Individual Tickets Now on Sale for Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's Upcoming Season

Single tickets and discount ticket packages are now on sale for The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's 2013 Season. The 51st anniversary season consists of six productions on its Main Stage at the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre in Madison, one summer production on the popular Outdoor Stage - the Greek amphitheater on the campus of The College of Saint Elizabeth in Morris Township, and several special events and programs.

The Shakespeare Theatre's 2013 season begins in late May and will continue through December. Full season Complete Works discount subscriptions are now available and include tickets to all six Main Stage productions for as low as $135. Also available are discount choose-your-own 5-play packages starting at $115 and discounted choose-your-own 4-play play packages starting at $94.

Tickets to individual productions are also on sale and range from $35 to $70. Student rush tickets, available one half hour prior to each performance, are $15. For information or to purchase a discount subscription or individual tickets, call the box office at 973-408-5600 or visit www.ShakespeareNJ.org.

The season opens with Ireland's legendary masterpiece by J.M. Synge, The Playboy of the Western World. This famed playwright, poet, and co-founder of The Abbey Theatre has penned a grand adventure - part tall-tale, part outrageous comedy and part bittersweet parable. A young country lad's transformation from beaten-down weakling to celebrated "playboy" captures the poetic heart of the wild Irish imagination in magnificent, lyrical style. The Playboy of the Western World begins performances on May 29th and continues through June 23rd.

"All the world's a stage" and this summer The Shakespeare Theatre's Outdoor Stage will transform into the Forest of Arden at the beautiful and family-friendly amphitheater on the campus of the College of Saint Elizabeth in Morris Township. Shakespeare's splendid and pithy comedy filled with some of his most colorful and beloved characters will delight all ages. The Outdoor Stage production of As You Like It under-the-stars will run June 19th to July 28th.

Next up on the Main Stage is Noël Coward's rarely-produced Fallen Angels. Britain's master of wit has created tour de force roles for two leading ladies in this delightful comedy about the seven-year itch. The sophisticated "bubbles" of this frothy, vintage Coward are popped throughout by sharp and wickedly-funny barbs about the perils of marital bliss. This comedy will run from July 3rd to July 28th.

"We were thrilled and honored when The National Endowment for the Arts provided us with a special grant to produce the long-forgotten comedy Tovarich by Jacques Deval, translated by famed American writer Robert E. Sherwood," said Bonnie J. Monte. This long-forgotten and eccentric romance by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Idiot's Delight and Abe Lincoln in Illinois tells the improbable tale of an indomitable Russian Grand Duchess and her dashing Prince of a husband living in exile in Paris. Tovarich will begin performances on August 7th and runs through August 25th.

Next, Tony Award-winner Richard Maltby, Jr. makes his Shakespeare Theatre directorial debut with A Most Dangerous Woman. This world premiere explores the extraordinary life of Mary Ann Evans - better known by her pen name George Eliot. An outcast living a socially unconventional life, Evans was forced to write under an assumed name, not only to escape having her work judged by virtue of her gender, but to avoid having it judged by virtue of her scandalous life. Ironically, her success as George Eliot only led her deeper and deeper into a world of secrets and deception. A Most Dangerous Woman will run September 18th through October 6th.

The Shakespeare Theatre will celebrate the 75th anniversary of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, the beloved, Pulitzer Prize-winning, American classic. The play has become an idyllic symbol of our collective national past - a time and place where decency, friendship and wholesome values were the norm- an America untainted by the greed, corruption, pollution and violence that now darken our horizon. The ordinary citizens of the ordinary town of Grover's Corners weave an extraordinary and timeless tale about life, love and mortality. Our Town runs October 16th to November 17th and features several school-time matinee performances.

The 2013 season closes with Shakespeare's Pericles. Pericles, Prince of Tyre, discovers a terrible secret in the court of Antioch, and flees, fearing for his life. Thus begins a long and perilous odyssey, filled with adventure, betrayal, joy, sorrow and ultimately, reunion, redemption and rebirth. A wonderful tale for the holidays, Brian B. Crowe's imagining of Pericles is a shimmering vision of an epic voyage across icy seas in search of new worlds and lost souls. Pericles will begin performances on December 4th and continues through December 29th.

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