Theater, May 2025-June 2026

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Peak Performances will present “Frankenstein” at The Kasser Theater at Montclair State University, May 3.

May 1-4: “The Laramie Project,” presented by Studio Players at Studio Playhouse, Montclair.

May 1-4 and 8-10: “Hairspray” at Grand Theatre, Williamstown.

May 1-4 and 10-11: “Comfort” at New Jersey Repertory Company, Long Branch.

May 1, 4, 6-8, 10 and 13-15: “Swing!” at Hunterdon Hills Playhouse, Hampton.

May 1-2, 15 and 17: “Golden Girls Murder Mystery” at Carriage House at Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn.

May 1-4, 7-11 and 14-18: “The Shark Is Broken,” presented by George Street Playhouse at New Brunswick Performing Arts Center.

May 1-25: “The Ripple, the Wave That Carried Me Home” at Luna Stage, West Orange.

May 2: “Romeo and Juliet” at Pax Amicus Castle Theatre, Budd Lake.

May 2-4: “Kinky Boots,” presented by Phoenix Productions at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.
May 2-4: “POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive “ at Music Mountain Theatre, Lambertville.
May 2-4: “Carrie,” presented by NEXTstage Repertory at Sitnik Theatre at Lackland Performing Arts Center, Hackettstown.
May 2-4: “Wit” at Playhouse 22 at East Brunswick Community Arts Center.
May 2-4: “Deathtrap,” presented by Ocean County College Repertory Theater Company at Black Box Theater at Ocean County College, Toms River.
May 2-4: “Anything Goes” at Kelsey Theatre at Mercer County Community College, West Windsor.

May 2-10: “Fully Committed,” presented by Skyline Theatre Company at Little Theatre, Bloomfield.

May 2-4 and 9-10: “Fun Home” at Summit Playhouse.

May 2-17: “Home, I’m Darling,” presented by Chatham Players at Chatham Playhouse.

May 2-18: “Rock of Ages” at Axelrod Performing Arts Center, Deal.
May 2-18: “Sister Act” at Ritz Theatre Company, Haddon Township.
May 2-18: “The Girl on the Train” at Somerset Valley Playhouse, Hillsborough.
May 2-18: “How the Light Gets In,” presented by South Camden Theatre Company at Waterfront South Theatre.

May 2-4, 9-11 and 16-18: “West Side Story” at Broadway Theatre of Pitman.

May 3: “Frankenstein,” presented by Peak Performances at Kasser Theater at Montclair State University.
May 3: “The Devil & Daisy Dirt” at Roy’s Hall, Blairstown.

May 3 and 10: “Fairy Tales Uncensored” at Carriage House at Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn.

May 3-4, 10-11 and 16-17: “Steel Magnolias” at Westfield Community Players.

May 3-June 1: “A Little Night Music” at Bergen County Players, Oradell.

May 5-7: INKubator New Play Festival at Art House Productions, Jersey City.

May 8-11 and 15-18: “Bat Boy: The Musical” at StageWorks at Studio 237, Pompton Lakes.

May 8-25: “Primary Trust” at Berlind Theater at McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton.

May 9: New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players, “HMS Pinafore” at Mayo Performing Arts Center, Morristown.

May 9-18: “1776” at Algonquin Arts Theatre, Manasquan.

May 9-25: “Pippin” at Music Mountain Theatre, Lambertville.

May 10: “When the Child Cries” at Resorts, Atlantic City.
May 10: “Bette Davis Ain’t for Sissies” at Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck.

May 12: “Midnight at the Masquerade: A Murder Mystery” at URSB Carteret Performing Arts & Events Center.

May 14-15: “Mean Girls” at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.

May 14-June 1: “The Importance of Being Earnest” at F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre at Drew University, Madison.

May 15: “Redress at St. Brigid’s” (dramatic reading) at Cape May Stage.

May 15-17: “Once Upon a Crime” (murder mystery dinner theater) at Avenel Performing Arts Center.

May 16: “Menopause the Musical 2: Cruising Through ‘The Change’ “ at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.

