Monday, July 13, 2015
After losing its old “stage” to redevelopment, the group presents its first play of the summer at a lot nearby.
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Set on a Caribbean island, a new stage drama, “Closure,” revolves around the disappearance of a young woman, the strain it puts on her parents and a detective’s efforts to find her.
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“Love’s Labour’s Lost,” presented in an outdoor amphitheater, displays exceptional Shakespearean wordplay that makes it hard to produce, requiring a mastery of language and pacing.
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This third cycle of plays includes a tale about two Japanese courtesans and another about the trajectory of a father-daughter relationship.
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Winsome Brown’s one-woman show remembers the performer’s cigarette-smoking, alcoholic and Dublin-born mother in a flesh-and-blood portrait.
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Even when “In Transit,” an a cappella musical about a group of New Yorkers and their travails, turns a bit too sweet, it’s tough not to smile along.
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The Pearl Theater Company’s production of Ibsen’s “Rosmersholm” is compelling, as the characters grapple with unvoiced emotions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“Momentum,” from the Tel Aviv performance troupe Mayumana, has an infectious beat and physical pyrotechnics to match.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMExperimental theater often requires your forbearance, and “Storm Still,” a riff on Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” tests the audience’s boundaries.
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Dan Lauria (the dad in “The Wonder Years”) wrote and stars in this comedy about mobsters awaiting punishment for a botched job.
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The four-character play by Richard Strand is having its world premiere at the New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch.
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“Rapture, Blister, Burn,” a play by Gina Gionfriddo, will run through May 3 at the Dreamcatcher Repertory Theater in Summit, N.J.
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“Baskerville,” a comic retelling of “The Hound of the Baskervilles” by Arthur Conan Doyle, finds Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson being asked to investigate a death in the English coun…
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The Jonathan Tolins play, “Buyer & Cellar,” at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, imagines the hiring of a caretaker for Barbra Streisand’s underground mall of keepsakes.
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The war transformed a benign theater project into a docuplay that tries, with some success, to convey the feeling of living in a country being plunged into chaos.
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In “The Most Deserving” in Summit, conflict and comedy develop over who will get an arts grant in a small town in Kansas.
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Mr. Cariani has joined the cast of his new nine-vignette romantic comedy, billed as a “darker cousin” to his international hit “Almost, Maine.”
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“The Road to Damascus” traces the United States government’s diplomatic maneuvering after a pair of domestic attacks lead — accurately or not — to Syria.
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Sunday, December 7, 2014
“On the Other Side of the River,” translated from Peretz Hirshbein’s Yiddish original, centers on a young woman whose parents drowned and now feels threatened by rising waters.
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“The Fabulous Lipitones,” in New Brunswick, works just fine without much glitter or glamour — its greatest pleasures spring from the simplest of intentions.
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Monday, November 3, 2014
Dialogue is loudly delivered in service of an Issue, with a capital I, in Nikkole Salter’s tale of a mother’s effort to get her daughter a better education.
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In “Outside Mullingar,” by John Patrick Shanley, two unmarried Irish neighbors, one quirky and one stubborn, deal with lost youth and thinning chances.
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A revival of Lee Blessing’s “A Walk in the Woods” stars Kathleen Chalfant as a Soviet arms treaty negotiator.
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A new take on Shakespeare’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ at the McCarter Theater Center in Princeton focuses on the raging romance rather than the battles.
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“Dinner With the Boys,” making its world premiere at the New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch, is a hokey comedy that’s far more enjoyable than it really should be.
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