CDD 2025-2026 Season in Review
Here’s a look back at our full 2025-2026 season!
Voices International Theatre Festival
In June 2026, the Jersey City Theatre Center under the direction of Executive Producer Olga Levina presented a weeks-long program entitled “Voices International Theatre Festival.”
a look back at season 2026 | welcome to season 2027!
What a season! As we close the curtain on 2025–26, we’re overflowing with gratitude for you — the people who showed up, cheered, funded, and moved alongside us. Together we danced through headwinds: an arts landscape under pressure, wild weather, tight budgets — and still, we soared. Here’s what we built together.
CDD 2026 Benefit Fundraiser Was a Success
Carolyn Dorfman Dance’s annual major fundraiser, held on April 23 at the Maplewood Country Club, brought in almost $90,000, 20 percent more than 2025, and was an unqualified success.
Carolyn Dorfman Dance Celebrates Asian American/Pacific Islander and Jewish American Heritage Month
May is a month of celebration — a time to honor two communities whose resilience, creativity, and spirit have profoundly shaped this nation: Jewish Americans and Asian American and Pacific Islanders.
“The Power of One” at NJPAC Reviewed
Our performance of “The Power of One,” which included the world premiere of “The Hero Within,” at NJPAC on May 14th was reviewed by NJArts.net!
REACH26: Fundraising Benefit Evening on April 23, 2026
Carolyn Dorfman Dance’s annual major fundraiser will be held on Thursday, April 23, 6:30 pm at the Maplewood Country Club
“The Power of One” Coming to NJPAC
CDD returns to NJPAC in Newark on May 14th with the world premiere of Dorfman’s newest work, The Hero Within: The Story of Max Heller, Mary Mills and Miracles.
Celebrating Black History
By CDD Executive Director Anita Thomas Here is Black History – at the November 2025 Governors’ Ball Oscar ceremony, L-to-R: Danny Brown, Wynn’s protege; CDD executive director Anita Thomas; top line producer Preston Holmes; multi-Oscars-winning costume designer Ruth Carter; Honorary Oscar winner Wynn Thomas; and major film producer Stephanie Allain My older brother, Wynn Thomas , […]
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
A Message from Carolyn: Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Birkenau Concentration Camps in 1945. It is both my honor and responsibility to share my family’s story — and the stories of countless others who endured the horrors of the Holocaust, the struggle of immigration to America, […]