Black Box Studios Extends Run of “Spring Awakening” Until December 2nd – New Jersey Stage


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originally published: 11/21/2018

Black Box Studios Extends Run of "Spring Awakening" Until December 2nd(TEANECK, NJ) — Black Box Studios will be extending the run of Spring Awakening with four additional performances. With book and lyrics by Steven Sater and music by Duncan Sheik, Spring Awakening is a rock musical adaption of the seminal play Spring’s Awakening by Frank Wedekind and stars NBC’s The Voice Finalist Stephan Marcellus.  Spring Awakening will complete it’s run from Thursday through Sunday at 8:00pm, from November 29 – December 2 at the Black Box Performing Arts Center.

Spring Awakening – presented in special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI) – features the talents of Samantha Brenner, Tyler Fuentes, Mikey Miller, Oscar Selby, Ellen Revesz, and Laurence Wallace, with Black Box Repertory Company members Allison Falkenstern, Jason Felix, Sara Giacomini, Samuel Hapner-Goldman, Danielle MacMath, and Larissa Terese. Live rock band members include Rob Parmelee (bass), Vita Tanga (lead guitar),  Gary Simpson (guitar), Michael Dagastino, Brody Greif and Darnell Howard (alternating on drums), and Kathy Sheppard (keyboards).

The Black Box Performing Arts Center (home of Black Box Studios) continues to emerge as the Tri-State area’s premiere destination for both cutting-edge professional theater and collaborative performing arts education — in the heart of Teaneck, NJ— just a quick ride over the George Washington Bridge. Black Box was the recipient of the 2017 Teaneck Chamber of Commerce’s 2017 Cultural Arts Award, and currently serves on the Chamber Board as the Chair of the Cultural Arts Committee. In addition to main stage productions, Black Box PAC hosts special events including Open Mic Nights, Comedy Nights, and the family show Junie B. Jones The Musical on Saturdays and Sundays at 11am. Black Box’s third season will continue in 2019 with Significant Other by Joshua Harmon, How to Transcend a Happy Marriage by Sarah Ruhl, Sweat by Lynn Nottage, and Duncan Sheik’s American Psycho.

Spring Awakening will complete it’s run from Thursday through Sunday at 8:00pm, from November 29 – December 2 at the Black Box Performing Arts Center (200 Walraven Drive. (just off  Palisade Ave) in Teaneck, New Jersey.


The Ritz Theatre Co. Presents “Scrooge, The Musical”
(HADDON TOWNSHIP, NJ) — The Ritz Theatre Co. will present its annual holiday classic Scrooge, The Musical from December 7th through December 23rd.  This show is a tradition for families across our region, and is fun for all ages. Led by Producing Artistic Director Bruce A. Curless, Bruce plays the title character of Ebenezer Scrooge. This will be the twenty-third year and final year that Bruce dons the wool cap and is chased through visions of his life by three famous ghosts!

United Youth of New Jersey To Present “Harlem Renaissance: Another Black Wall Street”
(ELIZABETH, NJ) — United Youth of New Jersey (UYNJ) will present “Harlem Renaissance: Another Black Wall Street,” the ninth in the nonprofit’s series of acclaimed plays detailing pivotal moments in African American history, on February 2, 2019 at 3:00pm at the Ritz Theater located at 1148 E Jersey St. in Elizabeth.

Rutgers Theater Company Presents 2018 Playwrights Festival
​​​​​​​(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) — Rutgers Theater Company will present a pair of plays during its Playwrights Festival, which runs December 6-8 in the Philip J. Levin Theater in New Brunswick.  The plays are original works by their MFA playwrights, performed by the graduating company. The festival includes performances of My Town by Nathan Maxwell and Marie by Jeana Scotti.

Gas Lamp Players Presents A Christmas Carol: the Musical
(GLEN RIDGE, NJ) — Gas Lamp Players presents its annual Main Stage production A Christmas Carol: the Musical, a family friendly holiday musical adaptation of the beloved Charles Dickens story. The production features a multi-generational cast of 105 adults, teens and children from Essex County.  Four performances will take place from December 7 through December 9.

Mile Square Theatre To Move “The Net Will Appear” To 59E59 In NYC
(HOBOKEN, NJ) — Mile Square Theatre, Hudson County’s leading professional theatre, moves its hit world premiere production of The Net Will Appearto the Off-Broadway venue 59E59 Theater, in a co-production with The Collective NY. The Net Will Appear is a heartwarming comedy of an unlikely friendship between the feisty 9-year-old Rory and her septuagenarian neighbor Bernard, played by film, TV, and stage actor Richard Masur.  The run will go from December 5 through December 30.

CoLab Arts’ “Life, Death, Life Again: Children Sentenced To Die In Prison” At Monmouth University Center For The Arts
On stage December 5 at Monmouth University Center for the Arts, Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg’s theatre piece “Life, Death, Life Again” shares the stories of individuals sentenced to die in prison for their violent crimes committed when they were juveniles, as well as the grandson of a woman who was murdered by a teenager. A coLAB Arts production, presented in Monmouth University’s Pollak Theatre, this docu-play features real stories and the words of those that have lived them. Join Jesse and Dave at rehearsal as they talk to the creators behind this challenging show.

An Actor’s Carol
There’s something absolutely wonderful about A Christmas Carol, the holiday classic penned by Charles Dickens in 1843.  The story has been told in countless films, plays, and cartoons.  It is performed on stages around the world towards the end of every season and is universally loved.  But imagine being one of the many actors of a certain age who get typecast as Scrooge and are forced to relive that nightmarish night over and over again each year.

Photos from Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn at Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn
(MILLBURN, NJ) — Paper Mill Playhouse’s production of Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn is currently on stage and will run through December 30th. 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.”

A Look At Betsy Aidem, Director of “A Doll’s House, Part 2” at George Street Playhouse
Betsy Aidem has seen the stage from both sides now.

An award-winning actress, Aidem is taking her first professional turn as a director, guiding the George Street Playhouse production of Lucas Hnath’s comedy “A Doll’s House, Part 2.”

Broadway’s Mandy Gonzalez LIVE! at Toms River’s Grunin Center
Broadway is in the house at Toms River, NJ’s Grunin Center for the Arts with a Fearless live concert performance by Broadway star, Mandy Gonzalez!



Event calendar
Saturday, Dec 01, 2018

MUSIC

THEATRE
Annie @ Broad Street United Methodist Church, Burlington – 8:00pm
Annie: The Musical @ Centenary Stage Company – Sitnik Theater of the Lackland Center, Hackettstown – 8:00pm

DANCE

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