Metropolis Performing Arts Centre Explained

Size:	20px
Formation:	2000
Headquarters:	111 W Campbell St Arlington Heights, Illinois
Leader Title:	Artistic Director
Leader Name:	Brendan Ragan
Leader Title2:	Executive Director
Leader Name2:	David Victor
Website:	metropolisarts.com

The Metropolis Performing Arts Centre is a professional theatre company^{[1] [2]} in Arlington Heights, Illinois, founded in 2000.^{[3] [4]} They often have over 300 performances of more than 40 different productions with over 70,000 patrons each season.^{[5] [6] [7]}

List of Shows

2004-2005

• Vagina Monologues
• Defending the Caveman
• Odd Couple
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Forever Plaid

2005-2006

• Beyond Therapy
• Steel Magnolias
• Run For Your Wife
• Brighton Beach Memoirs
• The Nerd

2006-2007

• I Love You, You're Perfect. Now Change
• Barefoot in the Park
• A Streetcar Named Desire
• Don't Dress for Dinner

2007-2008

• High School Musical
• Deathtrap
• Sylvia
• The Musical of Musicals the Musical

2008-2009

• Damn Yankees
• The Foreignor
• Lend Me A Tenor
• Baby

2009-2010

• Pump Boys and Dinettes
• Out of Order
• Side Man
• Midlife the Crisis Musical

2010-2011

• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
• The Boys Next Door
• The Butler Didn't
• Nunsense

2011-2012

• Married Alive!
• The Andrews Brothers
• The Complete History of America (Abridged)
• 10 Ways To Kill Your Husband

2012-2013

• The Marvelous Wonderettes
• A Christmas Carol
• There's a Girl in My Soup
• Accomplice
• Five Course Love

2013-2014

• Route 66
• The Last Five Years
• A Christmas Carol
• Greater Tuna
• Half and Half

2014-2015

• Laughter on the 23rd Floor
• Dial M for Murder
• A Christmas Carol
• Private Lives
• An Evening with C.S. Lewis
• Drowsy Chaperone

2015-2016

• Moon Over Buffalo
• Spamalot
• A Christmas Carol
• The 39 Steps
• Rent (musical)
• Ring of Fire

2016-2017

• Young Frankenstein
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
• Hair
• Peter and the Starcatcher

2017-2018

• Into the Woods
• Boeing Boeing
• Avenue Q

2018-2019

• A Chorus Line
• The Mousetrap
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story

2019-2020

• Anything Goes
• Noises Off
• Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (virtual)

2021-2022

• Little Shop of Horrors
• My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra
• Legally Blonde
• A Christmas Carol
• Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill
• SHOUT! The Mod Musical
• Sister Act

2022-2023

• Cabaret
• A Christmas Carol
• The Legend of Georgia McBride
• Ragtime
• Xanadu

2023-2024

• The Addams Family
• A Christmas Carol
• The Music Man, In Concert
• 9 to 5
• Million Dollar Quartet

2024-2025^{[8] [9]}

• Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella
• A Christmas Carol
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• Rock of Ages
• Ken Ludwig's Dear Jack, Dear Louise

Notes and References

1. Web site: Metropolis' 'Moon Over Buffalo' delivers laughs, but few thrills . Dailyherald.com . 2015-07-15 . 2016-03-08.
2. Web site: Review: The Drowsy Chaperone/Metropolis Performing Arts Centre . Newcity Stage . 2015-05-23 . 2016-03-08.
3. Web site: Metropolis' 'Drowsy Chaperone' lovingly spoofs 1920s Broadway musicals . Dailyherald.com . 2015-05-21 . 2016-03-08.
4. Web site: The Drowsy Chaperone | Around the Town Chicago with Al Bresloff . Aroundthetownchicago.com . 2015-05-17 . 2016-03-08.
5. Web site: Plays, Musicals and Concerts in the Northwest Chicago Suburbs - Metropolis . Metropolisarts.com . 2016-03-08.
6. Web site: Lonely man's imagination brings Broadway to life in 'Drowsy Chaperone' - Buffalo Grove Countryside . Chicagotribune.com . 2015-05-12 . 2016-03-08.
7. Web site: C.S. Lewis' life story affectionately told at Metropolis . Dailyherald.com . 2015-03-17 . 2016-03-08.
8. https://www.metropolisarts.com/24-25-season/
9. https://www.dailyherald.com/20240513/theater/metropolis-announces-25th-anniversary-season/