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Monday 9:30am - 5:30pm Tuesday 9:30am - 5:30pm Wednesday 9:30am - 5:30pm Thursday 9:30am - 5:30pm Friday 9:30am - 5:30pm

Premiere Stages at Kean University

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Premiere Stages offers affordable prices, air-conditioned facilities, and free parking close to the theatres. Large print programs are available at all times.

Premiere Stages is the professional Equity theatre at Kean University, and home of the Premiere Stages Play Festival, a program specifically created to encourage and nurture emerging dramatists. All Premiere Stages facilities are fully accessible. Please call for a list of sign-interpreted, audio-transcribed, or open-captioned performances. Publications are also available in alternate formats with advanced notice. Premiere Stages is made possible in part through funding from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the Provident Bank Foundation, the New Jersey Theatre Alliance, and through the generous support of individual patrons. Sign up for our e-mail list! http://www.patronmail.com/pmailweb/PatronSetup?oid=590

11/02/2026

You are invited to the FREE staged reading of Remember the Ladies by Erin Breznitsky, directed by Jessi D. Hill!

Friday, November 13 at 7PM
Saturday, November 14 at 3PM
Sunday, November 15 at 3PM

Carriage House at the Liberty Hall Museum

For information about how to RSVP → premierestagesatkean.com or email → [email protected]

10/28/2026

Take us back to the ballgame....

Effa Loves Baseball ended its 10-performance series on Sunday with a sold-out house.

Congratulations to Pia Wilson, marcus d. harvey, the cast, crew, and designers for a successful run!

10/22/2026

It's a critical grand slam for Effa Loves Baseball!

"This is one show you don't want to miss." - Let's Go To The Theater

We're rounding the bases for our final four performances, but you still have time to purchase tickets before we slide into home!

Friday, Oct 23 at 7:30pm - low tix
Saturday, Oct 24 at 3:00pm - low tix
Saturday, Oct 24 at 7:30pm
Sunday, Oct 25 at 3:00pm - low tix

10/16/2026

Happy Opening to the cast, crew and creative team of Effa Loves Baseball!

It takes an all-star team to get to opening night and you've hit it out of the park! 🏆⚾

10/14/2026

The house that Effa built.

Come out to the ballgame and see Effa Loves Baseball. Performances start this Thursday! Several performances are close to being sold out!

10/09/2026

Meet Effa Manley!

Effa co-owned the Newark Eagles baseball franchise in the Negro leagues with her husband Abe Manley from 1935 to 1948. She displayed particular skill in the area of marketing and often scheduled promotions that advanced the Civil Rights Movement. Her most noteworthy success was the Eagles' victory in the Negro World Series in 1946. She worked to improve the condition of the players in the entire league – advocating for better scheduling, pay, and accommodations. Among the Eagles players during her ownership were future major league stars such as Larry Doby, who in 1947 was the first player to integrate the American League, Monte Irvin, and Don Newcombe.

Performances are selling out!
Don't miss your chance to see Effa Loves Baseball www.premierestageatkean.com

10/05/2026

Meet Pia Wilson, playwright of Effa Loves Baseball!

Pia Wilson wrote the audio component in the Harriet Tubman Monument in Newark, New Jersey, performed by Queen Latifah. She is also a 2024 Johnny Mercer Foundation Writers Grove participant, Traveling Master for Dramatist Guild Foundation, resident with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Sundance fellow, and member of the 2008 Emerging Writers Group at The Public Theater. Her plays have been produced across the country. Her Webby Award-winning fiction podcast, If I Go Missing The Witches Did It, starring Gabourey Sidibe, was listed as one of the Best New Podcasts of 2021 by Variety and Mashable. She has also written for Audible’s Till Today podcast and Wondery's Black History for Real. In television, Pia was a staff writer for NatGeo’s Genius Aretha, BET’s Sacrifice, and A24’s Crystal Lake.

09/29/2026

Meet the understudies of Effa Loves Baseball!

Lucas Luchsinger - Branch Rickey & Others
Christian Martin Montlouis - Larry Doby

Lucas is a current Kean University Department of Theatre student and Christian is a Kean University Alumni of the theatre department.

09/24/2026

Stepping up to the plate is Effa Loves Baseball by Pia Wilson, directed by marcus d. harvey!

Effa Manley manages the Newark Eagles, a team she wants to take all the way to the Negro League World Series. Effa battles the press, coaching staff, segregation, and sometimes herself to win at the business of the game she loves most of all. She doesn’t worry about what it will cost her, even if it’s everything. Effa Loves Baseball is about the first woman inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Only 10 performances - running October 15 -25.
Don't swing and miss this show! Get your tickets today! https://premierestagesatkean.com/play/effa-loves-baseball/

09/23/2026

Flawless concluded its run at Premiere Stages with a sold-out performance on Sunday.

Congratulations to our wonderful cast, playwright, director and creative team on another outstanding production.

Onwards to Shadowland Stages --> https://shadowlandstages.org/

Address

1000 Morris Avenue
Union Township, NJ
07083

Opening Hours

Monday	9:30am - 5:30pm
Tuesday	9:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday	9:30am - 5:30pm
Thursday	9:30am - 5:30pm
Friday	9:30am - 5:30pm

Telephone

(908) 737-4092

Website

http://www.premierestagesatkean.com/

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