Sunday, February 16, 2014
Director Reginald L. Douglas has captured Fugard's richly nuanced details in the interactions among Sam, Willie and Hally so as to present Fugard's profoundly personal Master Harold to us wi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:03AMSunday, February 9, 2014
[T]his is as authentic a presentation of the 2002 Broadway hit as one could ever see. Fortunately, Rooks' performance is lively and involved, and the production elements look and feel fresh.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:00AMWednesday, January 29, 2014
The world premiere production of the 95-minute one-act play is now on stage at the New Jersey Rep.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:30PMSaturday, December 7, 2013
... a fast-paced, lively, and emphatically upbeat production which will most assuredly entertain family audiences seeking a good story, first rate tunes and smoothly professional musical th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:36AMFriday, November 29, 2013
It is about Bill, Jr. (Jim Stanek), a 35-year-old married man with a four-month-old daughter who is having an affair with his beautiful 23-year-old personal trainer. Certain that he cannot l…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:11PMSaturday, November 16, 2013
This is the world premiere production of True Story which was developed here at the Passage Theatre. Both play and playwright E.M. Lewis. show considerable promise.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:14PMFriday, November 15, 2013
Lo and behold in November 2013, riding the wave of their well regarded screenplays for the hugely successful Despicable Me animated films, Cinco Paul (book, music and lyrics) and Ken Daurio …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:07PMFriday, October 25, 2013
As adapted for the stage by Mary Zimmerman, the classic Chinese fable The White Snake is a charming and delicate allegory replete with lovely stage pictures and a few anachronistic moments, …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:50PMWednesday, October 23, 2013
Even as our values have changed over the 75 years that have passed since it was written, there remains a bedrock foundation of independence and values upon which America was built�the primac…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:34PMThere is a great deal of sharp, intelligent dialogue and much of the play's second act is intriguing and involving.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:34PMFriday, October 18, 2013
The Other Place a mystery for adults. It is not a whodunit or about the solving of a crime. It is the story of Juliana Smithton, a 53-year-old neurological research scientist whose life is w…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:56AMLoud and louder, dumb and dumber, tasteless and more tasteless, insulting and more insulting, Gettin' the Band Back Together revels in the hoariest stereotypes about the Garden State and con…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:55AMMonday, October 14, 2013
Carl Wallnau brings as sure and grand a touch to directing Deathtrap as he does to performing the role of Bruhl. He makes certain that every thrilling moment and plot twist are delivered wit…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:33AMFriday, October 11, 2013
From the moment that the thirteen piece on-stage orchestra launches the overture with a driving big band arrangement of Jason Robert Brown's Sinatra-esque "When You Say Vegas," Honeymoon in …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:44AMThursday, October 3, 2013
Brochu takes us back mostly to the 1960s and tells us stories about larger than life character actors who delighted as comedians in some of the best and most popular Broadway musicals, and s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:15PMThe laws and attitudes which discriminated against women in Victorian England in the 1850s were idiotic and reprehensible.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:59PMFor the length of the New Jersey Repertory's world premiere production of the ninety-minute one-act play Broomstick, audiences in attendance will find themselves sitting deep in the woods in…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:59PMThursday, September 26, 2013
Paul Osborn's 1938 fantasy comedy-drama On Borrowed Time has quite nicely withstood the test of time. As performed on stage at the Two River Theatre Company in an expansive new production di…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:26PMSaturday, September 14, 2013
It is a world premiere production of Premiere Stages (on campus at Kean University) where it was selected as the winner of the company's 2013 Play Festival competition.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:27PMMonday, August 19, 2013
Most happily, the play is now back on stage at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in a scintillating, joyous revival which, if there is any logic in the world of theatre, should embark it…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:25PMFriday, August 9, 2013
Saving Kitty succeeds as a light, laugh-filled summer's entertainment.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:24PMThursday, July 25, 2013
New Jersey theatergoers are fortunate indeed to have Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park available to them in a new production which is as first rate as the highly praised production which played o…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:17AMTuesday, July 9, 2013
It is worth noting that Fallen Angels and the activities of Julia and Jane will remind audiences of Lucille Ball and her beloved television series "I Love Lucy." If that sounds good to you, …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:09PMFriday, July 5, 2013
This summer's Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's Annual Outdoor Stage production is a buoyant and delightful As You Like It.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:51AMMonday, June 17, 2013
Happy, an intriguing new play by Robert Caisley, provides a stimulating, intellectually engaging evening's entertainment. However, at this stage of its development, Happy fails to fully sati…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMWhen was the last time you saw a sophisticated, drawing room comedy which was so right, so satisfyingly perfect that it put a tear in your eye?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMSaturday, June 15, 2013
These show business loving sisters have returned to the Bickford in order to perform their new musical comedy variety show, Nunsense II: The Second Coming as a thank you to the audiences of …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:21PMFor today's theatergoer, however, The Playboy of the Western World remains a formidably funny and entertaining evening in the theatre.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:20PMThursday, June 6, 2013
If you are a fan of large scale, well crafted traditional American musicals, you will find great pleasure and satisfaction in the Paper Mill Playhouse production of the newly revised stage m…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:52PMThursday, May 23, 2013
A Grand night for Singing consists of 37 Rodgers and Hammerstein songs sung in whole and in part, and often in thematic groupings or medleys. The songs are oft times performed in strikingly …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01PMTuesday, May 21, 2013
Fiasco Theater company under the aegis of the McCarter Theatre has "reimagined" the remarkable Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical Into the Woods in a production which restores improvisati…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:41AM 
