110 stories by "Patrick Maley | For Nj Advance Media"
Chloe Hung's great new play, "Issei, He Say, or the Myth of the First," is playing at NJ Repertory Company through May 20
Brian Friel's 1990 play focuses on one weighty summer in the lives of five sisters sharing a small cottage in rural northwest Ireland
'Wild Horses' seems like that stranger at the bar late in the night who is just dying to tell a story. Nobody likes that person.
'The Bridge of San Luis Rey,' adapted from the Thornton Wilder novel, plays in Red Bank through March 18
"What Stays," a new play at Summit's Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre, fosters a space for plenty of baggage
Behind Laiona Michelle's electric performance, the closing half hour of this play very abruptly becomes great theater
"Razorhurst," playing in West Orange, is a musical featuring the ghosts of two ruthless female gang leaders
The show does little other than underscore the troubling racial politics of Alfred Uhry's 1987 play
"El Coqui Espectacular and the Bottle of Doom" at Two River Theater is smart, warm, inventive, vibrant, and simply a great deal of fun
"Intimate Apparel," "The Merchant of Venice" and "Annie" earn places on our critic's list
Oh Good Lord, is this show at George Street Playhouse tedious
The Paper Mill Playhouse's take on classic "Annie" aims for cozy joy and hits its target.
This new play by Karen Rizzo is cucrently having its East Coast premiere at Long Branch's New Jersey Repertory Company
This clever and charming adaptation of the Oscar-winning movie is now playing at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in Madison.
The writers of the famed show about relationship foibles have updated the material for the age of Smartphones
This musical version of the classic Jackie Gleason TV series is a sweet, if familiar trip down memory lane
Simpatico" reminds us why Sam Shepard's work is so engrossing
A classic examination of black American life is dynamite at Two River Theater
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's production is deft in its management of a deceptively challenging play
The lesser-known comic gem by the French playwright has a wonderful cast led by Kevin Isola as a mischievous servant
This production of Shakespeare's enchanted classic trips over itself by stretching its cast thin.
This new play in Red Bank is ultimately moving, but with a few hiccups
"Mary Poppins" at Paper Mill Playhouse is a musical full of fuzzy warmth, bolstered by fine performances and impressive staging
This "Merchant" kicks off a summer of New Jersey theater in fine style.
David Lee White's play succeeds in examining mental illness from a variety of avenues
