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Submissions For The Premiere Stages 2025/2026 Liberty Live Commission Open In November


by A.A. Cristi - October 21, 2024

Premiere Stages, the professional theatre in residence at Kean University, will be accepting submissions for the 2025/2026 Liberty Live Commission, a biennial commissioning program for New Jersey playwrights in partnership with Kean's Liberty Hall Museum beginning Friday, November 1. ...

Premiere Stages At Kean University Announces Play Festival Winners


by A.A. Cristi - October 11, 2024

Premiere Stages at Kean University has announced the two playwrights from the 2024 Premiere Play Festival who were selected for expanded development as part of the 2024 and 2025 seasons....

JAZZ & ROOTS MUSIC FESTIVAL Returns To Kean University This Week


by A.A. Cristi - September 16, 2024

Kean University announced the return of the Jazz & Roots Music Festival on Saturday, September 21. The event will feature live performances, food vendors, and family-friendly activities....

Review: DIVERSION at Premiere Stages-An Excellent and Compelling Play


by Marina Kennedy - September 09, 2024

Premiere Stages at Kean University is now presenting the compelling New Jersey Premiere of playwright, Scott Organ’s 'Diversion' through September 22nd.  Get your tickets.  It is an excellent, must-see production that addresses a current, significant issue....

DIVERSION Begins Performances at Premiere Stages This Week


by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 05, 2024

Premiere Stages’ production of Scott Organ’s play Diversion begins performances this week in Kean University’s Bauer Boucher Theatre Center. Learn how to purchase tickets....

Premiere Stages' Season Continues In September With DIVERSION


by A.A. Cristi - August 20, 2024

Premiere Stages will present DIVERSION from September 5-22, exploring compelling themes and dynamic performances at Kean University....

New Historical Play STILL Announced At Premiere Stages


by A.A. Cristi - July 22, 2024

A new historical play, STILL, written by Kean University alumnus, will debut at Premiere Stages....

Cast Set for Benjamin V. Marshall's STILL at Premiere Stages


by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 18, 2024

Premiere Stages has revealed the cast for the upcoming production of STILL, running in July. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets....

Premiere Stages At Kean University Announces 2024 Premiere Play Festival Finalists


by A.A. Cristi - May 23, 2024

Premiere Stages at Kean University has announced the finalists for the 2024 Premiere Play Festival, showcasing new and innovative works from emerging playwrights....

Premiere Stages At Kean University Announces Semi-Finalists For 2024 Play Festival


by A.A. Cristi - April 29, 2024

Premiere Stages at Kean University reveals the semi-finalists for the 2024 Play Festival. Discover the up-and-coming playwrights in the spotlight this year....

Past Shows

Significant Other
10/11 - 10/19/2024


Jazz & Roots Music Festival 2023


DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER, THE 2023 JAZZ & ROOTS MUSIC FESTIVAL HAS BEEN CANCELED. WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU IN 2024.   Kean University ...


Godspell book by John-Michael Tebelak music & lyrics by Stephen Schwartz conceived & originally directed by John-Michael Tebelak based on The Gospel According to St. ...


Stepping into the world of Into the Woods, the musical by James Lapin with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, is like entering a twisted ...

Hitting New Heights with Mandy Gonzalez and Javier Muñoz


Mandy Gonzalez  and  Javier Muñoz , the Broadway stars of  Hamilton  and  In the Heights , join voices to celebrate Broadway's hottest composers, from Stephen ...

Kean University Jazz & Roots Music Festival


Free Outdoor Concert! Live Music! Food Trucks! Featuring Five-time Grammy winner DIANNE REEVES! Pack a picnic basket or visit the food trucks when you get ...


This celebration of the mating game takes on the truths and myths behind that contemporary conundrum know as “the relationship.” Through sketches and songs, Act ...

Indecent
10/15 - 10/23/2021


INDECENT, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel, is a deeply moving play inspired by the true events surrounding the controversial 1923 Broadway debut of Sholem ...

