Theater, May 2026-June 2027

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Hassiem Muhammad and Kendra Holloway co-star in “The Mountaintop” at Mile Square Theatre in Hoboken, through May 3.

May 1: Garden State New Play Festival at White Eagle Hall, Jersey City.
May 1: “Death Do Us Part” at Avenel Performing Arts Center.
May 1: “Lýkos Ánthrōpos” at Cape May Stage.

May 1-2: “1776” at Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn. (NJArts.net Review)
May 1-2: “Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors” at Studio Playhouse, Montclair.
May 1-2: “The Drowsy Chaperone,” presented by Chatham Players at Chatham Playhouse.

May 1-3: “The Mountaintop” at Mile Square Theatre, Hoboken. (NJArts.net Review)
May 1-3: “Sins of the Mother” at New Jersey Repertory Company, Long Branch. (NJArts.net Review)
May 1-3: “Fences” at Playhouse 22, East Brunswick.
May 1-3: “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” presented by Phoenix Productions at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.
May 1-3: “Illuminating New Voices,” presented by Vanguard Theater Company at Vanguard Theater, Montclair.
May 1-3: “Inspecting Carol,” presented by Somerset Valley Players at Somerset Valley Playhouse, Hillsborough Township.
May 1-3: “Little Women: The Musical” at Sitnik Theatre at Lackland Performing Arts Center, Hackettstown.
May 1-3: “The 39 Steps,” presented by Maurer Productions OnStage at Kelsey Theatre at Mercer County Community College, West Windsor.
May 1-3: “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” at Black Box Theater at Grunin Center for the Arts at Ocean County College, Toms River.
May 1-3: “Boeing Boeing,” presented by Kismet Performing Arts Theatre at Clifton Arts Center.

May 1-3 and 7-9: “Jesus Christ Superstar” at Grand Theatre, Williamstown.

May 1-3 and 7-10: “& Sons” at Luna Stage, West Orange. (NJArts.net Review)
May 1-3 and 7-10: “My Fair Lady” at Summit Playhouse.

May 1-3 and 8-10: “Present Laughter” at Music Mountain Theatre, Lambertville.

May 1-3, 6-10 and 12-17: “My Lord, What a Night,” presented by George Street Playhouse at New Brunswick Performing Arts Center.

May 1-3, 7-10 and 14-16: “Company” at Masquerade Theatre, Riverside.

May 1-17: Garden State New Play Festival, Jersey City.

May 1-3, 8-10 and 15-17: “A Bronx Tale: The Musical” at Broadway Theatre of Pitman.

May 1-3, 8-10, 13, 15-17, 20 and 22-24: “Porgy & Bess” at Ritz Theatre Company, Haddon Township.

May 2-3, 8-9 and 15-16: “The Nerd” at Westfield Community Players.

May 2-3, 8-10 and 15-17: “The Skin of Our Teeth” at Chester Theatre Group.

May 2-3, 8-9, 15-17 and 29-31: “The 39 Steps,” presented by Bergen County Players at Little Firehouse Theatre, Oradell.

May 4-6 and 11-13: INKubator New Play Festival at Art House Productions, Jersey City.

May 5-7, 9, 12-14 and 16: “Some Enchanted Evening: A Celebration of the Songs of Rodgers & Hammerstein” at Hunterdon Hills Playhouse, Hampton.

May 6-10, 13-17, 20-24 and 27-31: “Mrs. Christie” at Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton.

May 7-10 and 14-17: “Ragtime: The Musical” at Stageworks at Studio 237, Pompton Lakes.

May 8: “Ann Talman: Elizabeth Taylor and the Shadow of Her Smile” at Barrymore Film Center, Fort Lee.
May 8: The Calamari Sisters, “Bun in the Oven: Contractions” at Levoy Theatre, Millville.

May 8-9: “The Bitchy Waiter Show” at Avenel Performing Arts Center.

May 8-10: “The Music Man” at State Theatre, New Brunswick.

May 8-10 and 15-17: “On Time” at Villagers Theatre, Somerset.

May 8-10 and 16-17: “Pippin” at Algonquin Arts Theatre, Manasquan.

May 8-10, 15-17 and 22-24: “Chicken & Biscuits” at South Camden Theatre Company.

May 9: Young Playwrights Awards Readings at Cape May Stage.

May 11: “Vigorish” (reading) at West End Arts Center, Long Branch.

