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VANGUARD THEATER COMPANY

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Montclair, NJ 07042

Fade - Play by Tanya Sarracho


In the vibrant tapestry of Fade, the intricate threads of class and race entwine. Follow Lucia, a trailblazing Mexican-born novelist, on her groundbreaking journey into ...

Kinky Boots
Kinky Boots
6/12 - 6/29/2025


BOOK BY Harvey Fierstein | MUSIC AND LYRICS BY  Cyndi Lauper Enter into the bustling factory of Kinky Boots, where the melodies of tolerance and ...


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Final Week To Vote for the 2024 BroadwayWorld New Jersey Awards; StageWorks at Studio 237 Leads Favorite Local Theatre!


by BWW Awards - December 23, 2024

This is the final week to vote for the 2024 BroadwayWorld New Jersey Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Vote For The 2024 BroadwayWorld New Jersey Awards; RIDE THE CYCLONE at StageWorks at Studio 237 Leads Best Musical!


by BWW Awards - December 16, 2024

Voting continues for the 2024 BroadwayWorld New Jersey Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Latest Standings Announced For The 2024 BWW New Jersey Awards


by BWW Awards - December 09, 2024

Don't miss your chance to vote for the 2024 BroadwayWorld New Jersey Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

First Standings Announced For The 2024 BWW New Jersey Awards


by BWW Awards - December 02, 2024

Check out the first stats for the 2024 BroadwayWorld New Jersey Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Applications For The New Jersey Theatre Alliance Career Accelerator Program Are Now Open


by A.A. Cristi - September 25, 2024

New Jersey Theatre Alliance has announced that applications for the 2025 Career Accelerator Program are now open....

New Jersey Theatre Alliance Announces 2024 Career Accelerator Program Fellows


by A.A. Cristi - May 17, 2024

New Jersey Theatre Alliance ('the Alliance'), has announced their second annual cohort of Career Accelerator Fellows: Ronni Hom, Alisha Sheth, and Asia Todd. ...

NBCU Recognizes Vanguard Theater For Flipping The Script On Race


by Stephi Wild - April 23, 2024

NBCU Academy, an award-winning education initiative for aspiring journalists and media professionals, recognizes Vanguard Theater for its groundbreaking efforts in challenging traditional theater norms, by transforming the stage by promoting diversity and inclusion....

Winners Announced For The 2023 BroadwayWorld New Jersey Awards


by BWW Awards - January 16, 2024

Winners have been announced for the 2023 BroadwayWorld New Jersey Awards! See who was selected audience favorite in New Jersey! Winners include Surflight Theatre, George Street Playhouse, and more....

Last Chance to Vote for the BWW New Jersey Awards; Voting Ends 12/31


by BWW Awards - December 26, 2023

It's the final week left to vote for the 2023 BroadwayWorld New Jersey Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

2 Weeks to Vote for the BWW New Jersey Awards; YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN, MEDEA, NENAproductions Theater Project & More Lead!


by BWW Awards - December 18, 2023

There's just two weeks left to vote and we have the latest standings as of Monday, December 18th for the 2023 BroadwayWorld New Jersey Awards! Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Past Shows

Tuck Everlasting
Tuck Everlasting
12/5 - 12/22/2024


Based on the novel Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

Cordially Indisposed - Play by Doriane Swain


Don't miss the WORLD PREMIERE of Cordially Indisposed by Doriane Swain!

Alice By Heart
Alice By Heart
9/26 - 9/29/2024


Six Special Encore Performances!


She Kills Monsters tells the story of Agnes Evans as she leaves her childhood home in Ohio following the death of her teenage sister, Tilly. ...

Pippin
Pippin
6/21 - 6/30/2024


Vanguard Theater presents Pippin with a burlesque twist: Broadway talent, mesmerizing pole dancers, daring aerialists, soldiers, circus performers, and more, make this a "don't miss."
Limited Tickets Remain

Vanguard Theater Presents: Spiritrials


Vanguard Theater Company is presenting "Spiritrials" by Dahlak Brathwaite March 22nd-25th! Witness the convergence of art and activism in Dahlak Brathwaite's "Spiritrials" — an unmissable ...

Cabaret (1998 Version)
11/2 - 11/19/2023


In a Berlin nightclub, as the 1920's draw to a close, a garish Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience and assures them they will forget ...


Heathers The Musical: Teen Edition is the darkly delicious story of Veronica Sawyer, a brainy, beautiful teenage misfit who hustles her way into the most ...

Spring Awakening
Spring Awakening
6/15 - 7/2/2023


With only each other for guidance, a group of young men and women travel the fraught and rocky path of adolescence, discovering their bodies, their ...

Passing Strange
Passing Strange
2/16 - 3/5/2023


Passing Strange is the 2008 Tony Award winning autobiographical rock musical about migration — a geographical migration but also its hero’s migration beyond the tenets ...

