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50 Seasons

1973 – 1975 Seasons: The Cabaret Theatre Society 

During these early years, Cabaret had yet to move into its current location and the “Cabaret Theatre Society” would perform original plays as well as true ‘cabarets,’ collections of songs and skits, almost anywhere — the Douglass College Center snack bar, the basement of both the Arts and Bio-Sci building, Corwin Lodge, Gibbons Cabin and even the now-defunct Douglass Pub. 

Some of these early Cabarets included:

  • Behind Every Great Man, Oddballs, Compliments and Buddy Pals by Neil Cuthbert | photos | program 
  • Waiting Room by Marian Calabro 
  • A Salute to Television by Maureen Heffernan | program 
  • The Audition by David DiSavino & Jack Fisher 
  • The Peer Glint Ensemble by Alan Semok & Joseph Barbarotta | photos
  • Atmosphere by Laura Gardiner and Stagelights by Anthony Zaleski | photos 
  • Ruby Lips by Fred Sirasky & Marilyn Rockafellow Sirasky | photos | program 
  • The Powder Room by Gina Cologero, music & lyrics by Jim Williams | photos 
  • Buffaloes and Other Things by William Mastrosimone | photos

In September 1975, Cabaret moved to its present location, opening its season at the Agora. 

1975 – 1976 Season

  • Looney Toones by Jon Rosenbluth, John Russo & David Greenberg | photos
  • Sinbad by Elliot Taubenslag | photos | program
  • Purgatory & Steambath by David Greenfield
  • Monkey Wrench by Roger Paradiso

Special Projects: Cabaret Coffeehouses

1976 – 1977 Season

  • Let Us Pay, a miraculous musical by Neil Cuthbert & Fred Sirasky | photos
  • Medieval Christmas conceived by Dan Irvin & Bernie Collins and The Second Shepherds’ Play by John Gassner (produced in conjunction with the Rutgers Repertory Theater Company) | program
  • Walkers to the Ocean by William Mastrosimone
  • Something Different (The Good Earth, Chapter 1 & Escape from the Cold Night Air), two original one-act musicals
  • I Know That Song, a musical review of Howard Arlen conceived by Larry Rosen

Special Projects:

  • Swamp Fox in Yangtze Gunboats by Duffy Magesis & Mike Sklarosf
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses

1977 – 1978 Season

  • El Grande de Coca-Cola by Ron House and Diz White | photos | program 
  • Drive in Theater, a musical revue conceived by Roger Paradiso | program 
  • Tonight at 8:30 by Noël Coward
  • Ham’ by William Mastrosimone | photos | program 
  • Ruby Lips by Fred Sirasky & Marilyn Rockafellow Sirasky (revival of the 1974 production) | photos | program 

Special Projects: Cabaret Coffeehouses

1978 – 1979 Season

  • A Box Full of Hope by Luigi Jannuzzi
  • Ghostly Graveyard Gaieties by Michael Bergman
  • Humbug, based on Dickens’ A Christmas Carol adapted by Diane Mir
  • American Plates, a vaudeville conceived by Don Bennett | photos 
  • Child of the Seventies, a musical by Al Agate & Mike Koren | photos | program

Special Projects:

  • Out of my Mime with David Francis Barker | photos | program
  • Selections, a one-woman show with Lynda Joy Silverman
  • Cabaret Conjuring with Harry Maurer
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses

1979 – 1980 Season

  • Who Are These People In My Living Room? by Luigi Jannuzzi | photos | release  
  • Dialogues of Black Existence: Street Sounds by Ed Bullins & A Cabaret (produced in conjunction with the Paul Robeson Black Arts Ensemble) | photos | program 
  • Headin’ West, a musical by Michael Bergman & Tom Ehrenberg | photos | program
  • The Winter’s Song, a musical by James G. Kaplan & Lawrence R. Harris | photos | program
  • Curiouser and Curiouser, an adaptation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland conceived by Michael Bergman | photos | program 
  • The Mystery of the Forbidden Self by Mary Ethel Schmidt | program 
  • Somalia Rose by Sydne Mahone & Janiera Warren (produced in conjunction with the Paul Robeson Black Arts Ensemble) | program 

