Encore: Another Season Of Rutgers-NJIT Theater Collaborations

(NEWARK) This spring the Rutgers-Newark/New Jersey Institute of Technology Joint Theatre Program again will team up on several productions featuring students from the two neighboring higher education institutions, with faculty from both sharing the directing duties.

The joint program was established in 1996 through the merger of the Rutgers-Newark Theater Arts Program and NJITs Drama Theater. The joint program makes a wider variety of course options available to students at both institutions, while also producing four shows per year plus student-generated productions. The curriculum combines academics with a hands-on approach, allowing students to be actors, directors, stagehands, playwrights, or producers.

Rutgers/NJIT Theatre Program (information/reservations, 973/353-5119, ext. 17, or http://www.njit.edu/old/CSLA/theatre/newsite/ )

At Bradley Hall Theatre, 110 Warren Street

March 2-5, 7 p.m., March 6, 2:30 p.m., Early One Evening at the Rainbow Bar and Grille, a serio-comedy by Bruce Graham, directed by Dan Drew. Students/Seniors $5, others $7

April 13-16, 7 p.m.; April 17, 2:30 p.m., Mother Courage and Her Children, by Berthold Brecht, directed by Tim Raphael. Students/Seniors $5, others $7

Late April (TBA), 7 p.m., Theatre Arts Group Variety Show, directed and written by students in the joint theatre program. $5 donation.

For updated R-N theater information, please see

http://www.newark.rutgers.edu/arts/>arts