New Jersey Theatre Alliance Announces Fifteenth STAGES FESTIVAL
The New Jersey Theatre Alliance, its 35 professional member theatres, and partner organizations are happy to offer the fifteenth annual Stages Festival throughout the month of March 2012.
“New Jersey’s professional theatres have so much to offer,” says John McEwen, Executive Director of the Theatre Alliance. “The Stages Festival serves as a month-long open-house to the state’s residents – giving them a chance to see the wide variety of programming that exists right in their own back yard – with shows, sample classes or play-development events at little to no cost.”
The Stages Festival began 15 years ago as a one-week program for young people and their families (originally called Family Week at the Theatre), but the program was so popular, and member theatres kept offering new events for people of all ages, that the Theatre Alliance – with the help of their funding partners – expanded it beyond the original week. The organization and its member theatres now provide a full month of performances, workshops and programs for theatre lovers in all the stages of their lives.
Events are held at member theatres, but also in local libraries, schools, hospitals and senior centers. For the fifth year in a row, the Theatre Alliance is also sponsoring a private event for service men and women and their families on McGuire Air Force Base in Burlington County.
The Stages Festival is a co-sponsored project of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional program sponsors are Bank of America and The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey.
The program’s mission is to give families the opportunity to experience the diversity of New Jersey’s professional theatres by offering affordable, exciting and educational programming at member theatres and in non-traditional venues throughout the state.
For an updated schedule of The Stages Festival and Family Week at the Theatre, please visit the website at www.stagesfestival.org.
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Season Finale: Ravel's Boléro with Xian Zhang Richardson Auditorium (6/11-6/11) |
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Joshua Henry Enlow Recital Hall (9/13-9/13) |
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C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (11/06-11/06) |
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The American Soldier Cape May Stage (10/23-10/25) |
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Married, Single, and a Baby Robert Shackleton Playhouse (9/27-9/27) |
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Journey Former Lead Vocalist Steve Augeri Stockton University Performing Arts Center (11/13-11/13) |
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Hollywood Hits: From West Side Story to Spirited Away New Jersey Performing Arts Center (10/11-10/11) |
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Gunhild Carling with the Centenary Stage Company Kutz Theatre of the Lackland Performing Arts Center (9/12-9/12) |
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Xian Zhang Conducts Tchaikovsky Richardson Auditorium (5/14-5/14) |
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Joshua Bell Leads Beethoven State Theatre New Jersey (3/11-3/11) |