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A Beat of Our Own

Sunday, October 25, 2026 @ 2:00pm
McCarter Theatre Center (Matthews Theatre) Princeton, NJ

From the Tony Award-winning producers of Hadestown comes A Beat of Our Own — a brand-new musical comedy that pulls you straight into the pulsating rhythms, kaleidoscopic colors and raw energy of competitive bhangra dance. 



   
Premiere

Premiere Stages at Kean presents Effa Loves Baseball

Sunday, October 25, 2026 @ 3:00pm
Kean Stage - Enlow Recital Hall Hillside, NJ

Effa Manley manages the Newark Eagles, a team she wants to take all the way to the Negro League World Series. Effa battles the press, coaching staff, segregation, and sometimes herself to win at the business of the game she loves most of all. She doesn’t worry about what it will cost her, even if it’s everything. Effa Loves Baseball is about the first woman inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

   
George

George Street Playhouse presents The Unexpected 3rd

Sunday, October 25, 2026 @ 2:00pm
New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (NBPAC) New Brunswick, NJ

Written by and Starring Kathryn Grody  
Directed by Timothy Near  
 
A Radical, Rollicking Rumination on the Optimism of Staying Alive 

   
Growing

Growing Stage presents Roald Dahl’s MATILDA the Musical

Sunday, October 25, 2026 @ 2:00pm
The Historic Palace Theatre Netcong, NJ

Inspired by the twisted genius of Roald Dahl, the Tony Award-winning Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical is the captivating masterpiece from the Royal Shakespeare anarchy of childhood, the power of imagination and the inspiring story of a girl who dreams of a better life.

   
MAC

MAC Players at the Middletown Arts Center present "Gypsy, a Musical Fable"

Sunday, October 25, 2026 @ 2:00pm
Middletown Arts Center Middletown, NJ

Regarded by many theatre professionals as the finest musical ever created, Gypsy is the ultimate tale of an ambitious stage mother fighting for her daughters’ success – while secretly yearning for her own. Set all across America in the 1920s and 30s, when vaudeville was dying and burlesque was born, Arthur Laurents’ landmark show explores the world of two-bit show business with brass, humor, heart and sophistication.