As always Kean Stage brings some of the best productions to the stage of Wilkins Theatre and this year is no different. Starting right before the semester begins, on Saturday January 16, 2016, at 7:30 p.m., Kean Stage presents to the public, British Regiments: Band of the Royal Marines and the Pipes Drums & Highland Dancers of the Scots Guards; along with TAO’s Seventeen Samurai, which will be presented on Saturday, January 30, 2016, at 7:30 p.m.

Band of the Royal Marines and the Pipes Drums & Highland Dancers of the Scots Guards will perform pieces that range from jazz music from Big Band, popular classics as well as contemporary pieces with solo features. This band is completed with members from the two of the most respectable military musical institutions of United Kingdom and presents to audience the finest music and dance from around the United Kingdom.

Seventeen Samurai is produced by the Japanese drumming company TAO who completed a sold-out festival in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Seventeen Samurai will feature innovative choreography along with Taiko drumming. The Edinburgh Evening News says that this show is “undoubtedly one of the finest shows offer,” while the Chicago Tribune comments that the performers are “extraordinarily talented…incomparable muscular zeal.”

So definitely these shows are a must see and whoever would like to see one of the two shows (or both) must buy tickets now before they are sold out. Tickets are selling quickly and if anyone would like to buy one or more, they should buy one sooner than later.

Tickets can be bought online at the Kean Stage website, over the phone by calling the Wilkins Theatre box office at 908-737-7469 or in person at the Wilkins Theatre box office. The box office is open Mondays and Fridays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Tuesdays through Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., as well as an hour prior to any show. Tickets are priced at $35 and $20 for those who are children, students or senior citizens.

Also, Kean Stage will be launching its 2016 International Film Series. The film series will be held in the Science Technology and Mathematics (STEM) building auditorium. The movies that will be presented at this film series will be: The Last of the Unjust which is directed by Claude Lanzmann, and I Wish which is written and directed by Hirokazu Koreeda. The Last of the Unjust will play on Sunday January 24, 2016, at 3:00 pm while the movie I Wish will play on Sunday, January 31, 2016, at 3 p.m. The film series continues until Sunday, March 6, 2016, and all tickets are $5.00 (free for all Kean University students with a valid student I.D.).