New Jersey Stage logo
New Jersey Stage Menu



Count: Stories from America’s Death Row

Tuesday, June 17, 2025 @ 3:00pm



McCarter Theatre Center (Berlind Rehearsal Room)
91 University Place, Princeton, NJ 08540

Berlind Rehearsal Room

During a single day on death row, six men unpack their personal inheritances of violence, racism, mental illness, poverty, and surprising love. Based on years of conversation and writing with men sentenced to death or sentenced as children to life without parole, COUNT invites us into a stark florescent otherworld where the condemned struggle to revision what it means to live fully in the face of scheduled death. As we join their lively, difficult,  and ultimately affirming search for a life well-lived, we begin to wonder who is disposable, who counts, and what justice means when the blindfold is our own.

Count: Stories from America’s Death Row is a production brought to you through a partnership between the Center for Barth Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary and Chesney Snow of Princeton University. The Center for Barth Studies is a research center that exists to provide leading resources on the theology and legacy of Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth (1886–1968). Founded in 1997, the center hosts programs and events, provides research resources, and facilitates constructive theological conversation for engagement with the Christian theological tradition and its public significance today.  

Count: Stories from America’s Death Row is hosted as part of the 2025 Karl Barth Conference held at Princeton Theological Seminary this week on June 15–18 titled “The Incarcerated God: Thinking with and Beyond Barth on the Prison System,” co-organized with the Prison Studies Program at Duke Divinity School, the Calvin Prison Initiative at Calvin College, and the Partnership for Religion and Education in Prisons (PREP) at Drew Theological School. In addition to being one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century, Barth was a person with a criminal record who also served as a volunteer prison chaplain for a decade of his life. This year’s conference examines Barth’s theological insights in relation to incarceration, justice, and liberation, fostering a critical and constructive dialogue on addressing systemic oppression. To learn more about the conference, please visit https://www.ptsem.edu/kbc25

Run Time

3:00 PM show: 100 minutes 

7:00 PM show: 130 minutes




For information on how your event can be listed, click here



 

Advertise with NJ Stage for $50-$100 per month,
click here for info

FEATURED EVENTS

To narrow results by date range, categories,
or region of New Jersey
click here for our advanced search.


Vivid

Vivid Summer Solos: Side Effects May Include...

Wednesday, July 30, 2025 @ 6:30pm
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
68 Elm Street, Summit, NJ 07901
category: theatre

Click here for full event listing

 

Auditions

Auditions for "The Shark Is Broken"

Wednesday, July 30, 2025 @ 7:00pm
CDC Theatre
78 Winans Avenue, Cranford, NJ 07016
category: theatre

Click here for full event listing

 

The

The Mallard

Thursday, July 31, 2025 @ 1:00pm
Premiere Stages - Bauer Boucher Theatre Center
1000 Morris Avenue, Union, NJ 07083
category: theatre

Click here for full event listing

 

Shrek,

Shrek, The Musical

Thursday, July 31, 2025 @ 7:00pm
Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC)
30 North Van Brunt Street, Englewood, NJ 07631
category: theatre

Click here for full event listing

 

The

The Mallard

Friday, August 01, 2025 @ 7:30pm
Premiere Stages - Bauer Boucher Theatre Center
1000 Morris Avenue, Union, NJ 07083
category: theatre

Click here for full event listing

 

More events

Event Listings are available for $10 and included with our banner ad packages




 

Advertise with NJ Stage for $50-$100 per month,
click here for info


 

EVENT PREVIEWS

George

George Street Playhouse to Host One Night Performance of "My First Ex-Husband" Written and Starring Joy Behar

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- George Street Playhouse will host a one-night-only performance of My First Ex-Husband, written and performed by Joy Behar. Directed by Randal Myler, it will be presented on Thursday, August 28, 2025 at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center. Showtime is 7:30pm.



North

North Star Theater Company presents "Something Rotten!"

(SPARTA, NJ) -- North Star Theater Company presents the smash Broadway hit Something Rotten! from July 31 through August 3, 2025 at the Sussex County Technical School's McNeice Auditorium. This is​​​​​​​ a fast-paced musical comedy filled with hilarious showbiz nods and toe-tapping numbers.



Spring

Spring Lake Theatre presents "The Sound of Music"

(SPRING LAKE, NJ) -- Spring Lake Theatre presents The Sound of Music from August 14-24, 2025. This beloveded musical that tells the inspiring story of Maria, a spirited young woman studying to become a nun in Austria during the late 1930s.



Main

Main Street Theatre Company presents Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Jesus Christ Superstar"

(OLD BRIDGE, NJ) -- Main Street Theatre Company presents Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar across two weekends (August 9-10 and August 16-17, 2025). A thrilling rock opera based on the last week of Jesus’ life, Jesus Christ Superstar has wowed audiences for over 50 years.



Music

Music Mountain Theatre presents "Man of La Mancha"

(LAMBERTVILLE, NJ) -- Music Mountain Theatre presents Man of La Mancha weekends from August 8-24, 2025. One of the world's most popular musicals, it was inspired by Miguel de Cervantes' 17th-century masterwork Don Quixote and set during the Spanish Inquisition.




 

Advertise with NJ Stage for $50-$100 per month,
click here for info