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Monday, August 18, 2014

Metropolitan Opera and unions reach a deal, avoid lockout by Ronni Reich

The 2014-15 season is expected to open on schedule Sept. 22 with a new Richard Eyre production of Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro" conducted by music director James Levine.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:00AM

Top 5 N.Y. shows this week: Michael Cera, Tavi Gevinson on Broadway by Ronni Reich

Also: ICE visits the Park Avenue Armory as part of the Mostly Mozart festival

SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:00AM
Friday, August 15, 2014

'The Alchemist' conjures colorful characters at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey by Ronni Reich

Bonnie J. Monte directs and adapts Ben Jonson's play

SOURCE: NJ.com at 02:00PM
Monday, August 11, 2014

Top 5 NY shows this week: 'Newsies' sing and Mostly Mozart continues by Ronni Reich

Also: The Wayside Motor Inn begins performances off-Broadway

SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:00AM
Friday, August 8, 2014

Crossing Borders Festival returns to Red Bank by Ronni Reich

The offerings begin Thursday at 7:30 p.m. with Raúl Castillo's "Between You, Me and the Lampshade," which centers on a Mexican woman who becomes wounded while trying to cross the …

SOURCE: NJ.com at 12:00PM
Sunday, August 3, 2014

Young women's stories take the stage at the Fringe Festival by Ronni Reich

There are laughs at the expense of a giant fake Barbie built to scale -- 7-feet-tall and so top-heavy she topples -- and a close look at expectations for women all over the world, whether th…

SOURCE: NJ.com at 11:00AM
Saturday, August 2, 2014

Paper Mill Playhouse shows off its Summer Conservatory's 'New Voices' | NJ.com by Ronni Reich

It's 80 degrees outside, a perfect day for a trip to the beach while school's out. But at Hamilton Stage in Rahway, class is in session.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:49AM
Tuesday, July 29, 2014

N.J. State Arts Council awards $15.7 million in grants by Ronni Reich

Creative organizations throughout the state received a total of more than $15.7 million in grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts — nearly $100,000 more than was awar…

SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:00PM
Sunday, July 20, 2014

Pulitzer Prize winner John Luther Adams discusses his free premiere at Lincoln Center by Ronni Reich

"It's our awareness of the world, and in turn, the world's awareness of us," he says.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 12:00PM
Thursday, July 17, 2014

Elaine Stritch, Broadway legend, dies at 89: Remembering her in videos by Ronni Reich

Elaine Stritch, a Broadway powerhouse also known as Colleen Donaghy on "30 Rock," has died at age 89 at her home in Birmingham, Mich.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 02:15PM
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

'The Passenger' is a haunting rarity at the Lincoln Center Festival by Ronni Reich

Houston Grand Opera staged the Weinberg opera at the Park Avenue Armory

SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:00AM
Monday, July 7, 2014

NJ writers join the New York Musical Theatre Festival by Ronni Reich

NYMF returns this year with musicals about growing up, cloning, pets and more

SOURCE: NJ.com at 02:00PM
Monday, May 12, 2014

Top 5 NY shows this week: Emanuel Ax, Just Jim Dale by Ronni Reich

Also: Fly By Night at Playwrights Horizons, Bach and Steve Reich, and Ahrens & Flaherty

SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:00AM
Wednesday, May 7, 2014

'The Motorcycle Diaries' writer Jose Rivera's 'Marisol' opens at Luna Stage by Ronni Reich

Rivera's voice is distinctive, and the play is at once brutal and poetic, fantastical and resonant of truth

SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:00AM
Sunday, May 4, 2014

Tony Award nominee Lauren Worsham sings theater, opera and rock by Ronni Reich

Worsham is nominated for her role in 'A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder'

SOURCE: NJ.com at 12:30PM
Friday, May 2, 2014

'Our Town' opens at the George Street Playhouse by Ronni Reich

The theater collaborates with Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts

SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:00AM
Thursday, May 1, 2014

'The Mitzvah Project' tells a different story of the Holocaust by Ronni Reich

With his latest venture, Roger Grunwald hopes that he will open people's eyes to a unique story with wider importance.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AM
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Patti Labelle, Gladys Knight and Natalie Cole join 'After Midnight' on Broadway by Ronni Reich

The show, which draws on music of Duke Ellington, earned seven Tony Award nominations yesterday

SOURCE: NJ.com at 01:40PM
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Two River Theater's 2014-15 season showcases three new works by Ronni Reich

The season also includes works by Moliere and Alan Ayckbourn

SOURCE: NJ.com at 11:55AM

Tony Awards 2014: 'Gentleman's Guide' leads with 10 nominations by Ronni Reich

Other big winners so far include 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch,' 'The Glass Menagerie,' 'Twelfth Night,' 'After Midnight' and 'Beautiful - the Carole King Musical.'

SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:40AM
Monday, April 28, 2014

Top 5 New York shows this week: Pixar Scores, Bernstein tribute, Kristin Chenoweth by Ronni Reich

Celebrate Leonard Bernstein and hear Pixar music live

SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:13AM
Sunday, April 27, 2014

Tony Awards 2014: Don't bet on this year's competition by Ronni Reich

This Tony Awards season brings even more questions than usual, with shows that don't quite fit into proper categories, two sets of repertory plays with the potential to complicate nomination…

SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AM
Friday, April 25, 2014

'A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder' dominates Drama Desk Awards by Ronni Reich

Pop culture reigns at this year's awards, with movie adaptations and celebrity stars earning nominations in major categories

SOURCE: NJ.com at 01:30PM
Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Top 5 NJ stage shows this week by Ronni Reich

Our Town opens in New Brunswick and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra plays The Wizard of Oz

SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:00AM
Monday, April 21, 2014

Top 5 NY shows this week: La Cenerentola, collected stories, Sondheim Unplugged by Ronni Reich

Also: Marc-Andre Hamelin with the New York Philharmonic and Vijay Iyer at the Greene Space

SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:00AM
Sunday, April 20, 2014

'The Velocity of Autumn' chronicles one volatile granny by Ronni Reich

Eric Coble's new play starring Estelle Parsons and Stephen Spinella opens on Broadway tomorrow

SOURCE: NJ.com at 12:45PM
Friday, April 18, 2014

Alice Childress' 'Trouble in Mind' remains relevant in Red Bank by Ronni Reich

At Two River Theater, Jade King Carroll directs a thoughtprovoking production that gives due attention to Childress, one of the first African-American women to have a play produced in New Yo…

SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:00AM
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Top 5 NJ stage shows this week by Ronni Reich

Stephanie Blythe and the JACK Quartet visit Princeton; 'Marisol' opens in West Orange

SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:15AM

'The Marriage of Figaro' opens at the McCarter Theatre by Ronni Reich

Stephen Wadsworth adapts and directs Beaumarchais' comedy

SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:00AM

'South Pacific' opens at the Paper Mill Playhouse by Ronni Reich

The Rodgers and Hammerstein classic receives a straightforward but memorable production

SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:00AM
Monday, April 14, 2014

Top 5 NY shows this week: 'Here Lies Love,' MATA Festival by Ronni Reich

David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's musical about Imelda Marcos returns to the Public Theater

SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:30AM

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