This month, Centenary University’s NEXTstage Repertory’s all student production of Jose Rivera’s “Marisol” will transport theater goers to an apocalyptic future where a war in Heaven spills onto the streets of New York.

Running Thursday, Feb. 6-10, “Marisol,” an apocalyptic urban fantasy, earned a 1993 Obie Award in playwriting for the Puerto Rican author. The play urges society to “wake up” and somehow find a way to recover the long-lost, much-needed compassion for our fellow man, as this is the only way to save our world.  The Village Voice has hailed Rivera’s play as “… angry, fearsome, fantastic, and poetically frenzied, without surrendering either its sanity or its mordant sense of humor…”and BackStage Magazine has said, “… Rivera’s dialogue is poetically powerful…”

Performances will take place in the Little Theatre at 400 Jefferson St. in Hackettstown, on the campus of Centenary University. The production is directed by Associate Professor of Theatre Arts Stephen Davis and the entire cast and creative team is made up of university students.

Performances will be Thursday, Feb. 6, 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Feb. 7-8 at 8 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 9 at 2 p.m., and Monday, Feb. 10 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $5 for Centenary students, $15 for adults, $10 for other students and children under 12.

For more information or to get tickets, visit centenarystageco.org or call the Centenary Stage Company box office at (908) 979-0900. The box office is open Monday through Friday from 1-5 p.m. and two hours prior to all performances. The Centenary Stage Company box office is located in the Lackland Performing Arts Center on the campus of Centenary University at 715 Grand Ave. in Hackettstown.