Theatre & Performing Arts
Porchlight Music Theatre Presents “Follies” April 25, 2026
Award-winning Porchlight Music Theatre is proud to announce its Porchlight in Concert production of Follies. Follies will play Saturday, April 25 at 2 and 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, April 26 at 2 p.m. at the Studebaker Theater, 410 S. Michigan Ave. This staged concert performance features music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book byJames Goldman and is directed by Artistic Director Michael Weberand music directed by Linda Madonia.
Winner of seven Tony Awards, including Best Score, Follies is a dazzling and bittersweet exploration of love, loss and the passage of time. Set at the reunion of the legendary “Weismann Follies” company on the eve of their crumbling theater’s demolition, former showgirls reunite one last time, reliving their heyday and confronting the choices that shaped their lives. With iconic songs like “Broadway Baby” “I’m Still Here” and “Losing My Mind,” this Sondheim gem blends haunting nostalgia with a show-stopping score in a moving celebration of dreams and regrets. The star-studded cast includes Michelle Duffy (Broadway’s Leap of Faith, Drury Lane’s Sister Act) as “Phyllis Rogers Stone,” Angela Ingersoll (Jeff Award-winner for Porchlight’s End of the Rainbow) as “Sally Durant Plummer,” Anthony Rapp (Broadway’s Rent and If/Then) as “Benjamin Stone,” Stephen Wallem (Ravinia Festival Sondheim Series and TV’s “Nurse Jackie”) as “Buddy Plummer” and other notables.
Single tickets are reserved seating and are on sale for $104.50 – $159.50 at PorchlightMusicTheatre.org or by phone with the Studebaker Theater box office at 312-753-3210. Tickets may also be purchased in-person at the Studebaker Theater, 410 S. Michigan Ave., 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. Tuesday – Sunday.
