The Play’s the Thing: Rutgers-Newark/ NJIT Program Again Offers Great Live Theater at Great Prices
Fall/Spring Schedule
The successful, decades-long theatrical partnership between Rutgers University in Newark and the New Jersey Institute of Technology announces its 2010-2011 season. The Rutgers/NJIT Theatre Arts Program, which taps the combined talents of Rutgers and NJIT students and faculty, will present two plays this fall and another two in spring 2011, at pricing that beats the local multiplex cinema: students/senior citizens, $10; general admission: $12; children under 15: free. Tickets are held up to 10 minutes before curtain.
For reservations, call 973/353-3737; for information, contact Rodney Reyes or Michele Rittenhouse at theatre@njit.edu. All programs, dates and locations are subject to change. For updated information and additional events, visit www.newark.rutgers.edu/arts . Both Bradley Hall and Kupfrian Hall are handicapped-accessible.
FALL 2010 Productions
MAGIC TIME, By James Sherman
Off Broadway audiences and critics enjoyed this engaging backstage comedy about a troupe of actors preparing to give their last summer performance of Hamlet. Cleverly the backstage relationships mirror the onstage ones.
Directed by Dan Drew
Bradley Hall Theatre, (3rd floor),392 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Rutgers-Newark Campus
Oct. 20, 21, 22, 23 @ 7 p.m.; Oct. 24 at 2:30 p.m.
THE DIRECTORS’ PROJECT 2010
Student-directed short plays. These five to ten minute plays will vary from drama, comedy, suspense, or theatre of the absurd depending on the student director’s choice of play. Student stage managers and actors will also be completing course work by participating in this main-stage production.
Coordinated by Louis Wells
Bradley Hall Theatre, (3rd floor), 392 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Rutgers-Newark Campus
Dec. 1, 2, 3, 4 @ 7 p.m.
SPRING 2011 Productions
ONCE ON THIS ISLAND, Book and Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens; music by Stephen Flaherty.
Based on the novel My Love, My Love by Rosa Guy, the musical is a retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid set in the French Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. Directed by Michael Kerley
Jim Wise Theatre, Kupfrian Hall, NJIT Campus
March 2, 3, 4, 5 @ 7 p.m. ; March 6 @ 2:30 p.m.
TWELFTH NIGHT by William Shakespeare
Twin brother and sister are separated in a shipwreck and find themselves in a new land. Mistaken identity, falling in love and discovery of secrets and intrigue brings this comedy to the top of the charts as a noted favorite.
Directed by Louis Wells
Bradley Hall Theatre, (3rd floor),,392 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Rutgers-Newark Campus
April 27, 28, 29, 30 @ 7 p.m.; May 1 @ 2:30 p.m.
TICKETS: Students/senior citizens, $10; general admission: $12; children under 15: free.
PARKING: Free parking, NJIT PARKING DECK located on Summit Street, just off Warren Street, or the attendant-staffed Bradley Hall lot adjacent to Bradley Hall, 110 Warren St.
For more information, please contact Rodney Reyes or Michele Rittenhouse at theatre@njit.edu
