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Art in the

Garden State

Our season

New Jersey Summer Theatre Workshop

NJ's Premiere High School Theatre Program
​Audition to join the NJ Summer Theatre Workshop for it's 18th season, as our acclaimed summer festival celebrates the genius of Stephen Sondheim! Top young performers from around the state work with world-class educators and Broadway professionals to develop and hone individual performance skills and create unforgettable company productions.

Collective Youth Theatre

New Jersey's Premiere High School Theatre Program
Some of New Jersey’s finest young performers from across the Garden State come together to perform some of the finest works for the stage.  In addition to performance opportunities, CYTC provides master classes and workshops with some of Broadway’s finest performers including Capathia Jenkins (Martin Short’s Fame Becomes Me), Andrea Rivette (Jekyll And Hyde, Miss Saigon, Les Miserables), Charles Pistone (Les Miserable), Kimilee Bryant (Phantom of the Opera) and Roosevelt Credit (Porgy and Bess) just to name a few.

​Through its pulsating rock score and emotionally charged story, BARE has thrilled and moved audiences around the world since its first staging in LA over a decade ago. A contemporary rock musical, BARE follows a group of teens wrestling with issues of identity, sexuality, and religion at a co-ed Catholic boarding school. Provocative, raw, and unyielding in its exploration of how today's generation navigates the tightrope between adolescence and adulthood, BARE examines the consequences of baring a soul-or hiding it from those who matter most.

PICTURES 2014

the Intersection between Music and Visual Art
In the tradition of Mussorgsky's masterpiece, Pictures at an Exhibition, New Jersey Pre-college (grades 7-12) and College students are invited to create original compositions based on works of visual art housed at the Montclair Art Museum.  Winning compositions have been performed by Anthony DeMare, Brett Duebner, Andrew Lamy, The Halcyon Trio and Exit 9 Percussion.  MAM artists have included George Inness, Elsie Driggs, Johnathan Scott Hartly, Don Svanick, Willie Cole and Will Barnet.  The PICTURES program also includes commissioning a new work by established NJ composers such as Amanda Harberg, John Link, Christian Carey, Darren Gage, Ting Ho and Frank Ezra Levy.