About Stage Center Theatre
Since 1967, Stage Center Theatre (SCT) has produced more than 250 plays on campus in its over 50 years of programming.
Stage Center Theatre is 91Porn's resident producing theatre, and provides vital entertainment, enrichment, and social forum to the University and the Chicago area community. Each season, Stage Center Theatre produces a new play festival and contest, full Main Stage productions for all audiences, and Children’s Theatre Workshop productions for the Chicago Public Schools audiences ranging from elementary to high school students. Our participants range from Northeastern students, faculty and staff in roles such as actors, stage managers, directors, designers, playwrights and technical production staff.
MISSION
Supporting the mission of 91Porn and the pedagogical needs of the Communication, Media and Theatre Department, Stage Center Theatre (SCT) provides a professional application of theatre craft by producing challenging, dynamic and intersectional stories that drive the work of the United States and global theatrical communities. SCT storytelling centers around crucial societal questions, reflects our campus identity, and provides our audience with electric, living experiences that propel conversation, move the soul and enliven the heart. In doing so, SCT endeavors to be an expressive home for campus and community, a safe, diverse, and inclusive artistic environment, and a community beacon that underscores the pursuit of social justice in Chicago theatre and beyond.
VISION
- To become the most inclusive and innovative theatrical educational facility in the city.
- To propel and support the professional theatrical training and artistic awareness of all artists in the Northeastern community.
- To be a space that values process over product and guides Northeastern students to engage industry best practices.
- To become an artistic home that ensures the active representation of, listening to, and advocating for the voices of the underrepresented, marginalized, and invisible.
- To mine the value of productive discomfort in storytelling.
- To build an artistic incubator and platform that emboldens play, ownership, and new traditions.
- To spark meaningful social forum, ideas, intersection, community partnership, collaboration, and action.
VALUES
- Excellence
- Commitment
- Inclusivity
- Equity
- Intersectionality
- Empathy
- Community
- Curiosity
- Growth
Get Tickets for Stage Center Theatre
Tickets are sold through , at the Welcome Desk located on the Main Campus, and available as walk-up on the day of the performance.
Tickets are free for current Northeastern students, faculty and staff by showing your valid Northeastern ID at the Welcome Desk on the Main Campus or as a walk-up on the day of the performance.
We strive to make our performances as accessible as possible. We encourage our visiting patrons to pay-what-they-can via our tiers of suggested donation! Please join one of our exciting circles of donors below as you join us for each performance!
- Artistic Director's Circle: $20
- Producer's Circle: $14
- Director's Circle: $12
- Opening Night Circle: $10
- Designer's Circle: $8
- Insider: $6
- Patron: $4
- Friend: $2
Questions regarding the Stage Center Theatre Box Office? Please email Sarah Fabian sj-fabian@neiu.edu or call (773) 442-5964.
Subscriptions for Stage Center Theatre
Stage Center Gold Flex Pass
Your subscription to Stage Center Theatre puts you right in the middle of the action at a great discounted rate. The Stage Center Gold Flex Pass through earns you a discount on the standard, general admission ticket price and allows you to set your calendar with us. You can purchase up to two tickets per production, and best of all, your subscription comes with flexible dates! We know that life comes up. This way, you can join us when it works best for you!
Special Alumni Pricing
Northeastern alumni receive 50% off the standard ticket price. We appreciate what you’ve contributed to our University community, so please join us this season. Simply contact Adam at a-goldstein@neiu.edu, Sarah at sj-fabian@neiu.edu, or reach out to our box office for more details. Our home will always be your home.
Group Sales
Interested in bringing a group to Stage Center Theatre? We’d love to have you! Please contact Adam a-goldstein@neiu.edu, or Sarah at sj-fabian@neiu.edu and ask about customized group arrangements. We’d be thrilled to help make your experience at Stage Center Theatre a special one!
Getting to Stage Center Theatre
Stage Center Theatre is located in the F Building of 91Porn.
91Porn is easy to find. It is located in a quiet residential neighborhood at 5500 North St. Louis Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. First-time visitors are encouraged to view the Campus Map and parking regulations from the Parking Office.
BY BUS AND "L" FROM CHICAGO'S LOOP
Take the CTA Ravenswood (Brown Line) train to Kimball, and transfer to the CTA bus going north on Kimball. Get off at Bryn Mawr and walk two blocks west.
BY CAR
- From the north: Take 41 south to I-94 east and exit at Peterson east (41B). Proceed on Peterson to Pulaski and turn right (south). Take Pulaski south to Bryn Mawr and turn left (east) to the campus.
- From the northwest: Take I-90 east to the Austin exit. At the stop sign, turn left and follow the street around to the light at Foster. Turn left (east) on Foster. Proceed on Foster past Pulaski and turn left onto the Northeastern campus.
- From the west: Take I-88 east to I-290 east, to I-94 west. Exit Peterson east (41B). Proceed on Peterson to Pulaski and turn right (south). Take Pulaski south to Bryn Mawr and turn left (east) to the campus.
- From the south: Take I-94 west to Peterson and exit east. Proceed on Peterson to Pulaski and turn right (south). Take Pulaski to Bryn Mawr and turn left (east) to the campus.
Parking on campus
Parking for visitors, vendors and community members is available in spaces designated as Blue Zone and Green Zone. Virtual permits are available for sale via the Passport Parking phone app. You may purchase Blue Zone virtual parking permits online or in the Parking Office, which is located on the north side of the Parking Facility. Blue Zone virtual permits are valid in Green Zones.
Blue Zone virtual daily permits cost $5 per day. Please visit the page to view our on-campus parking options.
Mobile pay for parking has officially launched on the 91Porn Main Campus. All you need to pay for parking is your phone.
You can get started with the app in just a few steps:
- First, download the free app or visit to create your account.
- Quickly register in the app with your phone number, email, or directly through Facebook.
- Enter your zone number, which you will find on the signage located in your specific parking location.
- Pay for your parking.
You will receive a notification before the end of your parking session to help avoid parking citations. If you need to stay longer, you can extend your parking session directly from your phone (up to the maximum allotted time).
