The Centenary Theatre Announces May Events

The month of May means spring and warm weather but it also means that the current season at Centenary Stage is almost near the end. Audiences can get their fill of theatre before a brief summer break with everything from Shakespeare to a festival of musicals, and a little stage time by CSC's new favorite Moose for the kids in between.

The Centenary Theatre department will be presenting their Spring Student Production of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night from May 2nd through the 5th in the Little Theater at 400 Jefferson Street. This classic comedy of mistaken identity, transformation and deception follows the tale of a most complicated love triangle that only the great bard himself could craft. Along the way, audiences will enjoy the misadventures of other characters that are interwoven in this story of the town of Illyria.

The Great Authors Out Loud Series featuring Randall Duk Kim presents staged readings of plays written by four of the world's greatest playwrights whose mastery of language transcend their time and place to speak to us about what it means to be human. On Sunday, May 5th at 3 p.m. Randall, and fellow theatre expert Anne Ochiogrosso, will be presenting William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Haven't had a chance to meet CSC's new resident moose, yet? Well, Saturday, May 11th at 11am is the time to do it with the Young Audience Series Production of If You Give a Moose a Muffin. In this hilarious sequel to If You Give A Mouse A Cookie and If You Give A Pig A Pancake, a young girl entertains a gregarious moose by giving him a muffin. But if a big hungry moose wants a muffin, he'll surely want some jam to go with it. And, so begins the comic complications filled with music and dancing that will delight the whole family.

The Centenary Stage Company's Young Performers Workshop presents their Spring Festival of Shows with a week full of musical favorites. The Spring Festival of Shows will run May 31st through June 9th at the Little Theatre on the campus of Centenary College in Hackettstown. This year's selections will include The Pajama Game, Sweet Charity and Tom Sawyer. The Young Performers Workshop (YPW) has been called "The most professional kids troupe around!" by the Star Ledger. The workshop has been lead by Broadway, film and television veteran, Michael Blevins, for over 16 years. YPW is dedicated to the enrichment of young lives through experience in the theatre arts, and serves as a venue for cultivating young theatre performers between the ages of 8 and 18. The program is one of only a handful in the nation that offers both formal training and production experience for young people. The young performers devote their weekends over a 13 week time-frame rehearsing challenging dance numbers and learning complex vocal arrangements to create a memorable theatre experience for all audiences to enjoy.
Tickets for Twelfth Night are $12.50 for adults and $10 for children under 12. Performances run from May 2nd through the 5th with show times at 7:30 pm on Thursday, 8 pm on Friday and Saturday, and 7 pm on Sunday. All performances will take place in The Little Theater at 400 Jefferson St. on the campus of Centenary College.
The Great Authors Out Loud Series staged reading of The Merry Wives of Windsor is a free event with reservations recommended. The performance is Sunday, May 5th at 3pm in the Kutz Black Box Theatre in the Lackland Center at 715 Grand Avenue.
If You Give A Moose A Muffin tickets are $12.50 for adults and $10.00 for children under 12. The performance will be on Saturday, May 11th at 11am in the Little Theatre at 400 Jefferson St.
The YPW Spring Festival of Shows runs from May31-June 9. Tickets are $12.50 for adults and $10 for children under 12. The shows featured in this Spring's festival are The Pajama Game, Tom Sawyer, and Sweet Charity. For a detailed list of dates and times, please visit our website at centenarystageco.org or call us 908-979-0900.
The Centenary Stage Company is a not-for-profit professional equity theatre, in residence at Centenary College, dedicated to serving as cultural resource for audiences of the Skylands Region with professional music, theatre and dance events and arts education programs throughout the year. Performance at the Centenary Stage Company are made possible through the visionary support of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the NJ State Council on the Arts, and CSC members, friends and sponsors, including Premier Sponsor Heath Village, Silver Sponsor Hackettstown Regional Medical Center and The Holiday Inn in Budd Lake, and Series sponsors, Fulton Bank, and Mamas & Café Baci.

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