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A Complete Annual History of...

This page is currently being updated through 2024 (it currently goes through 2018). Thank you for your patience!

All-State Performances

Executive Committees

Full-Length Productions

IHSTF Dates, Locations & Themes

Opening Ceremonies

Showcase Productions

Schools in Attendance

Illinois High School Theatre Festival Objectives

I. To enrich the education of high school students:

  • By helping them realize through this experience that theatre is one way of
    fulfilling each individual's innate need and desire to create
  • By bringing diverse young persons together in an environment of creative and imaginative stimuli where theatre can be witnessed, experienced, ingested, talked about, and lived
  • By providing experiences in which each student can recognize and share common ambitions, goals, and interests with other students from diverse communities and programs
  • By allowing students to witness different types and styles of theatre processes and performance
  • By providing opportunities for students to showcase their creative efforts
II. To serve teachers, directors, and theatre sponsors:
  • By demonstrating specific educational theatre materials and techniques
  • By providing exposure to various program sizes and alternative approaches for theatre programs
  • By providing a showcase for accomplishments of student groups
  • By developing a forum and network for the exchange and sharing of
    ideas to build and expand theatre programs   


Event is Made Possible By:




Illinois High School Theatre Festival

General Questions:
info@ihstf.org

IHSTF 2025 Executive Director

Brandon Lewis

executivedirector@ihstf.org


All-State Questions Only:

allstateproducers@ihstf.org

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