Centenary Stage Company’s Conservatory of Dance is back for the 2023 Spring Semester with two eight-week courses and one 16-week course.

The first session will run Jan. 9 through March 5; the second session will run March 5 through April 30 and the 16-week session will be Jan. 9 through April 30. The deadline to register for the first session of the Conservatory of Dance is January 8; the cost for one class per week is $130, two classes per week is $195, and three classes per week is $275 per person. Prior dance experience is required. For more information, visit centenarystageco.org or call the Centenary Stage Company box office at (908) 979-0900.

The conservatory introduces dancers to professionals working as choreographers, dancers, and educators in dance and theatre at a collegiate level. They also provide the community with affordable, high-quality dance classes.

During the first session, classes available are Ballet I and II on Mondays from 4 to 5:20 p.m. taught by Sabrina Olivieri and Modern I and II on Thursdays from 4 to 5:40 p.m. taught by Lea Antolini-Lid and Olivieri. During the second session, classes are Tap I and II on Tuesdays from 4 to 5:30 p.m. taught by Jeff Foote. Also featured will be Jazz Funk on Tuesdays from 6 to 7:10 p.m. taught by Jibril “DJ” Shabazz-Scott and running from Jan. 9 through April 30.

Classes are 14 and older. Tuition is non-refundable and current members of the Young Performers Workshop receive a 50% discount.

Ladykillers Auditions

Open-call auditions for the upcoming production of “The Ladykillers” by Graham Linehan will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 10 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. To schedule an appointment, call the CSC box office at (908) 979-0900. Walk-ins will be seen as time permits. Auditions will be in the Lackland Performing Arts Center of the Centenary University campus at 715 Grand Avenue, Hackettstown, NJ. If you are unable to attend in-person, digital submissions will also be accepted. Please send resumes, headshots, and monologue to CentenaryStageCasting@gmail.com with the subject line “Attn: Casting.” Performers may prepare a monologue appropriate to the material or read from sides. Sides can be found online at centenarystageco.org and will also be provided the day of auditions.

The first rehearsal will be Jan. 30. Performances will run Feb. 17 through March 5. All performers must show proof of vaccination.

The play is a classic, dark comedy. A sweet little old lady, alone in her house, is pitted against a gang of criminal misfits who will stop at nothing. Posing as amateur musicians, Professor Marcus and his gang rent rooms in the lopsided house of sweet but strict Mrs. Wilberforce. The villains plot to involve her, unwittingly, in Marcus’ brilliantly conceived heist job. The police are left stumped, but Mrs. Wilberforce becomes wise to their ruse and Marcus concludes there is only one way to keep the old lady quiet. With only her parrot, General Gordon, to help her, Mrs. Wilberforce is alone with five desperate men.

Seeking: CONSTABLE MACDONALD (25-50), policeman, constable, frustrated, friendly. English cockney accent.

MRS. WILBERFORCE (70’s) English Londoner, widow, eccentric, bumbling, caring, lonely.

PROFFESOR MARCUS Leader criminal gang, cunning, maniacal, charming, intelligent, controlling, savvy, quick-witted, con man.

HAROLD ROBINSON (20’s) Cockney accent. Londoner, spy, streetwise, criminal, drug use, addiction, OCD.

MAJOR COURTNEY (50’s) Cross-dresser, nervous, worrier, con man, gang member, bumbling.

LOUIS (30’s-40’s) Criminal gang member, Romanian accent, suspicious, killer.

ONE ROUND (30’s-40’s) A large boxer, thick, slow, strong, London cockney, punch drunk, criminal, kind-hearted dim-witted.

MRS. JANE TROMLEYTON (70’s) Friend of Mrs. Wilberforce, enthusiastic, middle-class English, effusive.

The Scottish Play

CSC NEXTStage Repertory is in rehearsals for a production of William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” adapted by Centenary’s Stephen Michael Davis.

Performances are in the Little Theatre in the Seay Building on the Centenary University campus at 400 Jefferson St., Hackettstown on Thursday, Feb. 2 at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, Feb. 3 at 8 p.m.; Saturday, Feb. 4 at 8 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 5 at 2 p.m.; and Monday, Feb. 6 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students and children under 12. For more information, or to purchase tickets, visit centenarystageco.org or call the box office at (908) 979-0900.

The CSC box office is open Monday through Friday from 1 to 5 p.m. and two hours prior to all performances and is located Lackland Performing Arts Center.

The 2022-23 Season of Performing Arts events at the Centenary Stage Company is made possible through the support of the NJ State Council on the Arts, the Shubert Foundation, the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, the Sandra Kupperman Foundation, the John and Margaret Post Foundation, the CSC corporate sponsors, including Platinum Season Sponsor the House of the Good Shepherd, Silver Sponsors Hackettstown Medical Center Atlantic Health System, Heath Village, Visions Federal Credit Union, and Fulton Bank, and Centenary Stage Company members and supporters.