Capable actors, good direction, fine design and stretches of nice writing cannot disguise the inevitable realization that "After the Revolution" is a lot of fuss over not much of anything.
SOURCE: New Jersey Newsroom at 05:58PMA psychiatrist explores President Robert Mugabe’s invisible demons in “Breakfast With Mugabe.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMNew musical based on a Will Ferrell movie packs jolly holiday entertainment
SOURCE: New Jersey Newsroom at 05:58PMUltimately, "A Free Man of Color" proves to be more exhausting than exhilarating in spite of the heroic efforts of its company to animate Guare's overstuffed monster of a play.
SOURCE: New Jersey Newsroom at 05:58PMSure, "Bells Are Ringing" may be a pretty familiar show to fans of old musicals, but the expertise of Marshall's smart production makes it an enjoyable occasion.
SOURCE: New Jersey Newsroom at 05:58PMWhimsical comedy about a Norwegian odd couple makes little impact
SOURCE: New Jersey Newsroom at 05:58PMLongtime fans will find LaBute in prime form while Duchovny's followers will see him excel in a challenging role at the heart of an absorbing drama.
SOURCE: New Jersey Newsroom at 05:58PMVampire classic fails to fly in a misguided production
SOURCE: New Jersey Newsroom at 05:58PMHow lovely it must be to encounter this wonderful comedy for the first time — and in such a pleasant production as this one, which isn't flawless but certainly offers a nimble, clearly…
SOURCE: New Jersey Newsroom at 05:58PMA compact, tautly-written drama set at the conclusion of the Civil War, "The Whipping Man" studies two recently-freed slaves and their former master, all of them Jews, dealing with...
SOURCE: New Jersey Newsroom at 05:58PMAn increasingly emotional interpretation of "Three Sisters" awaits people lucky enough to snare a ticket to director Austin Pendleton's poignant revival of Anton Chekhov's 1901 drama that ...
SOURCE: New Jersey Newsroom at 05:58PMBackstage musical about making a musical in the Middle East aspires to be funny
SOURCE: New Jersey Newsroom at 05:58PMRed Bull Theater vigorously brings a 1621 British drama to life
SOURCE: New Jersey Newsroom at 05:58PMKurt Weill musical mixes a powerful score with a sorrowful South African story
SOURCE: New Jersey Newsroom at 05:58PMNo question that Johnson is a talented writer — his plainspoken language sounds very natural — but his new play does not sufficiently develop its intriguing premise.
SOURCE: New Jersey Newsroom at 05:58PMTwo River Theater Company’s production of the in Red Bank lacks persuasive visuals and a fine sense of spontaneity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMSpending over two hours in the company of a raging monomaniac with an Anne Frank obsession is not my idea of a fun time, especially when he's played with all stops out by Mandy Patinkin blaz…
SOURCE: New Jersey Newsroom at 05:58PMRich liberals spill their phony guts in a bogus new drama
SOURCE: New Jersey Newsroom at 05:58PM“The Subject Was Roses,” about a man who sees his troubled parents through fresh eyes, runs through March 6 at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMShakespeare’s rarely-staged “Timon of Athens” looks mighty nice at the Public Theater in a crisp, smartly shaped production starring a well-cast Richard Thomas as a blissfu…
SOURCE: New Jersey Newsroom at 05:58PMA drama crafted in a minor key, Lindsay-Abaire’s latest piece is a character study that proves to be small in scope but sharp in its emotional regrets and prickly conversation as McDor…
SOURCE: New Jersey Newsroom at 05:58PMIn Ian August’s play, when four people must decide whether to have a baby, things can become awkward.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:47PMRachel Bond’s Chekhovian but contemporary five-character play has its East Coast premiere at the McCarter Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:38PMA stressed-out single mother makes her first foray into online dating, and almost instantly receives a call from Shackleton, the celebrated British polar explorer of the early 1900s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:20PMIn a new play by Michael Tucker, a couple that harbor certain irritations toward each other travel to a clothing-optional resort, where the wife has a cathartic experience with a sexy young …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:46PMTwo people are unable to console each other during their mutual bereavement in “Guadalupe in the Guest Room” in Red Bank.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:05PMChristopher Durang’s comedy “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” is at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:35PM“Sizwe Banzi Is Dead,” in Princeton, translates the repressive horror of apartheid into human terms through the use of easygoing humor in its early passages, then shifts into graver tone…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:43PMAlan Ayckbourn’s “Absurd Person Singular,” in Red Bank, is set during three successive Christmas gatherings and tells the story of how three British couples deal with the gradual chang…
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