Summerfest 2026 Brings “The Wedding Singer” Back to New Jersey—A High-Energy Musical Celebration of Love, Loss, and 1980s Nostalgia at the Sitnik Theatre New Jersey’s summer theatre season reaches a defining moment this July as Summerfest 2026 launches one of its most anticipated productions: The Wedding Singer, a vibrant, era-defining musical set against the unmistakable […]
The MAC Players Bring Disney's The Little Mermaid to the Middletown Arts Center This July The question of what makes a regional theater production worth attending — really worth attending, in the way that leaves an audience thinking about it on the drive home — is rarely answered by production budget or venue size. It […]
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey Is Staging One of the Funniest Theatrical Experiments in American Playwriting This Summer The premise of Ken Ludwig's Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery is also its central theatrical joke, and it is announced in the production's own marketing with the directness that the play itself embodies: five actors, forty […]
Chip and Gus Brings Award-Winning Comedy to The Thomas H. Kean Theatre Factory Before International Edinburgh Fringe Run New Jersey audiences will have a rare opportunity this summer to experience an acclaimed theatrical production before it reaches one of the world's most celebrated performing arts festivals. On Monday, July 20, Chip and Gus, the award-winning […]
Princeton Summer Theater Closes Its Season With Sam Shepard's "True West," American Theater's Definitive Study of Sibling Warfare There is a reason Sam Shepard's True West has never lost its grip on American theater since its 1980 premiere at San Francisco's Magic Theatre, and it is not nostalgia for the desert imagery or the era […]
Disney’s Descendants: The Musical Arrives in New Jersey as Aspire Performing Arts Company Elevates Youth Theatre with a High-Impact, Next-Generation Production New Jersey’s theatre scene continues to evolve with a level of ambition and creative depth that reflects the state’s growing influence in the performing arts, and the arrival of Disney’s Descendants: The Musical under […]
“Change of Position” Arrives at New Jersey Repertory Company with a Bold, Unflinching Portrait of Survival and Identity New Jersey’s theatre scene continues to evolve as one of the most daring and artistically ambitious in the country, and on July 30 at 7:00 PM, that trajectory takes another compelling step forward with Change of Position […]
Princeton Summer Theater Closes Its Season With Sam Shepard's "True West," American Theater's Definitive Study of Sibling Warfare There is a reason Sam Shepard's True West has never lost its grip on American theater since its 1980 premiere at San Francisco's Magic Theatre, and it is not nostalgia for the desert imagery or the era […]
“Change of Position” Arrives at New Jersey Repertory Company with a Bold, Unflinching Portrait of Survival and Identity New Jersey’s theatre scene continues to evolve as one of the most daring and artistically ambitious in the country, and on July 30 at 7:00 PM, that trajectory takes another compelling step forward with Change of Position […]
Centenary Stage Company’s Young Performers Workshop Returns with Summer Festival of Shows, Showcasing the Next Generation of New Jersey Theatre New Jersey’s performing arts landscape continues to distinguish itself through a balance of established excellence and forward-looking development, and nowhere is that more evident than in the return of the Young Performers Workshop Summer Festival […]
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical Brings One of Music’s Greatest Success Stories to New Jersey This August Some artists write hit songs. Some artists define generations. Few have accomplished both with the consistency, influence, and enduring cultural impact of Carole King. This summer, New Jersey audiences will have the opportunity to experience the remarkable story […]
“Change of Position” Arrives at New Jersey Repertory Company with a Bold, Unflinching Portrait of Survival and Identity New Jersey’s theatre scene continues to evolve as one of the most daring and artistically ambitious in the country, and on July 30 at 7:00 PM, that trajectory takes another compelling step forward with Change of Position […]
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