205 stories by "Bob Rendell"
"Jericho," the well written, new, post 9/11 play by Jack Canfora is being presented in a world premiere production by the New Jersey Repertory Theatre. There will be two additional "rolling"…
"The Dangers of Electric Lighting," a new play about the rivalry between two great inventors: the vaunted Thomas Alva Edison and Serbian emigre Nikola Tesla.
Originally copyrighted by Christopher Sergel back around 1970 and intended for high school productions, the stage version of Harper Lee's 1960 Pulitzer Prize novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" ha…
"Phaedra Backwards" relates in contemporary English, a streamlined, considerably altered adaptation of Racine's 1677 verse tragedy Phaedra, which was in turn based on Euripides' ancient Gree…
With his 2011-2012 season opening production It Shoulda Been You, George Street artistic director David Saint is bringing an "all-star" musical-comedy experience to an unequivocally delighte…
If anyone knew the legendary chaos and aggravation of opening a new show on the road in preparation for Broadway, it was Moss Hart.
Richard Dresser certainly knows how to engage our emotions and tickle our funny bones. With "The Last Days of Mickey and Jean," he has come up with a witty and compact little comedy which is…
Disney's "Newsies The Musical" has roared into the Paper Mill Playhouse in a sharp, snazzy, complex production which thrillingly integrates book, music and lyrics, choreography, scenery and …
Andrea Gallo is a talented, vivacious and charming actress. This certainly comes through as she employs her charms to try to bring life to the world premiere of Ian August's overly contrived…
Director Buntrock's view of the play has led him to tone down the level of exuberance and farcicality usually seen in productions of "Much Ado." The comedy is still amusing, but it never is …
The man sits down at the piano and plays some notes from "Blue Moon" as five women, identified in the program as Miss Jones One through Five, appear at the top of the staircase and descend s…
It is the clear and thoughtful approach that director Bonnie J. Monte has taken to the exposition leading up to "Othello"'s grand climaxes that distinguish the production at hand.
annah Senesh was a young Jewish woman who fled from Hungarian anti-Semitism and emigrated to Palestine in 1939. There, she first joined the Haganah, and, thereafter, she enlisted in the Brit…
Very few of the pro-Communist, anti-American plays of the Vietnam War area that were particularly popular among young people were sufficiently artful or insightful to be successfully produce…
"Follow Me to Nellie's" is the new play by Dominique Morisseau now playing in a developmental production at Premiere Stages. Although not the freshest or best constructed of such efforts, it…
"The Judy Holliday Story," enthusiastically received at last summer's FringeNYC is receiving its official world premiere at the New Jersey Repertory Theatre ... The Theater Project informs u…
When word gets out that the play is back in such fine fettle, I expect that grateful and appreciate New Jersey families will be flocking in droves to see the thoroughly entertaining, artisti…
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey returns to the stage in fine fettle with the opening production of its 2011 season, The Misanthrope, Molière's witty and insightful seventeenth century…
Yasmina Reza has a great gift for sophisticated, semi-absurdist dialogue which hilariously skewers the self-satisfied, self-aggrandizing, (until recently) rapidly expanding very upper middle…
Even as it now stands, Sleeping Beauty Wakes is a most intelligent and entertaining musical which is well worth a destination trip to Princeton. However, it would be a shame if the creative …
The Theatre Project (in its last production at Union County College) is presenting a heartfelt production of The African Company Presents Richard III, an imaginative recounting by Carlyle Br…
The less that you know about Night Train before you board the better that you will enjoy it. Even telling you how or why it works, or even the genres which it encompasses, will reduce your p…
Paul Rudnick's 1991 Broadway comedy I Hate Hamlet is a pleasant, gracefully written, gently humorous, old-fashioned comedy. Rudnick has written sharper and better plays, including at least f…
As with Paper Mill's lavish 2007 production of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Curtains is a co-production with Houston's Theatre Under the Stars. The benefits of such collaborations will b…
Is it possible to contain the monumental story of the more than decade long struggle to build the World Trade Center in a conventional two act play? This is a difficult question to answer. H…