Special Projects:

  • All This and More, six hours of comedy, song and dance conceived by Kevin Motley | program 
  • Happy Holidays, a holiday revue conceived by Tom Ehrenberg 
  • AND NOW… (a musician series) | release 
  • Cabaret’s Arts Weekend | photos
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses 

1980 – 1981 Season

  • Steppin’ Out, a tribute to Irving Berlin conceived by Kenn Rapcyzinski | photos | program 
  • Ellie’s Butterfly by Damian Delaney | program
  • Marry Me a Little songs by Stephen Sondheim, concept by Craig Lucas & Norman Rene
  • The Mighty Gents by Richard Wesley & What the Wine-Sellers Buy by Ron Milner (produced in conjunction with the Paul Robeson Black Arts Ensemble) | photos | program 
  • Nights, an operetta by Michael Bergman & Tom Ehrenberg | photos | program 

Special Projects:

  • Happy Holidays, a holiday review conceived by Thomas R. Eherberg | program 
  • Very Sleight of Hand, a magic show by Harry Maurer & Steven Friedlander | program 
  • Cabaret’s Second Annual Arts Weekend
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses 

1981 – 1982 Season

  • 3 One Acts: Working Class by Lisa Giorgio & A-Plus and Abide with Me by Bill Prendergast | program 
  • Fall One Acts ’81: Pvt. Wars by James McLure & I Can’t Imagine Tomorrow by Tennessee Williams | program 
  • The Naughty Adventures of Peter Pan conceived by Michael Taubenslag & Kevin Goetz, music & lyrics by Leo Stella & Marilyn Cooper | program 
  • Everyman, A Morality Play | photos | program 
  • The Snow Queen adapted by Andy Korzun | photos
  • Patti at the Met, a musical review by Kevin Motley & James Kaplan  

Special Projects:

  • Happy Holidays II, a Holiday Review conceived by Frank LeRose 
  • Very Sleight of Hand with Harry Maurer 
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses 
  • Cabaret Ball | photos

1982 – 1983 Season

  • Stagedoor Songbook, a new musical revue conceived by Kevin Chamberlain | photos | program 
  • Penny Dreadful by David Allison Crespy
  • Fall One Acts ’82: Adam and Eve by Sheldon Harnick & Jerry Bock and The Groves of Academe by Mark Stein | photos | photos | program 
  • Celebration by Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt | program 
  • Black Cycle by Martie Charles (produced in conjunction with the Paul Robeson Black Arts Ensemble) | program
  • Spring One Acts ’83: Class is Dismissed & Abide with Me by Bill Prendergast 
  • Working by Steven Schwartz & Nina Faso (produced in conjunction with the College Avenue Players) | program
  • Recruits; or, That’s How it Was by Axenfeld & Resnick | program 

Special Projects:

  • Just This Once 
  • Slight Departure by Kathryn Milea and A Musical Evening with Patti Pelican | program 
  • Mr. & Mrs. Smith Present An Attempt to Socialize by Ben Chatrer, Jim Beckerman & Andy Seiler 
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses 

1983 – 1984 Season

  • The Lighthouse by Richard Arthur Lloyd | photos | program 
  • Matters Of Consequence by Glenn Kelman
  • In Trousers by William Finn | photos | program 
  • Is There Life After High School? by Jeffrey Kindley, Craig Carnella & Ralph Keyes (produced in conjunction with the College Avenue Players) | program
  • For Colored Girls & Spell # 7 by Ntozake Shange (produced in conjunction with the Paul Robeson Ensemble & Ensemble Theatre Co.) | program
  • Minnesota Moon by John Olive & Sammy | photos

Special Projects:

  • Arms of Rain by Kevin Carnahan
  • Otrabanda Company’s Small White House and Package
  • Blue Note (staged reading) by Terry Benjamin | poster  
  • ‘Mo by Richard Arthur Lloyd | program 
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses 

