- by Gino DiIorio
- directed by Jane Mandel
An investment banker who has made a career by playing the race card finds himself out of options and out of friends. His last hope is an old flame with a hot real estate venture. But he soon learns that there are secrets buried beneath the land, secrets that will force him to come to terms with past transgres... |
'NIGHT MOTHER
by Marsha Norman
Directed by Thom Molyneaux
Jessie is planning to commit suicide and tells her mother just hours before she plans to do it. The play chronicles their subsequent night in one continuous scene. True character traits are revealed and words left unspoke... |
This master pianist mixes a strong classical background with a rich knowledge of jazz history, then adds an amazing sense of creativity and interpretation. |
- Written and Performed by Guy Davis
- Directed by Ricardo Khan
Storyteller and blues singer/guitar player Guy Davis returns to the Crossroads stage in his original one-man show. Through song and storytelling, the life and adventures of fictional blues man Fishy Waters and his travels through rugged America. Guy Davis was last seen at Crossroads with his parents Ruby Dee... |
Set deep within the mysterious Tombigbee Swamo, Wiley & the Hairy Man centers around a fatherless boy, his conjure-woman Mother, his faithful dog, and the Hairy Mann who haunts Wiley’s days and dreams. |
- By George Feydeau
- Adapted by Charles Morey
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In Belle Époque Paris, the recently married Dr. Hercule Molineaux tells "one, tiny, little, hardly noticeable lie" to cover an innocent but embarrassing indiscretion. From that single untruth tumbles a cascade of increasingly convoluted deceptions, misunderstandings and mistaken identities and more slamming... |
- Book by: Arnold Lobel
- Adapted to stage by: Robert and Willie Reale
- Conceived by: Mr. Lobel’s daughter, Adrianne Lobel
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Waking from hibernation in the spring, they proceed to plant gardens, swim, rake leaves, and go sledding, learning life’s lessons along the way, including a most important one about friendship and rejoicing in the attributes that makes each one of us different and special. |
- Bassist John Lee in The Religion of Bebop, a tribute to Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie often compared music to religion. “It doesn’t reveal all of itself at one time,” he said, explaining the development of bebop in the early 1940s. “We had no way of knowing that the time was right. There was no assurance about anything. The one thing we did know is that it was ti... |
- A variety of solo performers and innovative ensembles
Inventive ensembles will bring their unique blend of theatricality, movement and humor to Trenton this March alongside our signature solo performers. |
- Music by Mike Reid
- Lyrics by Sarah Schlesinger
- Book by Jonathan Bernstein, Sarah Schlesinger and Mike Reid
In This House
This new chamber musical features a gorgeous, melodic score written by Grammy Award winner Mike Reid (composer of "I Can't Make You Love Me," made famous by Bonnie Raitt) and Sarah Schlesinger. Initimate and personal, it tells the story of two couples - one at the beginning, and one at the end... |
- Book by:
- Laura Joffe Numeroff
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From the Laura Numeroff Joffee repertoire, If You Give A Pig a Pancake follows the enterprising journey of a young girl who accommodates the demands of a quirky piglet after eating pancakes. Their adventure is an escapade which becomes embroiled in taking a bubble bath, a little tap dance, taking a p... |
- Book by:
- Arnold Lobel
- Adapted to stage by:
- Robert and Willie Reale
- Conceived by:
- Mr. Lobel’s daughter, Adrianne Lobel
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The musical, A Year with Frog and Toad remains true to the spirit of the original stories as it follows two great friends, the cheerful Frog and the grumpy Toad, through four fun-filled seasons. Waking from hibernation in the spring, they proceed to plant gardens, swim, rake leaves, and go sledding,... |
- Lyrics and Music by
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- Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
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- Book by
- George Abbott and Douglass Wallop
Just in time for spring training Paper Mill Playhouse presents the legendary musical comedy Damn Yankees (March 7, 2011-April1, 2011) |
An autobiographical piece, written & performed by Al Letson, a gifted nationally known performance poet & host of NPR's “State of the Re:Union,” told through monologue, poetry, song and multimedia. |
