Give the Gift of Live Theater This Season!

Give the Gift of Live Theater This Season!

Currently on sale for holiday giving – 2025 Flex-Four Pass is $110; four tickets for 2025 that can be used singly or all four at once. Festival 56 is offering a Santa Special Festival Pass for $150 between 12/1 and 12/31. Save $25! Take advantage of these...
Summer Youth Employment in The Arts 2024

Summer Youth Employment in The Arts 2024

Festival 56 has an exciting opportunity for high school students coming up this summer. We will offer up to three high school students and this year’s graduates the opportunity to work as paid apprentices with the resident professional company with various...
Host Families Needed

Host Families Needed

As we gear up for an exciting summer of theatrical performances, we’re reaching out to our incredible community for support.  Our theater is in need of host families for our talented actors and crew during their stay with us. Whether you have a spare room or can...
Festival 56 Auditions

Festival 56 Auditions

Festival 56 local auditions will be held March 10 at 6pm in the Grace Theatre 316 S. Main Street, Princeton, IL 63156. There will be an accompanist present. Please prepare 32 bars of music from either Urinetown or Grease. The section or sections you chose are the...
Season Announcement: Summer 2024

Season Announcement: Summer 2024

The Princeton Theater Group is pleased to announce Festival 56’s summer 2024 season. As our Artistic Directors begin their second summer here in Princeton, we tackle productions which share ideas and themes of exploration, discovery, and growth. We start by examining...
Youth Employment in the Arts 2023

Youth Employment in the Arts 2023

Festival 56 has an exciting opportunity for high school students coming up this summer.  We will offer up to three high school students and this year’s graduates the opportunity to work as paid apprentices with the resident professional company with various...