About Us :

Now entering its fourth season, Festival 56 is a five week professional theater festival located in historic Princeton, IL.

Each season, Festival 56 assembles from across the country a team of the most creative and talented artists living and working in professional theater today.

The festival presents a wide spectrum of programming, from free productions of Shakespeare to classic and world premier musicals and the masterworks of playwrights such as Steinbeck, Ibsen and Tennessee Williams.

Festival 56 is committed to championing the American theater as an artform by creating a home for the artists who are its heart and soul.