Centenary Stage Company News

Season Subscription and Flex Pass Packages for Centenary Stage Company’s 2022-2023 Season will be on-sale starting June 1, 2022. For their 37th season, Centenary Stage Company, a not-for-profit professional theatre company located in Hackettstown, NJ, has prepared a full schedule of professional theatrical performances. The Professional Theatre Series will include performances of Cinderella, Ladykillers, and the World Premiere production of Off the Map by Christine Foster, Fringe Festival performances of The Artist Will Be with You in a Moment and My Witch, concert performances by Danny Farinacci Quartet, Damn Tall Buildings, returning artist Chuchito Valdez as well as the return of the NEXTStage Repertory student productions and the Women Playwrights Series readings are just some of the many events scheduled for CSC’s 2022-2023 season.

The American Theater Group (ATG), Somerset County’s professional theater company celebrating its tenth season, will present All Over the Map, an autobiographical one-man show performed by Bill Bowers, about his 30 years on the road performing in 26 countries, on Broadway, in the White House --and in the finest grade school cafeterias. The show begins previews June 9th, opens on June 11th and runs through June 18th, at the Fellowship Cultural Arts Center in Basking Ridge, NJ. 

The Centenary Stage Company, a not-for-profit professional theatre company in residency on the campus of Centenary University in Hackettstown, NJ is now seeking applicants for the 2022-23 Artistic Internship program.

This season will feature performances of The Robber Bridegroom and Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? Performances will take place in Centenary Stage Company's Little Theatre located at 400 Jefferson Street, Hackettstown, NJ on the campus of Centenary University.

Centenary Stage Company's Young Performers Workshop returns this spring from July 11 through August 14, and the deadline to apply is July 8. This is a 15-week theatre training program for performers ages 8-18 that offers classes in dance, acting, singing, stage combat, technical theatre, and so much more.

 Centenary Stage Company and the Hackettstown Rotary are partnering together to present Yellow Brick Road: A Tribute to Elton John on Saturday, May 21 at 8:00 pm. This performance is a fundraiser event for the Hackettstown Rotary Club and will take place 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 Young Performers Workshop will present their Spring Festival of Shows from May 27 through June 5. This season will feature performances of The Robber Bridegroom and Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? 

Centenary Stage Company and the Hackettstown Rotary are partnering together to present Yellow Brick Road: A Tribute to Elton John on Saturday, May 21 at 8:00 pm.

Centenary Stage Company finally welcomes Best of the Eagles to the Sitnik Theatre on Saturday, May 14 at 8:00 pm. This performance was rescheduled from their original date during CSC's January Thaw Music Festival due to a snowstorm.

The Centenary Stage Company, a not-for-profit professional theatre company in residency on the campus of Centenary University in Hackettstown, NJ is now seeking applicants for the 2022-23 Artistic Internship program. Centenary Stage Company is seeking to fill the internship immediately. 

Tickets for Centenary Stage Company’s 2022 Summer Season will be on-sale starting May 1, 2022. This season, Centenary Stage Company will be producing two mainstage productions of RENT and The Marvelous Wonderettes as well as the continuation of their concert series with a performance by Destination Motown featuring the Sensational Soul Cruisers. For more information, go to centenarystageco.org or call the Centenary Stage Company’s box office at (908) 979-0900.

Centenary Stage Company's NEXTStage Repertory's production of Head Over Heels, conceived by & original book by Jeff Whitty, adapted by James Magruder, music & lyrics by The Go-Go's, will finish its run Sunday, May 1. Performances will take place in the Sitnik Theatre of the Lackland Performing Arts Center on the Centenary University campus at 715 Grand Avenue, Hackettstown, NJ.

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 University will be hosting a free screening for the 41st Annual Thomas Edison Film Festival. This event will take place on Wednesday, April 6 at 6:30 pm in the Kutz Black Box Theatre of the Lackland Performing Arts Center located on the campus of Centenary University at 715 Grand Avenue, Hackettstown, NJ 07840.

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.  

Ruth Kirschner will be offering a Writing Workshop on Saturday, April 2 from 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm following the opening night of Whippoorwill. The Writing Workshop will take place in the President Circle Room of the Lackland Performing Arts Center at 715 Grand Avenue, Hackettstown, NJ on the campus of Centenary University.

Centenary University will be hosting a free screening for the 41st Annual Thomas Edison Film Festival.

Centenary Stage Company’s NEXTStage Repertory has announced that the spring musical for this season will be Head Over Heels conceived by & original book by Jeff Whitty, adapted by James Magruder, music & lyrics by The Go-Go's. This show will run April 21 through May 1 in the Sitnik Theatre of the Lackland Performing Arts Center on the Centenary University campus at 715 Grand Avenue, Hackettstown, NJ.