Waitress, Rent Part of North Shore Music Theatre's 70th Season

Bill Hanney’s North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) has announced an expanded 70th anniversary season, which includes debut productions of the musicals Waitress, Rent, and The Cher Show as well as a bonus off-subscription production of the The Shark Is Broken.

North Shore Music Theatre’s 2025 mainstage season begins with a production of the new play The Shark Is Broken by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, running May 2-11. The play, about the behind-the-scenes tensions during the filming of the 1975 blockbuster movie Jaws, is presented by arrangement with Dramatists Play Service.

Waitress, with music by Grammy Award winner Sara Bareilles, runs June 3-15. The mainstage season also includes The Wizard of Oz (July 8-20), Grease (August 12-24), Jonathan Larson’s Rent (September 16-28), The Cher Show (October 21-November 2), and A Christmas Carol: A Musical Ghost Story (December 4-December 21).

In addition to the mainstage productions, the 2025 season will also feature Shakespeare & Company’s northeast touring production of Macbeth (March 6) and concerts from Captain Jack and the Strangers (March 14), Barry Goudreau’s Engine Room (March 29), Jake Ryan Flynn: Being Alive (April 1), Dark Desert Eagles (April 4), and the Fools & Fortune (April 5). Voices of Hope will raise funds to battle cancer with a production of Jesus Christ Superstar (March 27-28) and annual fall gala concert (October 4).

Children’s shows will include Curious George: The Golden Meatball (March 27) along with several production presented by the students of NSMT’s education programs: How I Became a Pirate & Seussical Kids (April 13), Beetlejuice, Jr. (April 13), Finding Nemo, Jr. (July 25-26), and Footloose: School Edition (August 22).