EVANSTON NOW
by Matthew Eadie
March 25, 2025
Northlight Theatre staged a groundbreaking for its new location at 1012 Church St. in downtown Evanston Tuesday.
The new theater is scheduled to open in Fall 2026.
Executive Director Tim Evans said the new site “in the heart of a revitalized downtown Evanston” is a “long-awaited homecoming” for the theater.
Northlight was founded in Evanston in 1974 but has called North Shore Center for the Arts in Skokie its home for nearly three decades.
At the groundbreaking, Evans thanked a crowd of donors, board members, construction workers and city officials, saying, “This is your building, this is your theater.”
Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss told Evanston Now in an interview that the new theater will bring increased “economic vitality”