Black Box Studios is celebrating the New Year with a new home. Set in the heart of vibrant Teaneck, NJ, the Black Box Performing Arts Center offers the opportunity for more robust programming in 2016. Continuing their commitment to serve the NJ arts community, the January 2016 repertoire includes a high-level teen ensemble productions of Bat Boy: The Musical, and Other Desert Cities; as well as student productions of How I Learned to Drive, and Zombie Prom: Atomic Edition. The Black Box Performance Arts Center is located at 200 Walraven Dr. (just off Palisade Ave.), Teaneck, NJ, 07666. Tickets are $10 and available at www.blackboxnynj.com.

BBS January Performance Schedule:

• Bat Boy: The Musical – Jan 7-13, 2016

Presented by the Black Box Studios’ Teen Musical Theater Ensemble

Book by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming; Music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe; Musical direction by Brody Greif; Choreographed by Michelle Puskas; Directed by Matt Okin.

Based on a story in The Weekly World News, Bat Boy: The Musical is a musical comedy/horror show about a half boy/half bat creature who is discovered in a cave near Hope Falls, West Virginia.

Thu, Jan 7 at 8:00 pm; Sat, Jan 9 at 7pm; Wed, Jan 13 at 9pm; Thu, Jan 14 at 8:30pm; Sat, Jan 16 at 9pm.

Tickets: $10.00; Direct link to purchase tickets: http://tinyurl.com/hjwshmu

• Other Desert Cities – Jan 9-18, 2016

Presented by the Black Box Studios’ Teen Drama Ensemble

Written by Jon Robin Baitz; Directed by Matt Okin.

Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs after a six-year absence to celebrate Christmas with her family. Brooke announces she is about to publish a memoir dredging up a pivotal and tragic event in the family’s history—a wound they don’t want reopened. In effect, she draws a line in the sand and dares them all to cross it.

Sat, Jan 9 at 9pm; Sun, Jan 10 at 7pm; Sat, Jan 16 at 7pm; Sun, Jan 17 at 8pm; Mon, Jan 18 at 7:30pm.

Tickets: $10.00; Direct link to purchase tickets: http://tinyurl.com/onbsxfw