1984 – 1985 Season

  • Fall One Acts ’84: Blue Note by Terry Benjamin; A Night in the Ukraine by Dick Vosburg & Frank Lazarus | photos
  • Gemini by Albert Innaurato
  • The Actor’s Nightmare by Christopher Durang | program 
  • Jacques Brel … is alive and well and living in Paris by Eric Blau, Mort Shuman & Jacques Brel | program 
  • Miracles conceived by Marshall Jones III | photos
  • March of the Falsettos by William Finn | photos | program 

Special Projects: Cabaret Coffeehouses 

1985 – 1986 Season | photos

  • Zastrozzi, The Master of Discipline by George F. Walker (produced in conjunction with the Journeyman Theater Company) | photos | program 
  • Little Pink Skeletons by Gary Benson, R. Arthur Lloyd & Kathy Milea | program 
  • What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton | photos | program 
  • Titanic by Christopher Durang
  • Snoopy book by Warren Lockhart, Arthur Whitelaw & Michael L. Grace, music by Larry Grossman & lyrics by Hal Hackady | program 

Special Projects:

  • Cabaret Coffeehouses 
  • Cabaret’s NEW WORKS: A play reading series 

1986 – 1987 Season

  • Fall One Acts ’86: Adaptation by Elaine May, God by Woody Allen & Birdbath by Leonard Melfi (produced in conjunction with the College Avenue Players)
  • Play It Again Sam by Woody Allen | photos 
  • Godspell by Stephen Schwartz & John-Michael Tebelak | photos | program 
  • Spring One Acts ’87: The Indian Wants the Bronx by Israel Horovitz; Squirrels by David Mamet | program

Special Projects:

  • Cabaret Coffeehouses 
  • Cabaret’s Band Night 

1987 – 1988 Season

  • The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett (at the B’nai B’rith Hillel Auditorium) | program 
  • Welcome to the Moon by John Patrick Shanley
  • The Rocky Horror Show by Richard O’Brien | photos
  • Spring One Acts ’88: The Roots of Chaos by Douglas Soderberg, Mr. Tucker’s Taxi by Leonard Melfi & The Great Nebula in Orion by Lanford Wilson | poster | program 

Special Projects: Cabaret Coffeehouses 

1988 – 1989 Season

  • Mr. 80% by James Sherman
  • Rage adapted by Mark A. Marple & John Green from Steven King’s short story | photos | program 
  • The Actor’s Nightmare & Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All For You by Christopher Durang | photos | program 
  • Spring One Acts ’89: Of Poems, Youth and Spring by John Logan & Waiting for the Sun by Edward Albee | program 
  • Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet | program 

Special Projects: Cabaret Coffeehouses 

1989 – 1990 Season

  • Festival by Stephen Downs & Randall Martin
  • Biloxi Blues by Neil Simon | photos | program 
  • Black Comedy & The Private Ear by Peter Shaffer | program
  • Beyond Therapy by Christopher Durang | program 

Special Projects:

  • The Vitals in concert
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses 

1990 – 1991 Season

  • Speed the Plow & Some Freaks by David Mamet | program 
  • The Run of the River & Epistles by William C. Kovacsik | program 
  • God’s Favorite by Neil Simon | photos | program 
  • Spring One Acts ’91: The Giddy Game by Christopher Scherer & Brilliant Traces by Cindy Lou Johnson | program 
  • The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket by Peter Parnell | photos | program 

Special Projects:

  • Cabaret Coffeehouses | photos 
  • Society of Mask conceived by Cyril Ulric Johnson | photos
  • Cabaret Ball | photos

1991 – 1992 Season

  • Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon | program 
  • Wenceslas Square by Larry Shue | program 
  • Spring One Acts ’92: Election Year by Ellen Byron & Feiffer’s People by Jules Feiffer | program 
  • Godspell by Stephen Schwartz & John-Michael Tebelak | photos | program 
  • Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O’Neill | program 

Special Projects:

