Monday, July 25, 2011
In a way, The Mad Show is returning to its roots. This upcoming weekend, the 1966 hit revue will be a “Musical in Mufti” at the York Theatre, located on 54th Street between Lex a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AMFriday, July 22, 2011
Jerry Dalia/Surflight TheatreJudd Hirsch directs and stars in "Art" at the Surflight Theatre in Beach Haven. The "Taxi" star plays Marc, the same character he played in t…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:24AMThe young man driving the car is speeding and then goes even faster. His wealthy and privileged occupants sing with the confidence and invulnerability of youth, "It's been a lovely day.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AMThursday, July 21, 2011
A play about a blind woman and the struggles she has before and after an operation may not seem to be the ideal summer entertainment. Perhaps that’s why at Sunday night’s performance of …
SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:03AMWednesday, July 20, 2011
Tidbits from the world of the New Jersey stage
SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:31AMRe-read Plaza Suite, Neil Simon’s 1968 smash-hit. The evening consisted of three one-act plays, the first of which was the most serious play that Simon had yet attempted. It dealt with…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:37AMTuesday, July 19, 2011
Cynthia Meryl brings her extraordinary New Jersey Youth Theatre to NJPAC in Newark
SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:26PMRoy GroethingMichelle Wilson, Nyahale Allie and Ley Smith in “Follow Me to Nellie’s,” the winner of the new play festival at Premiere Stages at Kean University in Union. The plot isn�…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:34AMMonday, July 18, 2011
Roxie Hart, let alone Mrs. Lovett, wasn’t the first musical theater woman to have blood on her hands. Annina was in The Saint of Bleecker Street.
Granted, there were two profound dif�…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:58PMCouresty of The Theater Project The cast of Penny Penniworth featuring Rick Delaney (left), Jenelle Sosa (bottom center), Terri Sturtevant (top), and Harry Patrick Christian (down right) in …
SOURCE: NJ.com at 01:32PMSo have you experienced what David Schmittou has?
It all started when the actor, who’s about to play Toddy in Victor/Victoria at Stages St. Louis, ran into Joel Warfield. The last tim…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AMFriday, July 15, 2011
Daniel HeddenCynthia Meryl, artistic director of the New Jersey Youth Theatre, directs the cast of "Kiss Me, Kate" at a rehearsal. It all started simply because parents didn’t ha…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:38AMIt got skunked at the Tonys, which everyone expected, given that it got all of two nominations, excluding Best Musical. And yet, of the three musicals that lost to Memphis in 2010, American …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AMThursday, July 14, 2011
Peter Marshall finds himself in the center square this week on the Jersey Shore. The longtime host of “Hollywood Squares” will star in A.R. Gurney’s “Love Letters.” It’s a two-ch…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:02AMSome weeks ago, I told of the theatrical crimes I committed – for missing such shows as Song of Norway, Coco, and Drat! The Cat! Turns out I’m not the only theatrical criminal. P…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:09AMThis month, I did Cole Porter one better. While he cited Philly, Boston, and Baltimo’ as places for good theater, I'm going to those cities and one more for my on-stage entertainm…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:09AMIt was the month in which we celebrated “World Theatre Day” – on March 27. Do you think that day was chosen it because on that date in 1964, Barbra Streisand awoke and read…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:09AMWednesday, July 13, 2011
Jason Meehan Photography .Alyse Alan Louis (Kira) and Bernard Dotson (Danny) in Revision Theatre's Xanadu. At least “Xanadu” knows exactly what it is. “This,” says one character, “…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:45AMEver hear of a comedy called Come Live with Me?
You’re pardoned if you haven’t. After all, the 1967 comedy lasted all of four performances at the Billy Rose (now the Nederlande…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AMTuesday, July 12, 2011
Rick Engler (Center) Greg Jackson as Timon fends off the debt collectors. So you’ve never seen “Timon of Athens”? Attend the production at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, and ha…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:10AMBy Peter Filichia --
If all had gone according to plan, I would have written and posted this column -- marking a sixty-second anniversary -- last Tuesday.
Don’t blame me: I’m not the o…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:34AMMonday, July 11, 2011
In Douglas J. Cohen's musical The Gig, a would-be professional jazz musician is excited because "I played with a guy who played with Benny Goodman." Well, right now I'm just as exc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03AMFriday, July 8, 2011
Paul Whelihan Playwright Dominique Morisseau, seated, with "Follow Me to Nellie's" cast members, from left, Ley Smith, Michelle Wilson and Kelly McCreary. It was the best little wh…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:32AMYou may recall that in 1932, Oscar Jaffee was pressuring Lily Garland to star in his production of The Magdalene. She didn’t wind up doing it. Now, here’s The Magdalene at St. Cl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AMWednesday, July 6, 2011
David Hyde Pierce David Hyde Pierce, who is directing “It Shoulda Been You” for the George Street Playhouse this fall, has hired an old colleague, Edward Hibbert, to be in the new musica…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:41AMAn acrobat performs a hoop balancing act in Cirque Ziva, which will be presented in Asbury Park throughout July. In addition to all the pretzels served on the beach at Asbury Park, a theater…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:51AMRemember the question that Joe Gaken asked a few weeks ago? He wanted to know, “What was the musical that was announced that made you say ‘Are you kidding? There’s going to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AMTuesday, July 5, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
You may know Song of Norway, for which Robert Wright and George (“Chet”) Forrest adapted melodies from Norwegian classical composer Edvard Grieg. In the ‘40s, it…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:13AMMonday, July 4, 2011
I’ve seen 26 of Shakespeare’s plays performed outdoors in 34 different productions, but I’ve never had quite the al fresco experience with the Bard as I’m having in A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AMFriday, July 1, 2011
What a blessing in disguise Cirque de Soleil gave us by renting Radio City for Zarkana, thus sending the Tonys to the (comparatively speaking) more intimate Beacon. Have you heard anyone not…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AMWednesday, June 29, 2011
Alicia Keys is going where Whoopi Goldberg, Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter, and Will and Jada Pinkett Smith have gone before her.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 12:53PM 
