A Christmas Carol
12/9 - 12/28/2025
The holiday tradition you love is back—filled with music, magic, and the timeless spirit of generosity. And this year, McCarter is proud to welcome acclaimed ...
Kim's Convenience
1/23 - 2/15/2026
Before it became an award-winning, hit comedy series on Netflix, the laugh-out-loud, heartwarming Kim’s Convenience was a smash on stage. At Mr. Kim’s corner variety ...
Circus Quixote
3/4 - 3/15/2026
Cervantes’ classic is reimagined in a dazzling new production from the creators of McCarter audience favorites, Lookingglass Alice and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Somewhere in ...
Mrs. Christie
5/6 - 5/31/2026
1926. In the library of an English manor, a panicked Agatha Christie bursts in, breathless. Champagne glasses litter the floor and secrets hang thick in ...
A CHRISTMAS CAROL to be Presented at McCarter Theatre This Holiday Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 04, 2025
McCarter Theatre is inviting audiences to celebrate the holiday season with the return of A Christmas Carol, filled with music, magic, and the timeless spirit of generosity. ...
Cameron Knight To Star As Ebenezer Scrooge In McCarter Theatre Center’s A CHRISTMAS CAROL
by A.A. Cristi - November 19, 2025
McCarter Theatre Center will present its 45th annual production of A Christmas Carol from December 9–28, 2025, continuing a tradition that began in 1980. This year’s staging, adapted and directed by Lauren Keating....
Silkroad To Tour SANCTUARY: THE POWER OF RESONANCE AND RITUAL In March 2026
by A.A. Cristi - November 17, 2025
Silkroad will launch SANCTUARY: THE POWER OF RESONANCE AND RITUAL in March 2026 under the artistic direction of Rhiannon Giddens. The program will explore how communal music-making supports healing, cultural understanding, and connection across traditions. ...
THE NUTCRACKER Will Return to American Repertory Ballet
by Stephi Wild - November 11, 2025
American Repertory Ballet invites audiences to celebrate the season with The Nutcracker—a timeless story filled with magic, beauty, and holiday spirit. Learn more here!...
McCarter Theatre Calls for All Former 'Tiny Tims' to Celebrate 45 Years Of A CHRISTMAS CAROL
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 07, 2025
McCarter Theatre Center is seeking former cast members who played the beloved character of Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol to reconnect as part of its 45th-year celebration....
Derek Klena and Krysta Rodriguez to Star in A BEAUTIFUL MIND Concert Premiere
by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 28, 2025
Tony Award Nominee Derek Klena will portray Dr. John Nash alongside Krysta Rodriguez, who will portray Alicia Nash, in the Discovering Broadway concert premiere of the new musical A Beautiful Mind. Learn more!...
Review: American Repertory Theater's 300 PAINTINGS is Artful Exploration of One Man's Struggle
by R. Scott Reedy - October 21, 2025
Emotional breakdowns can forever change a person, often not for the better. For Australian performer Sam Kissajukian, however, a lengthy 2021 manic episode with bipolar disorder upended his life and ultimately set him on a course to a new form of artistic expression....
Chris Thile To Perform At McCarter Theatre October 18
by A.A. Cristi - October 09, 2025
Mandolinist and composer Chris Thile will appear at McCarter Theatre Center on Saturday, October 18 at 7:30 p.m., performing a solo concert that reflects his wide-ranging musicianship and cross-genre approach to the instrument....
Chris Thile To Perform At McCarter Theatre October 18
by A.A. Cristi - October 09, 2025
Mandolinist and composer Chris Thile will appear at McCarter Theatre Center on Saturday, October 18 at 7:30 p.m., performing a solo concert that reflects his wide-ranging musicianship and cross-genre approach to the instrument....
Video: Watch the Trailer For 300 PAINTINGS at McCarter Theatre Center
by Michael Major - October 02, 2025
In 2021, Sydney comedian Sam Kissajukian quit standup, rented an abandoned cake factory, and spent six months in a manic whirlwind, creating 300 large-scale paintings, unknowingly documenting his mental state through the process. Watch the video!...
Past Shows
300 Paintings
10/29 - 11/2/2025
Direct from a critically acclaimed off-Broadway run – LIMITED ENGAGEMENT, one week only! In 2021, Sydney comedian Sam Kissajukian quit standup, rented an abandoned cake ...
