Monday, May 25, 2015
How 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…
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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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