- Theatre for Young Audiences Version
- Book by Stephen Flaherty & Lynn Ahrens
- Music by Stephen Flaherty
- Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
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- Based on the works of Dr. Seuss
Now one of the most performed shows in America, “Seussical” is a fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza! Tony winners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (“Ragtime,” “Once On This Island”) have lovingly brought to life all of our favorite Dr. Seuss characters. |
A two-night extravaganza featuring some of the greatest blues talent in the United States. |
Struggling with confusion and memory loss, an eccentric atheist decides that the only way to save her mind and her dysfunctional family from destroying itself is for them all to get religion. Blood deals with Alzheimer's disease, family and God. |
A two-night extravaganza featuring some of the greatest blues talent in the United States. |
Before Law and Order, Perry Mason or Matlock – there was Twelve Angry Men. In room on a blistering summer day, with testimony from two witnesses, this jury’s deliberations should be brisk – until one juror lights the fuse that will make this open and shut case explode like dynamite. |
- By Tom Stoppard
- Directed by Sam Buntrock
Prepare to be delighted as Tom Stoppard spins you into a dazzling medley of literature, philosophy, politics, and history. The wildest revolutionary minds of the 20th century come alive in this romantic and achingly funny modern masterpiece. |
- TBA (All four authors are the finalists in Premiere Stages Play Festival Competition and will be announced by Mid-February)
Join Premiere Stages for our annual Spring Readings featuring four finalist scripts from Premiere Play Festival script competition! Each reading will be followed by a talk back with the playwright and audience feedback will be requested to aid the Play Fetival Pannel in selecting the 2012 Festival Winner! |
- Adapted by Gayle Stahlhuth based on the story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
It's the return of ELTC’s popular 1930s radio-style production with live sound effects and commercials. Evidence points to a young lawyer as a murderer. But is he being set up, or is he the murderer after all? It’s an exciting puzzle for Holmes and Watson.
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Fair is foul and foul is fair. |
A prolific piano virtuoso who has performed in the U. S. and Internationally.
Among his earlier credits Danny played regularly with Joe Lee Wilson from 1967 to 1970, Betty Carter from 1971 to 1973. He also recorded and played extensively with Charles Mingus and Dannie Richmond in the late 70's. He began play... |
Broadway's legendary song and dance man, Tommy Tune, hits the stage high stepping through his 9 time Tony Award winning career celebrating 50 years on the Great White Way. He sings, dances, and laughs his way through those glorious musical moments that made him a Theatre Legend. Backed up by the multi-talente... |
- Graham Lustig, Artistic Director
The Lustig Dance Theatre professional company offers performances of high artistic quality imbued with virtuosity, energy, dynamics, and humanity that establish a meaningful connection with audiences. A contemporary dance company, LDT supports a creative environment for artists and choreographers that further... |
"Like endlessly proliferating forces of cosmic energy," New York Times
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- Artistic Director
- Carolyn Dorfman
The Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company is acclaimed for its artistic excellence and range as well as its extraordinary ability to communicate to audiences about dance and the creative process. With cohesive artistic and educational programming, the Company works on and off the stage to bring contemporary dance to... |
- Co-Conceived and written by Philip Himberg and Maureen McGovern
- Directed by Philip Himberg
Two-time Grammy Award nominee Maureen McGovern, hailed as "the Stradivarius Voice," stars in Carry It On, a musical memoir that features her extraordinary interpretations the songs of her generation - music by the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, and more. |
Be a part of the creative process! |
- Book and Lyrics by Tom Jones
- Music by Harvey Schmidt
A gem of a musical! |
- Written and Composed by Jason Robert Brown
Cleverly crafted romantic love story of Jamie, a writer with a career on the rise, who falls in love with Cathy, an actress struggling to get her career off the ground. |
APRIL 19 - MAY 6
TRAD
by Mark Doherty
(New Jersey Premiere)
Directed by Michael Bias
A fable about tradition in a mad place.
