A Midsummer Night's Dream at Princeton Summer Theater

TOPDOG/UNDERDOG Breaks Ground At Princeton Summer Theater

August 05, 2019

Suzan-Lori Parks' Topdog/Underdog may be ending Princeton Summer Theater's 2019 season, but also represents many firsts for the company, which celebrates its fiftieth anniversary next year.

PST's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Breathes New Life Into A Classic

July 23, 2019

When Princeton University graduate and Yale MFA candidate Maeli Goren was rereading A Midsummer Night's Dream earlier this year, a piece of text stood out to her that never had before: a speech by Titania, the queen of the fairies, in which she speaks of '[t]he spring, the summer, / The childing autumn, angry winter change / Their wonted liveries, and the mazèd world, / By their increase, now knows not which is which'-in other words, a world plunged into chaos by a changing climate. Suddenly, one of Shakespeare's most-produced plays had become unusually timely.

PST's Annual Children's Show Unites Shakespeare and Sock Puppets

July 11, 2019

"I didn't mean to write a children's play about open borders," Princeton Summer Theater playwright-in-resident Annika Bennett remarks, "but I guess that's what I did."

DEATHTRAP Brings Twists to Princeton Summer Theater

July 02, 2019

If one murder was all that stood between you and the reclamation of your former glory, what would you do? This is what Princeton Summer Theater's upcoming production of Deathtrap asks as washed-up thriller playwright Sidney Bruhl descends into murderous madness when a former student arrives on his doorstep with a surefire hit. The name of that play? Also Deathtrap, and also a two-act, five-character thriller that's much more than meets the eye.

PST Begins Season With Timely And Timeless FALSETTOS

June 17, 2019

As the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising brings the state of LGBTQ+ rights in America to the forefront of the national conversation, Princeton Summer Theater will open its 2019 Season on June 20 with William Finn and James Lapine's timeless and timely Falsettos, directed by PST Artistic Director Daniel Krane.

Princeton Summer Theater Launches “Season Of Love”

June 10, 2019

In an airy rehearsal room on the Princeton University campus, a group of students and recent graduates stare down a baseball diamond they leap, cheer, and curse the umpire-or at least that's what they're pretending to do as they conclude the fourth day of rehearsals for William Finn and James Lapine's Falsettos, the opening production of Princeton Summer Theater's 2019 Season.

Princeton Summer Theater Announces 50th Anniversary Season

April 22, 2019

Today Daniel Krane, artistic director of Princeton Summer Theater, announced the organization's 2019 season, which will run from June 20-August 18 and consist of four mainstage productions, as well as the world premiere of a new children's play.