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Tuesday, February 7, 2017

'A Comedy of Tenors' at the Paper Mill is farce at its best by Patrick Maley | For Nj Advance Media

The musical is a sequel to Ken Ludwig's Tony-winning 'Lend Me a Tenor,' but you don't need to know its predecessor to enjoy the hijinks

SOURCE: NJ.com at 05:15PM
Tuesday, January 24, 2017

'The Jag' at NJ Rep mostly just spins its wheels by Patrick Maley | For Nj Advance Media

The actors are strong, but forced exposition and clunky dialogue overwhelm any chance for depth here.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 03:14PM
Monday, December 19, 2016

The 10 best New Jersey theater productions of 2016 by Patrick Maley | For Nj Advance Media

The maxim 'Go big or go home' didn't apply this year, with a number of intimate productions earning outsized praise

SOURCE: NJ.com at 03:00PM
Tuesday, December 13, 2016

'This Wonderful Life' at Luna Stage is a soothing holiday confection by Patrick Maley | For Nj Advance Media

This 90-minute show features one performing playing all the roles from the classic Jimmy Stewart film

SOURCE: NJ.com at 12:01PM
Thursday, December 8, 2016

'Child's Christmas' at Shakespeare Theatre: A welcome charmer at the end of a tough year by Patrick Maley | For Nj Advance Media

If you seek a heaping helping of old-fashioned Christmas pageantry, this show is your answer.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:28AM
Tuesday, December 6, 2016

'Daddy Long Legs' at George Street review: Squash this musical out by Patrick Maley | For Nj Advance Media

The latest from the New Brunswick theater cloys more than it charms

SOURCE: NJ.com at 04:50PM
Thursday, December 1, 2016

'A Bronx Tale' Broadway review: Star power can't overcome mediocrity by Patrick Maley | For Nj Advance Media

Fresh from its successful run at Paper Mill Playhouse, the classic movie becomes a Broadway musical -- with mixed success.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:04PM
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Tuesday, November 8, 2016

'Out of the City' at Passage Theatre: A fine coming-of-middle-age play by Patrick Maley | For Nj Advance Media

This funny and thoughtful play follows two couples celebrating a 60th birthday

SOURCE: NJ.com at 01:44PM
Thursday, October 27, 2016

'Mad Love' at NJ Rep review: It's hard not to fall for this smart rom-com by Patrick Maley | For Nj Advance Media

The play by Marisa Smith, now playing at New Jersey Repertory Company, is a comedy full of interesting ideas and a great deal of heart.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:47AM
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

'Mama's Boy' review: This drama of Oswald and his mother is smart and moving by Patrick Maley | For Nj Advance Media

The season opener for New Brunswick's George Street Playhouse forces us to consider historical figures in a new light

SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:05AM
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

'King of the Mountains' at Luna Stage is a history lesson best left forgotten by Patrick Maley | For Nj Advance Media

This new play by Ben Clawson's recounts a meeting between President Theodore Roosevelt and naturalist John Muir

SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:02AM
Monday, October 17, 2016

'Richard III' at Shakespeare Theatre: The Bard should sue for defamation by Patrick Maley | For Nj Advance Media

Trendy modern dress, sleek firearms and altogether baffling production decisions do not a successful Shakespeare play make

SOURCE: NJ.com at 02:33PM
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

'The Producers' at Paper Mill: Can we ship this musical out to pasture? by Patrick Maley | For Nj Advance Media

The Millburn theater's tentative take on the Mel Brooks juggernaut reveals that this show hasn't aged very well.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 05:57PM
Monday, September 26, 2016

'Bathing in Moonlight' at the McCarter review: Touching, but undercooked by Patrick Maley | For Nj Advance Media

The Princeton world premiere of Nilo Cruz's "Bathing in Moonlight" -- one of the fall's most anticipated new plays -- doesn't fully deliver.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 11:01AM
Monday, September 19, 2016

Two River Theater scores again with August Wilson's 'Ma Rainey': review by Patrick Maley | For Nj Advance Media