Trad is the hilarious tale of the very old Thomas and his even more ancient da. When Thomas reveals that he once fathere... |
- Written by:
- Aoise Stratford
An inside glimpse into to the streets of 19th century London, when Jack the Ripper prowled the night is the stuff of Aoise Stratford's new play The Unfortunates, as a poor "unfortunate working girl" enters a tavern on a cold April night to escape the dangerous streets of the Whitechapel section of London. |
Before “Mad Men”— there was The Rat Pack! |
- Steven Canny and John Nicholson
One after another, the male heirs of the Baskerville family are being knocked off. Sherlock Holmes, the self-proclaimed "greatest detective of all time," sends Dr. Watson to the countryside to prevent more bloodshed and mayhem of various kinds ensues! |
- by Michael Frayn
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- directed by James Glossman
In wartime 1941, German atomic physicist Werner Heisenberg travels to Nazi-occupied Copenhagen to see his old friend and mentor, renowned Danish physicist Niels Bohr. Side by side, almost as father and son, they had revolutionized nuclear science in the 1920s, but have since been pulled apart as they find... |
- Book by:
- Laura Joffe Numeroff
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From the Laura Numeroff Joffee repertoire, If You Give A Pig a Pancake follows the enterprising journey of a young girl who accommodates the demands of a quirky piglet after eating pancakes. Their adventure is an escapade which becomes embroiled in taking a bubble bath, a little tap dance, taking a p... |
- Adapted by Patrick Barlow, from a novel by John Buchan, from the movie of Alfred Hitchcock
What ARE the 39 Steps? Who was the beautiful Annabella Schmidt and why has she turned up murdered, clutching a map of Scotland? On the run from authorities, Richard Hannay must prove his innocence, find the man with the missing finger, romance the blonde and solve the mystery of magnificent proportions! |
- Book, Music, & Lyrics by Joan Cushing
- Exclusive adaptation of the three books by Doreen Cronin and illustrated by Harry Bliss
A New Jersey Premiere!
Is Spider getting too big for his own skin? Will Fly find her superhero powers in time to save her Aunt Rita from peril? Will Worm learn to stand on his own two feet…even though he doesn‘t have feet? We invite you to take a look at the world from a bug‘s perspective. Perhaps you... |
- By John Guare
- Directed by Sam Buntrock
A Nantucket house with a mysterious past. A pair of abandoned children. An 11 pound lobster. Edmund Gowery is trapped and knows the only way to escape is to change his life—he just doesn’t know how. |
- Written and Performed by Dominic Hoffman
Jazz drummer Jacques Hoffman, a 'hip cat with fast hands on the music scene in 1950's Chicago,' had to wrench himself away from clubs and late nights in order to enter the real world. This life change inspired Jacques to build a symphony out of the diverse friendships in his life to nourish his soul. |
- Alan Ayckbourn
- Directed by Nicholas Martin
My Wonderful Day
Winnie Barnstairs, a nearly 9-year-old, Anglo-Caribbean girl from south London, has a school assignment to write about her day. She is spending it with her mother, a house cleaner who works for an unhappily married, minor television celebrity. Instructed to get on with her homework, Winnie o... |
- by David Lee White
- directed by Adam Immerwahr
It’s 1932 and America’s most brilliant detective is on the verge of apprehending the world’s most brilliant and devious master criminal. Stranded in a dilapidated mansion on a former resort island gone to seed, Detective Dorrington discovers a murder that begins to unravel the very fabric of democracy... |
- A Tribute to Andrew Lloyd Webber
Another Surflight premiere! |
- Book and Lyrics by
- Lynn Ahrens
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- Music by Stephen Flaherty
Once on this Island tells a tale of romance, tragedy, redemption and rebirth with sunny songs, captivating choreography, and irresistable Calypso beat. |
The ultimate in classic comic entertainment! |
- Music by Gary William Friedman,
- Lyrics by Will Holt,
- Adapted by Robert Livingston & Herb Schapiro,
- Based on the book by Stephen M. Joseph,
- Additional lyrics by Herb Schapiro,
- Arrangements & orchestration by Gary William Friedman
A TONY-nominated and OBIE Award-winning, THE ME NOBODY KNOWS is a ground-breaking musical which has been inspiring and touching audiences throughout the world for generations. Within the envelope of a single day, the show poetically examines the aspirations and fears of a multi-racial cast of young people. In... |
Beginning in 1920, Ruth Draper held the stage in this country and in Europe for 40 years with her one-woman shows where she played a vast array of characters. ELTC is only the second production company - ever - to be allowed to produce this incredible material since Ms. Draper's death. |
- Book by Thomas Meehan. Music by Charles Strouse. Lyrics by Martin Charnin. Based on the Tribune Media Service Comic Strip, Little Orphan Annie.
