See Tony® Award-winning actress, singer, and dancer, Sutton Foster, in her STNJ debut! Foster will perform from her extensive Broadway catalogue including, The Music Man, Anything Goes, Sweeney Todd, and more! Currently, Foster is starring in New York City Center Encores! adaptation of Once Upon a Mattress as Princess Winnifred. Prior to this, Foster, starred as Mrs. Lovett in the Tony® Award-winning Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street opposite Aaron Tveit at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Foster received her seventh Tony® Award nomination as well as the coveted 2022 Drama League Distinguished Performance Award for her acclaimed turn as Marian Paroo in the Broadway revival of The Music Man, opposite Hugh Jackman. She was also in New York City Center's recent concert adaptation of Once Upon a Mattress. In the summer of 2021, Foster reprised one of her most notable roles as Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes at the Barbican Theatre in London in which she earned an Oliver Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical. A cinematic version of the show had a subsequent limited release in U.S. and Australia theaters. Her original performance in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre earned her a 2011 Tony® Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
Under the direction of Michael Mayer, Foster starred as Millie Dillmount in the 2002 Broadway production of Thoroughly Modern Millie at the Marquis Theatre. Originating the role, she established herself as one of the greatest talents in the industry and earned her first Tony® Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical. Foster has originated numerous notable roles, including Princess Fiona in Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire’s Shrek The Musical at The Broadway Theatre, as well as Inga in Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan’s parody of the horror film genre, Young Frankenstein, at Foxwoods Theatre.
So Good! The Neil Diamond Experience (1/30/26-1/30/26)
Freestyle Flashback Concert 2026 (1/31/26-1/31/26)
The Little Mermaid Sing-A-Long (2/1/26-2/1/26)
512: The Selena Experience (2/6/26-2/6/26)
Who's Bad (2/7/26-2/7/26)
Rent in Concert (2/19/26-2/19/26)
Dru Hill (2/20/26-2/20/26)
Les Ballets Africains (2/24/26-2/24/26)
Kinky Boots (2/27/26-3/1/26)
Brit Floyd: The Moon, The Wall and Beyond 2026 (3/4/26-3/4/26)
Blackberry Smoke (3/5/26-3/5/26)
Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra (3/15/26-3/15/26)
Dirty Dancing in Concert (3/18/26-3/18/26)
Diana Krall (3/20/26-3/20/26)
Direct from Rome: The Three Italian Tenors (3/21/26-3/21/26)
Dog Man: The Musical (3/22/26-3/22/26)
Stereophonic (3/28/26-12/29/25)
Mozart's Requiem (4/19/26-4/19/26)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi in Concert (5/31/26-5/31/26)
Season Finale: Symphonie fantastique (6/4/26-6/4/26)
Ben Folds with the New Jersey Symphony (6/14/26-6/14/26)
State Theatre New Jersey is at 15 Livingston Ave, New Brunswick, NJ.
Gabby's Dollhouse Live! (1/25/26-1/25/26)
DRUM TAO—THE BEST (1/24/26-1/24/26)
Lee Brice (1/23/26-1/23/26)
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis (1/22/26-1/22/26)
Sa Dance Company (1/10/26-1/10/26)
Randall Goosby Returns (1/8/26-1/8/26)
Salute to Vienna New Year's Concert (12/31/25-12/31/25)
The Nutcracker American Repertory Ballet (12/19/25-12/21/25)
Holiday Spirits: Festive Night Out, Benefitting State Theatre New Jersey’s Community Outreach Initiatives (12/16/25-12/16/25)
Cirque Dreams Holidaze (12/12/25-12/13/25)
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Misery
Barn Theatre (1/16 - 2/1)
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Celebrate Mardi Gras with Thaddeus Exposé!
Bickford Theatre at the Morris Museum (2/7 - 2/7) | |
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Xian Conducts Prokofiev & Strauss
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (4/10 - 4/10) | |
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My Fair Lady
Sieminski Theater (2/26 - 3/1) | |
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Bernadette Peters
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (5/31 - 5/31) | |
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Kinky Boots
State Theatre New Jersey (2/27 - 3/1) | |
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Dru Hill
State Theatre New Jersey (2/20 - 2/20) | ||
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Mrs. Christie
McCarter Theatre Center (5/6 - 5/31) | |
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