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 2025/26 season are booking now! For more information email stumats@trtc.org
The Monsters: A Sibling Love Story
Grades: 9-12
Runtime: 90 minutes
For a long time, LIL has been obsessed with fighting, and one fighter in particular: her older brother BIG, an aging but successful figure in the local Mixed Martial Arts circuit. But she’s been doing it all from afar… until one day when she decides to show up on his doorstep. Written and directed by Ngozi Anyanwu (Good Grief, The Homecoming Queen, The Last of the Love Letters) and co-produced by Two River Theater and Manhattan Theatre Club, The Monsters is a sibling love story about reunions, resentment, reconnection, and wrestling with demons.
A Little Shakespeare: As You Like It
Grades: 4-12
Runtime: 90 minutes
The Forest of Arden is full of possibilities! Banished by her uncle and disguised as a boy, Rosalind and her beloved cousin Celia journey into the woods and discover new friends, love letters, music, and ultimately, themselves. Director Noelle Marion (last season’s A Little Shakespeare: The Tempest) returns to helm this lively frolic through the forest. Now in its 13th year, A Little Shakespeare engages young artists with the work of the Bard in an adaptation directed and designed by professional artists, and performed and supported backstage by high school students.
A Doll's House
Grades: 9-12
Runtime: 2.5 hours
Nora should be happy. She has a doting husband, beautiful children, and is preparing their gorgeous home for the holidays. She also has a secret – and if it gets out, she will lose everything. Now Nora must ask, “What is worth saving?” Critically acclaimed director Justin Emeka (Sweat, Romeo and Juliet) envisions A Doll’s House through a contemporary lens creatively incorporating black culture into the world of one of the greatest plays ever written.
HAVE A SEAT
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.
Have a SEAT program requirements – meet one or more to qualify:
- 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.
If your school qualifies for free tickets through our Have a SEAT program by meeting the criteria above, please fill out the Ticket Request Form and check the appropriate boxes.
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).