HATUEY: Memory of Fire is a soaring Cuban-Yiddish opera, a love story set in a Havana nightclub in 1931. Oscar, a young Jewish writer who escaped the pogroms in the Ukraine to make a new home in Cuba, falls in love with Tinima, a beautiful singer and passionate revolutionary of Taino descent. As Oscar pens an epic poem about Cuba’s legendary 16th century freedom fighter, Hatuey, Tinima draws him into her fight against the corrupt Machado regime. This vibrant fusion of Afro-Cuban and Yiddish music and culture is also a powerful celebration of freedom performed in English, Yiddish, and Spanish with English supertitles.

With a combined total of more than 25 Tony Award nominations and 7 wins, the cast and creatives of Pamela’s First Musical are bringing the theatrical event of the season to Two River Theater! It’s Pamela’s birthday and, to celebrate, her eccentric and fabulous Aunt Louise is taking her to the big city to experience her very first Broadway musical. Book by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Wendy Wasserstein and Tony Award winner Christopher Durang, Music by Tony Award winner Cy Coleman. Join us as we launch our 25th Anniversary season in the best way we know how, with the spectacular, splendiferous world of musical theater! More info

With a soul-raising, Grammy-winning score infused with jazz, gospel, ragtime, and blues, The Color Purple is an unforgettable and moving musical based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel and Academy Award–nominated feature film. The Color Purple, with a book by Marsha Norman and music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray, is a stirring family chronicle following the inspirational Celie as she journeys from childhood through joy and despair, anguish and hope to discover the power of love and life.  Contains adult themes. More info

The Game of Thrones Live Concert Experience takes fans of the Emmy-winning HBO hit through the Seven Kingdoms. Series composer Ramin Djawadi leads musicians and performers in this immersive, theatrical show. The eighth and final season premieres in 2019.

Following sold out shows and rave reviews across the globe, the world’s naughtiest and funniest magic show “The Naked Magicians” is returning to bergenPAC. Direct from Australia, the show features magic, mirth and more than a touch of mayhem as these two hot and hilarious magicians say abracadabra and take magic to a whole new level. Left without sleeves or pockets, their saucy magic is baffling and entertaining, bringing a new meaning to “now you see it.” This boisterous R-rated magic show strips away the top hats and capes, promising full-frontal illusions. Good magicians don’t need sleeves and great magicians don’t need pants. This show proves just that!

New Brunswick, NJ (September 7, 2018)—State Theatre New Jersey presents Tony Award®-winning actor Alan Cumming in his new show Legal Immigrant on Saturday, September 29, 2018, 8pm. In addition to the show, all ticket buyers for Legal Immigrant are welcomed to come early for a pre-show Pride Night reception from 7pm-8pm in the second floor lobby of the State Theatre. Tickets for Legal Immigrant range from $39-$69. The show Legal Immigrant—a collection of musings on his 10 years as a United States citizen, growing older, and what it feels like to be an immigrant in today’s America—is what Alan describes as “a true old-fashioned cabaret, a smorgasbord of genres, styles, and tales; laughter, tears and, of course, provocation!” The show features songs such as Walter Mark’s “The Singer,” Stephen Sondheim’s “Old Friends,” “Not A Day Goes By” from Merrily We Roll Along, and “Losing My Mind” from Follies. In addition, Cumming will cover songs made famous by female musical artists such as Pink, Edith Piaf, Adele, and Marlene Dietrich. He will also include a styling of Schubert and Peggy Lee together in one song and Scottish artists Robert Burns and The Proclaimers will make an appearance.   About the Artist Alan Cumming is […]

Faye Driscoll is an award-winning choreographer and director whose work has been described as “creative, awkward, hilarious, goofy, surprising, rowdy, randy, chaotic, and sweet.” (Berkshire Eagle) Thank You for Coming is her playful, moving, mind-boggling trilogy about “how we are all wrapped up in each other, whether we like it or not.” In October, see the first two parts of the trilogy; then come back in April for the world premiere of the trilogy’s final installation. In Attendance, six virtuosic performers morph through breathless, surprising physical entanglements and create soaring music from their stomps and voices. In this souped-up flipbook of human emotion, they sing, talk, fight, frolic, and make love. In Play, mouths and bodies say one thing while words say another in a strange and delightful meditation on the glories and limits of language, an experience that adds up to “a fun and unexpectedly moving evening.” (Berkshire Eagle) For the first time, Attendance and Play will be performed together. Buy single $30 tickets to see the individual pieces on Thursday and Friday only, buy a $45 package to see each individual piece on Thursday and Friday, or buy a $45 package to see both pieces performed on the same day on Saturday or Sunday. Thursday, October […]

