Lane Napper

Enroll now for summer dance and musical theater intensives at Axelrod Performing Arts Academy.

Fall registration is now open for the Axelrod Performing Arts Academy. Classes run September 13, 2023 to June 19, 2024. All classes are held at the academy's studios at Bell Works, 101 Crawfords Corner Road in Holmdel.  

3 cords & a hook studios announces 'Youthful Faces,' bringing together some of NYC's best dancers, including: Matt Wiercinski (Broadway: 'Anastasia' - Ensemble/Prince Siegfried) and Kathryn Zimmer (Broadway: 'Matilda The Musical'), to encourage and become a catalyst for our younger generation to speak up and speak out to illuminate the future they want to see.

Hello Broadwayworld! It's Lea coming to you from Queens College. Let me be the first to officially welcome everyone back to school and welcome to the 2018 - 2019 school year.

Every generation finds a musical that speaks to them-from Beach Blanket Bingo to Grease to Rent- and Disney's High School Musical speaks to Millennials. High School Musical, a cult film series and a #1 platinum album on Billboard, made a star of Zac Efron.

High School Musical, the phenomenon both in film and on stage, is revered by fans of musicals throughout the world. Not only has the film managed to maintain its popularity in the years since its release, it has defied the odds and continued to amass a new generation of fans thanks to those who fell in love with the coming of age musical series nearly ten years ago taking the time to introduce the films to their friends and family. These same fans have helped make the stage version of the show a massive success, with countless theaters across the U.S. regularly performing the production. While fans may believe they have seen all iterations of the show imaginable, Andrew DePrisco of Axelrod Performing Arts Center and renowned Choreographer/Director Lane Napper are intent on providing fans of the series a new way to experience the musical. The duo and their cast and crew want audiences to know that this production is not one to be missed.

Disney Channel's smash hit "High School Musical" is coming to the Axelrod stage on July 29th, directed and choreographed by none other than Lane Napper! Napper, well known for his Disney and Nickelodeon roles, will be working with the Axelrod Rising Stars program, which includes some of the best musical theater students in the area.

Travis has been having trouble concentrating at work, which tends to happen when all your thoughts have been replaced with an insatiable longing for your co-worker, in this case a woman named Adelaide. The Carnival Kid, an award winning and imaginative romantic-comedy short, follows Travis as he indulges in his fantasies of Adelaide while a Dixieland band provides a dreamy musical backdrop.

MiG Ayesa (Rock of Ages), Shannon Mullen (A Bronx Tale), Tracy McDowell (Motown) and more have joined the final line-up for Rock N' Roll Debauchery's return to The Cutting Room with The Down-N-Dirty Disco on Monday May 14, 2018.  

Felicia Boswell (Jesus Christ Superstar), Emma Hunton (Freaky Friday), Onyie Nwachukwu (RENT) and more have joined the final line-up for Rock N' Roll Debauchery's return to The Cutting Room with their all new experience: The Down-N-Dirty Disco this Saturday April 21, 2018.

Nearly two years after director Michael Perry first met writer Joey Fama at the Northern Virginia Film Festival (NOVA), the Carnival Kid team will have its Virginia premier at NOVA. Carnival Kid comes highly touted, including four nominations from the festival: Best Musical, Best Cinematography-Short, Best Art & Design, and Best Music Video. Director Michael Perry, 'I am so proud of everyone who worked on the film, the nominations belong to all of us.'

Axelrod Performing Arts Center announces that it has added an additional audition date on Wednesday, April 11, for its 2018 Summer Musical Theater Intensive "Disney's High School Musical." The program is open to students ages 13 and up looking to build their resumes and take their ability to the next level. The two week program runs July 15 through August 15, 2018.

Terren Wooten Clarke (The Book of Mormon), Will Mann (Billy Elliot) and more have joined the previously announced line-up for Rock N' Roll Debauchery's return to The Cutting Room with an all new experience: The Down-N-Dirty Disco.  

Following sold-out performances in New York City, Rock N' Roll Debauchery, returns this April to The Cutting Room with an all new experience: The Down-N-Dirty Disco.  

Famed television choreographer Lane Napper (TV's "Suddenly Susan" and "Victorious") will be at Axelrod Performing Arts Center, New Jersey's newest professional theater, on Sunday, February 25 for two workshops: Dancing for TV &Film, open to students ages 7 and up. Limited space is still available.

Carnival Kid is a new short musical film set to debut in 2017. It draws heavily upon the golden age of musical film, adding an element of the classic technicolor. This comedic musical film follows Travis through a dream sequence as he just can't get his co-worker Adeline off his mind!

Rock N' Roll Debauchery - the interactive rock and roll experience, opens this evening at 42West NY, "Bigger, Badder and Bolder" than ever before.

Rock N' Roll Debauchery returns to 42West this fall.

Casting for Rock N' Roll Debauchery has just been announced for their return to 42West this October and November.

Following its sold-out performance of 'Burlesque Dreams' in New York City last April, Rock N' Roll Debauchery returns to 42West for an extended run. Prepare to be rocked all night long!