May 14: National Playwrights Symposium Readings at Cape May Stage.

May 15-17 and 22-24: “Much Ado About Nothing,” presented by The Maplewood Strollers at Burgdorff Center for the Performing Arts, Maplewood.

May 15-17, 22-24 and 29-31 and June 5-6: “Spamalot” at Barn Theatre, Montville.

May 15-17, 22-24 and 29-31 and June 5-7: “Disaster” at Music Mountain Theatre, Lambertville.

May 16-17, 20-24 and 26-31 and June 2-7: “Private Lives,” presented by Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey at F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre at Drew University, Madison.

May 17: “Under the Velvet Elvis” (staged reading), presented by Chatham Community Players at Chatham Playhouse.

May 19-24, 27-31 and June 3-7 and 10-14: “Sizwe Banzi Is Dead,” presented by Crossroads Theatre Company at New Brunswick Performing Arts Center.

May 20: “In the Morning: A Multimedia Performance by Jin Jung” at Art House Productions, Jersey City.

May 21: “A Bronx Tale” featuring Chazz Palminteri at Wellmont Theater, Montclair.

May 21-31: “Our Town,” presented by Asbury Park Theater Company at Jersey Shore Arts Center, Ocean Grove.

May 23-June 7: “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s A Grand Night for Singing” at Surflight Theatre, Beach Haven.

May 27: “Liberty Madness: Scenes From a Revolution,” presented by Thinkery & Verse at State Theatre, New Brunswick.

May 28: “Am I Doing This Right?” at The Broadway Theatre of Pitman.

May 28-31 and June 4-7: “Guys and Dolls” at Gateway Playhouse, Somers Point.

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

May 29-31: “Disney’s Frozen: The Broadway Musical” at Mayo Performing Arts Center, Morristown.

May 31: “Menopause the Musical 2” at URSB Carteret Performing Arts & Events Center.

June 2-3: “Disney’s Frozen: The Broadway Musical” at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.

June 3-28: “What the Constitution Means to Me” at Cape May Stage.

June 4-28: “Elephant Shoes” at Two River Theater, Red Bank.
June 4-28: “The Vienna Lessons” at New Jersey Repertory Company, Long Branch.

June 5-14: “Things I Know to Be True,” presented by Chatham Players at Chatham Playhouse.

June 5-20: “She Kills Monsters” at Studio Playhouse, Montclair.
June 5-20: “Fun Home” at Dover Little Theatre.

June 5-21: “Crimes of the Heart,” presented by Somerset Valley Players at Somerset Valley Playhouse, Hillsborough Township.

June 6: “7th Inning Stretch” at Mile Square Theatre, Hoboken.

June 6-7: “Kodachrome,” presented by Bergen County Players at Little Firehouse Theatre, Oradell.

June 6 and Oct. 24: “My Big Gay Italian Wedding” at Sound Waves at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Atlantic City.

June 11-21: “Having Our Say,” presented by The Theater Project at DMK Black Box Theatre at Union Arts Center.

June 11-28: “Newsies,” presented by Vanguard Theater Company at Vanguard Theater, Montclair.

June 12-20: “The Vagina Monologues,” presented by Magnolia Productions at Navesink Library, Atlantic Highlands.

June 12-13 and 18-20: “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged),” presented by Bergen Alumni Theatre at Ender Hall Lab Theatre at Bergen Community College, Paramus.

June 12-14, 19-21 and 25-27: “Asuncion” at Nutley Little Theatre.

June 12-28: “Jagged Little Pill: The Musical” at Playhouse 22, East Brunswick.

June 12-14, 18, 20-21 and 26-28: “Legally Blonde the Musical” at Villagers Theatre, Somerset.

June 12-July 5: “My Fair Lady” at Music Mountain Theatre, Lambertville.

June 14: “The Golden Games: A Golden Girls Musical Pride Game Show” at The Broadway Theatre of Pitman.

June 18-28: “We’ll Meet Again” at Bell Theater at Bell Works, Holmdel.

June 18-July 5: “Guys & Dolls” at Surflight Theatre, Beach Haven.

June 18-July 19: “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years,” presented by East Lynne Theater Company of Cape May at Clemans Theater for the Arts at the Allen AME, Cape May.

June 19-28: “Reefer Madness” at Cumberland Players, Vineland.

