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Thursday, March 5, 2020

Theater: The confrontation between senators McCarthy and Chase Smith explored onstage in CONSCIENCE by Ted Otten

Of Republican Sen. Joseph Raymond McCarthy (1908–1957) of Wisconsin, President Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, “I will not get in the gutter with that guy,” but Jersey-born, two-time T…

SOURCE: NJ.com at 12:57PM
Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Theater: Audiences ‘stunned into enthralled silence’ at performances of MIDWIVES by Ted Otten

The reviews have been excellent and audiences, according to the play’s director David Saint, have been “stunned into enthralled silence” by the play’s emotional power and, at the tal…

SOURCE: NJ.com at 02:54PM
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Theater: One-woman show, MY LIFE ON A DIET, at George Street Playhouse through Dec. 15 by Ted Otten

Like most good things, the run of “My Life on a Diet” at New Brunswick’s George Street Playhouse through Dec. 15 is all too soon to end. The show is a 90-minute journey through the lif…

SOURCE: NJ.com at 12:52PM
Monday, November 4, 2019

Theater: George Street Playhouse season opens with LAST DAYS OF SUMMER by Ted Otten

The show, which boasts a script and lyrics by Steve Kluger on whose best-selling novel the show is based and a vibrant 1940s style score by Jason Howland whose musical “Little Women” was…

SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:24AM