Aug. 1-2: “Frankenstein,” presented by Princeton Summer Theater at Hamilton Murray Theater at Princeton University.
Aug. 1-2: “Because You’re Mine: Johnny, June and the Greatest Country Duets of All Time,” presented by Passage Theatre Company at Mill Hill Theatre, Trenton.
Aug. 1-3: Crossing Borders (Cruzando Fronteras), annual festival of new plays by Latine playwrights, at Two River Theater.
Aug. 1-3: “Legally Blonde: The Musical,” presented by Phoenix Productions at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.
Aug. 1-3: “The SpongeBob Musical” at Music Mountain Theatre, Lambertville.
Aug. 1-3: “The Mallard,” presented by Premiere Stages at The Bauer Boucher Theatre Center at Kean University, Union.
Aug. 1-3: “Jersey Voices” (one-act plays), presented by Chatham Players at Chatham Playhouse.
Aug. 1-3: “Something Rotten,” presented by North Star Theater Company at Sparta Avenue Stage.
Aug. 1-2 and 4-9: “Grease” at Plays-in-the-Park series at Stephen J. Capestro Theater, Edison.
Aug. 1-3 and 6-10: “Steel Magnolias” at Bell Theater at Bell Works, Holmdel.
Aug. 1-3 and 6-10: “Nunsense II” at Sitnik Theatre at Lackland Performing Arts Center, Hackettstown.
Aug. 1-3 and 7-10: “How My Grandparents Fell in Love: A Musical” at New Jersey Repertory Company, Long Branch.
Aug. 1-3 and 8-10: “Curtains” at Somerset Valley Playhouse, Hillsborough.
Aug. 1-3, 5-10 and 12-17: “West Side Story” at Surflight Theatre, Beach Haven.
Aug. 1-3, 5-10, 12-17 and 19-24: “Sexy Laundry” at Cape May Stage.
Aug. 1-2, 6-9, 13-16, 20-23 and 27-30: “Every Brilliant Thing,” presented by East Lynne Theater Co. at Clemans Theater at Allen AME Church, Cape May.
Aug. 2-3: “Murder at the Banquet” (dinner buffet and show), presented by Theater League of Clifton at Mario’s Restaurant, Clifton.
Aug. 2-3: “Shrek the Musical” at BergenPAC, Englewood.
Aug. 4: “A Thing of Beauty” (staged reading) at New Jersey Repertory Company, Long Branch.
Aug. 5-8 and 12-14: “Footloose,” presented by Ocean City Theatre Company and Ocean City Pops at Ocean City High School.
Aug. 5-7, 9-10 and 12-14: “Clue the Musical” at Hunterdon Hills Playhouse, Hampton.
Aug. 6 and 13: “The Comedy of Errors,” Shakespeare in the Park at Atlantic Street Park, Hackensack.
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. 10: “The Calamari Sisters’ Clambake” at Newton Theatre.
Aug. 11: “Two Bad Men” (dramatic reading) at Cape May Stage.
Aug. 14-24: “And in This Corner … Cassius Clay,” presented by The Theater Project at Oakes Center, Summit.
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. 22-24: “Cabaret,” presented by Ferrell Studios at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church Auditorium, Metuchen.
Aug. 29-Sept. 21: “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” at Music Mountain Theatre, Lambertville.
Sept. 4-14: “No Regrets: An Evening with Édith Piaf,” presented by East Lynne Theater Co. at Clemans Theater at Allen AME Church, Cape May.
Sept. 4-21: “Walden,” presented by Premiere Stages at The Bauer Boucher Theatre Center at Kean University, Union.
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: “Samantha Bee: How to Survive Menopause” at The Vogel at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.
Sept. 12-13: “110 in the Shade” (concert version) presented by Skyline Theatre Company at Little Theatre, Bloomfield.
Sept. 12-28: “Guys & Dolls” at Ritz Theatre Company, Haddon Township.
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. 15: “Thursdays Come at Morning” (staged reading) at New Jersey Repertory Company, Long Branch.
Sept. 16-Oct. 18: “Never Too Late” at Hunterdon Hills Playhouse, Hampton.
Sept. 19-21: “The Super ’80s Prom Party! Dinner Theater Show” at Avenel Performing Arts Center.
Sept. 21: The Improvised Shakespeare Company at South Orange Performing Arts Center.
Sept. 25-Oct. 5: “On Golden Pond” at Surflight Theatre, Beach Haven.
Sept. 26-27: “The Addams Family” at Mayo Performing Arts Center, Morristown.
Sept. 26-28: “Fiddler on the Roof,” presented by Phoenix Productions at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.
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. 5: “The Devil & Daisy Dirt” at Avenel Performing Arts Center.
Oct. 9-12: “Tru” at Surflight Theatre, Beach Haven.
Oct. 10-25: “Stage Kiss,” presented by Chatham Players at Chatham Playhouse.
Oct. 10-18: “First Date” at Studio Playhouse, Montclair.
Oct. 10-19: “Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show” at Algonquin Arts Theatre, Manasquan.
Oct. 14-Nov. 2: “An Old Fashioned Family Murder,” presented by George Street Playhouse at New Brunswick Performing Arts Center.
Oct. 16-26: “Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play,” presented by NEXTstage Repertory at Kutz Theatre at Lackland Performing Arts Center, Hackettstown.
Oct. 16-Nov. 1: “School of Rock” at Grand Theatre, Williamstown.
Oct. 17-18: “Evil Dead: The Musical,” presented by Phoenix Productions at The Vogel at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.
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. 17-19 and 24-26: “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” presented by Lord Stirling Theater Company at Farmstead Arts Center, Basking Ridge.
