Season Eleven - Love's Transgressions 2010-2011
Mainstage:
The Kid from Paris - buy tickets
Jean Brassard Sings Montand
By Jean Brassard and Dave Krueger - directed by Dave Krueger
September 10-19, 2010
7:30 p.m. Fridays & Saturdays
3:00 p.m. Sundays
A Cabaret Celebration of Yves Montand. Through songs in French and English, theatrical vignettes and narration, Brassard gives a performance reflecting the grace, passion and charisma of the sexy Italian from Marseille.
Romeo and Juliet - buy tickets
By William Shakespeare - Craig Colfelt, Play Master
November 5-21, 2010
7:30 p.m. Fridays
3:00 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays
Shakespeare’s definitive portrait of young love vs. old hatred comes to new life in this innovative and intimate staging. Featuring a cast of six and a blend of contemporary and Renaissance design elements, this is a Romeo & Juliet for everyone. Music, comedy, romance, drama and swordplay combine to make it the ideal Shakespeare production for the whole family.
Logomaniacs - buy tickets
By Paul Fleischman - Colette Rice , Play Master
December 9-19, 2010
7:30 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays
3:00 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays
Like a barker at the circus, this new play by the Newbery Award-winning author Paul Fleischman dares us to step inside a freak show like no other: a parade of 26 creatures with an obsessive love of words, one-per-alphabet letter, all of them real.
The Tempest - buy tickets
By William Shakespeare - Colette Rice , Play Master
March 25-April 10, 2011
7:30 p.m. Fridays
3:00 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays
ASC celebrates the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s tale of shipwrecks, spirits, monsters and magic with a sumptuous and imaginative production. At once a fairytale journey to an enchanted island and a saga of deception, revenge, hard-won forgiveness and redemption, The Tempest is indeed “such stuff as dreams are made on.”
ASC Labs:
Free Admission
Shakespeare’s Queens
February 4-6, 2011
7:30 p.m. Friday
3:00 p.m. Saturday and 1:30 p.m. Sunday*
Project Director and ASC at NJCU company member Denise Hurd leads this exploration of women of power, which is a celebration of feminine strength and the struggles of women who fail to conform to society’s expectations. *The Sunday presentation will take place at Congregation B’nai Jacob, 176 West Side Avenue, Jersey City, with a pre-play discussion starting at 1:00 p.m.
The Millionairess
By George Bernard Shaw
May 6-8, 2011
7:30 p.m. Friday
3:00 p.m. Saturday and 1:30 p.m. Sunday*
Project Director and ASC at NJCU company member Michael Hajek delves into Shaw’s fantastic venture into the world of money and a quest for love by the world’s richest woman. The brilliant dialogue and perceptive social insight makes for a delightfully irreverent take on the differing views and experiences of the “haves” and the “have nots.” *The Sunday presentation will take place at Congregation B’nai Jacob, 176 West Side Avenue, Jersey City, with a pre-play discussion starting at 1:00 p.m.
The Melting Pot
By Israel Zangwill
June 5, 2011
1:30 p.m. Sunday*
In the wake of the 1903 Kishinev pogrom and the death of his family, David Quixano emigrates to the U.S. and composes “The Crucible,” a symphony full of hope for a society where people of all ethnicities form the “melting pot.” The presentation is a one-day event celebrating the diversity of our community and the struggle to find one’s place in the world. *The presentation will take place at Congregation B’nai Jacob, 176 West Side Avenue, Jersey City, with a pre-play discussion starting at 1:00 p.m.
Arcadia
By Tom Stoppard
June 22, 23 and 26, 2011
7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday
1:30 p.m. Sunday*
Set in a single room of one English country estate – but during two very different time periods – Arcadia weaves two interconnected story lines, revealing the consistency and persistence through history of human nature and human endeavor. Through sex, comedy, mathematics and more, the play muses on what fate takes away and what time can – and cannot – restore. Project Director and ASC founding member Bethany Reeves leads this exploration of one of Britain’s most gifted, influential and knighted playwrights. *The Sunday presentation will take place at Congregation B’nai Jacob, 176 West Side Avenue, Jersey City, with a pre-play discussion starting at 1:00 p.m.
All events take place at:
West Side Theater
285 West Side Avenue
Jersey City, NJ 07305
Mainstage Tickets:
$30 Adults
$15 Students & Seniors (62 and over)
Pay Your Age: Children Age 15 and Under
For more information:
201-200-2390
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