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by Marina Kennedy on Sep 8, 2025
Premiere Stages, the professional Equity theatre at Kean University, is now presenting the New Jersey premiere of Walden, a captivating play deftly written by Amy Berryman.
by Michael Major on Sep 3, 2025
Premiere Stages’ production of Amy Berryman’s play Walden begins performances this week in Kean University’s Bauer Boucher Theatre Center (Vaughn Eames Hall, 1000 Morris Avenue, Union, N.J.).
by Chloe Rabinowitz on Aug 20, 2025
Premiere Stages will present the New Jersey Premiere of Walden by Amy Berryman in Kean University’s Bauer Boucher Theatre Center. See who is starring and learn more!
by Andrew White on Jul 15, 2025
To be in the presence of Kevin Kling is to be in the presence of a consummate storyteller at the peak of his powers. “Unraveled” is about as life-affirming as it gets, and coming as it does from someone who bears his challenges with such grace and disarming honesty, perhaps one of the enduring themes of this performance is one of gratitude.
by A.A. Cristi on Jun 13, 2025
The Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF) has announced the full casts and creative teams for its 2025 season. This year's mainstage theater productions include five world premiere plays.
by Marina Kennedy on Jul 17, 2024
Premiere Stages is now presenting playwright Benjamin V. Marshall’s 'Still.' This World Premiere play is inspired by historical events that are both captivating and affecting.
by Chloe Rabinowitz on Jun 18, 2024
Premiere Stages has revealed the cast for the upcoming production of STILL, running in July. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.
by Andrew White on Jul 12, 2023
Rivera's 'Your Name Means Dream' creates a spectacle of actors at the top of their game, with a script that gives both Anne O'Sullivan and Sara Koviak ample opportunity to shine—and to shine a light on the mysteries of the human heart and the human-generated machine.
by Andrew White on Jul 12, 2023
Chisa Hutchinson's latest offering, “Redeemed,” is as vitally important a piece as the Festival has to offer this year. Rooted in the often-distorted dialogue this country continues to have about race, Hutchinson uses the play to address the under-explored question of what it really might take for true reconciliation and redemption.
by BWW on Dec 19, 2022
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.
by BWW on Dec 12, 2022
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.
by BWW on Dec 5, 2022
The latest standings as of Monday, December 5th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld New Jersey Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.
by Marina Kennedy on Jul 20, 2022
Premiere Stages at Kean University is now presenting the New Jersey Premiere of Dominique Morisseau’s powerful, modern-day drama, 'Mud Row.'
by Andrew White on Jul 12, 2022
Inspired by Jordan Peele's blockbuster horror film 'Get Out,' Hutchinson has crafted a Dickensian morality play with 'Whitelisted,' set in a predictably bland, hoity-toity, newly-renovated white lady's apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
by BWW Staff on Dec 27, 2021
This is the last chance to vote for the 2021 BroadwayWorld New Jersey Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.
by BWW Staff on Dec 20, 2021
Time is running out to vote for for the 2021 BroadwayWorld New Jersey Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.
by Stephi Wild on Nov 2, 2021
Following a successful run of A.R. Gurney's romantic comedy, Sylvia, Indecent, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel, will open on November 12 at 7:30 p.m. at Kean's University's Wilkins Theatre. Directed by Holly Logue, the Tony Award-nominated Indecent will run through November 20, 2021.
by Stephi Wild on Apr 9, 2021
Get ready to raise your voice and make a joyful noise! The Kean University Theatre Conservatory will present the high-energy musical Sister Act by Alan Menken, Glenn Slater, and Cheri and Bill Steinkellner. Sister Act the Musical is based on the Touchstone Pictures Motion Picture, Sister Act, by Joseph Howard.
by Chloe Rabinowitz on Jan 13, 2021
RED BULL THEATER today announced that its 2020-21 offerings will continue with a special event benefit reading of Frances Burney’s The Woman Hater, directed by Everett Quinton. The reading will feature Bill Army, Arnie Burton, Veanne Cox, Rebecca S'Manga Frank, Cherie Corinne Rice, Matthew Saldivar, Jenne Vath, and Nick Westrate.
by Chloe Rabinowitz on Oct 12, 2020
A mentorship program designed to increase diversity in theatre, TV and film production by introducing students to behind-the-scenes careers launched recently for students at Kean University.