NATHAN JOHNSON
Patrick Page will star in “All The Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain” at The McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, Aug. 19-23 and 26-30.
Aug. 5-8: “Guys and Dolls,” Plays-in-the-Park series at Stephen J. Capestro Theater, Edison.
Aug. 5-9: “Closer Than Ever,” presented by NEXTstage REpertory at Kutz Theatre at Lackland Performing Arts Center, Hackettstown.
Aug. 5 and 12: “The Taming of the Shrew,” Shakespeare in the Park at Atlantic Street Park, Hackensack.
Aug. 5-7 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 5-9 and 11-16: “Pretty Woman: The Musical” at Surflight Theatre, Beach Haven.
Aug. 5-9, 11-16 and 18-23: “Kalamazoo” at Cape May Stage.
Aug. 6-7: “Clue the Killer Cabaret: A Murder Mystery Musical” at Avenel Performing Arts Center.
Aug. 6-8: “You Can’t Take It With You,” presented by Trilogy Repertory at Pleasant Valley Park, Bernards Township.
Aug. 6-8: “A Golden Girls Murder Mystery: A Family Affair” at Carriage House at Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn.
Aug. 6-9: “¡Festejo! Celebrating Latine Stories Onstage” at Two River Theater, Red Bank.
Aug. 6-9 and 13-16: “Alabama Story” presented by The Theater Project at DMK Theater, Union.
Aug. 6-9, 13-16 and 20-23: “A Change of Position” at New Jersey Repertory Company, Long Branch.
Aug. 7: “Girls Night: The Musical” at Count Basie Center for the Arts, Red Bank.
Aug. 7: “The Taming of the Shrew,” presented by Acting Out Theatre Company at Metuchen Town Plaza.
Aug. 7-8: “Are the Bennet Girls OK?,” presented by Magnolia Productions at The Theater at Navesink Library, Atlantic Highlands.
Aug. 7-8: “The Solve It Squad” at Dover Little Theatre.
Aug. 7-9: “Company,” presented by Off-Centre Stages at Kelsey Theatre at Mercer County Community College, West Windsor.
Aug. 7 and 9: “Grease” at Music Box at Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa, Atlantic City.
Aug. 7-9 and 13-16: “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” at Levoy Theatre, Millville.
Aug. 7-9 and 14-16: “Spring Awakening” at Holmdel Theatre Company.
Aug. 7-9, 12-16 and 19-23: “Driving Miss Daisy” at Bell Theater at Bell Works, Holmdel.
Aug. 7-9, 14-16, 21-23 and 28-30: “The Will Rogers Follies” at Music Mountain Theatre, Lambertville.
Aug. 8-9 and 14-16: “Hair” at Algonquin Arts Theatre, Manasquan.
Aug. 10: “Appendage” at Cape May Stage.
Aug. 13-15: “Sweeney Todd” at Brook Arts Center, Bound Brook.
Aug. 14-16 and 18-23: “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. 15: “Anirban Dasgupta’s Player,” presented by Stage Adda at New Brunswick Performing Arts Center.
Aug. 16: “At Liberty Hall” (staged reading), presented by Premiere Stages at Liberty Hall Museum at Kean University, Union.
Aug. 18-23, 25-27 and 29-30: “1776” at Surflight Theatre, Beach Haven.
Aug. 19-23 and 26-30: “All The Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain,” featuring Patrick Page, at Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton.
Aug. 20-23: “Merrily We Roll Along,” presented at Ferrell Studios Community Theatre at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Metuchen.
Aug. 20-23 and 27-30: “Escape to Margaritaville” at Stageworks at Studio 237, Pompton Lakes.
Aug. 21: “Jaws” at SModcastle Cinemas, Atlantic Highlands.
Aug. 22-23: “The Vagina Monologues” at Gateway Playhouse, Somers Point.
Aug. 26: “11 Days: The Story of Operation Pineapple Express” at Carteret Performing Arts & Events Center.
Aug. 26-30: “Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares,” presented by George Street Playhouse at New Brunswick Performing Arts Center.
Aug. 26-30 and Sept. 2-6, 9-13 and 16-20: “Lunar Eclipse,” presented by East Lynne Theater Company of Cape May at Clemans Theater for the Arts at the Allen AME, Cape May.
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