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Review: STILL at Premiere Stages-A Compelling and Affecting Historical Play
by Marina Kennedy - Jul 17, 2024

Premiere Stages is now presenting playwright Benjamin V. Marshall’s 'Still.'  This World Premiere play is inspired by historical events that are both captivating and affecting.

Cast Set for Benjamin V. Marshall's STILL at Premiere Stages
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 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.

Review: José Rivera's YOUR NAME MEANS DREAM an Intensely Psychological Star Vehicle for Two Great Actors
by Andrew White - Jul 13, 2023

Rivera's 'Your Name Means Dream' creates a spectacle of actors at the top of their game, with a script that gives both Anne O'Sullivan and Sara Koviak ample opportunity to shine—and to shine a light on the mysteries of the human heart and the human-generated machine.

Review: Chisa Hutchinson's REDEEMED is a Highlight of the Contemporary American Theater Festival
by Andrew White - Jul 13, 2023

Chisa Hutchinson's latest offering, “Redeemed,” is as vitally important a piece as the Festival has to offer this year.  Rooted in the often-distorted dialogue this country continues to have about race, Hutchinson uses the play to address the under-explored question of what it really might take for true reconciliation and redemption.

12 Days Left To Vote For The 2022 BroadwayWorld New Jersey Awards; Paper Mill Playhouse Leads Favorite Local Theatre!
by BWW - Dec 19, 2022

The latest standings as of Monday, December 19th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld New Jersey Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

Latest Stats Released For The 2022 BroadwayWorld New Jersey Awards; at Jersey City Theater Center Leads Best Ensemble Performance!
by BWW - Dec 12, 2022

The latest standings as of Monday, December 12th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld New Jersey Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

Latest Standings Released For The 2022 BroadwayWorld New Jersey Awards; Paper Mill Playhouse Leads Favorite Local Theatre!
by BWW - Dec 5, 2022

The latest standings as of Monday, December 5th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld New Jersey Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

Review: Dominique Morisseau's MUD ROW at Premiere Stages-An Outstanding and Compelling Play
by Marina Kennedy - Jul 20, 2022

Premiere Stages at Kean University is now presenting the New Jersey Premiere of Dominique Morisseau’s powerful, modern-day drama, 'Mud Row.'

BWW Review: Chisa Hutchinson's Brilliance on Display in Contemporary American Theater Festival's WHITELISTED
by Andrew White - Jul 12, 2022

Inspired by Jordan Peele's blockbuster horror film 'Get Out,' Hutchinson has crafted a Dickensian morality play with 'Whitelisted,' set in a predictably bland, hoity-toity, newly-renovated white lady's apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Last Chance To Vote For The BroadwayWorld New Jersey Awards; Capital Productions HELLO, DOLLY! Leads Best Musical!
by BWW Staff - Dec 27, 2021

This is the last chance to vote for the 2021 BroadwayWorld New Jersey Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

Final Weeks To Vote For The BroadwayWorld New Jersey Awards; Capital Productions' HELLO, DOLLY! Leads Best Musical
by BWW Staff - Dec 20, 2021

Time is running out to vote for for the 2021 BroadwayWorld New Jersey Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

Kean Theatre Conservatory Continues Its 2021-2022 Season With Paula Vogel's INDECENT
by Stephi Wild - Nov 2, 2021

Following a successful run of A.R. Gurney's romantic comedy, Sylvia, Indecent, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel, will open on November 12 at 7:30 p.m. at Kean's University's Wilkins Theatre. Directed by Holly Logue, the Tony Award-nominated Indecent will run through November 20, 2021.

SISTER ACT Comes to the Kean University Theatre Conservatory
by Stephi Wild - Apr 9, 2021

Get ready to raise your voice and make a joyful noise! The Kean University Theatre Conservatory will present the high-energy musical Sister Act by Alan Menken, Glenn Slater, and Cheri and Bill Steinkellner. Sister Act the Musical is based on the Touchstone Pictures Motion Picture, Sister Act, by Joseph Howard.

Bill Army, Arnie Burton, Veanne Cox and More to Star in Benefit Reading of THE WOMAN HATER
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 13, 2021

RED BULL THEATER today announced that its 2020-21 offerings will continue with a special event benefit reading of Frances Burney’s The Woman Hater, directed by Everett Quinton. The reading will  feature Bill Army, Arnie Burton, Veanne Cox, Rebecca S'Manga Frank, Cherie Corinne Rice, Matthew Saldivar, Jenne Vath, and Nick Westrate.

Mentorship Program Introduces Kean University Students to Entertainment Careers
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 12, 2020

A mentorship program designed to increase diversity in theatre, TV and film production by introducing students to behind-the-scenes careers launched recently for students at Kean University.

BWW Review: YASMINA'S NECKLACE at Premiere Stages in Union is a Moving Story-A Must-See
by Marina Kennedy - Sep 9, 2019

Premiere Stages is currently presenting the New Jersey premiere of Rohina Malik's compelling play, 'Yasmina's Necklace' at Kean University in Union through September 22. The play is superbly directed by Kareem Fahmy and features a cast that brings Malik's beautifully crafted, emotive, yet entertaining story to life.

CATF Welcomes The 2019 Company
by Stephi Wild - Jun 4, 2019

With a picnic hosted by the Board of Trustees, the Contemporary American Theater Festival at Shepherd University welcomes 2019 company members. Attended by CATF partners, donors, and community members, this annual event is the first time CATF's 2019 company comes to celebrate the six new plays they are about to create. These artists, from around the country, including cities such as New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, gather in historic Shepherdstown to create the future of American theater.

CONNI'S AVANT GARDE RESTAURANT Opens Tomorrow Night At CPT
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 30, 2018

Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT) Executive Artistic Director Raymond Bobgan is proud to present the return of NYC-based Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant, one of CPT's most celebrated holiday entertainments. The production is onstage from November 29 - December 22, 2018, in CPT's historic Gordon Square Theatre. Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant earned accolades in TimeOut NYC and The Village Voice, was a winner of a New York Innovative Theater Award in 2012, and was selected as a "10 Best of the Year" pick by The Plain Dealer in 2011.

CONNI'S AVANT GARDE RESTAURANT Returns To CPT This Winter
by Julie Musbach - Nov 14, 2018

Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT) presents the return of NYC-based Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant, one of CPT's most celebrated holiday entertainments. The production is onstage from November 29 - December 22, 2018, in CPT's historic Gordon Square Theatre. Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant earned accolades in TimeOut NYC and The Village Voice, was a winner of a New York Innovative Theater Award in 2012, and was selected as a "10 Best of the Year" pick by The Plain Dealer in 2011.

Great Recall During the Great Terror: MEMOIRS OF A FORGOTTEN MAN at Contemporary American Theater Festival
by Jack L. B. Gohn - Jul 10, 2018

If you come to this show, do not expect to participate in a truly topical think piece about memory in a time of tyranny. You will witness instead a pair of entwined tales about rare mental abnormality and a somewhat overexposed aspect of totalitarianism. It is the telling of the tales, the acting and the scenery and, the evocations of synesthesia, by which Memoirs will work for you, or not.