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(MILLBURN, NJ) -- Paper Mill Playhouse presents 1776, the Tony Award-winning musical, from April 1 through May 2, 2026. It brings the story behind the creation of the Declaration of Independence to the stage with witty satire, compelling drama, and a thrilling score. With music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards and book by Peter Stone, 1776 follows John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and their fellow delegates as they navigate fiery debates, political tensions, and personal conflicts in their struggle to unite thirteen colonies.
(MILLBURN, NJ) -- Paper Mill Playhouse will host the 2026 Rising Star Awards on Tuesday, June 9, 2026. Since 1996, Paper Mill has modeled the Rising Star Awards after Broadway's Tony Awards to recognize and reward the outstanding achievements of New Jersey high school musical theater and student productions around the state. A full list of Rising Star Awards nominations will be published in mid-May.
(NEW YORK, NY) -- Writers & Actors On The Hudson, a unique theatrical event featuring "incubations" of new works for the stage will play NY's City Vineyard on Monday, March 9, 2026 at 7:00pm. This is the launch of a new series from Black Box Studios, Northern New Jersey's incubator for new and under produced plays by world-class artists or their estates.
(PATERSON, NJ) -- Literature to Life (LTL) will be presenting two free performances of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez on March 5, 2026 at Passaic County Community College (PCCC). The performances will be held at 1:10pm & 6:00pm in the PCCC Theater. This program is part of Books Unite: Literature to Life in Paterson, a yearlong series of free community events – performances, book clubs, and interactive workshops – designed to engage community members in powerful stories and shared conversation.
(BASKING RIDGE, NJ) -- Trilogy Repertory presents The Secret Garden across two weekends from March 13-22, 2026 at the Sieminski Theater. This enchanting classic of children's literature is reimagined in brilliant musical style by composer Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of 'Night Mother.
(ORADELL, NJ) -- Enjoy a touching and topical dramedy as love clashes with conscience in Bergen County Players' (BCP) production of The Cake. The play, written by Bekah Brunstetter, producer/writer for the hit TV series This Is Us, is directed by Carol Fisher of Teaneck. It opens March 14 and runs through April 11, 2026 at the Little Firehouse Theatre in Oradell.
Theater aficionado's will likely be familiar with the plays of Theresa Rebeck—the most Broadway-produced female playwright of our time and creator of the hit TV show, Smash. For the upcoming show, Samantha Inside Out at New Jersey Repertory Company, though, Rebeck is not the writer, but the director— a role she has increasingly enjoyed over the last several years.
(TEANECK, NJ) -- Puffin Cultural Forum, a project of the Puffin Foundation, Ltd., will present a special staged reading of In Equal Measure on Saturday, March 21, 2026 at 7:00pm, followed by a facilitated community discussion on police accountability, communal grief, and the moral consequences when justice systems fail. The play centers on a father grappling with the death of his son at the hands of police and the emotional fallout when accountability does not come.
(LINCROFT, NJ) -- The Murder Mystery Co. presents I Love the 80’s to Death, a totally rad evening of intrigue and laughter coming to the Brookdale Community College Performing Arts Center on March 7, 2026. Showtime is 7:00pm.
(PATERSON, NJ) -- Pushcart Players, the award-winning educational theater for young and family audiences, will present "Lift Every Voice: A Letter to the Editor" at Passaic County Community College in Paterson on February 24-25, 2026. The play is presented in celebration of Black History Month, and will continue touring regionally to schools and theaters through June.
