Whether a pre-show Q&A with the director, a post-show discussion with actors and a wine pour, or a class in Shakespearian stage combat, theaters are offering all sorts of off-stage audience action, usually tied to the theme or issue the performance explores. “It’s much more than just attending the theater,” explains John McEwen, Executive Director of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance, a support organization for professional, non-profit theaters statewide. In northwest NJ, as nationwide, theaters faced with a stiff challenge from at-home and on-line entertainment, are inviting patrons to be part of the act.
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Within forty minutes of me I once counted nineteen theater companies.”Ĭounting or not, whatever your theatre tastes - musicals, dramas, revivals, premieres, experimental, you can find it here - in professional theaters featuring paid actors, designers, directors and staff or all-volunteer community theaters, where your neighbor could be starring in a show.īut these days, whatever your tastes, there’s more to theatergoing than just showing up and sitting through a play. “Theater is everywhere,” says Joanne DeCarolis, a community theater director, actress, and board member at Dover’s circa 1930s Little Theatre, which stands on an otherwise residential street, removed from downtown. Pretty much wherever you turn, there’s a show around the bend, and, odds are, one with personality, in a place with personality. Gertrude Stein famously once asked, “where’s the there there?” The answer, when it comes to Skylands theater is easy: “the there” is just about everywhere. In unexpected architecture - a brick-sided former morgue, old vaudeville house, or contemporary addition to a Stanford White designed Georgian mansion.
It’s about discovering theater in unexpected places - by a lake, a golf course, or in the middle of a quiet residential neighborhood. Theater-going in northwest New Jersey equals adventure.
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