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One Night Stand Concert
Reading
Tuesday, May 9, at 7pm
100 Years into the Heart—The Musical A new musical with book by Richard Vetere, music by Jeffrey Lodin,
lyrics by William Squier. Directed by Evan Bergman and featuring
Broadway stars Bob Cuccioli, Arianna Rosario and Eddie Korbich.
Inspired by real-life events, this romantic
new musical about miracles and tragedy, faith and passion, tells
one family’s story … where a long-held secret could change
everything. 100 Years Into the Heart has
been seen in developmental performances at Bound for Broadway IV,
Collaborative Arts Project 21, Curtain Call Inc., 4th Wall Theater,
Music in a Box, New England Academy of Theatre and New York Musical
Theater Festival. It was showcased in the Village Theater’s Seventh
Annual Festival of New Musicals. And the premiere production at The
Spirit of Broadway Theatre was honored with seven Spirit Awards,
including Best New Book, Best New Lyrics, Best New Score, Best New
Work and Best Production of the Year and now you can see a very
special One Night Stand Concert Reading at NJ Rep.
Doors open at 6:30 for open seating and happy
1/2 hour.
For reservations call 732-229-3166 or click
the button below.
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One Night Stand Spoken Word
Monday, May 15, at 7pm
A Tale of Two Misters
Playwright D.W. Gregory reads from
her award-winning short fiction. In Mr. Henry,
a retired schoolteacher finds love and hope in his next-door
neighbor's tomato patch. In Mr. Kindness, a lonely
farmwife's sterile marriage is transformed by a visit from a
mysterious seed salesman. Author of Memoirs of a
Forgotten Man, Gregory is the 2021 winner of the
West Virginia Fiction Contest and a Pushcart Prize nominee.
Doors open at 6:30 for open seating and happy
1/2 hour.
For reservations call 732-229-3166 or click
the button below.
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DW Gregory
D.W. Gregory's plays frequently explore
political issues through a personal lens and with a comedic twist.
The New York Times called her "a playwright with a talent to
enlighten and provoke" for her most-produced work, Radium Girls, about the famous case of
industrial poisoning. Other plays include Memoirs of a Forgotten Man, a National New Play
Network rolling world premiere (Contemporary American Theater
Festival, Shadowland Stages, New Jersey Repertory Company); Molumby's Million (Iron Age Theatre), nominated
for a Barrymore Award by Theatre Philadelphia; A Thing of Beauty, winner of the Southeastern
Theatre Conference's 2023 Charles M. Getchell New Play Award; The Good Daughter and October 1962 (New Jersey Repertory Company); and
a new musical comedy, The Yellow Stocking Play,
with composer Steven M. Alper and lyricist Sarah Knapp. Her plays
have been developed through the support of AATE, the National New
Play Network (NNPN), the Playwrights' Center, the Maryland State
Arts Council, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the HBMG Foundation
and the National Endowment for the Arts. A member of the Dramatists
Guild, Gregory is an affiliated writer with the Playwrights' Center
in Minneapolis and an affiliated artist with NNPN. Gregory also
writes for youth theatre (Salvation Road and Penny Candy) and makes occasional appearances as
a teaching artist. For five years in a row, Dramatics magazine
named Radium Girls among the 10
Most-Produced Plays in American High-School Theatre.
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New Jersey Repertory
Company
179 Broadway, Long Branch, NJ 07740
732-229-3166 www.njrep.org
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