The Theatre at
Raritan Valley Community College opened in 1985, with a mission
to serve RVCC and the community at large. Each season, the
theatre presents the Major
Artists Series and The Merck Series — made
possible for twenty seasons by a grant from The Merck Company Foundation.
Additionally, the theatre presents
The Sampler Series,
a series of programs for children 4 and up,
The Family Series, for
kids 8 and up and their entire families and
School-Time Performances
a series of educational field trip events. In recent years,
Tuesdays with Stories,
a literature-based, on-stage series made its debut and in
the 2011-2012 season, The Theatre will offer
Club 28 for the first
time. Club 28 will focus on music and comedy in the more
intimate on-stage setting.
The theatre
complex is made up of two performing spaces. The
Edward Nash Theatre is a proscenium style
auditorium with one-thousand seats on two levels. With excellent
acoustics and sight lines, it is a perfect setting for concerts,
theatre and dance. The Welpe Theatre is
a flexible studio space, which can seat one-hundred at cabaret
tables, or one-hundred-fifty, in rows, facing a raised stage.
It is a perfect setting for more intimate and experimental
performances. |
