Catherine Rust

Get to know the finalists of the 2024 Women Playwrights Series by Centenary Stage Company, set for readings in April. Discover new talents in the world of theatre.

Centenary Stage Company will conclude the 2022 Women Playwrights Series with a reading of Off the Map by Christine Foster. This reading will take place on Wednesday, April 27 at 7:30 pm in the Sitnik Theatre of the Lackland Performing Arts Center at 715 Grand Avenue, Hackettstown, NJ on the campus of Centenary University.

Centenary Stage Company's Women Playwrights Series continues Wednesday, April 20 with a reading of The Buddha's Wife by Mary Poindexter McLaughlin at 7:30 pm in the Sitnik Theatre of the Lackland Performing Arts Center at 715 Grand Avenue, Hackettstown, NJ on the campus of Centenary University.

Centenary Stage Company's Women Playwrights Series will kick off with a reading of Apartment 3F by Sarah Vander Schaaff. The reading will take place on Wednesday, April 13 7:30 pm in the Sitnik Theatre of the Lackland Performing Arts Center at 715 Grand Avenue, Hackettstown, NJ on the campus of Centenary University.

Students at Arthur Stanlick Elementary School in Lake Hopatcong will cheer when their fellow student, eleven- year-old Leilah St.Clair Marshall stars in the World Premiere production of Centenary Stage Company's “Whippoorwill” by Pulitzer Prize nominated playwright, Ruth Kirschner, running March 31 – April 10 at the Lackland Center for the Performing Arts.  

Centenary Stage Company's Women Playwrights Series returns this spring with three brand-new play readings. Readings will take place on Wednesdays throughout April at 7:30 pm in the Sitnik Theatre of the Lackland Performing Arts Center at 715 Grand Avenue, Hackettstown, NJ on the campus of Centenary University.

The final reading in this season’s Women Playwrights Series at Centenary Stage Company is Vita Patrick Morales’s Loretta the Yodeling Cowgirl taking place on Wednesday, May 5th at 7:30 PM in the Sitnik Theatre of the Lackland Performing Arts Center.

The third reading in this spring’s Women Playwrights Series at Centenary Stage Company is Pauline David-Sax’s Cotton’s Tale taking place on Wednesday, April 28th at 7:30 PM in the Sitnik Theatre of the Lackland Performing Arts Center.

Centenary Stage Company’s Women Playwrights Series continues its Spring 2021 reading series with Hallie Palladino’s The Persuadables on Wednesday, April 21st at 7:30 PM in the Little Theatre at 400 Jefferson Street in Hackettstown.

Centenary Stage Company's Women Playwrights Series kicks off its Spring 2021 reading series with Deborah Yarchun's Atlas the Lonely Gibbon on Wednesday, April 14th at 7:30 PM in the Sitnik Theatre of the Lackland Performing Arts Center.

This season’s selection features Atlas the Lonely Gibbon by Deborah Yarchun on Wednesday, April 14; The Persuadables by Hallie Palladino on Wednesday, April 21; Cotton’s Tale by Pauline David-Sax on Wednesday, April 28; and Loretta the Yodeling Cowgirl by Vita Patrick Morales on Wednesday, May 5. 

As Centenary Stage Company prepares to open its world premiere production of Turning (running February 25 through March 7), the playwright, Darrah Cloud, is working on a new commission,

Centenary Stage Company's rescheduled 2020 Women Playwrights Series closes on Wednesday, November 18 at 7:30 PM with I'll Give You Something to Cry About by Patricia Cotter. 

Centenary Stage Company will offer live streaming options for the 2020 Women Playwrights Series events held November 4, 11 and 18. The live stream will be available in conjunction with the in-person performances and will be made available to patrons on the dates and times of the scheduled performances.

Centenary Stage Company's rescheduled 2020 Women Playwrights Series launches on Wednesday, November 4 at 7:30 PM with Drive by Deborah Yarchun. 

The popular Women Playwright Series is returning to Centenary Stage Company, with three exciting new plays by playwrights Deborah Yarchun, Nora Leahy, and Patricia Cotter. The three plays being presented this November were all originally scheduled for this past spring, as a part of last season's WPS, but were rescheduled due to the state shutdown caused by the Covid-19 Pandemic.

"Across the Aisle" by Alyssa Haddad will be the  final presentation in the 2019 Centenary Stage Company's Women Playwright Series  on Wed, Apr 24 at 7:30 PM .

Three generations of women form the centerpiece of the Centenary Stage Company  2019 Women Playwrights Series'  second presentation, "Whippoorwill" by San Francisco playwright Ruth Kirschner, to be presented Wednesday, Apr 17 at 7:30 PM at the Lackland Performing Art Center.