June 19-21 and 26-28: “The Comedy of Errors,” presented by Shakespeare 70 at Kelsey Theatre at Mercer County Community College, West Windsor.
June 19-21 and 26-28: “Merrily We Roll Along,” presented by Pioneer Productions at Fellowship Hall at Morristown United Methodist Church.

June 22: “What Would Meryl Do?” (reading) at Cape May Stage.

June 25-28: “Assassins” at Hackensack Performing Arts Center.

June 26-July 19: “Grease” at Ritz Theatre Company, Haddon Township.

June 27: “Golden Girls: The Tribute Show! (A Drag Parody)” at Kelsey Theatre at Mercer County Community College, West Windsor.

June 27-28: “Monty Python’s Spamalot” at State Theatre, New Brunswick.

June 28: “The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later” (reading) at Studio Playhouse, Montclair.
June 28: “Indecent” (staged reading), presented by Chatham Community Players at Chatham Playhouse.

July 3-26: “Jimmy Buffett’s Escape to Margaritaville” at Broadway Theatre of Pitman.

July 4-10: “Together Off-Broadway: Merman & Martin in Concert,” tribute to Ethel Mermman and Mary Martin at Cape May Stage.

July 7-26: “Young Frankenstein” at Surflight Theatre, Beach Haven.

July 9-12: “The Wild Party” at Stageworks at Studio 237, Pompton Lakes.

July 10-12: “Rock of Ages” presented by Phoenix Productions at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.

July 10-18: “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” at Oskar Schindler Performing Arts Center, West Orange.

July 10-19: “Into the Woods” at Summit Playhouse.

July 10-12 and 17-19: “My Fair Lady,” presented by OCC Repertory Theater Company at Grunin Center for the Arts at Ocean County College, Toms River.

July 10-Aug. 2: “Urinetown” at Music Mountain Theatre, Lambertville.

July 11-12: Gilbert & Sullivan’s “H.M.S. Pinafore,” presented by Light Opera of New Jersey at Sieminski Theater, Basking Ridge.
July 11-12: “London Suite” at Gateway Playhouse, Somers Point.

July 11-Aug. 2: “Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery,” presented by Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey at F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre at Drew University, Madison.

July 12: “An Afternoon With Groucho” featuring Frank Ferrante at The Vogel at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.

July 15-Aug. 23: “Kalamazoo” at Cape May Stage.

July 17-19 and 24-26: “The Drowsy Chaperone,” presented by Fool Moon Theatre Company. Venue TBA.

July 18: “A Lesbian, a Divorcee and a Married Woman Walk Into a Bar” at Avenel Performing Arts Center.

July 20: “U.S.A.” (reading) at Cape May Stage.

July 24-26: “Footloose (Youth Edition),” presented by Asbury Park Theater Company at Jersey Shore Arts Center, Ocean Grove.

July 24-Aug. 4: “Funny Girls,” presented by East Lynne Theater Company of Cape May at Clemans Theater for the Arts at the Allen AME, Cape May.

July 24-Aug. 8: “The Solve It Squad” at Dover Little Theatre.

July 27: “All the Way” (reading), Revolutionary Voices series, presented by Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey at F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre at Drew University, Madison.

July 28-Aug. 16: “Pretty Woman: The Musical” at Surflight Theatre, Beach Haven.

July 30-Aug. 23: “A Change of Position” at New Jersey Repertory Company, Long Branch.

July 31 and Aug. 1-2 and 7-9: “Company,” presented by Off-Centre Stages at Kelsey Theatre at Mercer County Community College, West Windsor.

July 31 and Aug. 1-2, 7-9 and 14-16: “Spring Awakening” at Holmdel Theatre Company.

Aug. 4-7 and 11-14: “Sister Act,” presented by Ocean City Theatre Company and Ocean City Pops at Bill and Nancy Hughes Performing Arts Center at Ocean City High School.

Aug. 6-7: “Clue the Killer Cabaret: A Murder Mystery Musical” at Avenel Performing Arts Center.

Aug. 7-16: “Hair” at Algonquin Arts Theatre, Manasquan.
Aug. 7-16: “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” at Levoy Theatre, Millville.

Aug. 7-23: “Driving Miss Daisy” at Bell Theater at Bell Works, Holmdel.

Aug. 7-30: “The Will Rogers Follies” at Music Mountain Theatre, Lambertville.

Aug. 10: “Appendage” at Cape May Stage.

