Summertime in the Rockford region means sun, fun and shows at Rock Valley College’s Starlight Theatre.
Now celebrating its 60th anniversary, Starlight Theatre is one of Illinois’ oldest outdoor community performance venues, having staged 186 shows with a cast and crew totaling nearly 50,000.
From humble beginnings when patrons brought lawn chairs to see a rudimentary, staged musical at a former dairy farm on Rock Valley College’s campus, Starlight Theatre has expanded and evolved over the years by recruiting local talent, redeveloping its design, and restructuring its organization…