I & You: The Musical
9/13 - 10/12/2025
McCarter Theatre Center presents the world premiere of I & You: The Musical, featuring Broadway stars Jasmine Forsberg and Benji Santiago in lead roles. Based ...
Primary Trust
5/9 - 5/25/2025
Primary Trust, Eboni Booth's 2024 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, makes its debut at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, running from May 9 to May 25. Directed ...
Noli Timere
2/7 - 2/8/2025
Noli Timere is a world premiere spectacle set to take place at McCarter Theatre Center on February 7-8, 2025. This innovative production comes from a ...
Ship Happens: A Cruisical!
5/24 - 5/25/2024
The Princeton Triangle Club, continuing its tradition of presenting an original musical comedy, will present an encore performance of the newest Triangle Show at the ...
An Afrofuturist take on the Rodgers & Hammerstein classic, The Sound of (Black) Music fuses jazz, blues, funk, gospel, R&B, hip-hop, and more to pay ...
Ship Happens, A Cruisical
11/10 - 11/12/2023
Climb aboard the SS Giznee Fairytale , a cruise with all of the amenities - buffets, shuffleboard, and even magic? While other passengers enjoy their ...
The Woman in Black
10/13 - 10/29/2023
A dark and scary mystery unfolds in this masterful theatrical event. The story comes to life as an old man recounts the events of his ...
Bulrusher
9/13 - 10/7/2023
Filled with passion and peppered with live music and gentle humor, this Pulitzer Prize finalist transports us to the predominantly white town of Boonville, nestled in ...
Holiday POPS!
12/14
Tuesday, December 14 at 7:30 pm Live ConcertJoin the Princeton Symphony Orchestra for this treasured Princeton tradition as the PSO performs festive orchestral favorites and ...
Wosner Plays Mozart
11/4
Thursday, November 4 at 7:30 pmLive ConcertThe Princeton Symphony Orchestra performs Evan Williams The Dream Deferred and Schuberts Tragic fourth symphony. Guest artist Shai Wosner ...
A Christmas Carol
12/10 - 12/29/2019
Create memories with the ones you love at Princeton's Tony Award-winning theatre.Follow Ebenezer Scrooge on a magical journey through Christmas past, present, and future and ...
The Gods of Comedy
3/12 - 3/31/2019
"Daphne and Ralph are young classics professors who have just made a discovery thats sure to turn them into academic superstars. But something goes disastrously ...
Into the Woods
5/3 - 6/2/2013
Berlind Theatre: - adapt: Fiasco Theater from James Lapine; lyrics: Stephen Sondheim; music: Stephen Sondheim; dir: Noah Brody, Ben Steinfeld....
The Winter's Tale
4/2 - 4/21/2013
Suspicious that his wife Hermione has been unfaithful, King Leontes of Sicilia imprisons the queen, orders the death of her suspected lover, and banishes his ...
A Delicate Balance
1/18 - 2/17/2013
Berlind Theatre: - Edward Albee; dir: Emily Mann....
Are You There, McPhee?
5/4 - 6/3/2012
Travesties
3/13 - 4/1/2012
The second of two plays looking back at 100 years ago, Travesties is written by one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th Century. A ...
The Convert
1/13 - 2/12/2012
A Christmas Carol
12/4 - 12/24/2011
Phaedra Backwards
10/18 - 11/6/2011
Ten Cents a Dance
9/9 - 10/9/2011
Videos
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The Wolves
Old Library Theatre (12/12 - 12/14) | |
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DRUM TAO—THE BEST
State Theatre New Jersey (1/24 - 1/24) | ||
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It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
DMK Black Box Theater - Union Arts Center (12/12 - 12/21) | |
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Into the Woods
Vanguard Theater Company (12/4 - 12/21) | |
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Kenny G The Miracles Holiday and Hits Tour 2025
State Theatre New Jersey (12/11 - 12/11) | |
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Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (3/28 - 3/28) | |
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Circus Quixote
McCarter Theatre Center (3/4 - 3/15)
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Randall Goosby Returns
Richardson Auditorium (1/9 - 1/9) | |
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