Aug. 14-23: “Shakespeare in the Wild: The Merry Wives of Windsor,” presented by Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey at F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre at Drew University, Madison.

Aug. 18-30: “1776” at Surflight Theatre, Beach Haven.

Aug. 19-30: “All The Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain,” featuring Patrick Page, at Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton.

Aug. 20-23 and 27-30: “Escape to Margaritaville” at Stageworks at Studio 237, Pompton Lakes.

Aug. 22-23: “The Vagina Monologues” at Gateway Playhouse, Somers Point.

Aug. 26-30: “Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares,” presented by George Street Playhouse at New Brunswick Performing Arts Center.

Aug. 27-Sept. 20: “Lunar Eclipse,” presented by East Lynne Theater Company of Cape May at Clemans Theater for the Arts at the Allen AME, Cape May.

Sept. 1-20: “Ghost: The Musical” at Surflight Theatre, Beach Haven.

Sept. 4-20: “La Gringa” at Ritz Theatre Company, Haddon Township.

Sept. 4-27: “The Cher Show” at Music Mountain Theatre, Lambertville.
Sept. 4-27: “The Bodyguard: The Musical” at Broadway Theatre of Pitman.

Sept. 5-27: “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” presented by Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey at F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre at Drew University, Madison.

Oct. 7-25: “A Beat of Our Own” at McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton.

Sept. 3-20: “La Gringa” at Ritz Theatre Company, Haddon Township.

Sept. 9-Oct. 18: “Your Name Means Dream” at Cape May Stage.

Sept. 11: “A Night With Groucho” featuring Frank Ferrante at Surflight Theatre, Beach Haven.

Sept. 11-27: “The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood,” presented by Somerset Valley Players at Somerset Valley Playhouse, Hillsborough Township.

Sept. 11-13, 16-20, 23-24, 26-27 and 30 and Oct. 1-4: “Come From Away” at Bell Theater at Bell Works, Holmdel.

Sept. 12-Oct. 4: “The Piano Lesson” at Two River Theater, Red Bank.

Sept. 12-13 and Oct. 16-18: “Married by the Mob” at Avenel Performing Arts Center.

Sept. 14: “We Declare: Words That Shaped a Nation,” part of Revolutionary Voices series, presented by Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey at F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre at Drew University, Madison.

Sept. 16-Oct. 24: “Send Me No Flowers” at Hunterton Hills Playhouse, Hampton.

Sept. 18-Oct. 4: “Native Gardens” at South Camden Theatre Company.

Sept. 23-Oct. 4: “Vanities” at Surflight Theatre, Beach Haven.

Sept. 24-27 and Oct. 1-4: “9 to 5: The Musical” at Gateway Playhouse, Somers Point.

Sept. 24-Oct. 18: “Rent” at Art House Productions, Jersey City.

Sept. 25-27: “Pirates! The Penzance Musical,” presented by Phoenix Productions at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.

Sept. 25-Oct. 4: “Once the Musical,” presented by Asbury Park Theater Company at Jersey Shore Arts Center, Ocean Grove.

Sept. 27: “Married, Single, and a Baby” at Cape May Stage.

Oct. 1-25: “Nacho Ate Spiderman” at New Jersey Repertory Company, Long Branch.

Oct. 2-3: “Hocus Pocus Parody Show” at Avenel Performing Arts Center.

Oct. 2-4: “Death of a Salesman” at Levoy Theatre, Millville.

Oct. 2-18: “Murder on the Nile” at Music Mountain Theatre, Lambertville.

Oct. 7-11: “Deceived” at Surflight Theatre, Beach Haven.

Oct. 8-24: “Shrek the Musical” at Grand Theatre, Williamstown.

Oct. 8-Nov. 1: “The War of the Worlds: The Panic Broadcast,” presented by East Lynne Theater Company of Cape May at Clemans Theater for the Arts at the Allen AME, Cape May.

Oct. 9-28: “Trolls and Men” at Ritz Theatre Company, Haddon Township.

Oct. 9-Nov. 1: “Trolls and Men” at Ritz Theatre Company, Haddon Township.

Oct. 10-Nov. 15: “Hamlet,” presented by Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey at F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre at Drew University, Madison.

Oct. 13-Nov. 1: “The Unexpected 3rd,” presented by George Street Playhouse at New Brunswick Performing Arts Center.

Oct. 16:  “A Bronx Tale” featuring Chazz Palminteri at URSB Carteret Performing Arts & Events Center.

