Tuesday, February 7, 2017
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[SHARE]Tuesday, January 24, 2017
The actors are strong, but forced exposition and clunky dialogue overwhelm any chance for depth here.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 03:14PM[SHARE]Monday, December 19, 2016
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[SHARE]Tuesday, December 13, 2016
This 90-minute show features one performing playing all the roles from the classic Jimmy Stewart film
SOURCE: NJ.com at 12:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 8, 2016
If you seek a heaping helping of old-fashioned Christmas pageantry, this show is your answer.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:28AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 6, 2016
The latest from the New Brunswick theater cloys more than it charms
SOURCE: NJ.com at 04:50PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 1, 2016
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[SHARE]Tuesday, November 29, 2016
James Goldman's 1966 play has not aged well.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 12:50PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 8, 2016
This funny and thoughtful play follows two couples celebrating a 60th birthday
SOURCE: NJ.com at 01:44PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 27, 2016
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[SHARE]Tuesday, October 25, 2016
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[SHARE]Tuesday, October 18, 2016
This new play by Ben Clawson's recounts a meeting between President Theodore Roosevelt and naturalist John Muir
SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:02AM[SHARE]Monday, October 17, 2016
Trendy modern dress, sleek firearms and altogether baffling production decisions do not a successful Shakespeare play make
SOURCE: NJ.com at 02:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 4, 2016
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[SHARE]Monday, September 26, 2016
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[SHARE]Monday, September 19, 2016
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[SHARE]Thursday, September 15, 2016
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[SHARE]Friday, September 9, 2016
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[SHARE]Monday, August 29, 2016
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[SHARE]Thursday, August 18, 2016
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[SHARE]Friday, July 22, 2016
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[SHARE]Monday, July 11, 2016
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[SHARE]Tuesday, July 5, 2016
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[SHARE]Tuesday, June 14, 2016
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[SHARE]Friday, June 10, 2016
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[SHARE]Tuesday, June 7, 2016
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[SHARE]Tuesday, May 31, 2016
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[SHARE]Monday, May 16, 2016
A decommissioned water tower is transformed into the perfect venue for Keith Huff's play
SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:43PM[SHARE]Friday, April 29, 2016
No Shakespeare play is more apt for alternative stagings, but this version never coheres
SOURCE: NJ.com at 04:53PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2016
This world premiere play's ambition is laudable, but its execution is far less certain.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2016
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[SHARE] 
