205 stories by "Bob Rendell"
The joyful exuberance that the smash hit musical Hairspray brought to Broadway audiences for six and a half years remains intact in the breakneck paced, high energy production now launching …
Director SuzAnne Barabas has matched author Richard Strand in deftly concealing and delivering the clever and satisfying surprises that are in store for the viewer ...
Your Blues Ain't Sweet Like Mine, by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, in a world premiere production at Two River Theater manages the neat trick of directly confronting the issue of talking about race…
By something akin to alchemy, book author Peter Parnell and director Scott Schwartz have transformed the earnest but ultimately bland and timid 1996 Disney animated movie The Hunchback of No…
By all means, come to see Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker, come for the sexuality, and come for the laughs, but be sure to stay for the healing.
Hawking and her author make us admire and delight in a woman whose materialism and extravagance under other circumstances would be found deplorable.
David Lee and the Two River Theater have produced an innovative, sensual, intellectually and emotionally satisfying new Camelot. Most importantly, it is time to acknowledge the fact that Art…
The Understudy is a bit of a trifle in her considerable oeuvre, but it ultimately emerges in this production as a heartfelt, moving and rapturous paean to the theatre and those moments of jo…
With a little help from many talented friends, Cole Porter and Abe Burrows' Can-Can is back in town, providing the kind of melodious, light-hearted, audience-pleasing entertainment that sadl…
It has taken six years (since its 2008 world premiere at Philadelphia's Arden Theatre Company) for David Davalos' totally accessible, delightfully literate comedy Wittenberg to cross the Del…
It has been said the road to you know where is paved with good intentions. Sadly, the brilliant and indefatigable Bonnie J. Monte has come a cropper with her production of her own new adapta…
Sara Fine is Queen of the Jinxed. The lightbulbs which she installs in her apartment have little more life expectancy than a lightning bug. Her cat has been run over, and her fish bowl is me…
Melodrama, adventure, romance and comic wit await you at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's robust and delightful production of George Bernard Shaw's not very often performed The Devil'…
... once it gets rolling, it becomes a clever, full-blown comedy which could become widely popular.
Employing relationships and situations that have long been employed in sentimental musicals and comedies, along with traditionally styled music, the authors of Marry Harry have created a dis…