May 17-18: “Broadway Tales and Tunes” featuring Peter Filichia, presented by American Theater Group at Sieminski Theater, Basking Ridge.

May 24: “When Pain Talks: The Monologue” at New Brunswick Performing Arts Center.

May 28-June 15: “Top Hat: The Musical” at Surflight Theatre, Beach Haven.

May 29-June 29: “Disney’s The Little Mermaid” at Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn.

May 30-June 1: “Newsies” at Mayo Performing Arts Center, Morristown.

May 30-31 and June 1 and 6-8: “South Pacific” at Gateway Playhouse, Somers Point.

May 30-31 and June 1 and 6-7: “She Stoops to Conquer,” presented by Lord Stirling Theater Company at Farmstead Arts Center, Basking Ridge.

May 30-June 15: “Hair” at Music Mountain Theatre, Lambertville.

May 31 and June 1: “Muleheaded” (staged reading), presented by Passage Theater Company at Mill Hill Playhouse, Trenton.

June 3-4: “Something Rotten!,” presented by Count Basie Center Turner Academy of the Arts at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.

June 4-29: “Vanities” at Cape May Stage.

June 5: ” Til Death Do Us Part … You First!” at The Concert Hall at Drew University, Madison.

June 5-21: “The Ground on Which We Stand (Abridged)” at Luna Stage, West Orange.

June 6-8: “Tape,” presented by Chatham Players at Chatham Playhouse.

June 6-8 and 13-15: “Fiddler on the Roof” at Kelsey Theatre at Mercer County Community College, West Windsor.

June 6-8, 13-15 and 20-21: “The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon,” presented by Studio Players at Studio Playhouse, Montclair.

June 6-22: “Angels in America, Part 2: Perestroika” at Ritz Theatre Company, Haddon Township.

June 7-29: “The Price” at Two River Theater, Red Bank.

June 12-29: “Hair” at Vanguard Theater, Montclair.

June 13-14 and 21-22: “The Seafarer” at Pax Amicus Castle Theatre, Budd Lake.

June 13-15, 20-22 and 26-28: “For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday” at Nutley Little Theatre.

June 13-29: “Nine” at Playhouse 22 at East Brunswick Community Arts Center.
June 13-29: “The Ladies Foursome” at Somerset Valley Playhouse, Hillsborough.

June 13-15, 19-22 and 26-29: “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” at Bell Theater at Bell Works, Holmdel.

June 18-28: “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” at Plays-in-the-Park series at Stephen J. Capestro Theater, Edison.

June 18-July 6: “9 to 5: The Musical” at Surflight Theatre, Beach Haven.

June 19-29: “Ride the Cyclone,” presented by North Star Theater Company at Sparta Avenue Stage.

June 20-22 and 27-29: “The Importance of Being Earnest,” presented by Shakespeare ’70 at Kelsey Theatre at Mercer County Community College, West Windsor.

June 20-July 6: “Young Frankenstein” at Music Mountain Theatre, Lambertville.

June 26: Sasha Velour’s “The Big Reveal Live Show” at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.

June 28: “Girls Night: The Musical” at Mayo Performing Arts Center, Morristown.

July 4-27: “Legally Blonde the Musical” at Broadway Theatre of Pitman.

July 5-11: “Love, Loss, and What I Wore” at Cape May Stage.

July 8-27: “42nd Street” at Surflight Theatre, Beach Haven.

July 9-19: “Rent” at Plays-in-the-Park series at Stephen J. Capestro Theater, Edison.

July 9-27: “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again]” at F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre at Drew University, Madison.

July 10: “Welcome to Night Vale: Murder Night in Blood Forest,” at Victoria Theater at NJPAC, Newark.
July 10: “The Devil & Daisy Dirt” at Princeton Public Library.

July 10-13: “Spring Awakening” at StageWorks at Studio 237, Pompton Lakes.

July 10-20: “Escape to Margaritaville” at Sitnik Theatre at Lackland Performing Arts Center, Hackettstown.

July 11-13: “The Pirates of Penzance,” presented by Light Opera of New Jersey at Sieminski Theater, Basking Ridge.
July 11-13: “Party of 1 (Acts): A Weekend on One Acts” at Gateway Playhouse, Somers Point.

