Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers were one of the first acts to perform at the newly named New World Music Theater, during their Dogs With Wings Tour on September 15, 1995. Here they are, all gathered for you, with a cool fact I learned: World Music Theatre (1990-1995)Ĭher was the very first entertainer to take the stage-the venue actually was barely completed -during her Heart of Stone Tour on June 2, 1990.

Capacity: 28,000 spectators + 11,000 reserved seats and 17,000 lawn seats.īut the most interesting thing for me to learn were all the name changes it has went through.

It attracts fans from all over Chicago, surrounding suburbs, and neighboring states, because it’s one of only a few large outdoor amphitheatres in the midwest. I had this idea that it had been around longer than just 30 years. Having not grown up in Tinley Park there was a lot I did not know about the amphitheater, for one, it’s not that old.