205 stories by "Bob Rendell"
It is difficult to describe the anarchic, confused plotting, and wildly arbitrary inclusion of literary and historical pop culture personages who populate Jeff Whitty's The Further Adventure…
Bickford Theatre audiences are being presented with You're Gonna Love Tomorrow, an evening of the music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim thoughtfully and lovingly directed by producer and Sond…
Bartlett has intentionally kept his dramatization brief (it runs 2 hours and ten minutes with one intermission) while encapsulating most of the principal events, beginning with the death of …
The Two River Theatre's powerful revival of Suzan-Lori Parks' remarkable 2002 Pulitzer Prize winning play Topdog/Underdog has the distinction of being the play's first production to be direc…
Christopher Durang's delightful new play swiftly conveys complex human behavior and emotions that reflect our own life experiences with theatricality, rich antic humor, and heart piercing tr…
One of the things that makes Farragut North so bracing and unusual is that it is an effective revelation of the corruption of the political animal as viewed from the left side of the aisle.
Dilorio has challenged himself and his audience by placing the central focus of his play on an unregenerate pedophile rapist and the indelible harm which his reprehensible crimes against oth…
While Measure for Measure is hardly Shakespeare's most cohesive or logically developed play, it has always been, for me, one of his most delightful and richly entertaining ones.
Judging by the large and happy audience at the Bickford Theatre at the Morris Museum, artistic director Eric Hafen has proven to be wise in his selection of the original Nunsense to be his t…
It is a summer evening in 1968. We are in the ballroom of the DuPont Hotel in Wilmington where the Delaware Association for the Handicapped is holding a black tie fundraiser to honor their q…
[T]his summer's production of the Bard's The Comedy of Errors is inventive and imaginative, lavishly staged, delightfully acted and hilarious.
Although he is not Voltaire, Tony Glazer's skillful intelligence, theatrical flair, and confident passion are effectively on display in American Stare.
We can be grateful and delighted that Paper Mill has afforded musical theatre aficionados the opportunity to again enjoy the many delights of Flaherty and Ahrens' Once on This Island.
Thus begins David Lee White's accurately self-described "new comic thriller" "Slippery as Sin," as successful and satisfying a variation as one could ever hope to see of the satiric stage th…
Farcical, laugh out loud situations combine with a delicately limned portrait of a shy, quietly observant 9-year-old girl in the entertaining 2009 Alan Ayckbourn comedy "My Wonderful Day," w…
With its underlying concern anent the difficulty of learning to be a mature, well functioning adult buried under an excess of whimsical plotting, characters difficult to keep straight, and d…
The vastly popular stage farce, adapted from the 1915 novel by John Buchan and (scene by scene) from the 1935 British mystery-spy chase adventure movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock, is being…
The Luna Stage company is providing a rare opportunity to see the outstanding, memorable and controversial award-winning Michael Frayn drama, Copenhagen.
The freshness, energy and accuracy of the performances, vocals and dancing are currently at a high level, and West Side Story is now in livelier, more entertaining shape than it was when see…
Trad is a delicate, whimsical one-act Irish fable. The gently high-spirited, fluid production which it is receiving at Teaneck's Garage Theatre maximizes the play's laid back charm.
Saving its best for last, the Bickford Theatre is concluding its 2011-2012 season at its Morris Museum home with an bright and charming revival of I Do! I Do!, the 1966 Tom Jones/Harvey Schm…
The Centenary Stage Company is presenting the world premiere of The Unfortunates by Australian playwright Aoise Stratford.
Easily the best production this reviewer has yet seen of The Last Five Years ... the exuberant Crossroads Theatre production is so chock full of vigor, detail, interpretive brilliance, and …
Sadly, Carry It On is a disappointment.
Even under ideal conditions, Tom Stoppard's fast-paced, verbally and intellectually playful 1974 vaudevillian lark Travesties requires most viewers to work almost as hard as its thespian int…
