Valerie Stack Dodge

“No matter how old you get, love, longing, jealousy, and hope remain constant” -- Sunset Park by award-winning writer Joseph Vitale kicks off the Summer Season at The Theater Project (TheTheaterProject.org), a leading incubator for rising talent and a showcase for New Jersey artists. The company is returning to Maplewood's Burgdorff Cultural Center, 10 Durand Road, with a packed schedule of new and lesser-known work.

Hudson Theatre Works continues to shine a light on local playwrights and nurture their voices with the upcoming PlayWorks, where readings of new plays by contemporary and local playwrights are presented and the audience shares in the creative process, and the admission is free.

The latest standings as of Monday, December 19th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld New Jersey Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

The latest standings as of Monday, December 12th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld New Jersey Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

A twenty-year tradition unbroken by theater closures thanks to Zoom technology, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: The Radio Play, returns for live, in-person performance Thanksgiving weekend, November 26-27. This old favorite is popping up in a new location in Summit, NJ, at the Oakes Center Theater, 120 Morris Avenue, where The Theater Project will recreate the Lux Radio Theater circa 1947 as twelve adult actors, five kids, a musician and one extremely overworked sound technician prepare for the big radio broadcast of the story made famous in the Frank Capra film.

New Works in Repertory, Spring 2022, will feature three engaging works by playwrights, Kate Gill and Carol Berman.

The readings will include:  Michael Bias* & Kevin Cristaldi* reading a scene from Dredded Bliss, Debbie Bernstein* reading Looking Back by Lia Romeo, Valerie Stack Dodge* reading Madness & Mayo by Valerie Stack Dodge, Bess Miller reading Unknown Caller by Dan O'Brien, Cynthia Grandville* reading I Scream by Perry Guzzi, and more!

The Theater Project will present Kaleidoscope Kabaret, an evening of short plays from its Playwrights Workshop This annual showcase of new work will be offered this year on Zoom, Friday and Saturday November 20 and 21 at 7:30 PM.

Hudson Theatre Works' Virtual Festival continues. New work will appear every Wednesday and Thursday at 6pm on Hudson Theatre Works YouTube Channel and Instagram account respectively. Donations to various organizations will be listed including Hudson Theatre Works.

This original comedy, developed at Hudson Theatre Works, is by Luigi Jannuzzi. Luigi has 27 plays published by Samuel French: EXHIBIT THIS! - THE MUSEUM COMEDIES (13 One acts), ALL THE KING'S WOMEN (8 One acts), NIGHT OF THE FOOLISH MOON, FOR THE LOVE OF JULIET, A BENCH AT THE EDGE, THE BARBARIANS ARE COMING, THE APPOINTMENT, and WITH OR WITHOUT YOU. Luigi is a contemporary American comedic playwright. A native of New Jersey, Jannuzzi attended Bound Brook High School, Raritan Valley Community College, Salem University, WV & The University of Notre Dame, where he received a Master's Degree. From 1978 - 2012 at Immaculate High School, Somerville, NJ, he taught English, Drama and Creative Writing.

Comedy and drama are on the table with the turkey this Thanksgiving, when Kaleidoscope Kabaret, an annual program of short plays by the members of The Theater Project's Playwrights Workshop comes to Union Center, November 23 and 24. Two of the plays in the program are about the joys and woes of the approaching holidays.    

Hudson Theatre Works presents two benefit performances of "Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire."

Which play will be voted Audience Favorite - the romance, the thriller, or the comedy?  And which author will take the $500 Judge's Award?

Hudson Theatre Works presents"And My True Love Gave To Me"by Luigi Jannuzziat their new space.

At The Table: A Play Reading Series has released its March play, If Found, Please Call by Shannon Deep. Directed by Rachel Flynn (Heathers: The Musical), and co-hosted by Ned Donovan (The Hunted: Encore), the episodes are edited, and feature original scoring by Marcus Thorne Bagala (This American Life).

The Palisades Players at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades presents My Name Is Asher Lev on Sat, Aug 27, 9 pm, Sun, Aug 28, 2 pm and Mon, Aug 29, 7:30 pm.

My Name is Asher Lev, adapted by Aaron Posner from the novel by Chaim Potok, follows the journey of a young painter torn between his Hassidic upbringing and his desperate need to fulfill his artistic promise. When his artistic genius threatens to destroy his relationship with his parents and community, young Asher realizes he must make a difficult choice between art and faith. Aaron Posner's stirring adaptation of a modern classic presented by Palisades Players SummerStage and a professional cast, made up entirely of Actors Equity members, present a heartbreaking and triumphant vision of what it means to be an artist in a world dominated by faith and tradition.

The Palisades Players at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades presents My Name Is Asher Lev on Sat, Aug 27, 9 pm, Sun, Aug 28, 2 pm and Mon, Aug 29, 7:30 pm.

My Name is Asher Lev, adapted by Aaron Posner from the novel by Chaim Potok, follows the journey of a young painter torn between his Hassidic upbringing and his desperate need to fulfill his artistic promise. When his artistic genius threatens to destroy his relationship with his parents and community, young Asher realizes he must make a difficult choice between art and faith. Aaron Posner's stirring adaptation of a modern classic presented by Palisades Players SummerStage and a professional cast, made up entirely of Actors Equity members, present a heartbreaking and triumphant vision of what it means to be an artist in a world dominated by faith and tradition.

When Michael John McGoldrick joined The Theater Project's playwrights workshop in 2012, he was working as a high school English teacher; three years later he was accepted to the graduate theater program at Arizona State University. Home in New Jersey this summer, he will discuss his transition and his newest play when The Theater Project stages WORLD'S END as a script in hand performance, 7:30 Tuesday evening, June 21, at the Burgdorff Cultural Center, 10 Durand Road, Maplewood, NJ.