Monday, May 25, 2015
Spending 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…
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Friday, May 15, 2015
Rachel Bond’s Chekhovian but contemporary five-character play has its East Coast premiere at the McCarter Theater.
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A 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.
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In 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 …
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Two people are unable to console each other during their mutual bereavement in “Guadalupe in the Guest Room” in Red Bank.
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Christopher Durang’s comedy “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” is at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn.
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“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…
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Alan 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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A bright musical based upon a popular Will Ferrell movie, “Elf,” now in Milburn, is a well-tooled production that previously won success on Broadway.
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“Camelot” now materializes at Two River Theater in Red Bank in a radically revised version that mounts its gorgeous Lerner and Loewe score within a simple framework.
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Six premieres by playwrights with ties to the Garden State are scheduled to be part of the state’s 2014-15 professional theater season.
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Friday, July 18, 2014
In Tammy Ryan’s play at the Zella Fry Theater, nightmares fester for a Marine and single mother as flashbacks trace what happened during her deployment to Iraq.
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In “The Devil’s Disciple,” George Bernard Shaw wrote a dark comedy set during the Revolutionary War that exploited Victorian blood-and-thunder melodramas and added his own ironic spin.…
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The Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey’s current revival of Molière’s 1672 comedy is presented outdoors at the Greek Theater on the campus of the College of St. Elizabeth in Morris Towns…
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Annette O’Toole takes the lead in a production of Wendy Wasserstein’s “Third,” staged at Two River Theater in Red Bank.
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The current production of “The Tempest” by the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey in Madison is less concerned with flashy stagecraft and more intent upon fleshing out the emotions that d…
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In the Passage Theater Company’s production of “Tamer of Horses” in Trenton, a couple try to rehabilitate an illiterate gang member who seeks shelter at their home.
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“Marisol,” currently being presented by Luna Stage in West Orange, is a dark fantasia that reflects a number of the social and spiritual troubles of the early 1990s.
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“Trouble in Mind,” a 1955 comedy-drama by Alice Childress, is about racism in the theater world and has been rediscovered in recent years.
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“Lift” by the best-selling mystery writer Walter Mosley opens April 10 at the Crossroads Theater Company in New Brunswick.
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A pair of single New Yorkers on the cusp of 40 play out their visions of long-term love in a breezy musical.
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The intimacy of Luna Stage amplifies the penetrating examination of hatred in Athol Fugard’s 1982 play, set in 1950 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
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Paper Mill Playhouse stages a cheery and lively rendition of the lighthearted musical “Oliver!” based on a bleak tale of workhouses and thieves.
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The artful simplicity of “Our Town,” at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, is enhanced by staging both beautiful and thoughtful.
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In “The High Water Mark,” a new play by Ben Clawson that Luna Stage is presenting in West Orange, childhood chums reconnect in the middle of the night to hash out their midlife crises.&n…
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