Sept 25, 26, 28, Oct 1, 2, 5 at 2:00pm Sept 25, 27, Oct 2, 3, 4 at 7:30pm This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory—but still as tart-tongued, observant, and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years younger, and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist fiancé, who then go off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer. The boy quickly becomes the “grandchild” the elderly couple have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness—and slang—in return. In the end, as the summer wanes, so does their brief idyll, and in the final, deeply moving moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together by the incidence of a mild heart attack. Time, they know, is now against them, but the years have been good and, perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond still awaits.
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| 2005 | Best Revival of a Play |
New Year’s Eve Bubbly Bash with David Clark, The Music of Billy Joel (12/31/25-12/31/25)
Comedy Night (1/17/26-1/17/26)
The Jersey Tenors (2/14/26-2/15/26)
Comedy Night (4/11/26-4/11/26)
The Edwards Twins (4/25/26-4/26/26)
Surflight Theatre is at 201 Engleside Ave., Beach Haven, NJ.
Elf, The Musical (11/29/25-12/21/25)
Carmen (11/15/25-11/15/25)
Comedy Night Fundraiser (11/8/25-11/8/25)
Tru - The Life and Times of Truman Capote (10/8/25-10/12/25)
Comedy Night (9/26/25-9/26/25)
Calendar Girls (9/10/25-9/21/25)
Comedy Night Fundraiser (8/31/25-8/31/25)
Cinderella (8/27/25-8/31/25)
The Edwards Twins - Master Impersonators (8/25/25-8/25/25)
Little Mermaid (8/20/25-8/24/25)
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The Wolves
Old Library Theatre (12/12 - 12/14) | |
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Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra
Richardson Auditorium (3/13 - 3/13) | |
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi in Concert
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (5/30 - 5/30) | |
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Stereophonic
State Theatre New Jersey (3/28 - 12/29) | |
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The Jersey Tenors
Surflight Theatre (2/14 - 2/15) | |
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Something Rotten! Jr.
Fresh Theatre Arts (1/10 - 1/11) | |
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Xian Conducts Prokofiev & Strauss
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (4/12 - 4/12) | |
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FROSTED: A Frozen Fairytale Parody
CDC Theatre (12/5 - 12/14) | |
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