arts
World-Class Entertainment
This Side of the Bridge
Why make the trip to New York when Kean Stage invites
you to enjoy a world-class lineup of Grammy
®
and Tony
Award-winning artists, dedicated family acts, dynamic dance
companies and multicultural music, films and shows right
here in your own backyard?
BROADWAY SERIES
Kean Stage’s inaugural Broadway Series at the Gene & Shelley Enlow
Recital Hall concludes with Grammy® and Tony Award winner
Billy
Porter, April 22
. Best known for his critically acclaimed turn as Lola
in the Harvey Fierstein-Cyndi Lauper musical Kinky Boots, Mr. Porter
will present an intimate evening of songs and stories from the Great
White Way. In collaboration with longtime musical director James
Sampliner, Mr. Porter will translate some of the most iconic Broadway
music of the past eight decades into African-American idioms,
including soul, gospel, hip-hop, funk, and R&B.
MUSIC
Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day,
The Five Irish Tenors
graced Enlow’s
stage on
March 12.
World-renowned vocalists David Martin, Morgan
Crowley, Ciarán Kelly, Alan Leech, and George Hutton presented
a sensational program of the most famously beloved Irish songs,
including classics
Toora-Loora-Looral, My Wild Irish Rose, When Irish Eyes
Are Smiling, As She Moved Through The Fair
and
Danny Boy
. Fusing Irish
wit and boisterous charm with lyricism, dramatic flair, and operatic
style, the concert featured a combination of tenor solos, duets, trios,
quartets, quintets, and tutti.
THEATRE
Premiere Stages kicked off its 2017 Season as the professional Equity
theatre in residence at Kean with its popular
Spring Reading Series
March 9 - 12
, featuring free readings of this year’s finalists for the
Premiere Stages Play Festival, as performed by professional actors.
Now in its 13th year, the Play Festival is an annual competition for
unproduced scripts that offers developmental opportunities to
playwrights affiliated with the greater metropolitan area (New
Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Pennsylvania). Four finalist
plays are selected from approximately 400 submissions for these
professional readings, with two of the four scripts eventually going
on to expanded development later this season.
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