With more than 200 performances every year in theatre, music, dance, and all kinds of special event, McCarter Theatre Center for the Performing Arts is one of the most active American cultural centers. McCarter provides culture and entertainment to the largely local audience of more than 200,000 people from New Jersey’s twenty-one counties, as well as theatre lovers from New York, Pennsylvania, and other states. It is the only professional producing theatre in the country that is also a presenter of the diverse performing arts.

McCarter was established in 1930, and ever since, they have had strong commitment to introducing new works to the theatre, reimagining classical repertoire and attracting the best performing artists of the world to Central New Jersey. McCarter has highly active community and school education programs that have achieved wide acclaim for their high quality, diversity, and originality.

91 University Pl, Princeton, NJ 08540, 609-258-2787

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