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. 17-Nov. 2: “The Rocky Horror Show” at Ritz Theatre Company, Haddon Township.
Oct. 22-Nov. 16: “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” at F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre at Drew University, Madison.
Oct. 23-25: “Hocus Pocus: Halloween Murder Mystery Parody Show” at Avenel Performing Arts Center.
Oct. 23-25: “Sherlock Holmes: Scandals!,” radio play-style performance, presented by East Lynne Theater Co. at Cape May Presbyterian Church.
Oct. 24-Nov. 16: “Cats” at Broadway Theatre of Pitman.
Oct. 29-30: “The Thorn” at Prudential Hall at NJPAC, Newark.
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. 1-2: “Mrs. Doubtfire” at State Theatre, New Brunswick.
Nov. 1-23: “The Monsters: A Sibling Love Story” at Two River Theater, Red Bank.
Nov. 6-16: “Watson, the Final Problem,” Fringe Festival at Kutz Theatre at Lackland Performing Arts Center, Hackettstown.
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. 8-9: “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical,” at Mayo Performing Arts Center, Morristown.
Nov. 14-16: “Elf the Musical” at State Theatre, New Brunswick.
Nov. 14-16: “Steel Magnolias,” presented by North Star Theater Company at Sparta Avenue Stage.
Nov. 15: “A Bronx Tale” featuring Chazz Palminteri at URSB Carteret Performing Arts & Events Center.
Nov. 19-Dec. 28: “Let’s Catch Santa” at Cape May Stage.
Nov. 20-23: “My Italy Story,” Fringe Festival at Kutz Theatre at Lackland Performing Arts Center, Hackettstown.
Nov. 20-Dec. 6: “A Christmas Carol: The Musical” at Grand Theatre, Williamstown.
Nov. 21-23: “Miracle on 34th Street: The Musical,” presented by Phoenix Productions at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.
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. 2-21: “Ebeneezer Scrooge’s Big Jersey Christmas Show!,” presented by George Street Playhouse at New Brunswick Performing Arts Center.
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. 5-21: “Goldilocks and the House of Ginger: A Musical Panto” at Ritz Theatre Company, Haddon Township.
Dec. 6-14: “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas” at Algonquin Arts Theatre, Manasquan.
Dec. 6-14: “Christmas Shorts” at Studio Playhouse, Montclair.
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. 19-20: “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” at Ritz Theatre Company, Haddon Township.
Dec. 26-28: “Home for the Holidays” featuring The Calamari Sisters at Broadway Theatre of Pitman.
Jan. 16-Feb. 8: “Merrily We Roll Along” at Broadway Theatre of Pitman.
Jan. 17-25: “Same Time, Next Year” at Algonquin Arts Theatre, Manasquan.
Jan. 16-18: “Chicago the Musical” at Mayo Performing Arts Center, Morristown.
Jan. 23-Feb. 1: “Any Night,” presented by Chatham Players at Chatham Playhouse.
Jan. 23-Feb. 7: “Our Town” at Studio Playhouse, Montclair.
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. 20: “Rent in Concert” at Mayo Performing Arts Center, Morristown.
Feb. 20-March 8: “Dial M for Murder” at Sitnik Theatre at Lackland Performing Arts Center, Hackettstown.
Feb. 21-March 15: “A Doll’s House” at Two River Theater, Red Bank.
Feb. 27-28 and March 1: “Kinky Boots” at State Theatre, New Brunswick.
March 4-15: “Circus Quixote” at McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton.
March 5-6: “Mark Twain Tonight!” at State Theatre, New Brunswick.
March 6-29: “Anastasia: The Musical” at Broadway Theatre of Pitman.
March 17-April 5: “What Became of Us,” presented by George Street Playhouse at New Brunswick Performing Arts Center.
March 20-29: “9 to 5: The Musical” at Algonquin Arts Theatre, Manasquan.
March 27: “The Mikado,” presented by New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players at Mayo Performing Arts Center, Morristown.
March 27-28: “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” presented by Phoenix Productions at The Vogel at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.
March 27-29: “Stereophonic” at State Theatre, New Brunswick.
April 1, 8 and 15: Women Playwrights Series (readings) at Sitnik Theatre at Lackland Performing Arts Center, Hackettstown.
April 1-26: “1776” at Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn.
April 9-19: “The Niceties” at Kutz Theatre at Lackland Performing Arts Center, Hackettstown.
April 17-May 2: “Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors” at Studio Playhouse, Montclair.
April 17-May 2: “The Drowsy Chaperone,” presented by Chatham Players at Chatham Playhouse.
April 23-May 3: “Little Women: The Musical” at Sitnik Theatre at Lackland Performing Arts Center, Hackettstown.
April 24-May 17: “A Bronx Tale: The Musical” at Broadway Theatre of Pitman.
April 28-May 17: “My Lord, What a Night,” presented by George Street Playhouse at New Brunswick Performing Arts Center.
May 1-3: “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” presented by Phoenix Productions at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.
May 6-31: “Mrs. Christie” at Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton.
May 8-10: “The Music Man” at State Theatre, New Brunswick.
May 8-17: “Pippin” at Algonquin Arts Theatre, Manasquan.
May 28-June 28: “West Side Story” at Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn.
June 4-28: “Elephant Shoes” at Two River Theater, Red Bank.
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 27-28: “Mrs. Doubtfire” at State Theatre, New Brunswick.
July 3-26, 2026: “Jimmy Buffett’s Escape to Margaritaville” at Broadway Theatre of Pitman.
Sept. 24-27, 2026: “The Bodyguard: The Musical” at Broadway Theatre of Pitman.
Oct.-23-Nov. 15, 2026: “Disney’s Freaky Friday” at Broadway Theatre of Pitman.
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