Illinois Theatre Association

The Illinois High School Theatre Festival is the largest and oldest non-competitive high school theatre festival in the nation The three-day Festival takes place every year in early January, and switches locations between the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Illinois State University. Each year, over 4,500 students, teachers, university representatives, exhibitors, and volunteers come together to put on over 25 different high school productions and over 150 workshops.