American Theater Group presents a staged reading of Skin Hungry by Erin Mallon. Ruth is a 65-year old woman. Rowan is a 23-year-old man. They’re in love. And Ruth’s 43-year-old son is freaking the hell out. A reading in the SOPAC Loft Tickets: $10 in advance, $15 at the door Erin Mallon is a writer, actor and voice artist. Her plays have been presented with Urban Stages, The American National Theatre, Last Frontier Theatre Conference, New Georges, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Amios Theatre Company, The Collective, Cherry Picking, Mastodon Theater, The Great Plains Theatre Conference, Project Y Theater, InViolet Theater and The Brooklyn Generator. Erin’s play Branched directed by Robert Ross Parker and produced by InViolet Theater premiered at HERE Arts Center (February 2014) and is included in Indie Theater Now’s PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS 2015 and published by Original Works Publishing. Her new play, A Mind Out of the Gutter is an Honorable Mention on the 2016 Kilroys List. Other full-length plays include: Skin in the Game (a play with music), Hand Me Down (a commission for Fieldston School), Good Riddance and The Other White Meat. Recent work as an actor includes: Mac Wellman’s solo show Horrocks (and Toutatis too) (Sleeping Weazel), Eric John Meyer’s The Sister (Dutch Kills) and multiple shows with Buran Theater. Erin is […]

Now in its third year, our benefit bash returns with our most bubbly and electric theme yet—THE MAD SCIENTEST, a 25 year experiment! Come join us for an evening of music, dancing, drinks and general mischievousness. The Wickedness begins at 7PM Costume Attire Highly Recommended Music Howling until 2AM Valet Parking Provided Can you feel it? There is a change in the atmosphere. The kind of sinister lighting storm that any diabolical doctor or unsound scientist would need to unleash their madness. Do you dare enter the laboratory of the desperately disturbed?  Prepare yourself, the storm is coming… More info

MARION HUBER THEATER The year is 1985. King Hedley II has returned from prison looking to rebuild his life, save some money, plant a backyard garden, and start a family. Don’t miss this powerful and evocative look at how hope springs from even the hardest of soil. This production is the halfway mark of Two River presenting the 10 plays of August Wilson’s American Century Cycle. Obie Award-winner Brandon J. Dirden (A Raisin in the Sun, August Wilson’s Jitney) directs. Did you see August Wilson’s Seven Guitars? King Hedley II picks up the stories of Ruby and Canewell (known here as Stool Pigeon) from that play, produced at Two River in 2015, which is set nearly four decades earlier. More info

In this musical based on the beloved Bing Crosby/Fred Astaire film, Jim Hardy leaves behind the hustle and bustle of showbiz for a quiet life on a Connecticut farm. Jim’s agrarian efforts are a flop, but things start looking up when he falls for a talented schoolteacher, and together they infuse their sleepy rural setting with some Broadway razzle-dazzle. Fresh from a Broadway run, this heartwarming, toe-tapping production features more than 20 classic songs from the Berlin catalog, including “Easter Parade,” “Cheek to Cheek,” “Steppin’ Out with My Baby,” and “White Christmas.” More info 

By Tony Award winner Michael Frayn Directed by Sarna Lapine JOAN AND ROBERT RECHNITZ THEATER Tony Award winner Michael Frayn’s Noises Off belongs on any list of the funniest plays ever written. Screwball antics, sight gags, pratfalls, misplaced props, slamming doors and flying sardines all combine in this celebrated, flawless farce-within-a-farce. Sarna Lapine, whose credits include the acclaimed recent Broadway revival of Sunday in the Park with George with Jake Gyllenhaal, directs. More info