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Monday, July 13, 2015

Review: An ‘As You Like It’ on Asphalt, From Shakespeare in the Parking Lot by Ken Jaworowski

After losing its old “stage” to redevelopment, the group presents its first play of the summer at a lot nearby.

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Saturday, July 11, 2015

Theater Review | New Jersey: Review: ‘Closure’ at the New Jersey Repertory Company by Ken Jaworowski

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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Friday, July 3, 2015

Theater Review | New Jersey: Review of ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’ by the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey by Ken Jaworowski

“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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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Review: Confessions Abound in Ensemble Studio Theater’s One-Act Marathon by Ken Jaworowski

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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Sunday, June 14, 2015

Review: In ‘This Is Mary Brown,’ Mom Has Troubles but Is Quite a Character by Ken Jaworowski

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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Monday, May 25, 2015

Theater Review | 'TheBcam/MacBeth': A King’s Toils and Troubles From a Mixed-Media Angle by KEN JAWOROWSKI

For an audience being held hostage by “TheBcam/MacBeth,” even the intermission is an ordeal.

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Theater Review | 'In Transit': A Sunny Urban Vision of Traveling Underground by KEN JAWOROWSKI

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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Theater Review | 'Rosmersholm': In Ibsen, Discontent and Desires Unspoken by KEN JAWOROWSKI

The Pearl Theater Company’s production of Ibsen’s “Rosmersholm” is compelling, as the characters grapple with unvoiced emotions.

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Theater Review | 'Momentum': From Israel, Acrobatic Rhythm and Moves by KEN JAWOROWSKI

“Momentum,” from the Tel Aviv performance troupe Mayumana, has an infectious beat and physical pyrotechnics to match.

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Theater Review | 'Carnival Round the Central Figure': Death Be Not Predictable by Ken Jaworowski

“Carnival Round the Central Figure” is an absurd and macabre meditation on death.

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Theater Review | 'Molly Sweeney': Does One Need Sight to Grasp the World? by Ken Jaworowski

In “Molly Sweeney,” at the Irish Repertory Theater, a woman who has been blind almost since birth undergoes an operation, with profound consequences.

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Theater Review | 'Storm Still': ‘King Lear’ Inspires a Riff on the Endurance of Time by Ken Jaworowski

Experimental theater often requires your forbearance, and “Storm Still,” a riff on Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” tests the audience’s boundaries.

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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Review: At ‘Dinner With the Boys,’ a Serving of Mafia Jokes by Ken Jaworowski

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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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Arts | New Jersey: Review: ‘The Realization of Emily Linder’ Is a Comedic Drama About Approaching Death by Ken Jaworowski

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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Friday, April 24, 2015

Theater Review | New Jersey: A Review of ‘Rapture, Blister, Burn’ at the Dreamcatcher Repertory Theater in Summit by Ken Jaworowski

“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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Saturday, March 21, 2015

Theater Review | New Jersey: Review: In the Comic ‘Baskerville’ at the McCarter Theater Center, Sherlock Holmes Investigates a Curse by Ken Jaworowski

“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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Monday, March 16, 2015

Theater Review | New Jersey: Review: In ‘Buyer & Cellar,’ a Visit to the Babs Cave by Ken Jaworowski

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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Sunday, March 1, 2015

Review: ‘Hitting Bedrock’ at La MaMa Taps Into War’s Confusion by Ken Jaworowski

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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Friday, February 20, 2015

Theater Review | New Jersey: A Review of ‘The Most Deserving' in Summit by Ken Jaworowski

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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Friday, February 13, 2015

Review: John Cariani’s ‘Love/Sick’ at Royal Family by Ken Jaworowski

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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Thursday, January 29, 2015

Theater Review: ‘The Road to Damascus,’ Tom Dulack’s Political Play at 59E59 Theaters by Ken Jaworowski

“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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Thursday, December 18, 2014
Sunday, December 7, 2014

Theater Review: ‘On the Other Side of the River,’ Translated From Yiddish by Ken Jaworowski

“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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Friday, November 28, 2014

Theater Review | New Jersey: A Review of ‘The Fabulous Lipitones’ in New Brunswick by Ken Jaworowski

“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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Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Theater Review: ‘Wiesenthal,’ a One-Man Show by Tom Dugan by Ken Jaworowski

The one-man show “Wiesenthal,” written by and starring Tom Dugan, humanizes appalling events.

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Monday, November 3, 2014

Theater Review | New Jersey: A Review of ‘Lines in the Dust’ at Luna Stage by Ken Jaworowski

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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Friday, October 17, 2014

Theater Review | New Jersey: A Review of ‘Outside Mullingar’ at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick by Ken Jaworowski

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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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Theater Review: ‘A Walk in the Woods’ Is Revived With Kathleen Chalfant by Ken Jaworowski

A revival of Lee Blessing’s “A Walk in the Woods” stars Kathleen Chalfant as a Soviet arms treaty negotiator.

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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Theater Review | New Jersey: A Review of ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ in Princeton by Ken Jaworowski

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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Friday, September 19, 2014

Theater Review | New Jersey: A Review of ‘Dinner With the Boys’ in Long Branch by Ken Jaworowski

“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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Thursday, September 18, 2014

Theater Review: 'Teach, Teacher, Teachest,' Inspired by Ionesco by Ken Jaworowski

“Teach, Teacher, Teachest” is the latest in a spate of re-envisioned Ionesco plays.

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