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A collage of four different portraits, each featuring individuals with distinct styles and expressions, is set against a modern, abstract blue background. Counter-clockwise from top to bottom, the headshots include a woman with natural hair and red earrings, a man with glasses and a mustache, a smiling woman with curly hair, and a man in a collared shirt with a neutral expression. The background is stylized with abstract line patterns.
  • Play Festival Finalists
  • June 19 - 22
  • 2025

Play Festival Reading Series

You are invited to the 20th Annual Festival Finalists Reading Series, featuring the four finalists of the 2025 Premiere Play Festival at the Bauer Boucher Theatre Center, Kean University.
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A decoy mallard wearing a wooden crown and a red cape, sitting on top of Tupperware within a beige background
  • Play Festival Winner
  • Jul 17 - Aug 3
  • 2025

The Mallard

Two teachers fighting for their jobs come head-to-head with a pair of treasure hunters in a fierce and funny play about an antique mallard decoy.
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A cabin in the forest at night, surrounded by fog, slightly illuminated by Mars peeking on the top right corner
  • New Jersey Premiere
  • Sep 4 - 21
  • 2025

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.

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Past Shows

A person dressed in nurse clothes and wearing a stethoscope around the neck is reaching for a medicine bottle. In the foreground, the inside of a cabinet shows orange colored bottles with pills inside.
  • Sep 5 - 22
  • 2024

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.
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A man in the distance, holding a lantern and walking through a line of trees while the sun sets. His reflection is seen in the river in the foreground. A silhouette of an African American man can be seen through the trees.
  • July 11-28
  • 2024

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.
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