NOVA Center for the Performing Arts

A Seussified Christmas Carol
2025-12-06 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-12-05 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-12-04 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Chicago)
A whimsical reinvention of Dickens’ most beloved Christmas story in wacky rhymed couplets. With zoot fruited juices and binka bird geese, from Bed-Headed Fred to Timmy Loo Hoo, this tale of glorious holiday cheer is similar to something Dr. Seuss might have come up with — if he ever had his way with the story.

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Funky Bunch Improv
2025-12-05 19:30 - 21:00
Funky Bunch, Jr is NOVA’s middle school improv troupe and Funky Bunch is the high school troupe. Funky Bunch performs short form improv comedy (think Whose Line Is It Anyway?) The entire family can enjoy this high energy comedy!

Funky Bunch Improv Workshop
2025-11-22 13:00 - 15:00
NOVA’s youth improv troupes, Funky Bunch, Jr and Funky Bunch, will be hosting a workshop for youth interested in learning the art of short form improvisation! Participants do not need to prepare anything, but should come ready to move!

Auditions Crazy Little Cafe Called Love
2025-11-17 18:00 - 21:00, 2025-11-16 18:00 - 21:00
Comedy! Romance! A fast-paced day. All served up in a crazy little café!

Linda has a blind date, Bob is casting a movie, the waitress likes the monk, old Mr. Philips wants a séance and the bride’s dad is livid! Throw in a frantic bride, her theatrical mother, a dancing nun and an apologetic groom, and you have a comic hit! And all happening one crazy day in the one-set Love Café.

Auditions are open for people 18+. Participants don’t need to prepare anything, but should be ready to read from the script.

Cabaret Club
2025-11-16 17:30 - 19:00, 2025-10-19 17:30 - 19:00, 2025-09-21 17:30 - 19:00
A joyful time of song and laughing! Come and join other singers at NOVA! No admission, just an opportunity to raise your voice!

9 o 5!
2025-11-16 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-11-09 14:00 - 16:00
Pushed to the boiling point, three female coworkers concoct a plan to get even with the sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot they call their boss. In a hilarious turn of events, Violet, Judy and Doralee live out their wildest fantasy – giving their boss the boot! While Hart remains “otherwise engaged,” the women give their workplace a dream makeover, taking control of the company that had always kept them down. Hey, a girl can scheme, can’t she?

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9 to 5!
2025-11-15 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-11-14 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-11-08 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-11-07 19:30 - 21:30

The Filthy Habit/Trouble in Tahiti
2025-10-19 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-10-12 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-10-11 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-10-10 19:30 - 21:30
Trouble in Tahiti, a 45-minute one-act opera, satirizes the American dream and suburban life in the 1950s, focusing on the troubled marriage of Sam and Dinah. They outwardly appear to live a comfortable life, but their growing detachment reveals a mutual feeling of being trapped and unhappy. The opera is set in 1950s suburbia, where Sam, a successful businessman, and Dinah, a frustrated housewife, struggle to communicate and find happiness in their marriage.

The Filthy Habit, is a comic opera, set in New York City in 2003, shortly after Mayor Bloomberg’s smoking ban. It tells the story of a newlywed couple, Susan and Gil, who grapple with the aftermath of Susan’s secret smoking habit, leading to misunderstandings and insecurities. The opera explores the dynamics of a relationship when secrets are kept and insecurities cloud emotions.

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Auditions for Funky Bunch Improv
2025-10-11 14:00
Funky Bunch is NOVA’s High School improv troupe and is looking to add a few more members! Funky Bunch performs short form improv comedy (think Whose Line Is It Anyway) the first Friday of every month.

Auditions will take place on October 11 at 2:00, and are open to kids who are currently in high school. Auditioners do not need to prepare anything, but should come ready to play some short form improv games, do some scene work, and move.

Wet Ink 2025
2025-09-27 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-09-26 19:30 - 22:00
Here is all the information currently available. Wet Ink 2025 will happen September 26th and 27th @ 7:30pm. We will be seeking 5 writers and 5 directors and 20+ actors for this event.

What is Wet Ink?

Wet Ink is a 24 hour play festival. The premise is simple. Friday night is a blend of improv game/open auditions. An improv team (Projectile Comedy) will play games, taking prompts from the audience, resulting in a scene from which we will derive new prompts. Also, actors will perform a 1 minute monologue or scene for their “audition” piece. This isn’t to determine an actor’s viability (everyone will be “cast”) but simply as entertainment for the audience. Writers will be announced, randomly paired with directors, given a random number of actors, some of the collected prompts, and they will have to write a one-act play overnight.

The following morning, directors and actors will come in, have a little breakfast, and get to work on their respective plays. The plays go up that night. It’s a micro dose of theatre!

Who can be a writer?

Anyone with some writing experience, confident they can write a one-act play in 12 hours or less, and who was not a writer for the previous Wet Ink Festival is eligible to be a writer for Wet Ink 2025. If more than 5 people volunteer, writers will be chosen at random.

Who can be a director?

Anyone with some theatre experience can be a director, if they were not a director for the previous Wet Ink Festival can be a director for Wet Ink 2025. If more than 5 people volunteer, directors will be chosen at random.

Who Can be an actor?

Everyone who auditions can be an actor. Be prepared with a 1 minute monologue, scene, talent, anything to entertain an audience for 1-3 minutes at most. The more actors turn up, the more the writers have to work with.

Are there other volunteer opportunities?

Yes! We will need runners to help the groups find props, costumes, run water and snacks, document the experience for social media, etc.

Why is this happening?

Theatre is a wonderful world of escape, creativity, comradery, and community. It’s also a heavy commitment of time and energy and resources. We have people who used to do plays whose lives have become too busy. We have people who have never set foot on stage but would really like to know what it’s like. Not everyone can dedicate 2 months to a show. The Wet Ink Festival allows anyone with a free weekend an opportunity to get all of those feels in a super condensed period of time. It’s hard. It’s a challenge. But it’s also the most exciting weekend of theatre you can experience.

If anyone has any questions, ask them here or message me and I’ll give you whatever answer I can make up on the fly as this as about as organized as I get. Thanks, hope to see all of you out!

Auditions for The Seussified Christmas Carol
2025-09-22 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-09-21 17:00 - 19:00
A whimsical reinvention of Dickens’ most beloved Christmas story in wacky rhymed couplets. With zoot fruited juices and binka bird geese, from Bed-Headed Fred to Timmy Loo Hoo, this tale of glorious holiday cheer is similar to something Dr. Seuss might have come up with — if he ever had his way with the story…

Auditions will take place on September 21st at 5:00 and September 22 at 6:30. The Seussified Christmas Carol is a mixed age cast and is open to people ages 8 to 80 (and beyond!). Auditioners do not need to prepare anything, but should come prepared to move and to read from the script.

The Phantom Tollbooth
2025-09-21 14:00 - 15:30, 2025-09-20 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-09-19 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-09-14 14:00 - 15:30, 2025-09-13 19:30 - 21:00
Here are Milo’s adventures in the Land of Wisdom, where he’s forced to think about many new things. Milo learns of the argument between King Azaz and his brother, the Mathemagician, whose disagreement over words and numbers has led to the banishment of Princesses Sweet Rhyme and Pure Reason. Milo is dispatched to rescue the princesses from the Land of Ignorance. Armed with the knowledge and skills he picks up on his journey, Mile rescues the princesses. When he must return home, Milo bids farewell to his new friends, knowing his attitude toward learning will never be the same.

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