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# Premiere Stages: Created in 2004, Premiere Stages is the professional Equity theatre in residence at Kean University. Through our unique partnership with Kean, our play development programs, educational initiatives, and professional development opportunities actively embrace the university’s academic curriculum while expanding the scope, accessibility, and prestige of the professional programming on campus.

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## Plays
- [Effa Loves Baseball](https://premierestagesatkean.com/play/effa-loves-baseball/): Effa Manley manages the Newark Eagles, a team she wants to take all the way to the Negro League World Series. Effa battles the press, coaching staff, segregation, and sometimes herself to win at the business of the game she loves most of all.
- [Mala Aria](https://premierestagesatkean.com/play/mala-aria/): Hoping to discover how to eradicate malaria, Amazia leaves her family in Tanzania to pursue a PhD abroad.
- [Flawless](https://premierestagesatkean.com/play/flawless/): A writer and an AI software designer battle to create the next great play.
- [Walden](https://premierestagesatkean.com/play/walden/): After returning from a successful mission to the moon, NASA scientist Cassie’s reunion with estranged twin sister Stella reignites old conflicts, forcing the sisters to choose between life on Earth or pursuing a future in space, in "Walden."
- [The Mallard](https://premierestagesatkean.com/play/the-mallard/): Two teachers fighting for their jobs come head-to-head with a pair of treasure hunters in "The Mallard", a fierce and funny play about an antique mallard decoy.

## Posts
- [At Liberty Hall](https://premierestagesatkean.com/at-liberty-hall/): A staged reading of a time-bending story that uncovers the parallel lives of an unlikely pair of American immigrants: Christian Rosario, a 10th grader from Queens by way of the Dominican Republic, and the subject of his history project, Alexander Hamilton.
- [Lia Del Mar](https://premierestagesatkean.com/lia-del-mar/): Lia Del Mar is a poignant exploration of familial love amid economic upheavals. In the Costa Chica region of Mexico, two generations of Afro-Mexican women do their best to make ends meet.
- [The Health Bridge Project](https://premierestagesatkean.com/the-health-bridge-project/): Premiere Stages is honored to partner with Overlook Medical Center to offer playwriting workshops to the integrative programs at the Carol G. Simon Cancer Center via The Health Bridge Project.
- [Effa Loves Baseball](https://premierestagesatkean.com/reading-effa-loves-baseball/): Effa Manley, the first woman inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, fights against the press and segregation while managing the Newark Eagles in pursuit of the Negro League World Series title.
- [20th Anniversary](https://premierestagesatkean.com/20th-anniversary/): It's our 20th anniversary! We are celebrating 20 years of New Plays and New Jersey premieres!
- [Semi-finalists](https://premierestagesatkean.com/semifinalists/): Premiere Stages at Kean University is pleased to announce the Premiere Play Festival Semi-Finalists.
- [Plays by People](https://premierestagesatkean.com/plays-by-people/): A staged reading of two short plays by Matheny Arts Access contributors Chris Saglimbene and Amy Myers. The Matheny Arts Access Program enables individuals with disabilities to create art without boundaries
- [Castling](https://premierestagesatkean.com/staged-reading-of-castling/): In "Castling," workers at a local tire shop in Newark play chess as part of their daily morning ritual. But when their long standing workplace becomes the target of a business takeover, they scramble to avoid being put into the ultimate checkmate.
- [Play Festival Reading Series](https://premierestagesatkean.com/reading-series/): You are invited to the Play Festival Reading Series, featuring the four finalists of the 2026 Premiere Play Festival at the Bauer Boucher Theatre Center.
- [Still](https://premierestagesatkean.com/still/): Peter arrives at an abolitionist office seeking help from William, an African-American leader in the Underground Railroad. Soon they realize their vastly different pasts will lead them to a deeply connected future.
- [Diversion](https://premierestagesatkean.com/diversion/): When it’s discovered that someone is diverting medicine on an ICU unit, a group of devoted and hard working nurses must fight to save themselves and the integrity of their unit.
- [Healing Voices](https://premierestagesatkean.com/healing-voices/): Healing Voices: Caregivers’ Stories weaves together short works of prose, poetry, and theatre about personal caregiving experiences into an intimate theatrical performance. 
- [Mr. Still](https://premierestagesatkean.com/reading-still/): A new, abridged adaptation of last summer’s production of "Still" that is in development to tour schools throughout New Jersey.
- [The Fertile River](https://premierestagesatkean.com/the-fertile-river/): In "The Fertile River," during the summer of 1958, Cora Lee Burden, the sixty-four-year-old grandmother of a mentally challenged child, has no idea what a white social worker from the government would want with her family.