Passing Strange
Passing Strange
2/16 - 2/26/2023


Passing Strange at Vanguard Theater Company------   Passing Strange is a 2008 Tony Award-winning comedy-drama, autobiographical rock musical about a young African American's artistic journey ...

The Spitfire Grill
The Spitfire Grill
11/3 - 11/20/2022


The Spitfire Grill is a beautiful musical about second chances, as a young woman just released from prison decides to start her life anew in ...

Avenue Q-school Edition
8/11 - 8/14/2022


pWinner of the TONY® ?TRIPLE CROWN? for BEST MUSICAL, BEST SCORE and BEST BOOK, AVENUE Q is part flesh, part felt and packed with heart. ...

Bring It On
8/11 - 8/14/2022


BRING IT ON: THE MUSICAL explodes on stage as one of the most remarkable scores in years unites breathtaking dance and the thrilling, cutthroat world ...


Celebrate the 100th birthday of one of the world’s most beloved children's authors - Roald Dahl - with a fantastical tale of a boy, his ...

Rent
6/24 - 6/26/2022


RENT: DOWNTOWN LA takes place in a warehouse in industrial downtown Los Angeles, where an artistic renaissance is underway in the vein of 1990s Alphabet ...

Next to Normal
Next to Normal
11/10 - 11/21/2021


Next to Normal is an unflinching look at a suburban family struggling with the effects of mental illness, with book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey ...

The Laramie Project
8/6 - 8/8/2021


In October 1998, a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten, and left tied to a fence in the middle of ...

Kill Move Paradise
10/2 - 10/11/2020


Four black men find themselves stuck in a waiting room for the afterlife. As they attempt to make sense of their new paradise, Isa, Daz, ...

For the Love of Charlie Brown!


A Vanguard Theater Production! All your favorite Peanuts characters with skits and songs from "You're A Good Man Charlie Brown," Snoopy," and Peanuts television specials, ...

The Wiz of Oz
The Wiz of Oz
1/31 - 2/2/2020


Welcome to our mash-up of the classic and contemporary movie musicals! We created this show to exemplify Vanguard's mission of D.R.E.A.M. Children of all different ...

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
8/16 - 8/18/2019


A down-and out skid row floral assistant becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood. Soon ...

SPRING AWAKENING
8/16 - 8/18/2019


Spring Awakening explodes onto the stage with a raw and powerful exploration of teenage angst and sexual awakening in a repressed society. Set in late ...


The jungle is jumpin? with jazz is this exciting Disney classic! Join Mowgli, Baloo, King Louie and the gang as they swing their way through ...

13
8/18 - 8/19/2018


Geek. Poser. Jock. Beauty Queen. Wannabe. These are the labels that can last a lifetime. With an unforgettable rock score from Tony Award-winning composer, Jason ...


Winner of the Tony and the Drama Desk Awards for Best Book, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee has charmed audiences across the country ...

TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA
6/8 - 6/11/2018


THE MUSIC MAN CONCERT VERSION
12/15 - 12/17/2017


There's trouble in River City when a fast-talking salesman gets his heart stolen by the town librarian....

MEMPHIS
8/11 - 8/20/2017


n the electrifying world of Memphis the Musical, get ready for a powerful story set against the backdrop of the 1950s rock and roll revolution. ...

Memphis: the Musical
Memphis: the Musical
7/13 - 7/16/2017


Vanguard Theater Company - Brings Broadway to the Burbs with Memphis the Musical. Guest Broadway artist Dwayne Clark amongst others star in this musical about ...

HAIRSPRAY
8/19 - 8/24/2015


This fun-loving new musical delights audiences by sweeping them away to 1960's Baltimore, where the 50's are out-- and change is in the air. Lovable ...

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Broadway Through the Ages in New Jersey Broadway Through the Ages
Westfield High School Auditorium (12/31 - 1/1) Tracker
Discover Mozart & Bach in New Jersey Discover Mozart & Bach
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (5/17 - 5/17)
SMALL in New Jersey SMALL
George Street Playhouse (1/21 - 2/9)
The Shark is Broken in New Jersey The Shark is Broken
George Street Playhouse (4/29 - 5/18)
Season Finale: Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich in New Jersey Season Finale: Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich
Richardson Auditorium at Princeton University (6/6 - 6/6)
Fade - Play by Tanya Sarracho in New Jersey Fade - Play by Tanya Sarracho
Vanguard Theater Company (3/27 - 4/6)
Carolyn Dorfman Dance to Perform at 92nd Street Y in New Jersey Carolyn Dorfman Dance to Perform at 92nd Street Y
Harkness Dance Center (1/12 - 1/12)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - Directed by Diane L. Parker in New Jersey Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - Directed by Diane L. Parker
Kelsey Theatre at Mercer County Community College (2/14 - 2/23)
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