Premiere Stages @ Kean Announces 2025 Season
Celebrating 20 years of new plays and New Jersey premieres!
Play Festival Winner
The Mallard
By Vincent Delaney
Directed by
John J. Wooten
WHEN: July 17 - August 3, 2025
WHERE: Premiere Stages, Kean University, 1000 Morris Avenue, Union, NJ 07083
Freya and Gillian are teachers who have offended their school board and lost their jobs. Davis and Reagan are yard sale fanatics in search of a priceless antique duck decoy, the Horace Crandall Mallard. What follows is a fierce, funny and escalating battle over a symbol that has wildly different meanings - intersecting the couples in a journey that far surpasses the quest for treasure.
New Jersey Premiere
Walden
By Amy Berryman
Directed by Charlotte Cohn
WHEN: September 4 - 21, 2025
WHERE: Premiere Stages, Kean University, 1000 Morris Avenue, Union, NJ 07083
In the near future, Stella and her fiancé, Bryan, are waiting at their remote cabin for Stella’s estranged twin sister, Cassie. Raised by their astronaut father to be NASA scientists, the twins have taken different paths: Cassie has just returned from a successful moon mission, while Stella left NASA behind. When Cassie arrives, old conflicts reignite, forcing the sisters to choose between life on Earth or pursuing a future in space, as humanity's fate hangs in the balance. Walden is a thrilling and engrossing play that wrestles between the gravitational pulls of duty and desire.
Staged Readings
Save the dates
Premiere Play Festival Reading Series
June 19 - 22 Four promising new plays will have a professional reading on successive days. The four plays will be announced in early June.
Play Festival Finalist Staged Reading
Fall 2025 Three readings of one finalist from the 2025 Festival. The finalist will be announced this summer.
Liberty Live Commission
Effa Loves Baseball
By Pia Wilson
Fall 2025 Effa Loves Baseball is a compelling story about Effa Manley, manager of the Newark Eagles and the first and only female inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
PACKAGES
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Opening Night Package
Celebrate Premiere Stages' 20th season at our opening night performances!
Friday, July 18 - The Mallard
Friday, September 5 - Walden
Mainstage Package
Purchase tickets to any performance of both The Mallard and Walden!
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Premiere Stages is made possible in part through funding from W. John Bauer and Nancy Boucher, The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, The Dubose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, The Northfield Bank Foundation, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, The Union Foundation, E.J. Grassmann Trust, Blue Foundry Charitable Foundation, Carole Shaffer-Koros and Robert Koros, ExxonMobil Foundation, The New Jersey Theatre Alliance, The Union County HEART Grant and through the generous support of individual patrons and local organizations. Discover Jersey Arts is our marketing partner. Visit www.jerseyarts.com for more information about other arts programming happening around the Garden State.
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