Oct. 16-25: “Oliver!” at Algonquin Arts Theatre, Manasquan.

Oct. 17-Nov. 1: “By the Water” at Summit Playhouse.

Oct. 23-25: “The American Soldier: Stories From the Front Lines” at Cape May Stage.

Oct. 23-Nov. 15: “A Christmas Story” at Music Mountain Theatre, Lambertville.
Oct.-23-Nov. 15: “Disney’s Freaky Friday” at Broadway Theatre of Pitman.

Oct. 23-Nov. 8: “Agatha Christie’s Go Back for Murder,” presented by Somerset Valley Players at Somerset Valley Playhouse, Hillsborough Township.

Oct. 24: “My Big Gay Italian Casino Adventure” at Sound Waves at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Atlantic City.

Oct. 26-31: “Hansel & Gretel” at Ritz Theatre Company, Haddon Township.

Oct. 31-Nov. 22-: “Stir” at Two River Theater, Red Bank.

Nov. 6-8: “Harvey” at Gateway Playhouse, Somers Point.
Nov. 6-8: “Parade,” presented by Phoenix Productions at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.

Nov. 13-14: “Vicki Lawrence & Mama: A Two-Woman Show,” presented by George Street Playhouse at New Brunswick Performing Arts Center.

Nov. 13-15: “The Pillowman” at Cumberland Players, Vineland.

Nov. 13-22: “Teeth,” presented by Asbury Park Theater Company at Jersey Shore Arts Center, Ocean Grove.
Nov. 13-22: “Annie” at Levoy Theatre, Millville.

Nov. 18-Dec. 27: “Murder for Two: The Holiday Edition” at Cape May Stage.

Nov. 18-Jan. 3: “Mary Poppins” at Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn.

Nov. 19: “Menopause the Musical” at BergenPAC, Englewood.

Nov. 19-Dec. 5: “Solid Gold: A Show-stopping Cabaret” at Grand Theatre, Williamstown.

Nov. 20-Dec. 13: “A Christmas Carol” at Music Mountain Theatre, Lambertville.

Dec. 1-20: “2 Pianos 4 Hands,” presented by George Street Playhouse at New Brunswick Performing Arts Center.

Dec. 2-20: “Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn” at Surflight Theatre, Beach Haven.

Dec. 3-20: “Fully Committed,” presented by East Lynne Theater Company of Cape May at Clemans Theater for the Arts at the Allen AME, Cape May.

Dec. 4-20: “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” at Ritz Theatre Company, Haddon Township.

Dec. 4-21: “Little Women: The Musical,” presented by Somerset Valley Players at Somerset Valley Playhouse, Hillsborough Township.

Dec. 5-20: “Frozen” at Algonquin Arts Theatre, Manasquan.

Dec. 5-31: “The Gifts of the Magi,” presented by Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey at F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre at Drew University, Madison.

Dec. 8-27: “A Christmas Carol” at McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton.

Jan. 16-24: “Arsenic and Old Lace” at Algonquin Arts Theatre, Manasquan.

Jan. 21-Feb. 13: “Purpose” at Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton.

Jan. 27-Feb. 21: “Lend Me a Tenor” at Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn.

Feb. 12-14: “Frozen: The Broadway Musical,” presented by Phoenix Productions at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.

Feb. 20-27: “To Kill a Mockingbird” at Algonquin Arts Theatre, Manasquan.

Feb. 20-March 7: “Marjorie Prime” at Summit Playhouse.

March 10-21: “Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest” at McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton.

March 10-April 4: “Loch Ness” at Two River Theater, Red Bank.

March 16-April 4: “Bad Dates: End Game,” presented by George Street Playhouse at New Brunswick Performing Arts Center.

March 17-April 25: “Million Dollar Quartet” at Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn.

April 2-11: “Tootsie: The Musical” at Algonquin Arts Theatre, Manasquan.

April 27-May 16, 2027: “The Cocktail Party Effect,” presented by George Street Playhouse at New Brunswick Performing Arts Center.

May 1-16, 2027: “Once” at Summit Playhouse.

May 8-16, 2027: “42nd Street” at Algonquin Arts Theatre, Manasquan.

May 19-June 27, 2027: “Dear Evan Hansen” at Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn.

June 5-27, 2027: “Trip Around the Sun” at Two River Theater, Red Bank.

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