Centenary Stage Company’s NEXTStage Repertory presents Lanford Wilson’s “Book of Days” Thursday, Feb. 10 through Monday, Feb. 14 in the Little Theatre in the Seay Building on the Centenary University campus, 400 Jefferson Street, Hackettstown.

Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students and children 12 and younger. Performances will be Thursday, Feb. 10 at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Feb. 11 and Saturday, Feb. 12 at 8 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 13 at 2 p.m., and Monday, Feb. 14 at 7 p.m. For more information or to purchase tickets call the Centenary Stage Company box office at (908) 979 – 0900 or visit Centenary Stage Company on-line at centenarystageco.org

“Book of Days” is a story of murder in a small Missouri town. Ruth Hoch begins her own quest to find truth and honesty amid small town jealousies, religion, greed and lies creating a tornado of a play that propels you through its events like a page-turning mystery.

Lanford Wilson is an American playwright whose plays are known for experimental staging, simultaneous character dialogue, and postponed character exposition. In 1980 Wilson won a Pulitzer Prize for his play Talley Folly (1979). Other plays include Balm in Gilead (1965), The Rimers of Eldritch (1967), The Great Nebula in Orion (1971), The Mound Builders (1975), and Angels Fall (1982).

This production is directed by Centenary Stage Company’s own Stephen Davis. Davis serves as CSC’s Director of Shakesperience, NJ and professor in the Centenary University Theatre Department. Assistant Director is intern Meaghan Wilson. This production features Centenary University students Megan Moran, James Brandes, Christina Polichetti, Connor McCrea, Amanda Ackerman, Kylah Wilson, Christopher Hara, Kaitlyn Holmes, Jamir Freeman, Cody Jackson, Serena Buchan, Jeremiah Caviston, Alexandra Koch, Amanda Tossman, Kai Vialva, and Christopher Rice.

NEXTstage Repertory is the all-student performance division of the theatre department. These productions feature current Centenary University students and alumni, and highlights the close partnership between the professionally producing Centenary Stage Company and the Centenary University Theatre Department.

The box office is open Monday through Friday from 1 to 5 p.m. and two hours prior to all performances. It is located in the Lackland Performing Arts Center on the Centenary campus.

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