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Purlie

Friday, March 21, 2025 @ 7:00pm



Hamilton Stage at Union County Performing Arts Center (UCPAC)
360 Hamilton Avenue, Rahway, NJ 07065

American Theater Group proudly presents Purlie, a 1970 adaptation of Ossie Davis’s comedic play Purlie Victorious about a traveling preacher who returns to his hometown in Georgia and concocts a scheme to reclaim his church. Nominated for five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Direction and Best Choreography, the original Broadway production received Tony Awards for Best Performance by a Leading Actor (Cleavon Little as Purlie) and Best Performance by a Featured Actress (Melba Moore as Lutiebelle). Written by Ossie Davis, Philip Rose, and Peter Udell. Music by Gary Geld, with lyrics by Peter Udell. The production will be directed by Kenny Ingram. All seats $40 if purchased by Jan. 31, 2025; prices increase to $65 on Feb. 1st.




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Crossroads

Crossroads Theatre Company presents Genesis Festival of New Plays: Silma Sierra Berrada's PEARLS

Wednesday, April 02, 2025 @ 7:00pm
New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (NBPAC)
11 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
category: theatre

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George

George Street Playhouse presents "King James"

Wednesday, April 02, 2025 @ 7:30pm
New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (NBPAC)
11 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
category: theatre

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Legacy

Legacy of Light

Wednesday, April 02, 2025 @ 7:30pm
McCarter Theatre Center (Matthews Theater)
91 University Place, Princeton, NJ 08540
category: theatre

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Crossroads

Crossroads Theatre Company presents Genesis Festival of New Plays: Jamie Goodwin's in shame & in pride: a biomythography

Thursday, April 03, 2025 @ 7:00pm
New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (NBPAC)
11 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
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STOMP

STOMP

Thursday, April 03, 2025 @ 7:30pm
Count Basie Center for the Arts
99 Monmouth Street, Red Bank, NJ 07701
category: theatre

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Crossroads

Crossroads Theatre Company presents The Genesis Festival of New Plays This Week

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- Crossroads Theatre Company presents The Genesis Festival of New Plays from April 2-7, 2025 at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center. This year's line up includes: Pearls by Silma Sierra Berrada; in shame & in pride: a biomythography by Jamie Goodwin; The Carelessness of Love by Michael Dinwiddie; and hop tha A by James Anthony Tyler.



Kean

Kean Theatre Conservatory presents "They Promised Her the Moon"

(UNION, NJ) -- Kean Theatre Conservatory presents They Promised Her the Moon from April 4-12, 2025. The play by Laurel Ollstein takes place in 1961 when the first American woman to test for space flight stepped into an isolation tank for a record-breaking nine hours, outlasting all of the men in NASA's emerging Mercury 7 program.



Ayhan

Ayhan Hulagu to Bring Traditional Turkish Theater to Princeton University

(PRINCETON, NJ) -- 700-year-old traditional Turkish Theatre in America. Recognized by UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage, Turkish shadow theater will be showcased at Princeton University. Actor and playwright Ayhan Hulagu adapts the 700-year-old Karagöz tradition in The Forest of the Witch for American audiences.



"The

"The Wind in the Willows" to be Performed at RVCC

(BRANCHBURG, NJ) -- Raritan Valley Community College's Arts & Design department will present The Wind in the Willows by Ken Grahame, April 9-11, 2025. The production, which is free of charge and open to the public, will be staged in the Welpe Theatre at the College's Branchburg campus. Showtime is 7:00pm each night.



King James

'King James' at GSP – Entertaining, Clever, and Heartwarming

One of the great gifts a person can have in life is a good friendship. Once found, we are fortunate if it continues to develop and thrive for a long time. This is what happens in the play King James, currently playing at George Street Playhouse. Written by Rajiv Joseph, the show centers around a friendship which develops due to the amazing career of NBA superstar LeBron James. The friendship is between two young men who both love basketball. But it becomes more than that as it goes on.




 

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