TONY AWARD BEST MUSICAL 1977. See it at Surflight before the show heads to Broadway! |
- by Yasmina Reza; translated by Christopher Hampton
Fast, furious and very funny, this winner of the 2009 Tony Award for Best Play is a 90-minute thrill ride to the most dangerous place on Earth: parenthood. |
We are such stuff as dreams are made on,/And our little life is rounded with a sleep. |
- TBA (runner up in the Premiere Stages Play Festival)
Get a first hand look at the new play development process by attending these free staged reading of the runner up in the Premiere Stages Play Festival competition! A talkback with the playwright will follow each performance! |
Swingadelic is the New York City Metropolitan Area’s greatest “little big band” that delivers the traditional big band music. |
- TBA (Play Festival Winner)
Chosen from over 300 submissions, the winner of the 2012 Premiere Play Festival will kick off the main stage season with a full production. Come experience the birth of an exciting new play in a stunning production! Check Premiere Stages’ website in the Spring, 2012 for updates.
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The whole audience bouncing and swaying to the irresistible rhythm. Everybody singing HI-DE-HO! They’re echoing the King himself, Cab Calloway. |
As the great thespian Patrick Swayze once said, "Nobody puts Baby in a corner." The same is true of Sarah Borges. |
- Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Suggested by “The Trapp Family Singers” by Maria Augusta Trapp.
TONY AWARD BEST MUSICAL 1959. ACADEMY AWARD BEST PICTURE 1965. Featuring songs from the motion picture "Something Good" and "I Have Confidence.” |
- James Rana adapted three mysteries by Edgar Allan Poe
Follow the adventures of Auguste Dupin, in this world premiere, as he solves macabre mysteries in Paris of the 1840s, as created by Poe in Murders of the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, and The Purloined Letter. A cast of 6 portray 50 characters to bring these mysterious puzzles to life. |
Smokey Joe's Cafe is a musical theatrical revue showcasing 39 pop standards, including rock and roll, rhythm and blues songs written by songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. |
"Beatlemania Now"... an amazing concert experience...
The New York Daily News says, "Extraordinary!" |
A chilling psychological thriller from the author of Rosemary's Baby and Deathtrap. |
- By Danai Gurira
- Directed by Emily Mann
In 1895 in the region that would become Zimbabwe, a girl is forced to choose between her family’s traditions and the Christian faith and Western values she has embraced. |
Brightening the winter season in January, Paper Mill Playhouse showcases the hit comedy Boeing Boeing (January 18, 2012-February 12, 2012) |
- August Wilson
- Directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson
One of the American theatre's greatest writers, August Wilson was honored with two Pulitzer Prizes and a Tony Award for his 10-play cycle chronicling the African American experience in the 20th century. Ruben Santiago-Hudson, one of the preeminent interpreters of Wilson's work both as a director and act... |
In 1958 abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko had just landed the biggest commision in the history of modern art, a series of murals for New York's famed Four Seasons Restaurant. After two years his assistant, Ken, gains the confidence to challenge the master. Rothko must face agonizing possibilities. |
