Kean Stage Announces 2012-2013 Season

Kean Stage's 2012-2013 performing arts season announces a lineup of performances in six different venues all across its campus.

The Wilkins Theatre features the Royal Drummers of Burundi, the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba and the Black Watch and the Band of the Scots Guards who will appear for the first time at Kean in a performance of pomp and grandeur. The Concert Artist Series in its 15th season will feature world-renowned faculty musicians performing chamber music in Enlow Hall and Kean Hall.

Dance enthusiasts will enjoy the awesome acrobatics in Cirque Chinois performed by the National Circus of the People's Republic of China; the visceral language of movement and sound in Seán Curran and the King's Singers performance of Travel Songs, and ballet classics like Don Quixote performed by the Russian National Ballet, New Jersey Ballet's Sleeping Beauty and New Jersey Dance Theatre Ensemble's The Nutcracker.

The Gene and Shelly Enlow Recital Hall opens the 2012-13 season on September 22 with living legend, Chick Corea. The line-up also features leading musicians and legends of our time in classical, jazz, pop and world music including LeAnn Rimes, Arco Ensemble, Joshua Bell, Ben Vereen, African Children's Choir, Holiday Brass, Nai Ni Chen & Ahn Trio, Elaine Paige and 2 CELLOS.

The International Film Series returns this year is our featuring award-winning modern foreign cinema on Sunday afternoons in the Jules Irving Schwartz Lecture Hall in the new STEM building.

The Kean Theatre Series will present students performing 9 Parts of Desire by Heather Raffo. The Gamester set in Paris in the 18th century and Tony Award winning musical Hairspray. The Kean University Dance Ensemble (KUDE) will showcase students in diverse and high-spirited works choreographed by faculty, alumni, guest choreographers, and students in Wilkins Theatre next spring.

The Kean University main campus is located at 1000 Morris Avenue in Union, N.J. and the address for the East Campus where Enlow Recital Hall is located is 215 North Avenue in Hillside, N.J.

Tickets are available at the Wilkins Theatre Box Office on campus, by calling
908-737-SHOW (7469), and online at www.keanstage.com.