  • Cabaret Coffeehouses 
  • Society of Mask conceived by Cyril Ulric Johnson | photos 
  • Cabaret Ball | photos

1992 – 1993 Season

  • Rumors by Neil Simon | photos | program 
  • Fall One Acts ’92: Boys Play by Jack Heifner & My Cup Ranneth Over by Robert Patrick | photos | program 
  • You Can’t Take It With You by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart | photos | program 
  • Closer Than Ever by David Shire & Richard Maltby, Jr. | photos | program 
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard | program  

Special Projects: 

  • Across The Language Barrier conceived by Kelly Cooper
  • The Cabaret Improv Troupe 
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses 
  • The Cabaret Sandbox 

1993 – 1994 Season

  • The Good Doctor by Neil Simon | photos | program 
  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Ludlum | program 
  • Equus by Peter Schaefer | photos | program 
  • A… My Name Is Alice conceived by Joan Micklin Silver & Julianne Boyd | program 
  • The Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht | program 

Special Projects: 

  • The House That Jack Built and Other Feminist Fairy Tales by Debra Kirschner 
  • The Director’s Training Program
  • The Cabaret Improv Troupe 
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses 
  • Cabaret Ball | photos

1994 – 1995 Season

  • Hamlet II by Sam Bobrick | photos
  • The Water Engine by David Mamet 
  • The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee | photos | program 
  • Chess by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus & Tim Rice | photos | program 
  • Ten Little Indians by Agatha Christie | photos | program 

Special Projects: 

  • The Director’s Training Program | program 
  • The Cabaret Improv Troupe 
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses 
  • Cabaret Ball | photos

1995 – 1996 Season (20th Anniversary Season)

  • Evita by Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber | photos | program 
  • Escape from Happiness by George F. Walker | photos | program 
  • Godspell by Stephen Schwartz & John-Michael Tebelak | photos | program 
  • A Few Good Men by Aaron Sorkin | photos | program 
  • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber | photos | program 
  • Lysistrata by Aristophanes | program 

Special Projects: 

  • united by Sue Yacka | program 
  • The People vs. Joe Kramer by Charles Grayson
  • The Director’s Training Program | program | program 
  • The Cabaret Improv Troupe | photos | program | program 
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses 
  • Cabaret Ball | photos

1996 – 1997 Season

  • Once On This Island by Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty | photos | program 
  • The Pink Thunderbird Convertible (“Laundry and Bourbon” & “Lone Star”) by James McLure | photos | program 
  • Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett | photos | program 
  • The Fantasticks by Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt | photos | program  
  • The One Person by Peter Shaughnessy | photos | program 

Special Projects: 

1997 – 1998 Season

  • Hair by Gerome Ragni, James Rado & Galt MacDermot | photos | program 
  • God’s Favorite by Neil Simon | program  
  • Assassins by Stephen Sondheim & John Weidman | photos | program 
  • The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht | program 
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare | program 

Special Projects: 

  • Longing To Be Lauren by Paloma Pedrero (Translated by Patricia O’Connor) (produced in conjunction with the Consulate General of Spain & the Rutgers Spanish and Portuguese Department)
  • The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer (Staged Reading) | program 
  • Crazyface by Clive Barker
  • The Charm of Desire and Regret by Kenneth Urban | photos | program 
  • Oedipus Wrecked by Alexis Kozak | poster | program 
  • The Director’s Training Program | program 
  • The Cabaret Improv Troupe | program 
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses 

1998 – 1999 Season

  • Little Shop of Horrors by Alan Menken & Howard Ashman | program 
  • It’s Only a Play by Terrence McNally | program 
  • Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare | photos
  • Merrily We Roll Along by Stephen Sondheim & George Furth | photos | program 
  • Other Places by Harold Pinter | photos
  • Wolf Lullaby by Hillary Bell 

Special Projects: 

  • The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler 
  • Up Till Ten a ten-minute play series | photos | program 
  • Museum by Ian August | program 
  • Burners by Ken Urban | photos
  • The Director’s Training Program | program | program 
  • Dramatist’s Showcase | program
  • The Cabaret Improv Troupe | program | program 
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses 

