205 stories by "Bob Rendell"
The laws and attitudes which discriminated against women in Victorian England in the 1850s were idiotic and reprehensible.
For the length of the New Jersey Repertory's world premiere production of the ninety-minute one-act play Broomstick, audiences in attendance will find themselves sitting deep in the woods in…
Paul Osborn's 1938 fantasy comedy-drama On Borrowed Time has quite nicely withstood the test of time. As performed on stage at the Two River Theatre Company in an expansive new production di…
It is a world premiere production of Premiere Stages (on campus at Kean University) where it was selected as the winner of the company's 2013 Play Festival competition.
Most happily, the play is now back on stage at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in a scintillating, joyous revival which, if there is any logic in the world of theatre, should embark it…
Saving Kitty succeeds as a light, laugh-filled summer's entertainment.
New Jersey theatergoers are fortunate indeed to have Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park available to them in a new production which is as first rate as the highly praised production which played o…
It is worth noting that Fallen Angels and the activities of Julia and Jane will remind audiences of Lucille Ball and her beloved television series "I Love Lucy." If that sounds good to you, …
This summer's Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's Annual Outdoor Stage production is a buoyant and delightful As You Like It.
Happy, an intriguing new play by Robert Caisley, provides a stimulating, intellectually engaging evening's entertainment. However, at this stage of its development, Happy fails to fully sati…
When was the last time you saw a sophisticated, drawing room comedy which was so right, so satisfyingly perfect that it put a tear in your eye?
These show business loving sisters have returned to the Bickford in order to perform their new musical comedy variety show, Nunsense II: The Second Coming as a thank you to the audiences of …
For today's theatergoer, however, The Playboy of the Western World remains a formidably funny and entertaining evening in the theatre.
If you are a fan of large scale, well crafted traditional American musicals, you will find great pleasure and satisfaction in the Paper Mill Playhouse production of the newly revised stage m…
A Grand night for Singing consists of 37 Rodgers and Hammerstein songs sung in whole and in part, and often in thematic groupings or medleys. The songs are oft times performed in strikingly …
Fiasco Theater company under the aegis of the McCarter Theatre has "reimagined" the remarkable Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical Into the Woods in a production which restores improvisati…
It is not a stretch to recommend the excellent production that is on stage at the George Street Playhouse for providing New Jersey audiences the opportunity to savor it.
When The 2.5 Minute Ride, Ms. Kron's second play, was produced in 1999, it instantly established the actress-comedienne as an outstanding playwright/monologist.
While the Bickford Theatre revival of Neil Simon's 1968 Plaza Suite is as nicely done and entertaining as one could have hoped, unexpectedly, it offers more than a bit of rewarding and revel…
The Electric Baby is a richly theatrical new play that makes its own rules. It is receiving a richly imaginative, impressively expansive production in Two River's small black box "second sta…
The setting is the dilapidated, modest Connecticut farmhouse of tenant farmer Phil Hogan during a fateful eighteen hours between early afternoon of one day in early September, 1923, and sunr…
For pure and delightfully old fashioned musical comedy fun, it would be very difficult to find anything better than the expertly staged, high-spirited Paper Mill Playhouse production of the …
Stan Werse's Noir is an affectionate, inherently satiric, pleasingly respectful take on the "grade B" seventy-five minute or so long film noir policiers turned out quickly on tiny budgets by…
Thanks to the solid premise and an excellent, comically adept, hard working cast, for a time all of this is pleasant and amusing.
Director Rebecca Taichman has fearlessly pared down the play by eliminating supporting roles, and making elisions in the text which include the rendering of key scenes through brief narratio…
