205 stories by "Bob Rendell"
It is set on the stage of a Broadway theatre during rehearsals for the opening of an anti-lynching Broadway play (Chaos in Belleville).
"Lift" is set in an elevator in a large building which is owned and occupied by a large corporation which encompasses varied businesses and financial institutions.
The Marriage of Figaro is the finest production of any play that I have seen in New Jersey this entire season.
Everything has come up all aces for the Paper Mill Playhouse and its fresh as a daisy new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific."
On stage at the McCarter in a felicitous translation/adaptation of the latter 18th century French commedia dell'arte The Barber of Seville. Originally conceived of as a comic opera, the play…
Not much happens in the solo show I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti which Jacques Lamarre has adapted from the memoir by Giulia Melucci. Still, it is sweet and likeable, and Antoinette LaVec…
Serendipity has struck at New Jersey's Women's Theatre where the Women's Theater Company's production of Working, Stephen Schwartz' 1978 musical adaptation of Studs Terkel's 1974 book based …
Although Centenary Stage Company is not in top form this time out, its production ofThe Liar is certainly lively and robust.
The charming and delightfully funny The Other Josh Cohen, which has been musically inspired by the oeuvre of Neil Diamond, may be the most successful pop rock musical to date in its ability …
... props for gently addressing the important issue as to whether a number of newly labeled psychological disorders which are widely and casually chemically treated with powerful and dangero…
Director Reginald L. Douglas has captured Fugard's richly nuanced details in the interactions among Sam, Willie and Hally so as to present Fugard's profoundly personal Master Harold to us wi…
[T]his is as authentic a presentation of the 2002 Broadway hit as one could ever see. Fortunately, Rooks' performance is lively and involved, and the production elements look and feel fresh.
The world premiere production of the 95-minute one-act play is now on stage at the New Jersey Rep.
... a fast-paced, lively, and emphatically upbeat production which will most assuredly entertain family audiences seeking a good story, first rate tunes and smoothly professional musical th…
It is about Bill, Jr. (Jim Stanek), a 35-year-old married man with a four-month-old daughter who is having an affair with his beautiful 23-year-old personal trainer. Certain that he cannot l…
This is the world premiere production of True Story which was developed here at the Passage Theatre. Both play and playwright E.M. Lewis. show considerable promise.
Lo and behold in November 2013, riding the wave of their well regarded screenplays for the hugely successful Despicable Me animated films, Cinco Paul (book, music and lyrics) and Ken Daurio …
As adapted for the stage by Mary Zimmerman, the classic Chinese fable The White Snake is a charming and delicate allegory replete with lovely stage pictures and a few anachronistic moments, …
Even as our values have changed over the 75 years that have passed since it was written, there remains a bedrock foundation of independence and values upon which America was built—the prim…
There is a great deal of sharp, intelligent dialogue and much of the play's second act is intriguing and involving.
The Other Place a mystery for adults. It is not a whodunit or about the solving of a crime. It is the story of Juliana Smithton, a 53-year-old neurological research scientist whose life is w…
Loud and louder, dumb and dumber, tasteless and more tasteless, insulting and more insulting, Gettin' the Band Back Together revels in the hoariest stereotypes about the Garden State and con…
Carl Wallnau brings as sure and grand a touch to directing Deathtrap as he does to performing the role of Bruhl. He makes certain that every thrilling moment and plot twist are delivered wit…
From the moment that the thirteen piece on-stage orchestra launches the overture with a driving big band arrangement of Jason Robert Brown's Sinatra-esque "When You Say Vegas," Honeymoon in …
Brochu takes us back mostly to the 1960s and tells us stories about larger than life character actors who delighted as comedians in some of the best and most popular Broadway musicals, and s…
