2012 - 13 Season of Events
Archive of Centenary Stage Company's 2012 - 13 season of events including professional theatre productions, live music and dance events.
Robert Klein
Curtain Up! Event
Saturday, September 22 at 8:00 pm
Sitnik Theatre : Lackland Performing Arts Center
For more than forty years, Robert Klein has entertained audiences, and he continues to have an acclaimed career in comedy, on Broadway, on television, and in film. Witty, honest, self-questioning and always contagiously funny.
The Mousetrap
Professional Theatre Series
October 5 - 21
Sitnik Theatre : Lackland Performing Arts Center
by Agatha Christie
The 60th anniversary of the greatest "who-done-it" ever written, Agatha Christie's famed The Mousetrap. It's a cold, wintry night in a lonely boarding house. Somewhere, a murderer is on the prowl... more than 10 million people have seen the classic murder mystery since it opened and the play has been performed in more than 40 countries and been translated into over 20 languages.
A Couple of Blaguards
Black Box Festival
November 1 - 4
Kutz Theatre : Lackland Performing Arts Center
A two-man show by literary greats Frank and Malachy McCourt, is a bubbling stew of their well-known humor with a dash of poignancy to sharpen the flavor. This brilliantly structured comedy follows the trials of the young McCourts in poverty-stricken Limerick, Ireland, to their journey to the U.S. and Brooklyn, N.Y., where the young men learn to incoporate the day-to-day lessons of their hard Irish past. A story of immigration, triumph over hardship, and the love between family, A Couple of Blaguards is a theatrical event that will find a place in the heart of every audience member.
Parallel Exit - Room 17B
Black Box Festival
November 8 - 11
Kutz Theatre : Lackland Performing Arts Center
Back by popular demand - Parallel Exit returns with a whole new show - Room 17B. It's like your job but weirder. A brand new comedy, celebrating the silent physical style of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton with a dash of Monty Python and Tim & Eric. 9 to 5 will never be the same!
Under a Montana Moon
Black Box Festival
November 15 - 18
Kutz Theatre : Lackland Performing Arts Center
After winning standing ovations throughout the U.S. and Europe, Bill Bower's Under a Montana Moon is an enchanting solo show. "She asked me," Bowers said of Anna Deavere Smith, "Why are you a mime?" And it started me thinking about why I am drawn to silence, and I really began to investigate silence in the world. And I realized that something transformational happened to people when they learn to sit and experience something in silence. Bowers had the opportunity to study with the famed Marcel Marceau.
The Wizard of Oz
Family Holiday Spectacular
November 23 - December 9
Sitnik Theatre : Lackland Performing Arts Center
adapted by Frank Gabrielson and John Kane
music and lyrics of the MGM motion picture by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg
The family classic brought to life through the Royal Shakespeare Company's adaptation. The Wizard of Oz is a musical tradition following the story of Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tinman, the Lion and Toto, too.
The Cripple of Inishmaan
Professional Theatre Series
February 22 - March 10
Sitnik Theatre : Lackland Performing Arts Center
by Martin McDonagh
In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighboring island to film a documentary. No one is more excited than Cripple Billy, an unloved boy whose chief occupation has been grazing cows and yearning for a girl who wants no part of him. Billy is determined to cross the sea and audition for the Yank. As news of his audacity ripples through his rumor-starved community, The Cripple of Inishmaan becomes a merciless portrayal of a world comically cramped and relentlessly absurd, even when to everyone's surprise, the orphan and outcast gets his big chance.
The English Bride
Professional Theatre Series
April 5 - 21
Kutz Theatre : Lackland Performing Arts Center
by Lucile Lichtblau
Winner of the 2011 Susan Glaspell Award and Rolling World Premiere. A love affair, a bomb, an interrogation - Who was using whom? Following a failed bombing attempt on an El Al flight out of London, the search for the truth becomes an elusive chase in the interrogation of the young Englishwoman and the Arab man with whom she has fallen in love with.
Music and Dance Events:
The New Jersey Ballet
October 27 at 8:00 pm
Sitnik Theatre : Lackland Performing Arts Center
Ustad Shafaat Khan
Sunday, September 30 at 2:00 pm
Sitnik Theatre : Lackland Performing Arts Center
Bill May's Inventions Trio
Sunday, October 28 at 2:00 pm
Sitnik Theatre : Lackland Performing Arts Center
The Stan Rubin Orchestra
Benny Goodman Tribute
Saturday, January 12 at 8:00 pm
Sitnik Theatre : Lackland Performing Arts Center
Kathy Kosins
To the Ladies of Cool
Saturday, January 19 at 8:00 pm
Sitnik Theatre : Lackland Performing Arts Center
The Hot Club of Detroit
Saturday, January 26 at 8:00 pm
Sitnik Theatre : Lackland Performing Arts Center
La Vent du Nord
Saturday, February 9 at 8:00 pm
Sitnik Theatre : Lackland Performing Arts Center
Rio Clemente
Sunday, February 17 at 2:00 pm
The Little Theatre
Donna McKechnie
My Musical Comedy Life
Saturday, March 16 at 8:00 pm
Sitnik Theatre : Lackland Performing Arts Center
The Baroque Orchestra of NJ
Sunday, April 28 at 2:00 pm
The Little Theatre
Umoja Dance Company
Sunday, April 21 at 4:30 pm
Sitnik Theatre : Lackland Performing Arts Center
Moe-tion Dance Theater
Thursday, April 25 at 7:30 pm
Sitnik Theatre : Lackland Performing Arts Center
Nimbus Dance Works
Friday, April 26 at 8:00 pm
Sitnik Theatre : Lackland Performing Arts Center
The Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company
Saturday, April 27 at 8:00 pm
Sitnik Theatre : Lackland Performing Arts Center
Other Events:
Tartuffe
Great Authors Out Loud Series
Sunday, September 16 at 3:00 pm
Kutz Theatre : Lackland Performing Arts Center
Brad Ross
Family Fun Series
Saturday, November 3 at 2:00 pm
Sitnik Theatre : Lackland Performing Arts Center
Michael Dubois: Soloo Circus
Family Fun Series
Saturday, February 2 at 2:00 pm
Sitnik Theatre : Lackland Performing Arts Center
Chekhov: With a Comic Twist
Great Authors Out Loud Series
Sunday, March 17 at 3:00 pm
Kutz Theatre : Lackland Performing Arts Center
The Lion's Whiskers
Family Fun Series
Saturday, April 13 at 2:00 pm
Sitnik Theatre : Lackland Performing Arts Center
A Shakespeare Sampler
Great Authors Out Loud Series
Sunday, May 5 at 3:00 pm
Kutz Theatre : Lackland Performing Arts Center