1999 – 2000 Season

  • Jesus Christ Superstar by Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber | photos | program 
  • Still Life by Emily Mann 
  • The Gnadiges Fraulein by Tennessee Williams | photos | program 
  • Joined at the Head by Catherine Butterfield | program 
  • Oleanna by David Mamet 

Special Projects:

  • I (Heart) Kant (staged reading) by Ken Urban
  • Merely Players & Santa’s Not Real and Other Fairly Tales by Jon Matthias & Chris Buckley | program 
  • The Director’s Training Program | program 
  • 237 by Inga Meier | poster 
  • The Cabaret Improv Troupe 
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses 

2000 – 2001 Season

  • The Who’s Tommy by Pete Townshend & Des McAnuff | photos | program 
  • Dreamtime, a musical by Mike Wojik, Kerri Allen & Ranjit Arapurakal 
  • Theater ADD by Chris Buckley & Jon Matthias | photos 
  • Company by Stephen Sondheim & George Furth | photos | program 
  • Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee  
  • Baby with the Bathwater by Christopher Durang | program 

Special Projects:

  • Human Expansion Project by Chris Gethard and Jamie Rivera | photos
  • The Director’s Training Program
  • The Cabaret Improv Troupe 
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses 

2001 – 2002 Season

  • Uncommon Women and Others by Wendy Wasserstein
  • Blood Brothers by Willy Russell | photos 
  • Laughter on 23rd Floor by Neil Simon | photos
  • Cabaret by Joe Masteroff, John Kander, & Fred Ebb | photos | program 
  • Trip a Little Fish by Josh Allen

Special Projects:

  • WASP by Steve Martin | program 
  • Mission Possible A No Limits Production
  • Musical! The Musical by Christopher Buckley & Steve Murphy | photos | program 
  • Holiday Out (Postcard from the Sea) by Itziar Pascual (Translated by Phyllis Zatlin) (produced in conjunction with the Rutgers Spanish and Portuguese Department)
  • The Director’s Training Program
  • The Cabaret Improv Troupe 
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses 

2002 – 2003 Season

  • The Rocky Horror Show by Richard O’Brien | photos | program 
  • Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet | program 
  • Assassins by Stephen Sondheim & John Weidman | photos
  • Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire | photos 
  • Lend Me A Tenor by Ken Ludwig | photos

Special Projects:

  • The Unsinkable Chad Moskowitz by Christian Larson (produced by the College Avenue Players at the Cabaret Theatre) | program
  • Masque, a poetry theater experience devised by Mason Granger, Kelsey Kosinski, Scott Raven Tarazevits & Justin Woo | photos
  • The Director’s Training Program
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses 
  • Cabaret Ball | video  

2003 – 2004 Season

  • Godspell by Stephen Schwartz & John-Michael Tebelak| photos | program 
  • Stop Kiss by Diana Son | program 
  • The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare | photos
  • Absurd Person Singular by Alan Ayckbourn
  • The Last 5 Years by Jason Robert Brown | photos | program 
  • Line by Israel Horovitz

Special Projects:

  • Fear Junkie by Pandora Scooter
  • The Director’s Training Program | program 
  • The Cabaret Improv Troupe 
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses 

2004 – 2005 Season

  • Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett | program 
  • Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory by Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley (Produced by the Hillel Theatre Company) | photos | program 
  • Dealt by Joshua Ess | program 
  • Quilt, A Musical Celebration book by Jim Morgan, John Schak & Merle Hubbard; Lyrics by Jim Morgan and music by Michael Stockler
  • Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring (Produced by the Hillel Theatre Company)
  • Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon | program 

Special Projects:

  • Mike Kovacs and the Post-Modern Tribe in concert | photos
  • Consumed by Risa DeSilva-Wilson, Omar Holman & Justin Woo | photos | program 
  • The Director’s Training Program
  • The Cabaret Improv Troupe 
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses 

2005 – 2006 Season (30th Anniversary Season)

