Upcoming Auditions
Dad's Season Tickets
MAINSTAGE PRODUCTIONS
Auditions: June 23-24, 2025. Callbacks June 26.
Rehearsals: July 21-September 11, 2025
Performances: September 12-28, 2025
A new musical comedy for football fanatics and the people who love them. Who will inherit Frank’s treasured season tickets at Lambeau Field? The Kosinski sisters employ every trick in the playbook, on the way to relearning that family isn’t everything; it’s the only thing. With songs like “When You Live in Green Bay” and “What Do You Do with a Bye Week,” this quintessential Wisconsin musical will warm your heart and leave you rooting for the home team!
Director: Justin Spanbauer
Music Directors: Heather David & Phil Smith
Auditioners should prepare approximately one minute of a song that shows their personality. An accompanist will be provided, and auditioners are expected to provide sheet music. Auditioners may be asked to attend a callback which will include selections from the show.
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MAINSTAGE PRODUCTIONS
Auditions: August 26-27, 2025. Callbacks August 28.
Rehearsals: September 8-October 16, 2025
Performances: October 17-November 2, 2025
Inspired by the playwright’s youthful experience as a staff writer on Sid Caesar’s Your Show of Shows, this ensemble comedy features all the attendant comic drama as the harried writing staff frantically scrambles to top each other with gags while competing for the attention of star madman Max Prince.
Director: Tim Kietzman
More Info Coming Soon!
She Kills Monsters: Young Adventurers Edition
ACADEMY TEEN PRODUCTIONS
Auditions: September 16-17, 2025. Callbacks September 18.
Rehearsals: September 29-November 6, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Performances: November 7-16, 2025
When Agnes stumbles upon Tilly’s Dungeons & Dragons notebook, she finds herself catapulted into a journey of discovery and action-packed adventure in the imaginary world that was her sister’s refuge. In this high-octane dramatic comedy laden with homicidal fairies, nasty ogres, and ’90s pop culture, acclaimed playwright Qui Nguyen offers a heart-pounding homage to the geek and warrior within us all.
This show contains loud noises, depictions of bullying and grief, and some mild language. Families with young children are encouraged to research the show before attending.
Director: Del Lovejoy
This is an audition-based, tuition-based Academy production.
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Newsies
MAINSTAGE PRODUCTIONS
Disney’s Newsies the Musical
Auditions: September 30-October 1, 2025. Callbacks October 2.
Rehearsals: October 13-December 4, 2025
Performances: December 5-21, 2025
It’s time to carry the banner on your stage with Disney’s Newsies! Set in turn-of-the century New York City, Newsies is the rousing tale of Jack Kelly, a charismatic newsboy and leader of a band of teenaged “newsies.” When titans of publishing raise distribution prices at the newsboys’ expense, Jack rallies newsies from across the city to strike against the unfair conditions and fight for what’s right!
Director: Matt Matysik-Przybylski
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Hadestown: Teen Edition
ACADEMY TEEN PRODUCTIONS
Auditions: November 23-24, 2025. Callbacks November 25.
Rehearsals: January 6-February 26, 2026, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Performances: February 27-March 8, 2026
This intriguing and beautiful folk opera delivers a deeply resonant and defiantly hopeful theatrical experience. Following two intertwining love stories – that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of immortal King Hades and lady Persephone – Hadestown invites audiences on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back. Inspired by traditions of classic American folk music and vintage New Orleans jazz, Mitchell’s beguiling sung-through musical pits industry against nature, doubt against faith, and fear against love.
Director: Madison Penzkover
This is an audition-based, tuition-based Academy production.
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Sense & Sensibility
MAINSTAGE PRODUCTIONS
Auditions: December 9-10, 2025. Callbacks December 11.
Rehearsals: December 29-February 5, 2026
Performances: February 6-22, 2026
A playful new adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved novel follows the fortunes (and misfortunes) of the Dashwood sisters—sensible Elinor and hypersensitive Marianne—after their father’s sudden death leaves them financially destitute and socially vulnerable. Set in gossipy late 18th-century England, with a fresh female voice, the play is full of humor, emotional depth, and bold theatricality.
Directors: Ashley Levells-Riemer & Patrice Hood
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The Prom
MAINSTAGE PRODUCTIONS
Auditions: January 6-8, 2026*
Rehearsals: January 19-March 12, 2026
Performances: March 13-29, 2026
Four eccentric Broadway stars are in desperate need of a new stage. So when they hear that trouble is brewing around a small-town prom, they know that it’s time to put a spotlight on the issue…and themselves. The town’s parents want to keep the high school dance on the straight and narrow—but when one student just wants to bring her girlfriend to prom, the entire town has a date with destiny. On a mission to transform lives, Broadway’s brassiest join forces with a courageous girl and the town’s citizens and the result is love that brings them all together.
Director: Christopher Orth
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Give Me Moonlight
BLACK BOX NEW WORKS PRODUCTIONS
Auditions: February 17-18, 2026. Callbacks February 19.
Rehearsals: March 9-April 16, 2026
Performances: April 17-26, 2026
Stuck in the desert of a happily ever after that is nothing like they dreamed, Bessie, a chronic do-gooder, and Albert Johnson, a wishful Quixote, try anything to prop up the facade of their marriage. But when Bessie brings home a less-than-acceptable house guest, their lost dreams begin to consume their fragile reality. This surrealist play tells the fictionalized true story of Scotty’s Castle and the couple from 1910s Chicago who built a mansion for a con man in the middle of Death Valley, CA.
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Calendar Girls
MAINSTAGE PRODUCTIONS
Auditions: March 3-4, 2026. Callbacks March 5.
Rehearsals: March 23-April 30, 2026.
Performances: May 1-17, 2026.
When Annie’s husband John dies of leukemia, she and best friend Chris resolve to raise money for a new settee in the local hospital waiting room. They manage to persuade four fellow Women’s Institute members to pose nude with them for an “alternative” calendar, with a little help from hospital porter and amateur photographer Lawrence. The news of the women’s charitable venture spreads like wildfire, and hordes of press soon descend on the small village of Knapeley in the Yorkshire Dales. The calendar is a success, but Chris and Annie’s friendship is put to the test under the strain of their newfound fame.
Director: Kelly Goeller
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Native Gardens
MAINSTAGE PRODUCTIONS
Auditions: April 14-15, 2026. Callbacks April 16.
Rehearsals: April 27-June 4, 2026
Performances: June 5-21, 2026
Pablo, a high-powered lawyer, and doctoral candidate Tania, his very pregnant wife, are realizing the American dream when they purchase a house next door to community stalwarts Virginia and Frank. But a disagreement over a long-standing fence line soon spirals into an all-out war of taste, class, privilege, and entitlement. The hilarious results guarantee no one comes out smelling like a rose.
Director: Julie Ferris-Tillman
Dramaturg and Guest Fine Artist: Erico Ortiz