July 11-13 and 18-20: “Meet Me in St. Louis” at Kelsey Theatre at Mercer County Community College, West Windsor.

July 11-Aug. 3: “The SpongeBob Musical” at Music Mountain Theatre, Lambertville.

July 16-Aug. 24: “Sexy Laundry” at Cape May Stage.

July 17-Aug. 10: “How My Grandparents Fell in Love: A Musical” at New Jersey Repertory Company, Long Branch.

July 25-27: One Act Jamboree at StageWorks at Studio 237, Pompton Lakes.

July 25-Aug. 3: “1660 Vine: A New Musical” at Eagle Theatre, Hammonton.

July 25-Aug. 10: “Steel Magnolias” at Bell Theater at Bell Works, Holmdel.
July 25-Aug. 10: “Curtains” at Somerset Valley Playhouse, Hillsborough.

July 29-Aug. 14: “Clue the Musical” at Hunterdon Hills Playhouse, Hampton.

July 29-Aug. 17: “West Side Story” at Surflight Theatre, Beach Haven.

July 30-Aug. 9: “Grease” at Plays-in-the-Park series at Stephen J. Capestro Theater, Edison.

July 31-Aug. 3: “Something Rotten,” presented by North Star Theater Company at Sparta Avenue Stage.

July 31-Aug. 10: “Nunsense II” at Sitnik Theatre at Lackland Performing Arts Center, Hackettstown.

Aug. 8-10 and 14-17: “Hairspray” at Levoy Theatre, Millville.

Aug. 8-24: “Man of La Mancha” at Music Mountain Theatre, Lambertville.

Aug. 9-17: “Rent” at Algonquin Arts Theatre, Manasquan.

Aug. 11: “Two Bad Men” (dramatic reading) at Cape May Stage.

Aug. 16: “The Devil & Daisy Dirt” at Citizens Bank Theater, Succasunna.

Aug. 19: “A Bronx Tale” starring Chazz Palminteri at Ocean City Music Pier.

Aug. 19-Sept. 7: “Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story” at Surflight Theatre, Beach Haven.

Aug. 21-24 and 28-31: “Boeing Boeing” at StageWorks at Studio 237, Pompton Lakes.

Aug. 29-Sept. Sept. 21: “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” at Music Mountain Theatre, Lambertville.

Sept. 5-6 and 12-13: “The Six Wives of Henry VIII” at Pax Amicus Castle Theatre, Budd Lake.

Sept. 5-21: “Funny Money” at Somerset Valley Playhouse, Hillsborough.
Sept. 5-21: “A Good Farmer,” presented by South Camden Theatre Company at Waterfront South Theatre.

Sept. 5-28: “Parade” at Broadway Theatre of Pitman.

Sept. 10-21: “Calendar Girls” at Surflight Theatre, Beach Haven.

Sept. 10-Oct. 5: “Romeo & Juliet” at F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre at Drew University, Madison.

Sept. 10-Oct. 19: “Dutch Masters” at Cape May Stage.

Sept. 11-21: “Godspell” at Grand Theatre, Williamstown.

Sept. 11-Oct. 5: “Can’t Run, Can’t Dance” at New Jersey Repertory Company, Long Branch.

Sept. 12-13: “110 in the Shade” (concert version) presented by Skyline Theatre Company at Little Theatre, Bloomfield.

Sept. 13-Oct. 5: “Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Links” at Two River Theater, Red Bank.

Sept. 13-Oct. 12: “I and You: The Musical” at Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton.

Sept. 16-Oct. 18: “Never Too Late” at Hunterdon Hills Playhouse, Hampton.

Sept. 25-Oct. 5: “On Golden Pond” at Surflight Theatre, Beach Haven.

Sept. 26-28 and Oct. 3-5: “Into the Woods” at Gateway Playhouse, Somers Point.

Sept. 26-Oct. 12: “Deathtrap” at Music Mountain Theatre, Lambertville.

Oct. 2-Nov. 2: “Bull Durham” at Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn.

Oct. 3-5: “The Mousetrap” at Levoy Theatre, Millville.

