474 stories by "MICHAEL SOMMERS"
Ultimately, "A Free Man of Color" proves to be more exhausting than exhilarating in spite of the heroic efforts of its company to animate Guare's overstuffed monster of a play.
Currently in noisy residence at Playwrights Theater of New Jersey, "MoM" is an intimate rock musical with a cool concept, so-so songs and an O.K. production that does not completely fulfill …
No question that Johnson is a talented writer — his plainspoken language sounds very natural — but his new play does not sufficiently develop its intriguing premise.
Not so much a fumble as an incomplete pass, "Lombardi" is a new play about Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi that presents a limited impression of the gridiron giant and his famously dr…
Funny solo show spins through world civilization in 75 minutes sharp
Kurt Weill musical mixes a powerful score with a sorrowful South African story
A compact, tautly-written drama set at the conclusion of the Civil War, "The Whipping Man" studies two recently-freed slaves and their former master, all of them Jews, dealing with...
“The Subject Was Roses,” about a man who sees his troubled parents through fresh eyes, runs through March 6 at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick.
Stephen Spinella plays a poet who tells tales of the misadventures of mankind.
"Hairspray" is being staged at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, N.J., but with a less sizable set design than was used on Broadway.
In Ian August's play, when four people must decide whether to have a baby, things can become awkward.
Rachel Bond's Chekhovian but contemporary five-character play has its East Coast premiere at the McCarter Theater.
A stressed-out single mother makes her first foray into online dating, and almost instantly receives a call from Shackleton, the celebrated British polar explorer of the early 1900s.
In a new play by Michael Tucker, a couple that harbor certain irritations toward each other travel to a clothing-optional resort, where the wife has a cathartic experience with a sexy young …
Two people are unable to console each other during their mutual bereavement in "Guadalupe in the Guest Room" in Red Bank.
Christopher Durang's comedy "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" is at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn.
"Sizwe Banzi Is Dead," in Princeton, translates the repressive horror of apartheid into human terms through the use of easygoing humor in its early passages, then shifts into graver tones as…
Alan Ayckbourn's "Absurd Person Singular," in Red Bank, is set during three successive Christmas gatherings and tells the story of how three British couples deal with the gradual change in s…
A bright musical based upon a popular Will Ferrell movie, "Elf," now in Milburn, is a well-tooled production that previously won success on Broadway.
"Camelot" now materializes at Two River Theater in Red Bank in a radically revised version that mounts its gorgeous Lerner and Loewe score within a simple framework.
Six premieres by playwrights with ties to the Garden State are scheduled to be part of the state's 2014-15 professional theater season.
A revival of "Blithe Spirit" and the world premiere of "Zorro!" are being presented in Cape May.
In Tammy Ryan's play at the Zella Fry Theater, nightmares fester for a Marine and single mother as flashbacks trace what happened during her deployment to Iraq.
In "The Devil's Disciple," George Bernard Shaw wrote a dark comedy set during the Revolutionary War that exploited Victorian blood-and-thunder melodramas and added his own ironic spin. It's …
