About the Show
Direct from two critically acclaimed sold‐out productions, the New York Times Critic’s Pick ILLINOISE is transferring to Broadway for 16 weeks only beginning April 24. The landmark Grammy‐ and Oscar‐nominated Sufjan Stevens album “springs to epic life onstage” (The Washington Post) in a “mysterious, deeply moving and unforgettable dance‐musical hybrid” (The New York Times) directed and choreographed by Tony Award® winner Justin Peck.
Told through live music performed by an 11‐member band, three vocalists and impressionistic choreography, Peck and Pulitzer Prize‐winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury have crafted an original story that bursts with feeling. As friends gather around a campfire sharing stories of first love, grief and growing up, “Illinoise explores the hot zone between child and adulthood when emotions can be at their most overwhelming” (The New York Times). Don’t miss this limited Broadway engagement. “Illinoise throws open a window to the cosmos, and we all turn like hungry wintering plants toward the sun” (New York Magazine).
About the Show
Direct from two critically acclaimed sold‐out productions, the New York Times Critic’s Pick ILLINOISE is transferring to Broadway for 16 weeks only beginning April 24. The landmark Grammy‐ and Oscar‐nominated Sufjan Stevens album “springs to epic life onstage” (The Washington Post) in a “mysterious, deeply moving and unforgettable dance‐musical hybrid” (The New York Times) directed and choreographed by Tony Award® winner Justin Peck.
Told through live music performed by an 11‐member band, three vocalists and impressionistic choreography, Peck and Pulitzer Prize‐winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury have crafted an original story that bursts with feeling. As friends gather around a campfire sharing stories of first love, grief and growing up, “Illinoise explores the hot zone between child and adulthood when emotions can be at their most overwhelming” (The New York Times). Don’t miss this limited Broadway engagement. “Illinoise throws open a window to the cosmos, and we all turn like hungry wintering plants toward the sun” (New York Magazine).
Performance Schedule
April
About the Theatre
St. James Theatre
246 W 44th St
New York, NY 10036
The St. James Theatre opened in 1927 as The Erlanger. Upon Erlanger’s death in 1930, control of the venue was taken over by the Astor family, who owned the land on which the theatre stood. The Astors renamed it the St. James Theatre.
The theatre was purchased by the Shuberts in the late 1930s who then sold it to William L. McKnight in 1957. McKnight renovated the St. James and reopened it in 1958. In 1970, McKnight then transferred the theatre to his daughter Virginia and her husband James H. Binger, who had formed Jujamcyn Theaters.