15 stories by "Jay Lustig"
TAYLOR REYNOLDS beautifully directs a cast of four wonderful actors. "Jawid" (AFSHEEN MISAGHI in the play's most memorable performance) feels guilty that he has achieved his comfort by worki…
"What kind of a cruel universe would do this to me?" asks Haley Walker in Theresa Rebeck's one-woman play, "Bad Dates." She's referring to the fact that she can't find a pair of shoes that f…
February: George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick presents a notable world premiere: "Midwives," a riveting drama about a home birth gone wrong and its aftermath.
DiPietro's play is an absorbing one, making these historical figures into believable flesh-and-blood characters. And its relevance to current politics is so obvious it hardly even needs to b…
Tony winner Harriet Harris will star as Sen. Margaret Chase Smith in CONSCIENCE, a new play by Joe DiPietro (MEMPHIS; THE TOXIC AVENGER; I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE) that will beg…
Directed in bold strokes by GSP artistic director David Saint, "Midwives" will keep you on the edge of your seat.
THE IMMIGRANT at George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick. George Street found an underappreciated gem in Mark Harelik's 1985 drama about a Russian Jew who moves to Central Texas in the early …
"My Life on a Diet" is fun, breezy and reliably entertaining " in dieting terminology, it will satisfy you without really filling you up " as well as absolute catnip for those who love insid…
The Elizabeth Ross Johnson Theater (the larger of NBPAC's two theaters) is as beautiful and comfortable a space as one could have hoped for, and director Jeff Calhoun has assembled a fine ca…
The George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick will begin previews of the last show of its 2018-19 season, "Too Heavy for Your Pocket," on April 23. And it also, this month, announced its 2019…
Just keep in mind that, despite the Broadway setting (and the Broadway ticket prices), this is basically just a concert by a Beatles tribute band. And it’s not as if those are in short…
I bought a $142 ticket for the Sunday matinee this past weekend. It was a very good seat, in the lower balcony (or, as it was called, the Flying Circle), though I would have been sitting clo…
"Think of it as 'Jersey Boys' meets 'The Sopranos,' " says Robert Nederlander Jr., president and CEO of Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment, one of the companies involved in the joint develo…
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