Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre's new season brings two recent Off-Broadway successes to the stage in South Orange. As always, the theatre tells stories that reflect our shared experience of being human with heart and humor. Dreamcatcher, in its sixteenth season, is the professional theatre in residence at the Baird Center of South Orange and a senior member of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance. This year, the Dreamcatcher Resident Acting Company and its guests will present two mainstage pro...

PREMIERE STAGES AND PLAYWRIGHTS THEATRE OF NEW JERSEY JOIN FORCES TO PRODUCE POWERFUL NEW PLAY

UNION, N.J. Premiere Stages at Kean University is collaborating with Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey to produce Tammy Ryan's beautiful play, Lost Boy Found in Whole Foods (September 2 trough 19) in the Zella Fry Theatre on the Kean University campus, located at 1000 Morris Avenue, Union, N.J.

In this timely new work, Gabriel, an optimistic former "lost boy" from Sudan meets Christine, a suburban mother in desperate need of attention and adventure. What begins as an unlikely ...

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CAPE MAY STAGE PRESENTS SAMUEL BECKETT'S "HAPPY DAYS"

(Cape May, NJ) - Cape May Stage, South Jersey's premier professional Equity theatre, is pleased to announce a new production of a classic of postmodern existentialist theatre: Samuel Beckett's Happy Days. Starring Lynn (Sex and the City, Munich) and Ron Cohen, Happy Days will open Thursday, August 26 at 8:00 p.m. at the Robert Shackleton Playhouse on Bank and Lafayette Streets.

In the original review for the New York Times, Howard Taubman called Happy Days "a song of rue that...

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NJ REP PRESENTS CHARACTER ASSASSINS BY CHARLIE SCHULMAN

(LONG BRANCH, NJ) -- The New Jersey Repertory Company located at 179 Broadway in Long Branch is proud to present the world premiere comedy Character Assassins by Charlie Schulman September 23 thru October 31.

Character Assassins explores what happens when a jaded theater critic with a pen as venomous as a cobra, squares off with a playwright who has reached the end of his creative rope and is now bound for vengeance. Simon Frank can make or break the career of any hapless playwright on a w...

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