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1973 – 1975 Seasons: The Cabaret Theatre Society 

During these early years, Cabaret Theatre had yet to move into its current location. And so, we consider these the “Pre-Cabaret” years, where the Cabaret Theatre Society would perform original plays as well as true “Cabarets,” collections of songs and skits, almost anywhere — the basement of the bio-sci building, Corwin Lodge, Gibbons Cabin and even the now-defunct Douglass Pub. 

Some of these early Cabarets included:

  • Oddballs by Neil Cuthbert
  • Stagelights by Anthony Zaleski
  • Ruby Lips by Fred Sirasky & Marilyn Rockafellow Sirasky | photos 
  • The Powder Room by Gina Cologero, music & lyrics by Jim Williams | photos 
  • The Peer Gynt Ensemble by Alan Semok & Joseph Barbarotta
  • A Salute To Television by Maureen Heffernan
  • The Audition by David DiSavino & Jack Fisher
  • Buddy Pals by Neil Cuthbert

1975 – 1976 Season

  • Looney Toones by Jon Rosenbluth, John Russo & David Greenberg | photos
  • Sinbad by Elliot Taubenslag | photos
  • Buffaloes and Other Things by William Mastrosimone | photos
  • 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
  • The Second Shepherds’ Play by John Gassner
  • Medieval Christmas conceived by Dan Irvin & Bernie Collins (produced in conjunction with the Rutgers Repertory Theater Company)
  • 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 
  • Drive in Theater, a musical revue conceived by Roger Paradiso
  • Tonight at 8:30 by Noël Coward
  • Ham’ by William Mastrosimone | photos
  • Ruby Lips by Fred Sirasky & Marilyn Rockafellow Sirasky (revival of the original 1974 Cabaret production) | photos

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 

Special Projects:

  • Out of my Mime with David Francis Barker
  • 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 
  • Dialogues of Black Existence: Street Sounds by Ed Bullins & A Cabaret (produced in conjunction with the Paul Robeson Black Arts Ensemble) | photos 
  • Headin’ West, a musical by Michael Bergman & Tom Ehrenberg | photos 
  • The Winter’s Song, a musical by James G. Kaplan & Lawrence R. Harris | photos 
  • Curiouser and Curiouser, an adaptation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland conceived by Michael Bergman
  • The Mystery of the Forbidden Self by Mary Ethel Schmidt
  • Somalia Rose by Sydne Mahone & Janiera Warren (produced in conjunction with the Paul Robeson Black Arts Ensemble)

Special Projects:

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

1980 – 1981 Season

  • Steppin’ Out, a tribute to Irving Berlin conceived by Kenn Rapcyzinski | photos 
  • Ellie’s Butterfly by Damian Delaney
  • 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 
  • Nights, an operetta by Michael Bergman & Tom Ehrenberg | photos 

Special Projects:

  • Happy Holidays, a holiday review conceived by Thomas R. Eherberg 
  • Very Sleight of Hand, a magic show by Harry Maurer & Steven Friedlander 
  • 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
  • Fall One Acts ’81: Pvt. Wars by James McLure & I Can’t Imagine Tomorrow by Tennessee Williams
  • The Naughty Adventures of Peter Pan conceived by Michael Taubenslag & Kevin Goetz, music & lyrics by Leo Stella & Marilyn Cooper
  • Everyman, A Morality Play | photos
  • 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
  • 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
  • Celebration by Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt
  • Black Cycle by Martie Charles (produced in conjunction with the Paul Robeson Black Arts Ensemble)
  • 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)
  • Recruits; or, That’s How it Was by Axenfeld & Resnick

Special Projects:

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

Special Projects:

  • ‘Mo by Richard Arthur Lloyd
  • Arms of Rain by Kevin Carnahan
  • Otrabanda Company’s Small White House and Package
  • Blue Note (staged reading) by Terry Benjamin
  • 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
  • Jacques Brel … is alive and well and living in Paris by Eric Blau, Mort Shuman & Jacques Brel
  • Miracles conceived by Marshall Jones III | photos
  • March of the Falsettos by William Finn 

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
  • Little Pink Skeletons by Gary Benson, R. Arthur Lloyd & Kathy Milea
  • What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton | photos
  • Titanic by Christopher Durang
  • Snoopy book by Warren Lockhart, Arthur Whitelaw & Michael L. Grace, music by Larry Grossman & lyrics by Hal Hackady

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
  • Spring One Acts ’87: The Indian Wants the Bronx by Israel Horovitz; Squirrels by David Mamet  

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)
  • 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

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
  • The Actors Nightmare & Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All For You by Christopher Durang | photos
  • Spring One Acts ’89: Of Poems, Youth and Spring by John Logan & Waiting for the Sun by Edward Albee
  • Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet

Special Projects: Cabaret Coffeehouses 

1989 – 1990 Season

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

Special Projects:

  • The Vitals in concert
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses 

1990 – 1991 Season

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

Special Projects:

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

1991 – 1992 Season

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

Special Projects:

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

1992 – 1993 Season

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

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

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
  • Chess by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus & Tim Rice | photos
  • Ten Little Indians by Agatha Christie | photos

Special Projects: 

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

1995 – 1996 Season (20th Anniversary Season)

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

Special Projects: 

  • The New Author’s Workshop presents: united by Sue Yacka & The People vs. Joe Kramer by Charles Grayson
  • The Director’s Training Program
  • The Cabaret Improv Troupe | photos
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses 
  • Cabaret Ball | photos

1996 – 1997 Season

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

Special Projects: 

  • The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer | photos
  • The Director’s Training Program
  • The Cabaret Improv Troupe | photos
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses 
  • Cabaret Ball | photos

1997 – 1998 Season

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

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)
  • Crazyface by Clive Barker
  • The New Author’s Workshop presents: The Charm of Desire and Regret by Kenneth Urban & Oedipus Wrecked by Alexis Kozak
  • The Director’s Training Program
  • The Cabaret Improv Troupe 
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses 

1998 – 1999 Season

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

Special Projects: 

  • The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler 
  • Up Till Ten a ten-minute play series | photos
  • The New Author’s Workshop presents: Museum by Ian August & Burners by Ken Urban | photos
  • The Director’s Training Program
  • The Cabaret Improv Troupe 
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses 

1999 – 2000 Season

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

Special Projects:

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

2000 – 2001 Season

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

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
  • Laughter on 23rd Floor by Neil Simon | photos
  • Cabaret by Joe Masteroff, John Kander, & Fred Ebb
  • Trip a Little Fish by Josh Allen

Special Projects:

  • WASP by Steve Martin 
  • Mission Possible A No Limits Production
  • Musical! The Musical by Christopher Buckley & Steve Murphy | photos 
  • 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
  • Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet 
  • Assassins by Stephen Sondheim & John Weidman | photos
  • Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire 
  • 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)
  • Masque, a poetry theater experience devised by Mason Granger, Kelsey Kosinski, Scott Raven Tarazevits & Justin Woo | photos
  • The Director’s Training Program
  • Cabaret Coffeehouses 

2003 – 2004 Season

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

Special Projects:

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

2004 – 2005 Season

  • Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
  • Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory by Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley (Produced by the Hillel Theatre Company) | photos
  • Dealt by Joshua Ess
  • 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

Special Projects:

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

2005 – 2006 Season (30th Anniversary Season)

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

Special Projects:

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

2006 – 2007 Season

  • Wonder of the World by David Lindsay-Abaire
  • 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
  • Bat Boy by Keythe Farley, Brian Flemming & Laurence O’Keefe | photos
  • Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare
  • Love Rides the Rails (Will The Mail-Train Run Tonight?) by Morland Carey | 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
  • Hair by Gerome Ragni, James Rado & Galt MacDermot | photos
  • Picasso at the Lapin Agile by Steve Martin
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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
  • 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
  • The Director’s Training Program
  • Original Play Festival
  • 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
  • Rutgers Night Live V: Death to the King
  • 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
  • Rutgers Night Live VI: New York’s Finest Cops
  • A Night of One Acts

2013 – 2014 Season

  • The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer
  • [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
  • Rutgers Night Live VII: Her Legs Went On For Days | photos
  • Slam Theatre Coffeehouse
  • Directors’ Showcase
  • Original Play Festival
  • 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? 
  • Directors’ Showcase
  • Rutgers Night Live X: The B1G 10 | photos
  • Dragged to the Past
  • Original Play Festival | photos
  • Senior Showcase

2015 – 2016 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
  • Rutgers Night Live XII: Divorce?
  • Original Play Festival
  • 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
  • Directors’ Showcase | photos
  • Role of a Lifetime: A Miscast Concert | photos
  • The Panic Attack Play | photos
  • RNL 14: Never Gonna Give You Up
  • 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
  • This Is A Play by Daniel MacIvor | photos
  • RNL 16: Going on 17 | photos
  • Original Play Festival

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) by Larry Fried | photos
  • RNL 17(76): Declaration of Sindependence
  • Directors’ Showcase
  • Duets (A Miscast Concert)
  • RNL XVIII: The Sacred Juul
  • Original Play Festival

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
  • No One Was Harmed in the Making of This Play by Jack Oliver | photos
  • RNL XX: Little Women, Even Littler Men
  • 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) by Michael Einiger
  • Original Play Festival: Going Home
  • 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) by Ashley Gonzalez
  • RNL XXI: And Legal Baby
  • RNL XXII The Convocation
  • Director’s Showcase
  • Original Play Festival

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
  • Diary of a Simpy Kid: A Musical Parody
  • Rutgers Night Live
  • Director’s Showcase
  • Cafe Cab

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 

2024 – 2025 Season

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

Special Projects

  • The Garden: A Musical Revue
  • Rutgers Night Live
  • Cafe Cab
  • Original Play Festival