  • The Wild Party by Andrew Lippa | photos | program 
  • The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett | photos | program 
  • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber (Produced by the Hillel Theatre Company) | photos
  • Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet | photos | program 
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare | photos
  • The Underpants by Steve Martin | photos

Special Projects:

  • The Brig by Kenneth Brown | photos | program 
  • Closer by Patrick Marber | photos
  • subtext an experiment in original dance theatre | photos | program 
  • The Director’s Training Program | program 
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses 
  • Cabaret Ball | photos

2006 – 2007 Season

  • Wonder of the World by David Lindsay-Abaire | photos 
  • The Rocky Horror Show by Richard O’Brien (Presented in collaboration with Saint Genesius Players) | photos
  • An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein by Shel Silverstein | photos
  • The Girl in the Frame by Jeremy Desmon | photos | program 
  • Bat Boy by Keythe Farley, Brian Flemming & Laurence O’Keefe | photos | program 
  • Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare | photos 
  • Love Rides the Rails (Will The Mail-Train Run Tonight?) by Morland Carey | photos
  • Cabaret Ball | photos

Special Projects:

  • No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre 
  • Lab Theatre
  • Open-Mic Night
  • Director’s Showcase
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses

2007 – 2008 Season

  • The Philadelphia Story by Philip Barry | photos
  • The Lion In Winter by James Goldman | photos
  • Hair by Gerome Ragni, James Rado & Galt MacDermot | photos
  • Picasso at the Lapin Agile by Steve Martin | photos
  • The House of Yes by Wendy MacLeod

Special Projects:

  • Sweet Melodrama by Tristan D’Agosta
  • Lab Theatre
  • Open-Mic Night
  • Director’s Showcase
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses
  • Quaint Little Coffee Shop | photos
  • CAP-aret Fundraiser | photos
  • Cabaret Ball | photos

2008 – 2009 Season

  • Assassins by Stephen Sondheim & John Weidman | photos
  • The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh | photos
  • Songs for a New World by Jason Robert Brown| photos 
  • Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley | photos
  • The Goat or Who is Sylvia by Edward Albee | photos
  • Dog Sees God by Bert V. Royal | photos
  • The Cocktail Hour by A.R. Gurney | photos

Special Projects:

  • Lab Theatre
  • Original Play Festival 
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses
  • Director’s Showcase | photos
  • Quaint Little Coffee Shop | photos
  • Murder at the Juice Joint | photos
  • Cabaret Ball | photos

2009 – 2010 Season

  • subUrbia by Eric Bogosian | photos
  • A New Brain by William Finn & James Lapine | photos
  • Shakespeare in Hollywood by Ken Ludwig | photos
  • Streamers by David Rabe | photos
  • Godspell by Stephen Schwartz & John-Michael Tebelak | photos

Special Projects:

  • Back To School Blowout; A Musical Revue! with the Livingston Theatre Company | photos
  • Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl | photos
  • Bringing Down Jesus by Nathaniel Kostar
  • Back To School Musical Revue: Parte Duex | photos
  • Original Play Festival
  • The Director’s Training Program
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses
  • Cabaret Ball | photos

2010 – 2011 Season

  • A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams | photos
  • I Love You Because by Ryan Cunningham & Joshua Salzman | photos
  • Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire | photos
  • Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchil | photos
  • 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by Rachel Sheinkin & William Finn | photos

Special Projects:

  • Original Play Festival | photos
  • Rutgers Night Live | photos
  • The Director’s Training Program
  • Rutgers Night Live: Episode Two
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses

2011 – 2012 Season

  • 12 Angry Men by Reginald Rose | photos
  • Elegies by William Finn | photos
  • How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel | photos
  • Eleemosynary by Lee Blessing | photos
  • Spring Awakening by Duncan Sheik & Steven Sater | photos

Special Projects:

  • Back-To-School R3VUE | photos
  • Rutgers Night Live III | photos
  • The Director’s Training Program
  • Original Play Festival | photos
  • Rutgers Night Live IV | photos
  • Directors’ Showcase
  • Senior Showcase | photos

