• Forum Marquee Event: ENOUGH! Plays to End Gun Violence

    Cheek Theatre - Clark Arts Center 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, United States

    ENOUGH! invites YOU to attend staged readings of this year’s plays in your community.  On October 6, 2025, six of the plays submitted through our nationwide call in Spring 2025 will be presented in an evening of readings staged...

  • Regent Cabaret Broadway Through the Decades

    Cheek Theatre - Clark Arts Center 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, United States

    Saturday, September 20, 2025, at 7:30 pm. Cheek Theatre, Clark Arts Center Director, Aiden Foreman Assistant Director, Aubry Musfelt Choreographer, Nora Eliff Come and experience a night of dazzling music,...

  • Blithe Spirit

    Blithe Spirit

    Cheek Theatre - Clark Arts Center 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, United States

    Blithe Spirit February 20-23, 2025 (Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 pm; Sunday 2 pm) Cheek Theatre, Clark Arts Center Director, Prof. Deborah Mogford A smash comedy hit in London and New York, this much-revived classic from the playwright of Private Lives concerns fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, who has remarried but finds himself haunted (literally) by the ghost...

    $9 – $12
  • The Theory of Relativity

    Cheek Theatre - Clark Arts Center 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, United States

    On July 27th and 28th at 4pm, RU Performing Arts Students will be performing two stateside showings of the Theory of Relativity! These two showings will take place in Cheek...

    Free
  • Songs for a New World

    Songs for a New World

    Cheek Theatre - Clark Arts Center 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, United States

    February 22-25, 2024 (Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 pm; Sunday 2 pm) Cheek Theatre, Clark Arts Center Director, Stephen Schellhardt Writer and composer Jason Robert Brown transports his audience from the deck of a 1492 Spanish sailing ship to a ledge, 57 stories above Fifth Avenue, to meet a startling array of characters that range from a young...

    Free for RU Students
  • Around the World and Back Again

    Cheek Theatre - Clark Arts Center 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, United States

    Admission is free with a $20 suggested donation. This show consisting of songs inspired by travel will be in CHEEK THEATRE at 4pm and 10pm. Cheek Theatre is located in the Clark Arts Center on Rockford University Campus (5050 East State Street) in the lower level. Can't attend the event? Donate here: https://www.givecampus.com/tzx0ta Directed By...

    $20
  • The Revlon Girl

    Cheek Theatre - Clark Arts Center 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, United States

    The Revlon Girl (play) February 24 – 27, 2022 (Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday 2 p.m.) Cheek Theatre, Clark Arts Center Director Prof. Deborah Mogford By Neil Anthony Docking: The Revlon...

    $9 – $12
  • “The Good Doctor”

    “The Good Doctor”

    Cheek Theatre - Clark Arts Center 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, United States

    The Good Doctor is Neil Simon’s heartwarming and hilarious tribute to Anton Chekhov, the early twentieth-century playwright and short story writer.

  • Five Women Wearing the Same Dress

    Five Women Wearing the Same Dress

    Cheek Theatre - Clark Arts Center 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, United States

    By Alan Ball directed by Deborah Mogford An irreverent and funny look at the intricacies of friendship and the power of similar dressing. It is summer and five women wearing identical unique bridesmaids dresses have survived the elaborate wedding ceremony to find themselves at the ostentatious wedding reception being held on the estate of the bride....

    $9 – $12
  • Deathtrap

    Cheek Theatre - Clark Arts Center 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, United States

    Rockford University's Performing Arts Department presents "Deathtrap" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16 through Saturday, Nov. 18, and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 19.