ALEXANDER KASSER THEATER

by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 17, 2024

PEAK Performances at Montclair State University is producing two opera-in-concert performances of Blind Injustice, composed by Montclair State University College of the Arts faculty member Scott Davenport Richards (A Star Across the Ocean, Charlie Crosses the Nation) with a libretto by David Cote (T...

by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 13, 2023

PEAK Performances at Montclair State University will present the U.S. premiere of acclaimed Greek artist Tzeni Argyriou’s ANΩNYMO....

by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 13, 2023

On January 19, PEAK Performances will release Alla Kovgan’s innovative films of five works premiered at the Alexander Kasser Theater at Montclair State University in the 2021-22 season....

by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 17, 2022

PEAK Performances at Montclair State University will present the world premiere of The Night Falls, choreographed and directed by Troy Schumacher (New York City Ballet and BalletCollective), with story and lyrics by Karen Russell (Swamplandia!, Vampires in the Lemon Grove), and music and lyrics by E...

by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 26, 2022

PEAK Performances at Montclair State University will welcome back Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Company for the world premiere of Curriculum II, a timely new work conceived and directed by the iconic, Tony-winning, and currently-Tony-nominated Bill T. Jones and choreographed by Jones with Janet Wong an...

by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 08, 2022

PEAK Performances at Montclair State University will present Familie Flöz’s Hotel Paradiso, May 5–8, rescheduled from 2020 and, for the first time ever, bringing the Berlin-based mask theater company’s gorgeously peculiar and awe-inspiring vision to U.S. audiences....

by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 07, 2022

In Gandini Juggling’s hit Smashed, which made its US Premiere at PEAK Performances, the manipulation of forbidden fruit shrewdly explored the strained relations between seven men and two women—and kindly flayed traditions of juggling and circus....

by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 23, 2022

PEAK Performances at Montclair State University continues to introduce audiences to new work from today’s most exciting dance artists with the world premiere of Movement, in which celebrated choreographer Netta Yerushalmy intricately quilts together quotations from a vast array of sources....

by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 27, 2022

PEAK Performances at Montclair State University will present Strange Fruit, from Tony-nominated and Bessie-winning choreographer Donald Byrd and his Seattle-based company Spectrum Dance Theater, February 10-13 at the Alexander Kasser Theater....

by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 02, 2021

PEAK Performances at Montclair State University today announced its 2021-2022 season, presenting a slate of gripping new works on film via the organization’s PEAK Plus streaming platform, free of charge, and then welcoming audiences back into the Alexander Kasser Theater for a robust lineup of exhil...