2012 – 2013 Season

  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Dale Wasserman | photos
  • Honour by Joann Murray-Smith | photos
  • Antigone by Jean Anouilh, adapted by Lewis Galantiere | photos
  • Little Shop of Horrors by Alan Menken & Howard Ashman (a Cabaret/CAP collaboration) | photos
  • Next to Normal by Brian Yorkey & Tom Kitt | photos

Special Projects:

  • Back-To-School Musical Revue: Reach 4 The Stars | photos
  • Rutgers Night Live V: Death to the King | photos
  • The Director’s Training Program
  • ‘night Mother by Marsha Norman (Presented in collaboration with the Rutgers’ Institute for Women’s Leadership) | photos
  • Original Play Festival | photos
  • Rutgers Night Live VI: New York’s Finest Cops | photos
  • A Night of One Acts | photos

2013 – 2014 Season

  • The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer | photos
  • [title of show] by Jeff Bowen & Hunter Bell | photos
  • Doubt: A Parable by John Patrick Shanley | photos
  • Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson by Michael Friedman & Alex Timbers | photos

Special Projects:

  • Cabaret Coffeehouse
  • ACT: Affective Catharsis through Theatre
  • A Night of Shakespeare | photos
  • Rutgers Night Live VII: Her Legs Went On For Days | photos
  • Slam Theatre Coffeehouse
  • Directors’ Showcase
  • Original Play Festival | photos
  • Rutgers Night Live VIII: Better Late Than Pregnant | photos

2014 – 2015 Season

  • Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead by Bert V. Royal | photos
  • Murder Ballad by Julia Jordan & Juliana Nash | photos
  • Proof by David Auburn | photos
  • Avenue Q book by Jeff Whitty, music and lyrics by Robert Lopez & Jeff Marx | photos

Special Projects:

  • Unsung Chapters: A Musical Revue | photos
  • Rutgers Night Live IX: Attack of the Hunter Spiders on Ice? | photos
  • A Night of Shakespeare | photos
  • Directors’ Showcase
  • Rutgers Night Live X: The B1G 10 | photos
  • Dragged to the Past
  • Senior Showcase | photos 

2015 – 2016 Season (40th Anniversary Season)

  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard | photos
  • Grace by Mick Gordon & A. C. Graylin | photos
  • A Chorus Line music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban, and book by James Kirkwood Jr. & Nicholas Dante | photos
  • Rent by Jonathan Larson | photos

Special Projects:

  • Major/Minor: A Musical Revue (presented with the Livingston Theatre Company) | photos
  • Coffeehouse at Cabaret
  • Rutgers Night Live XI: Very Spooky Story Very Funny 2015 | photos
  • A Weekend of Special Events
  • Directors’ Showcase | photos
  • Rutgers Night Live XII: Divorce? | photos
  • Original Play Festival | photos
  • Senior Showcase

2016 – 2017 Season

  • Boeing Boeing by Marc Camoletti, translated by Beverley Cross | photos
  • 35MM: A Musical Exhibition by Ryan Scott Oliver | photos
  • You Got Older by Clare Barron | photos
  • bare: A Pop Opera music by Damon Intrabartolo & Jon Hartmere | photos

Special Projects

  • Illuminations: A Musical Review (presented with the Livingston Theatre Company) | photos
  • RNL XIII: The Curse of the Missing Dignity | photos
  • Directors’ Showcase | photos | photos 
  • Role of a Lifetime: A Miscast Concert | photos
  • The Panic Attack Play | photos
  • RNL XIV: Never Gonna Give You Up | photos
  • Original Play Festival | photos

2017 – 2018 Season

  • Peter and the Starcatcher by Rick Elice | photos
  • Ordinary Days by Adam Gwon | photos
  • The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute | photos
  • Pippin music & lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Roger O. Hirson | photos

