Princeton’s McCarter Theatre Center premieres Empire Records, a new musical based on the ‘90s cult classic film. Princeton native Zoe ...
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
Mae Kellert2024-07-08T12:12:52-04:00Jerry Herman wrote the words and music for some of the most successful and beloved musicals of the 20th century. ...
The Scarlet Letter On Stage
Mae Kellert2024-05-22T21:42:21-04:00Feminist playwright Kate Hamill makes radical adaptations of classic literature for the stage. Her setting of The Scarlet Letter links ...
Gun & Powder
Mae Kellert2024-04-26T11:14:44-04:00In Gun and Powder, playwright Angelica Chéri brings the story of her great-great-aunts, Mary and Martha Clarke, to the Paper ...
“Miss Witherspoon” by Christopher Durang at the McCarter Theatre
Mae Kellert2024-04-17T16:02:43-04:00Miss Witherspoon by playwright Christopher Durang (1949-2024) premiered in 2005 at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey, with Kristine ...
Westphalia at Luna Stage
Mae Kellert2023-12-07T17:13:07-05:00As the experimental theatre scene struggles to recover post-COVID, Luna Stage in West Orange, New Jersey puts on Westphalia, an ...
The Trenton Circus Squad
Mae Kellert2023-10-26T10:24:04-04:00The Trenton Circus Squad features jugglers, unicyclists, aerialists, and clowns—a mix of inner-city youth and kids from the surrounding suburbs ...
Unfinished Women
Mae Kellert2023-09-14T10:22:08-04:00The Camden Repertory Theater produced an immersive production of Aishah Rahman’s rarely produced underground classic Unfinished Women Cry In No ...
Quarter Rican at Mile Square Theatre
Mae Kellert2023-04-01T09:13:17-04:00Hoboken serves as both the setting and the inspiration for Quarter Rican, a fast-talking new hip hop musical by performer ...
Alice Childress, Rediscovered
Mae Kellert2022-12-08T11:51:41-05:00Plays by Alice Childress are suddenly relevant and being performed on Broadway and beyond. In 1957, she was on the ...
“Possessing Harriet” at the East Lynne Theater Company
Mae Kellert2022-10-22T15:53:25-04:00The East Lynne Theater Co. in Cape May presents Kyle Bass’s Possessing Harriet, about a young woman's flight to freedom ...
Yass Hakoshima, Mime
Mae Kellert2022-08-24T15:02:41-04:00Yass Hakoshima (1928-2022), known for his artistry as a mime and the founder and artistic director of Yass Hakoshima Movement ...
Ride the Cyclone at McCarter Theatre
Mae Kellert2022-05-12T12:09:19-04:00McCarter Theatre’s new Artistic Director Sarah Rasmussen waited nearly two years during the pandemic, but she’s roaring back into action ...
The OK Trenton Project
Mae Kellert2022-05-12T12:05:50-04:00Passage Theatre Company's new play, The OK Trenton Project, tells the story of a summer art project gone terribly wrong. ...
Olympia Dukakis
Mae Kellert2021-05-04T13:14:11-04:00Olympia Dukakis was a force of nature. In 1963, she won an Obie for her role in a play by ...
Dream Journey
Steven Wolock2020-07-29T12:47:59-04:00"Dream Journey" was conceived, performed, and edited by the choreographer and performer Yass Hakoshima, best known for his original approach ...
Crossroads
Eric Schultz2020-09-21T21:03:44-04:00Crossroads Theatre Company was founded in 1978 by Ricardo Khan and L. Kenneth Richardson, two recent Rutgers grads, when ...
Greensboro Community Reading
Eric Schultz2020-09-22T14:04:58-04:00The McCarter Theatre travels to Greensboro, North Carolina for a community reading of Emily Mann's 1996 play, Greensboro: A ...
Jerry Herman: Gray Eminence
Eric Schultz2020-07-13T14:10:18-04:00Jerry Herman (1931-2019) demonstrates how to bring out the pathos in one of his songs during a rehearsal, and describes ...
INKubator
Eric Schultz2020-09-22T14:11:21-04:00INKubator is a program that allows playwrights to develop new work over a full year at Art House Productions, ...