An all-female production team joined by 10 actresses from across the region perform Eve Ensler’s powerful interview-based play, The Vagina Monologues.
If all the world's a stage, then why fill it with utter nonsense? In this wicked satire of epic proportions and theatrical pretensions, an invitation to see the final dress rehearsal of a tragedy proves to be pure comedy.
Cost: just $5 (includes ticket, lunch, and artist talk back)
Pick Up and Drop Off Location: George Street Playhouse, 103 College Farm Rd, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Questions: email coLAB Arts Director of Education John Keller, jpkeller@colab-arts.org
Produced by New Brunswick Cultural Center and coLAB Arts, stART is an access program for teens to attend regional performing arts events, mingle with other area students, and engaged with professional artists and administrators. All events include a performance and meal for just $5. To learn more or register for any of the events below check us out at: www.colab-arts.org/start
Russian-Jewish emigrate Haskell Harelik arrives at the port of Galveston, Texas in 1909 seeking refuge from his homeland. With only his banana cart in tow, Haskell finds compassion and friendship from an unlikely couple, falls in love, and creates a pastoral life for his family. About The Immigrant, USA Today said “the scenes evoke the rural era with the firm-handed clarity of a Jewish Horton Foote … they glow.”
Cost: just $5 (includes ticket, lunch, and artist talk back)
Pick Up and Drop Off Location:
Poke Nagomi, 342 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Questions: email coLAB Arts Director of Education John Keller, jpkeller@colab-arts.org
Produced by New Brunswick Cultural Center and coLAB Arts, stART is an access program for teens to attend regional performing arts events, mingle with other area students, and engaged with professional artists and administrators. All events include a performance and meal for just $5. To learn more or register for any of the events below check us out at: www.colab-arts.org/start
Race. History. Power. Zoe, a black student at an Ivy League University, visits her white professor’s office hours to discuss her thesis about slavery’s effect on the American Revolution. In this riveting two-person drama, a polite clash in perspectives explodes into an urgent and dangerous contemporary debate. “Scintillating,” raves Peter Marks in the Washington Post. “The story of America, it seems, is destined to be wrestled over to the bitter end.” Kimberly Senior (Disgraced on Broadway) directs.
Cost: just $5 (includes ticket, lunch, and artist talk back)
Pick Up and Drop Off Location: Rutgers Barnes and Nobel, 100 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Questions: email coLAB Arts Director of Education John Keller, jpkeller@colab-arts.org
Produced by New Brunswick Cultural Center and coLAB Arts, stART is an access program for teens to attend regional performing arts events, mingle with other area students, and engaged with professional artists and administrators. All events include a performance and meal for just $5. To learn more or register for any of the events below check us out at: www.colab-arts.org/start
CO-PRESENTED BY STATE THEATRE NEW JERSEY AND CROSSROADS THEATRE COMPANY
Join us for a unique concert that celebrates the holiday seasons in and around the month of December. This co-production between the State Theatre and the Tony Award®-winning Crossroads Theatre Company features local choirs, Broadway talent, and community organizations including Gospel choirs, South Asian Dance, and more! Featuring the Youth Choir of Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple, Abundant Youth Dance Troupe, JP Stevens South Asian Dance Troupe, Rutgers Liberated Gospel Choir, and the Body & Music School from Piscataway. “We are honored to partner with Crossroads to celebrate the diversity of our community during this holiday season," said Sarah Chaplin, President & CEO of State Theatre New Jersey.
Cost: just $5 (includes ticket, lunch, and artist talk back)
Pick Up and Drop Off Location: Shalimar Restaurant, 349 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Questions email, coLAB Arts Director of Education John Keller, jpkeller@colab-arts.org
Produced by New Brunswick Cultural Center and coLAB Arts, stART is an access program for teens to attend regional performing arts events, mingle with other area students, and engaged with professional artists and administrators. All events include a performance and meal for just $5. To learn more or register for any of the events below check us out at: www.colab-arts.org/start
Join the cast of The Vagina Monologues and some special guests for Ladies’ Night, a benefit concert of fun and empowering songs celebrating and uplifting women. Co-directed by Mariella Klinger and Dave Seamon and produced by coLAB Arts, this concert will benefit Dina’s Dwellings, a New Brunswick-based nonprofit that provides permanent, supportive and affordable homes to survivors of domestic violence and their children.