Beginning with "Jitney" in 2012, the company has now offered four terrific productions in the playwright's Century Cycle.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 04:20PM
Thursday, September 15, 2016

'Red Velvet' at Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey is a gripping history lesson by Patrick Maley | For Nj Advance Media

Lolita Chakrabarti's penetrating drama about a 19th century black actor starring in 'Othello' is neither stolid historical chronicle nor hero worship.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 12:10PM
Friday, September 9, 2016

Nilo Cruz's 'Bathing in Moonlight' at McCarter: A game-changer for Latino playwrights? by Patrick Maley | For Nj Advance Media

Latino playwrights aren't widely represented onstage -- but the McCarter's new play 'Bathing in Moonlight' is a major step in a new direction

SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:10AM
Monday, August 29, 2016

NJ Rep's 'Iago': This take on the Moor is less by Patrick Maley | For Nj Advance Media

James McLure's play involves a love triangle set in the London theater scene of the 1950s but fails to ignite

SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:56AM
Thursday, August 18, 2016

An absurdist classic holds up nicely in new Shakespeare Theatre production by Patrick Maley | For Nj Advance Media

Ionesco's "Exit the King" -- playing through August 29 -- tells the story of a 400-year-old king reckoning with his inevitable demise.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:42PM
Friday, July 22, 2016

This Pulitzer winner gets a moving new production at Premiere Stages by Patrick Maley | For Nj Advance Media

The intimacy of the New Jersey theater is a boon to the show, which connects more viscerally here than it did in its off-Broadway staging

SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:53AM
Monday, July 11, 2016

Madison theater stages the best Shakespeare play you've probably never seen by Patrick Maley | For Nj Advance Media

One of the Bard's least performed plays gets a thrilling and visceral production at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey

SOURCE: NJ.com at 02:53PM
Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Shakespeare Theatre stages all of the Bard's works -- in just 2 hours by Patrick Maley | For Nj Advance Media

Everything from "Romeo and Juliet" and "Hamlet" to non-Shakespearean subjects such as "Game of Thrones" gets parodied in this delightful romp

SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:57PM
Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Two River's 'I Remember Mama' gets new life with mature, all-female cast by Patrick Maley | For Nj Advance Media

Two River Theater in Red Bank remounts an innovative 2014 staging by New York's Transport Group theater company

SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:00PM
Friday, June 10, 2016

Matthew Broderick mars an otherwise solid 'Shining City' at Irish Rep by Patrick Maley | For Nj Advance Media

Conor McPherson's play "Shining City" is the first production from Irish Rep at its newly-renovated theatre, but the star gives an awkward and contrived performance

SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:37PM
Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Get tickets to Paper Mill's rousing 'West Side Story' by any means necessary by Patrick Maley | For Nj Advance Media

With productions like these, it's little wonder that the company will be awarded the prestigious Regional 2016 Tony Award at Sunday's Tony Awards.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:17PM
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Shakespeare Theatre of N.J. should have kept dusty Noel Coward in mothballs by Patrick Maley | For Nj Advance Media

Laila Robins tries to infuse 'A Song at Twilight' with energy but the late-career play lacks both drama and wit

SOURCE: NJ.com at 04:20PM
Monday, May 16, 2016

An exciting new N.J. theater company stages a thrilling 'Steady Rain' by Patrick Maley | For Nj Advance Media

A decommissioned water tower is transformed into the perfect venue for Keith Huff's play

SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:43PM
Friday, April 29, 2016

'Pericles' review: Two River's experiment with Shakespeare goes awry by Patrick Maley | For Nj Advance Media

No Shakespeare play is more apt for alternative stagings, but this version never coheres

SOURCE: NJ.com at 04:53PM
Wednesday, April 20, 2016

'Old Love New Love' review: An uneven world premiere at Luna Stage by Patrick Maley | For Nj Advance Media

This world premiere play's ambition is laudable, but its execution is far less certain.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:29PM
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

George Street ends season on triumphant note with 'My Name is Asher Lev' by Patrick Maley | For Nj Advance Media

This adaptation of Chaim Potok's famed novel closes the George Street Playhouse's season out in fine fashion.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:35PM

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