Sylvia
10/8 - 10/16/2021


Greg and Kate have moved to Manhattan after twenty-two years of child-raising in the suburbs. Greg’s career as a financial trader is winding down, while ...

Andrea McArdle
12/17 - 12/20/2020


Join Andrea McArdle, original star of Broadway's Annie, for an intimate holiday concert streamed from Kean University's Enlow Recital Hall for five performances Thursday, DECEMBER ...

Gruesome Playground Injuries
1/24 - 1/25/2020


Over the course of 30 years, the lives of Kayleen and Doug intersect at the most bizarre intervals, leading the two childhood friends to compare ...

Anna in the Tropics
11/15 - 11/23/2019


Nilo Cruz Kean University...

SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
11/15 - 11/23/2019


Dive into the world of artistic obsession and the complexities of creativity with Sunday in the Park with George, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning ...

An Octoroon
10/11 - 10/19/2019


A world-premiere, old-fashioned, meta-melodrama with Humor! Feelings! Live Music! Wigs! Sensation Scenes! Slave Auctions! Exploding Steamboats! Photography! And More! Judge Peyton is dead, and his ...

Stupid Fing Bird
10/11 - 10/19/2019


WORLD PREMIERE by Aaron Posner Sort of adapted from The Seagull by Anton Chekhov Directed by Howard Shalwitz An aspiring young theatre director named Conrad ...

PARADE
11/10 - 11/17/2018


In the gripping musical Parade, history unfolds with a haunting melody. Set in 1913 Georgia, the story follows Leo Frank, a Jewish American factory manager, ...

PIPPIN
2/16 - 2/24/2018


Pippin, the energetic and sometimes bizarre brainchild of director Bob Fosse, takes you on a wild journey of self-discovery. Pippin, a young prince seemingly bored ...

SEUSSICAL
11/11 - 11/19/2016


Celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday and promote excitement in reading and literature with Seussical! This whimsical musical is based on the books of Dr. Seuss and ...

DOGFIGHT
1/22 - 1/24/2016


Set on November 21, 1963, Dogfight follows three young Marines on the eve of their deployment to a small but growing conflict in Southeast Asia. ...

CHILDREN OF EDEN
11/13 - 11/21/2015


Children of Eden is a sweeping musical that brings the stories of Genesis to life. With music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, the renowned composer ...

PETER PAN
2/20 - 2/28/2015


Based on J.M. Barrie's classic tale and featuring an unforgettable score by Morris "Moose" Charlap and Jule Styne with lyrics by Carolyn Leigh and Betty ...

In the Heights
In the Heights
2/21 - 3/1/2014


IN THE HEIGHTS tells the universal story of a vibrant community in New York?s Washington Heights neighborhood ? a place where the coffee from the ...

HAIRSPRAY
2/23 - 3/2/2013


The 1950's are out and change is in the air!  HAIRSPRAY , winner of 8 Tony Awards including Best Musical, is a family-friendly musical piled ...

SPRING AWAKENING
11/11 - 11/19/2011


Winner of 8 TONY Awards, including BEST MUSICAL, strongSPRING AWAKENING/strong celebrates the unforgettable journey from youth to adulthood with a power, poignancy, and passion that ...

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New Jersey Performing Arts Center (2/15 - 2/15)
Xian Conducts Mozart in New Jersey Xian Conducts Mozart
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (5/18 - 5/18)
Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2 in New Jersey Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (3/13 - 3/13)
The Music of Led Zeppelin in New Jersey The Music of Led Zeppelin
Bergen Performing Arts Center (5/3 - 5/3)
The Hook in New Jersey The Hook
Warner Theater (7/21 - 12/31)
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Harkness Dance Center (1/12 - 1/12)
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with Xian Zhang in New Jersey Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with Xian Zhang
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (4/4 - 4/4)
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