Premiere Stages at Kean University Announces 2023 Season

(UNION, NJ) -- Premiere Stages at Kean University has announced its 2023 season, featuring multiple new plays that explore the need for human connection. The season will kick off in July with Erin Breznitsky’s Satellites, the winner of the 2022 Premiere Play Festival, the theatre’s annual competition for unproduced scripts written by playwrights affiliated with the greater metropolitan area. The season will also feature the New Jersey Premiere of 2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist Selling Kabul by Sylvia Khoury in September, as well as developmental workshops of the 2023 Premiere Play Festival runner-up and the 2023/24 Liberty Live Commission in November 2023.

"Songs for a New World" Highlights Life's Decisive Moments

by Chris Lillja, JerseyArts.com - published 2023-06-08
Jason Robert Brown, well-known for writing the Tony Award-winning stage adaptation of "The Bridges of Madison County," wrote the music and lyrics for "Songs for a New World"—an impressive score that traverses multiple genres, including pop, gospel, and contemporary musical theater. Pioneer Productions will present a slightly reimagined production of this contemporary show, the weekends of June 9 and June 16. The performances will take place in the heart of Morristown in Fellowship Hall of the United Methodist Church.

The Life of Christ from Another, Very Musical, Point of View – "Jesus Christ Superstar"

by Bruce Chadwick - published 2023-06-07
This is the official 50th anniversary of the premiere of the hit Broadway play Jesus Christ Superstar, a musical that has played all over the world and is headed for the State Theatre, in New Brunswick, this coming weekend (June 9-11). It is not the traditional story of Jesus' life and death, though, but a story that puts Judas, who betrayed Christ, in a major role. He, and high priests who punished Jesus, are the major players in the story, along with Christ.

This Week in Theatre: Previews for Plays Taking Place June 6-12, 2023

Here are previews of plays taking place from June 6-12, 2023 including a look at productions starting this week, those continuing this week, and those closing this week. Click on the title to go to the full preview. Be sure to send press releases for your plays to infoatnewjerseystage.com to be included. New Jersey Stage covers Equity, community, college, and high school theatre. Check back every week for the weekly theatre preview.

A Haunting Tennessee Williams Play in Madison: "The Rose Tattoo"

by Bruce Chadwick - published 2023-06-05
As Tennessee Williams' enchanting The Rose Tattoo begins, you are looking at, are part of, a home in a small town on the Gulf Coast, somewhere near New Orleans in the early 1950s, with people running about. The house is an old, ramshackle building with a large porch and a dirt yard – very 1950s Deep South. It is home for a lower middle-class seamstress/dressmaker, the beautiful but troubled Serafina Delle Rose (Antoinette LaVecchia) and her 16 year old daughter, who is growing older very fast. Around them are friends, other teenagers, a priest, women neighbors, the usual gang of small-town folks in the South.

Mile Square Theatre Hits It Out of the Park With "7th Inning Stretch"

by Gina Marie Rodriguez, JerseyArts.com - published 2023-06-02
As the birthplace of baseball, Hoboken is the perfect New Jersey city to celebrate our national pastime; and Mile Square Theatre, the perfect venue.

New Jersey Repertory Company Prepares for Pride Month Festival

by Zachary Klein, JerseyArts.com - published 2023-06-01
The New Jersey Repertory Company, or NJ Rep, will once again host a Pride month festival in the Monmouth County community of Long Branch. The festival will consist of theater, art and photography and is just one element of a larger event taking place throughout the city. NJ Rep is the largest presenter in this event and their showcases will last the majority of the month.

1930s Dance Competitors Never Left the Stage

by Shen Shellenberger, JerseyArts.com - published 2023-06-01
Long Beach Island's Surflight Theatre kicks off its 2023 season June 1 with Kander and Ebb's "Steel Pier: The Musical," on stage through June 17.

This Week in Theatre: Previews for Plays Taking Place May 31 to June 5, 2023

Here are previews of plays taking place from May 31 to June 5, 2023 including a look at productions starting this week, those continuing this week, and those closing this week. Click on the title to go to the full preview. Be sure to send press releases for your plays to infoatnewjerseystage.com to be included. New Jersey Stage covers Equity, community, college, and high school theatre. Check back every week for the weekly theatre preview.