(NEW YORK, NY) -- Vanguard Theater Company will present “A Little Princess” for four performances in New York at the TBG Studio Theatre.  Performances are May 10 - 12, with shows on Friday at 8:00pm, Saturday at 2:00pm and 8:00pm, and Sunday at 2:00pm. Written by Tony-nominated composer/lyricist, Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party), and Brian Crawley (Violet), A Little Princess is based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, which was honored by School Library Journal as one of the "Top 100 Chapter Books" of all time. ... READ ON

(TRENTON, NJ) -- Passage Theatre Company, Trenton’s Barrymore Award-winning professional theatre company, will close its season with Erlina Ortiz’s play Morir Sonyando from May 2-19. The production marks Artistic Director C. Ryanne Domingues’s directorial debut at Passage. In the play, Genesis left her past behind long ago. But her mother’s release from prison forces them both to confront long-buried pain – and to wonder if they can ever become a family again. Erlina Ortiz’s play lovingly illuminates the blood ties that break and bind people.... READ ON

(OCEAN TOWNSHIP, NJ) -- The Axelrod Performing Arts Center’s Rising Stars youth performing arts program will celebrate the 80th Anniversary of MGM’s classic, “The Wizard of Oz,” with six performances in May. Based on the beloved novel by L. Frank Baum and featuring songs by Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg, the technicolor film first premiered at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre on August 15, 1939. Starring Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Billie Burke, and Margaret Hamilton, the movie musical opened to critical acclaim and achieved legendary status through decades of annually televised broadcasts.... READ ON

(PRINCETON, NJ) -- Daniel Krane, artistic director of Princeton Summer Theater, has announced the organization’s 2019 season, which will run from June 20-August 18 and consist of four mainstage productions, as well as the world premiere of a new children’s play. Founded in 1968, Princeton Summer Theater is a semi-professional summer stock theater company located in Princeton University’s Hamilton-Murray Theater.  This season marks the theater's 50th anniversary.... READ ON

(RAHWAY, NJ) -- God Help Us!, a play ripped straight from today's headlines, starring the legendary Ed Asner comes to the Union County Performing Arts Center’s Main Stage on Sunday, May 12 at 3:00pm.  In the play, two pundits, Larry (a liberal) and Randi (a conservative), played by local actors Dave Sussman and Kristine Stringer, find themselves confronted by GOD played by Asner, a wise, sarcastic, cantankerous and wildly funny character who is offended by what America's political leaders have done to America.  God has brought Randi and Larry to Purgatory for a lively debate about the issues of our time. And whomever he finds more persuasive will get God's "mighty thumb on the scale" in one or the other's favor.... READ ON

(LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ) -- Rider University Musical Theatre presents Peter Stone, Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Cy Coleman’s musical Will Rogers Follies May 1 through 5 in the Theater in the Bart Luedeke Center on the Rider University campus in Lawrenceville with director and choreographer Robin Lewis and music director Nathan Hurwitz. ... READ ON

(HACKETTSTOWN, NJ) -- “Across the Aisle” by Alyssa Haddad will be the  final presentation in the 2019 Centenary Stage Company’s Women Playwright Series  on Wed, April 24 at 7:30pm. In this contemporary story of our boisterous multicultural society, a young, hip interracial couple in Brooklyn invite their very traditional families for a Thanksgiving family dinner, where they decide to drop the bomb that they are engaged.   Cultural and comic collisions ensue, igniting the question, “how can one ever create a future with someone from an entirely different past?”... READ ON

(NETCONG, NJ) -- The Growing Stage, The Children’s Theatre of New Jersey, will conclude its 37th Main Stage season with Mr. Popper's Penguins.  The show runs May 3- 19 with performances Saturdays and Sundays at 4:00pm and a special Opening Night Performance, May 3rd at 7:30pm followed by a post-show reception. Based on the novel by Richard and Florence Atwater and featuring music and lyrics by George Howe, book by Robert Kauzlaric, this production is directed by Lori B. Lawrence, TGS’s Director of Educational Programming with Musical Direction by Stephen Fox and Choreography by Jillian Petrie.... READ ON

(PLAINFIELD, NJ) -- Dragonfly Multicultural Arts Center, a nonprofit theatre company dedicated to diversity, will present Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy The Importance of Being Earnest in partnership with duCret School of Art in Plainfield, where Dragonfly is now in residence. The play is a hilarious, pointed comedy of manners and a classic of British theatre.  Performances run May 2-5 at the duCret School of Art in Plainfield.... READ ON

(TEANECK, NJ) -- With shows such as Robert Askins’ Hand to God, Caryl Churchill’s Cloud 9, Albee’s The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia?, and Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, Black Box Performing Arts Center is quickly making a name for itself as the area’s premiere destination for immersive and cutting-edge plays. Sweat​​​​​​​ by Lynn Nottage is the latest main stage show of 2019, following the NJ premiere of Significant Other by Joshua Harmon and How to Transcend a Happy Marriage by Sarah Ruhl.... READ ON