This performance is open to New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania attorneys with ticket. Life, Death, Life Again: Children Sentenced to Die in Prison is a verbatim theater piece by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, that shares the stories of four people sentenced to die in prison for violent crimes committed as children, and a victim’s grandson who chose to lead with forgiveness. Each performance will be followed by a facilitated discussion on the themes discussed in the play - radical forgiveness and how we can create a more humane criminal justice system.
THIS IS IT! THE 2018 CULMINATING SLAM! Free Event!
Ever felt like you reached the end of your rope? Ever faced adversity head on and lost? Ever found a ray of hope amid the darkness? What got you through? What kept you going? What gave you strength?
Life, Death, Life Again: Children Sentenced to Die in Prison is a verbatim theater piece by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, that shares the stories of four people sentenced to die in prison for violent crimes committed as children, and a victim’s grandson who chose to lead with forgiveness. Each performance will be followed by a facilitated discussion on the themes discussed in the play - radical forgiveness and how we can create a more humane criminal justice system.
Comic in a Day is an annual art-making competition held by coLAB Arts where teams of illustrators and writers work together to create a standard American size comic book of 24 pages, all within the span of 24 hours. The entrants’ comics are read live by a group of actors and is underscored by new original music at a showcase at Pino's Lounge in Highland Park that will close the event, and is adjudicated by a panel of judges from the industry and community. The winning comic book receives a first place prize and online distribution!
Williams’s phantasmagorical play is set in a plaza of a teeming tropical seaport where the rules are not always clear and the dangers real. A young, idealistic boxer stumbles into a world of figures from history and literature, artists and criminals, tyrants and idealists, the poetic and the banal, in a fever dream that Williams called “a prayer for the wild of heart kept in cages.”
Content Advisory: The show has adult language and themes. If it were a movie it would be rated PG-13
Cost: just $5 (includes ticket, lunch, and artist talk back)
Pick Up and Drop Off Location: Levin Theater, Mason Gross School of the Arts, 85 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Questions email, coLAB Arts Director of Education John Keller, jpkeller@colab-arts.org
Produced by New Brunswick Cultural Center and coLAB Arts, stART is an access program for teens to attend regional performing arts events, mingle with other area students, and engaged with professional artists and administrators. All events include a performance and meal for just $5. To learn more or register for any of the events below check us out at: www.colab-arts.org/start
This powerful new play explores the challenges of international aid across interpersonal borders, and how e bridge seemingly impossible cultural divides.
Content Advisory: The show has adult language and themes. If it were a movie it would be rated PG-13
Ticket, Chartered Bust Transportation and Lunch provided for just $5
Pick Up and Drop Off Location: Lord Stirling School rear parking lot, 101 Redmond Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Depart: 12:00pm, Return: 6:00pm
Questions email, coLAB Arts Director of Education John Keller, jpkeller@colab-arts.org.
Produced by New Brunswick Cultural Center and coLAB Arts, stART is an access program for teens to attend regional performing arts events, mingle with other area students, and engaged with professional artists and administrators. All events include a performance and meal for just $5. To learn more or register for any of the events below check us out at: www.colab-arts.org/start
Ever hear a bump in the night, come in contact with the spirit world, or run into a string of bad luck? Has a memory, person, event from the past, suddenly shown up again without invitation? Ever gotten to know someone and they suddenly disappeared? Collect your black cats, voodoo dolls, and a lock of your ex’s hair, and come to theVOM and tell a five to seven minute story about GHOSTS.
Life, Death, Life Again: Children Sentenced to Die in Prison is a verbatim theater piece by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, that shares the stories of four people sentenced to die in prison for violent crimes committed as children, and a victim’s grandson who chose to lead with forgiveness. Each performance will be followed by a facilitated discussion on the themes discussed in the play - radical forgiveness and how we can create a more humane criminal justice system.
Alison Bechdel (American, born 1960)
Page 134 from Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
(New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006)
Courtesy of the Artist
Join us for a community celebration as we dedicate French Street’s newest mural and share stories of perseverance, grit and determination.