Special Projects

  • If I Stay: A Musical Revue (presented with the Livingston Theatre Company) | photos
  • RNL XV: El Quinceañera | photos
  • Directors’ Showcase | photos 
  • This Is A Play by Daniel MacIvor | photos
  • RNL XVI: 16 Going on 17 | photos
  • Original Play Festival | photos

2018 – 2019 Season

  • Significant Other by Joshua Harmon | photos
  • Fun Home by Alison Bechdel | photos
  • Hand to God by Robert Askins | photos
  • The Wild Party by Andrew Lippa | photos

Special Projects

  • Old Friends: A Musical Revue (presented with the Livingston Theatre Company) | photos
  • RNL 17(76): Declaration of Sindependence | photos
  • Directors’ Showcase | photos  
  • Duets (A Miscast Concert) | photos 
  • RNL XVIII: The Sacred Juul | photos
  • Original Play Festival | photos  
  • Cabaret Ball | video  

2019 – 2020 Season

  • Almost, Maine by John Cariani | photos
  • Next to Normal book & lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt | photos
  • Harvey by Mary Chase | photos

Special Projects

  • Before the Breakdown: A Musical Revue (presented with the Livingston Theatre Company) | photos
  • RNL XIX: Chill Lo-Fi Beats To Relax To | photos
  • RNL XX: Little Women, Even Littler Men | photos
  • No One Was Harmed in the Making of This Play by Jack Oliver | photos
  • Directors’ Showcase

2020 – 2021 Season

  • [scream]: The Gallery Project | photos
  • 180 Days by Emily McClain

Special Projects

  • Keep Holding On: A Musical Revue (presented with The Livingston Theatre Company)
  • Original Play Festival: Going Home | video
  • Director’s Showcase

2021 – 2022 Season

  • Gruesome Playground Injuries by Rajiv Joseph | photos
  • Little Shop of Horrors by Howard Ashman & Alan Menken | photos
  • Tick, Tick… BOOM! by Jonathan Larson | photos
  • Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery | photos
  • Spring Awakening music by Duncan Sheik, book & lyrics by Steven Sater | photos

Special Projects

  • Reaching Out: A Musical Revue (presented with The Livingston Theatre Company) | photos  
  • RNL 21: And Legal Baby | photos
  • RNL 22: The Convocation | photos
  • Director’s Showcase | photos
  • Original Play Festival | photos

2022 – 2023 Season

  • Ideation by Aaron Loeb | photos
  • A New Brain by James Lapine & William Finn | photos
  • Hurricane Diane by Madeleine George | photos
  • Into the Woods music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine | photos

Special Projects

  • Same Changes: A Musical Revue | photos 
  • Diary of a Simpy Kid: A Musical Parody by Michael Trujillo and Anthony Graceff | photos
  • RNL XXIII: The Plot Thickens | photos
  • RNL XXIV: Girls Shmirls & PJs | photos
  • Director’s Showcase | photos
  • Cafe Cab | photos 
  • Original Play Festival | photos

2023 – 2024 Season

  • American Idiot book by Billie Joe Armstrong & Michael Mayer, music by Green Day and lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong | photos
  • Plano by Will Arbery | photos
  • Company music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by George Furth | photos

Special Projects

  • What I Did for Love: A Musical Revue
  • Cafe Cab
  • Original Play Festival 
  • Captive | photos

2024 – 2025 Season

  • The Baltimore Waltz by Paula Vogel | photos
  • 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by Rachel Sheinkin & William Finn | photos
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare | photos
  • Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 by Dave Malloy | photos

Special Projects

  • The Garden: A Musical Revue
  • RNL XXV: RNL Returns | photos
  • Original Play Festival
  • RNL XXVI: Bar & Grille
  • Cafe Cab

2025 50th Anniversary Celebration

  • Reunion House Speech | video
  • The Impact of Cabaret Theatre | video
  • Our History: 50 Years of Cabaret Theatre | video
  • Chris Gethard on Cabaret Theatre | video
  • Thank You For Celebrating 50 Years of Cabaret Theatre | video
  • 50th Anniversary Celebration Slideshow | video
  • Photos From Our 50th Anniversary Event | photos