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Friday, October 1, 2010

STNJ CELEBRATES HALLOWEEN WITH UNIQUE EVENTS

Annual Costume and Prop Sale and
Something Wicked This Way Comes

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey begins its Halloween celebrations with its annual

Costume, Prop and Furniture Sale
WHERE: Saturday, October 9, from 9 AM to approximately 2 PM (Doors open at 9 AM sharp)
WHERE: F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre, 36 Madison Avenue, (at Lancaster Road) in Madison. 
ADMISSION: free. For more information, call 973.408.5600 or visit http://www.shakespearenj.org/

A must-go event for those seeking unusual items and costumes for Halloween, drama teachers, and collectors, the sale will feature one-of-a-kind items from the Theatre’s prop, costume, and furniture collections.  From gowns to masks to decorative and small furniture items, there is sure to be something for everyone. All items are priced to sell. Proceeds from the sale benefit The Shakespeare Theatre’s artistic and educational programs.  

Halloween Week starts with One-Night-Only Something Wicked This Way Comes

WHEN: Monday, October 25 at 7:30 PM
WHERE: The F. M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre in Madison
TICKETS: $32 and are now on sale. To purchase tickets, or for more information, call 973.408.5600 or visit http://www.shakespearenj.org/.

To kick off Halloween Week, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey will present Something Wicked This Way Comes. Titled from a line in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Something Wicked This Way Comes is a 90-minute, delightfully bone-chilling event, featuring esteemed actors from The Shakespeare Theatre as well as guest artists who have appeared in horror films and television shows. The event—a collage of dramatic readings from horror and ghost classics, haunting music, an atmospheric soundscape, and other surprise “treats”—will feature excerpts from Shakespeare, Poe, and other classics from the genre. Cast members will be announced soon. 

Providing the haunting music for this unique evening is John Hoge playing the theremin, one of the very first electronic instruments and invented in Russia in the early 1900s by Lev Termen.  It is the only musical instrument played without physical contact. The theremin was “discovered” by film composers in the first half of the 20th century, and its sound became an iconic signature of such scores as Spellbound and The Day the Earth Stood Still, and was eventually heard in hundreds of B movies. Now enjoying resurgence in popularity, the theremin is used by rock bands and on the symphonic concert stage. 

The acclaimed Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey is an independent, professional theatre company located on the Drew University campus. One of the leading Shakespeare theatres in the nation, serving 100,000 adults and children annually, it is New Jersey’s only professional theatre company dedicated solely to Shakespeare’s canon and other world classics. Through its distinguished productions and education programs, the company strives to illuminate the universal and lasting relevance of the classics for contemporary audiences.