TrueSelves: A New Gender Play is an original play based on oral histories of the NJ transgender community. TrueSelves was created by coLAB Arts in partnership with the Pride Center of New Jersey. One performance only on June 9 at 7pm.
Join stART for a special communal meal in the kitchens of Promise Culinary School June 9, 2018 1:00pm - 4:00pm
An original play based on oral histories of the New Jersey transgender community. Saturday, June 9 (6:30pm – 9:00pm)
NOTE THE DIFFERENT LOCATIONS IN NB
1) Promise Culinary School 211, Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
2) Trueselves Play at Levin Theater, 85 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901)
Cost: $10 total for both events!
Due Date: YOU MUST REGISTER ONLINE BY Thursday June 7. Bring Form and Money with you.
stART is a program in partnership with the New Brunswick Cultural Center and made possible through generous support from Middlesex County.
Ever find yourself in a race against the clock? Ever feel stuck? Ever notice the world rapidly changing around you? Or reinvented yourself in a new place? TheVOM returns for its second slam of the year and we want to hear your stories about speed, regret, missed connections, missed opportunity, last minute plans, time slipping away, and everything in between.
Join stART for BACK to THE REAL at Crossroads Theater Company on tour at Rutgers VJM Theater.
Produced by Crossroads Theater Company
Set in the immediate aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, Back to the Real – a smart and insightful play about a brother and sister along with their respective girlfriends navigating this new political reality – confront their own identity concerns with respect to racial and sexual identity. However, a recent genealogy discovery impacts several aspects of the house-hold including romantic relationship as well as tolerance in spiritual houses of worship.
Date of Event: Sunday, May 20 (2:00pm – 6:00pm) (Drop off/Pick Up: Victoria J Mastrobuono Theater, 85 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901)
Cost: $5 total!! This includes lunch and show ticket.
Due Date: YOU MUST REGISTER ONLINE BY Friday May 18. Bring Form and Money with you.
stART is a program in partnership with the New Brunswick Cultural Center and made possible through generous support from Middlesex County.
Life, Death, Life Again: Children Sentenced to Die in Prison is a verbatim theater piece by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, that shares the stories of three people sentenced to die in prison for violent crimes committed as children, and a victim’s grandson who chose to lead with forgiveness. Tonight's performance will be followed by a facilitated discussion on the theme of Radical Forgiveness.
Teams of writers, directors, and musicians are tasked with creating new 15-minute musicals in one weekend in response to the advocacy work of local organizations and communities and challenged with incorporating random props.
2018 Creative Teams to be announced soon! This year's partner organizations are PRAB, Raritan Valley Workshop, and NeighborCorps Re-Entry Services.
Life, Death, Life Again: Children Sentenced to Die in Prison is a verbatim theater piece by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, that shares the stories of four people sentenced to die in prison for violent crimes committed as children, and a victim’s grandson who chose to lead with forgiveness. Tonight's performance will be followed by a facilitated discussion on the theme of Sentencing and the Criminal Justice System.
Life, Death, Life Again: Children Sentenced to Die in Prison is a verbatim theater piece by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, that shares the stories of four people sentenced to die in prison for violent crimes committed as children, and a victim’s grandson who chose to lead with forgiveness. Tonight's performance will be followed by a facilitated discussion on the theme of Radical Forgiveness.
Join stART for FAUST at Rutgers Theater Company Mason Gross School of the Arts
Produced by Rutgers Theater Department
Considered one of the most important works of world literature, based on an old German folktale about the substance and fragility of humanity. A dissatisfied scholar sells his soul to a roguish stranger in exchange for unlimited knowledge and self-gratification. What could possibly go wrong?
Date of Event: Saturday, March 26 (1:30pm – 6:00pm) (Drop off/Pick Up: Victoria J Mastrobuono Theater, 85 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901)
Cost: $5 total!! This includes lunch and show ticket.
Due Date: YOU MUST REGISTER ONLINE BY March Bring Form and Money with you.
stART is a program in partnership with the New Brunswick Cultural Center and made possible through generous support from Middlesex County.
