Theater

When a lavish new production of the Broadway classic, West Side Story, hit the Lyric Opera stage in Chicago in 2019, it sold out performances and wowed local critics. Praised as both “a suite of searing, soaring melodies,” and “musical theater euphoria,” the 1957 musical that retells the story of Romeo and Juliet on the

New Trier Freshman Julia Dale is already a veteran performer on the stage. She got her first professional role at Chicago’s Steep Theater in Edgewater when she was just in the 4th grade, and prior to that performed in community theater and school productions. The 15-year-old Kenilworth resident says she used to do performances of