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Theater's new-play commissioning program, launched in 2010, commissions two plays a year and has produced more than five of these works. Each season, the theater hosts numerous artist residencies, workshops, and readings to support the development of new work for the American theater,
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Ensembles is a three-week summer program offered to students from first to twelfth grade. Teaching artists channel students’ natural energy and vitality into creative thinking, teamwork, and performance skills through theater games, songs and devising original material. Students get the
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Rechnitz Theater is a thrust stage that seats 350 patrons. The theater was built so the furthest seats would be no more than 36 feet (11 m) from the performers. The Marion Huber Theater is a fully convertible, 99-seat black box space that hosts more experimental works, readings,
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Borders is an annual five-day festival of new plays by Latino writers and free community events. It was begun in 2011. Nosotros is a program that fosters a closer relationship between theater and Latino artists and
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Theater was founded by Joan and Robert Rechnitz in 1994. The company's first three seasons occurred at Monmouth University. Then it moved to Manasquan and finally built a theater for itself in Red Bank in 2005.
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Theater's roof is designed to evoke the waves of a river. The building was designed by New York architect Stewart Jones, of Hardy, Holzman, Pfeiffer & Associates, who also designed the Wilma Theater in
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