WPS / Professional Theater Series

March 23 - April 2

Kutz Theatre: Lackland Performing Arts Center

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Denny and Claire have retired to the wilds of Central America, where they quickly discover that things are not as they were expecting, neither in their relationship, nor in their new property.  A mysterious mound is discovered by a pair of archeologists who arrive on the scene, making a shattering discovery which will challenge all their beliefs about what is every truly real and what is imagined.

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SEMINAR WITH THE PLAYWRIGHT
Friday, March 24 @5:30 PM

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MEET THE PLAYWRIGHT
Friday, March 24 after the 8:00 PM Performance

 

TALKBACK WITH THE CREATIVE TEAM
Sunday, March 26 after the 2:00 PM Performance.

Women Playwrights Series

Wednesday, April 5 at 7:30 PM

Sitnik Theatre: Lackland Performing Arts Center

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By: Michele Aldin Kushner

A successful businesswoman and mother of two grown children, Diane is getting her things in order. As she prepares for 'departure' from her present life, her brother fights to get her psychiatric help. Her boyfriend wants to reclaim the women with whom he fell in love - and her son wants to go with her. Is this departure being forced upon her or does she wish to live life on her own terms?

Women Playwrights Series

Wednesday, April 12 at 7:30 PM

Sitnik Theatre: Lackland Performing Arts Center

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By: Barbara Blatner

It's the 16th Century, the reign of the Tudors, King Henry VIII. Jane, a "crazy," starving country girl by chance encounters Princess Mary Tudor, Henry VIII's rejected daughter, becoming the first female Foole of the court. Amidst bawdy humor, tumblers, and an entertaining, poetic hand, we join two very different women as they bond finding agency in the male-centric English court.

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Women Playwrights Series

Wednesday, April 19 at 7:30 PM

Kutz Theatre: Lackland Performing Arts Center

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By: Jacqueline Goldfinger

When a soldier returns from war carrying the ghosts of the tour, she is faced with a sobering decision: address the alarming PTSD with Virtual Reality therapy, or risk losing access to her family forever. Can this new technology recalibrate the brains and bodies of wounded soldiers? This electric, vivid, one-person show explores the power of healing and finding strength in vulnerability. 

Great Authors Out Loud

Sunday, April 23 at 7PM

Kutz Theatre: Lackland Performing Arts Center

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Join Anne Occhiogross and Randall Duk Kim to celebrate Shakespeare's birthday, and the 400th anniversary of the first folio through a collection of Shakespeare's works! Walk up admission is free, and you may reserve your spot with a $5 donation. (First come, first served)

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Women Playwrights Series

Wednesday, April 26 at 7:30 PM

Kutz Theatre: Lackland Performing Arts Center

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By: Arlene Hutton

Two women, one traveler in need of medical attention, just needing to retrieve her belonging. One Lawyer, just doing her job. In this surreal, Kafka-esque world, we find these women at opposite sides of the table amidst legal precedents, bureaucratic chaos, and moral obligation to humanity. 

NEXTstage Rep

April 20 - 30

Sitnik Theatre: Lackland Performing Arts Center

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A comical musical that embraces the wackiness in every family, features an original story and it's every father's nightmare: Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man - a man her parents have never met.  And if that wasn't upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother.

Hackettstown Rotary Club Fundraiser

Saturday, May 20 at 8:00 PM

Sitnik Theatre: Lackland Performing Arts Center

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THE CAST OF BEATLEMANIA is a US Beatles' tribute band formed in 1980.  The Cast is one of the longest running Beatles' tribute band in the world.  The group currently features Lenie Colacino, a former cast member of the 1977 Broadway musical Beatlemania.

Young Performers Workshop

May 26 - June 4

Little Theatre: 400 Jefferson St.

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TBA.  A selection of musical theatre favorites performed in repertory by the students of Centenary Stage Company's Young Performers Workshop.