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An Interview With Playwright Joel Stone SHARE BUTTON by Gary Wien New Jersey Repertory Com- pany presents the World Pre- miere of The Calling by Joel Stone from January 4th through February 4th in Long Branch. This play was commissioned by NJPAC’s Stage Exchange in As- sociation with the New Jersey Theatre Alliance and NJRep. Stone, who was formerly the artistic director of Off-Off Broadway’s The Theatre Asylum, has written many short plays in the past 40 years, including sev- eral which have been presented at NJ Rep over the years. For the past four years, he has been an adjunct professor of play- NJ STAGE - ISSUE 42 INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 29