY by Kevin Simonds (NEIU Alum)

• 2nd Place, $200: ROCK ON by Jess Molina (Current NEIU Student)

• 3rd Place, $150: GIVE ME A SIGN by Isabel Quintero (Community Member)

Performance Dates

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

                                    Spring 2026

Full-on Cleopatra by 

Directed by SCT Artistic Director Adam Goldstein

Co-Produced with Silk Road Cultural Center (Black Bear Island) 

A traveling soothsayer, Asim, wanders into the courtyard of Cleopatra’s palace and starts chatting with the queen’s handmaiden, Charmian. He promises to read her fortune. As the unhappy future of the court begins to unfold, this soothsayer soon becomes a witness, then finally a participant in the last days of Cleopatra and Antony. A bold, darkly comedic examination of the fleeting glory of power and the intimacy of those that share it in two of history’s great partnerships.

Performance Dates

• 7:30 p.m. Apr. 15 - Apr. 17
• 3:00 p.m. Apr. 18 (Private Event)
• 7:30 p.m. Apr. 22 - Apr. 24
• 3:00 p.m. Apr. 25

FULL-ON CLEOPATRA was commissioned and developed by Seattle Repertory Theater, Seattle, Washington Damaso Rodriguez, Artistic Director, Jeffrey Herrmann, Managing Director Developed with support from the Vanguard Arts Fund at the Olney Center in Olney, MD.

FULL-ON CLEOPATRA is presented by special arrangement with the Playwright and Elaine Devlin Literary, Inc., 1115 Broadway, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10010.

thINKtank! 

An innovative new play development series featuring NEIU students and alumni in Partnership with Bramble Theatre

Performance Dates

• April 2026