Ever had your identity stolen? Pretended to be someone else? Had to prove who you were to yourself to someone who didn’t believe you? Trouble at the DMV, mistaken identity, existential crisis? TheVOM is back and wants to hear your story
Join stART for annual workshop with performance poet Glenis Redmond
Produced by State Theatre of NJ
Glenis Redmond believes that a Teaching Artist is a person that has the ability to translate their art form educationally, while simultaneously inspiring and empowering both teachers and students to experience and practice their art form.
Date of Event: Wednesday, March 7 (5:00pm – 6:30pm) (Drop off/Pick Up: State Theatre Administrative Offices, 40 Livingston Avenue, 3rd Floor, New Brunswick, NJ 08901)
Cost: $5 total!! This includes food and workshop
Due Date: YOU MUST REGISTER ONLINE BY March Friday March 2! Bring Form and Money with you.
stART is a program in partnership with the New Brunswick Cultural Center and made possible through generous support from Middlesex County.
Our Common Thread is an annual performance event presented by coLAB Arts and the First Reformed Church, to tell the story of and support New Brunswick's Interfaith Men's Rotating Shelter. Tickets are available here.
Join stART for AMERICAN HERO at George Street Playhouse
Produced by George Street Playhouse
Captain Rob Wellman's perfect life starts to unravel when a fellow veteran seeking justice shows up threatening to expose a hidden past. From the author of last season’s American Son, this probing drama shines a light on how America honors its veterans, the corrupting effect of awards and commendations, and questions what it truly means to be a hero. American Hero joins American Son and a yet-to-be titled new work to create a trilogy of plays that explore American injustice. American Hero is the recipient of the Steinberg Award Citation from the American Theatre Critics Association.
Date of Event: Feb 10 (12:30pm – 5:00pm) (Drop off/Pick Up: George Street Playhouse, 103 College Farm Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901)
Cost: $5 total!! This includes lunch and show ticket.
Due Date: YOU MUST REGISTER ONLINE BY Feb 8. Bring Form and Money with you.
stART is a program in partnership with the New Brunswick Cultural Center and made possible through generous support from Middlesex County.
Join stART at the Zimmerli
Food + Private tour of the Museum + Photography Exhibit and Workshop with Artist Kether Tompkins!
Date of Event: Saturday January 6 (12:00pm – 4pm) (Drop off: Zimmerli Art Museum, 11 Hamiton Street, New Brunswick, NJ
Cost: $5 total!! This includes lunch and workshop
Due Date: YOU MUST REGISTER ONLINE BY January 5! Bring Form and Money with you.
stART is a program in partnership with the New Brunswick Cultural Center and made possible through generous support from Middlesex County.
Join stART for THE Nutcracker
Performed by American Repertory Ballet
The only American Repertory Ballet performances featuring a live orchestra and choir!
American Repertory Ballet brings the beloved classic Nutcracker to the stage with Tchaikovsky’s magnificent score, stunning sets, thrilling choreography, and a cast of more than 100 performers. A holiday tradition for more than 50 years, ARB’s is one of the longest continuously running Nutcracker productions in the nation. Directed by Artistic Director Douglas Martin, ARB’s professional company will be joined by select students from Princeton Ballet School to tell the story of a young girl named Clara and how a mysterious gift from her Uncle Drosselmeyer brings about enchanted dreams and fantastical scenes. ARB’s Nutcracker is a perfect holiday treat for your entire family!
Date of Event: Sunday, December 17 (12:00pm – 3:30pm) (Drop off: Filippos Pizza, 336 George Street. New Brunswick, NJ 08901. Pick location: State Theatre, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. We will meet at Filippos for lunch and then walk one block to the theater.
Cost: $5 total!! This includes lunch and show ticket.
Due Date: YOU MUST REGISTER ONLINE BY December 14! Bring Form and Money with you.
stART is a program in partnership with the New Brunswick Cultural Center and made possible through generous support from Middlesex County.
Choreographers are commissioned to explore new ideas about movement and dance in working directly with local social advocacy organizations and their constituencies. We'll soon be announcing our six choreographers and six partner nonprofit organizations.
Choreographers are commissioned to explore new ideas about movement and dance in working directly with local social advocacy organizations and their constituencies. We'll soon be announcing our six choreographers and six partner nonprofit organizations.
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