October 3-18 2008 (Weekends)

NJ PREMIERE

Book & Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens Music by Stephen Flaherty Based on the novel by Sherley Anne Williams Directed by Gregory Allen Set in 1847 and based on the acclaimed novel of the same name by Sherley Anne Williams, Dessa Rose tells a powerful tale of courage, brutality, redemption and friendship between a pregnant runaway slave and the woman who shelters her.  From the creative team that wrote Ragtime and Once on this Island.

 

January 30, 31 February 1, 6,7,8 2009

Book & Lyrics by Tom Jones Music by Harvey Schmidt Based on The Fourposter by Jan de Hartog Directed by Gregory Allen This crowd pleasing story, from the team behind The Fantasticks and 110 in the Shade, spans fifty years of a marriage from the wedding night through children born and leaving home and all the trials, tribulations, laughter and tears that a couple endures.

April 2, 3, 4 2009

Avow By Bill C. Davis Directed by Gwen Ricks-Spencer 4th Wall moves "off the wall" from our usual offerings to bring you something new and different.  This year, we are excited to present our first play.  Avow  concerns dilemmas of faith, commitment, human sexuality, obedience and family.   We see two relationships--one accepted and one not--in which one couple wants to exchange vows while the other considers breaking them.

June 5-20 2009 (Weekends)

Book by Michael John LaChiusa & George C. Wolfe Music & Lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa Directed by Kate Swan	A "dark, sensual and glittering musical" based on the 1928 Joseph Moncure March narrative poem that centers on a party - fueled by bathtub gin, cocaine, and the uninhibited behavior of the roaring twenties.  With 7 Tony nominations, this musical turned Broadway upside down with its vaudevillian, conceptual approach to strong subject matter.