Oct. 3-19: “A Night With Janis Joplin” at Bell Theater at Bell Works, Holmdel.

Oct. 9-12: “Tru” at Surflight Theatre, Beach Haven.

Oct. 10-19: “Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show” at Algonquin Arts Theatre, Manasquan.

Oct. 16-Nov. 1: “School of Rock” at Grand Theatre, Williamstown.

Oct. 17-26: “Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical,” presented by Old Library Theatre at George Frey Center for Performing Arts at Fair Lawn Community Center.

Oct. 17-Nov. 2: “Sweeney Todd” at Music Mountain Theatre, Lambertville.
Oct. 17-Nov. 2: “The Lion in Winter” at Somerset Valley Playhouse, Hillsborough.

Oct. 22-Nov. 16: “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” at F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre at Drew University, Madison.

Oct. 24-Nov. 16: “Cats” at Broadway Theatre of Pitman.

Oct. 29-Nov. 2: “300 Paintings” at McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton.

Oct. 30-Nov. 23: “The Drop-Off” at New Jersey Repertory Company, Long Branch.

Oct. 31: “The Lives, Loves and Tales of Terror of Edgar Allan Poe” at Pax Amicus Castle Theatre, Budd Lake.

Nov. 1-23: “The Monsters: A Sibling Love Story” at Two River Theater, Red Bank.

Nov. 6-23: “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella” at Axelrod Performing Arts Center, Deal.

Nov. 7-23: “Annie” at Music Mountain Theatre, Lambertville.
Nov. 7-23: “Dot,” presented by South Camden Theatre Company at Waterfront South Theatre.

Nov. 14-16: “Steel Magnolias,” presented by North Star Theater Company at Sparta Avenue Stage.

Nov. 19-Dec. 28: “Let’s Catch Santa” at Cape May Stage.

Nov. 20-Dec. 6: “A Christmas Carol: The Musical” at Grand Theatre, Williamstown.

Nov. 26: “Thank Yule for Being a Friend: The Golden Girls Holiday Musical,” presented by The Golden Gals at Broadway Theatre of Pitman.

Nov. 26-Jan. 4: “Disney’s Frozen” at Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn.

Nov. 28-Dec. 14: “A Christmas Carol” at Music Mountain Theatre, Lambertville.

Nov. 29-Dec. 14: “Elf the Musical” at Surflight Theatre, Beach Haven.

Dec. 3-28: “It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play” at F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre at Drew University, Madison.

Dec. 5-7 and 12-14: “The Sound of Music” at Pax Amicus Castle Theatre, Budd Lake.

Dec. 5-21: “The 24 Days Before Christmas” at Somerset Valley Playhouse, Hillsborough.

Dec. 6-14: “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas” at Algonquin Arts Theatre, Manasquan.

Dec. 9-28: “A Christmas Carol” at McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton.

Dec. 12-14: “The Wolves,” presented by Old Library Theatre at George Frey Center for Performing Arts at Fair Lawn Community Center.

Dec. 13-21: “Joy Meets Girl,” presented by Skyline Theatre Company at Oakeside Bloomfield Cultural Center.

Dec. 26-28: “Home for the Holidays” featuring The Calamari Sisters at Broadway Theatre of Pitman.

Jan. 17-25: “Same Time, Next Year” at Algonquin Arts Theatre, Manasquan.

Jan. 23-Feb. 15: “Kim’s Convenience” at Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton.

Feb. 4-March 1: “Come From Away” at Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn.

Feb. 14-21: “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” at Algonquin Arts Theatre, Manasquan.

Feb. 21-March 15: “A Doll’s House” at Two River Theater, Red Bank.

March 4-15: “Circus Quixote” at McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton.

March 20-29: “9 to 5: The Musical” at Algonquin Arts Theatre, Manasquan.

April 1-26: “1776” at Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn.

May 6-31, 2026: “Mrs. Christie” at Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton.

May 8-17, 2026: “Pippin” at Algonquin Arts Theatre, Manasquan.

May 28-June 28, 2026: “West Side Story” at Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn.

June 4-28, 2026: “Elephant Shoes” at Two River Theater, Red Bank.

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