Student Matinees
Engage students of various levels with exciting world-class theater! With student matinees available for almost every production and at a variety of grade levels, the choice is yours.
At Two River, your students will experience high quality, professional theater that will inspire gripping and relevant discussion for your classrooms and extracurricular groups. Be among the 2,500+ students and teachers to see a show here, at Two River Theater.
STUDENT MATINEE INFORMATION
Tickets are just $15 and include:
- Convenient 10:00 AM performances
- Curriculum Guides to help you integrate our work on stage to your work in the classroom
- A post-show Q & A with the actors
Pre-Show Workshop Add-Ons
- For $3 more per person, we offer a 9:15 AM Pre-Show Workshop to further engage students with the production they are about to see
- Add on a Pre-Show Workshop at your school for $125 per class of up to 25 students
Student matinees for A Little Shakespeare begin at 10:30 AM, and pre-show workshops at TRT are not available.
Upcoming Student Matinees:
Student matinees for our 2024/25 season are now booking! For more information email stumats@trtc.org
American Mariachi
Grades: 7 – 12
Run Time: 1hr 45min
Cousins Lucha and Boli have a plan— start an all-girl mariachi band! So what if it’s the 1970s and no one’s heard of such a thing? So what if they can’t play and have no costumes? So what if their families disapprove? They are on a mission to find some bandmates and make their mariachi dreams come true. Directed by James Vásquez (Two River’s smash hit Hair), American Mariachi is a moving comedy full of humor, heart, and joyful live music!
A Little Shakespeare: The Tempest
Grades: 4 – 12
Run Time: 1hr 30min
Adjusted Start Time: 10:30AM
The only thing stronger than Prospero’s magical spells might be the power of love and forgiveness. Back for its 12th year, Two River’s most popular education program transports you to an enchanted island where anything is possible. A Little Shakespeare presents an abridged version of the Bard’s bewitching tale, directed and designed by theater professionals and performed and supported backstage by high school students.
Dial M for Murder
Grades: 7 – 12
Run Time: 2hr 10min
Is there such a thing as the perfect murder? Planning one might be possible, but pulling it off… that’s another matter. Having discovered his beautiful — and very wealthy — wife Margot’s infidelity, Tony has plotted his revenge. But the execution of her execution might not go according to design. Playwright Jeffrey Hatcher (Scotland Road, Wait Until Dark) brings an exhilarating new eye to the stylish thriller that inspired a Hitchcock classic.
¡VOS!
Grades: 9 – 12
Run Time: 1hr 30min
Annie returns to her estranged birthplace of Buenos Aires to undergo IVF treatments from the famed Dr. Cossi. But her motherhood journey brings to light the lives of two women lost to the Dirty War decades ago. Past and present intertwine as four women hunt down their destiny. A World Premiere debut, ¡VOS! is an exhilarating quest for justice, family, and home.
'HAVE A SEAT' PROGRAM
Have a SEAT (Student / Engagement / Access / Theater), formerly No Seats Empty, is a grant-funded arts-in-education initiative that makes theater accessible to all students by providing free tickets and transportation if needed to under-resourced schools attending student matinee performances, as well as offering them the option to attend every pre-show workshop at Two River Theater for free. Depending on the performance, qualifying schools are eligible to receive up to either 30 or 50 free tickets per school. Additional tickets can be purchased at student matinee ticket prices, if available.
- School is designated as a Priority or Focus School by the NJ Department of Education.
- NSLP Free and Reduced Lunch eligibility percentage of student population is higher than the NJ statewide average of 35.5%.
- Other extenuating inequities may be considered on an individual school basis. Schools that feel they may qualify based on these inequities are encouraged email us at stumats@trtc.org to discuss it further.
FREE VIRTUAL STUDENT MATINEE
Two River’s most popular education program breaks the mold to create something entirely new with Tiny Shakes: Romeo and Juliet, co-directed by Aneesha Kudtarkar and Em Weinstein (A Little Shakespeare: Twelfth Night).