12 stories by "Chuck O'donnell"
"We are embracing reinvention and thinking about ways that we can keep producing in this time, in a safe way," said Kelly Ryman, managing director at George Street Playhouse. Safety is a key…
The theater that has been producing world-class shows for nearly half a century will be launching its 2021 streaming season with "Bad Dates," a romantic comedy by award-winning playwright Th…
Shannon White heard that some health care professionals were forced to resort to repurposing disposable plastic water bottles to serve as face shields. The thought that there could be a shor…
George Street Playhouse's production of "Conscience," a new play by Tony winner Joe DiPietro that explores one woman's bravery in the face of a relentless tide of McCarthyism, will stop imme…
The characters in George Street Playhouse's gripping production of "Midwives," adapted by for the stage for the first time from Chris Bohjalian's best-selling novel, all come to ice-slicked …
By the time the curtain rises next week on the stage adaptation of author Chris Bohjalian's "Midwives," Ellen McLaughlin will have had a few dozen smoothies at the health food place on Georg…
Rehearsals have begun at George Street Playhouse for New York Times bestselling author Chris Bohjalian's "Midwives" " a world-premiere play adapted by the author from his celebrated novel of…
Renée Taylor's weight may have gone up and down like a yo-yo, but the one constant over 60-something years in show business has been her sense of humor. Like the time her future mother in l…
Renée Taylor lays bare some of the more private moments of her life in her latest show and somehow she finds that cathartic. "My Life on a Diet," which opens at the New Brunswick Performing…
George Street Playhouse's first production in the newly opened, $172 million New Brunswick Performing Arts Center - centered on a preteen Jewish boy who strikes up an unlikely friendship wit…
The anguish and approbation of Steve Kluger's life will play out on stage when the curtain goes up on opening night and George Street Playhouse presents "Last Days of Summer." Kluger, who wr…
David Saint has directed Keith Carradine and Amy Irving. He collaborated with Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents, but a couple of construction workers seemed to leave him, at least for a m…
