Hackettstown Theater Students Prepare for NYC Stage Debuts

Three New Jersey youngsters, all students at Hackettstown's Centenary Young Performer’s Workshop, New York acting debuts in the Group Theatre Too’s 10th anniversary season production of “Quick Curtains.” The offering is an evening of theatrical shorts by playwrights Arthur Miller, William Inge, Percival Wilde and Tennessee Williams that runs Nov. 13-17 at Manhattan’s Hudson Guild Theatre. 

The evening is comprised of Inge’s “The Rainy Afternoon”, Wilde’s “The Reckoning”, Miller’s “The Last Yankee” and Tennessee Williams' “The Case of the Crushed Petunias" and Petunias” and “Adam and Eve On A Ferry.” 

Nine-year-old Olivia Berlingerio of Oxford, Landing resident Chris Nunez, 10, and 10-year old Olivia Mancuso of Port Murray, who study in Hackettstown under Broadway, film and television veteran Michael Blevins, will be directed by Blevins in William Inge’s one-act play, “The Rainy Afternoon.”  

Berlingerio, Nunez and Mancuso can also be seen in the Centenary Stage Company's professional production of Alan Menken’s “A Christmas Carol” also directed and choreographed by Blevins, which opens Nov. 28 at the Centenary Stage Company.  

“Quick Curtains” hits the boards at the Hudson Guild Theatre, 441 W. 26 St. (between 9th and 10th avenues) Nov. 13-16 at 8 p.m. and Nov. 17 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased at the door or online.