
Here are previews of plays taking place from April 7-13, 2026 including a look at productions currently being presented and those coming soon. New Jersey Stage covers Equity, community, college, and high school theatre. Check back every week for the weekly theatre preview.

(OCEAN GROVE, NJ) -- NENAproductions Theater Project presents Green Day's American Idiot across two weekends from April 24 to May 2, 2026 at the Jersey Shore Arts Center. This is a high-octane rock opera that follows three lifelong friends—Johnny, Tunny, and Will—as they search for meaning in a post-9/11 world.

(ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, NJ) -- First Avenue Playhouse presents Men Are Dogs weekends from April 17 to May 2, 2026. This is Joe Simonelli's hilarious comedy about Dr. Cecelia Monahan, a therapist running a support group for single and divorced women.

(EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- Playhouse 22 presents August Wilson's Fences weekends from April 17 to May 3, 2026. In this Pulitzer Prize Award-Winning play, Troy Maxson, a former star of the Negro baseball leagues, is working as a garbage man in 1957 Pittsburgh.

(OLD BRIDGE, NJ) -- Main Street Theatre Company presents Fiddler on the Roof across two weekends from April 25 to May 3, 2026. The award-winning tale of Tevye the Dairyman and his family's struggles in a changing Russia is a true musical theatre tradition.


