Liz Wisan and Alan Coates in a rehearsal of "Hannah," which opens Thursday at Premiere Stages at Kean University in Union. Anne Frank is famous today for the diary she kept, chroni…
Aja Nisenson appears at the New York Fringe Festival tonight as “Daja Vu,†whom she describes variously as her diva alter ego, a parody of the cabaret genre, and the …
From Berlin to the Ganges, dance lovers can tour the world without leaving the island of Manhattan.
Musical follows the ups and downs of a 50-year marriage
Jerry McCrea/The Star LedgerBilly Van Zandt; and Jane Milmore; who authored and star in the play , "You've Got Hate Mail" . They are seen in rehearsal at the Triad Theater where th…
The Oct. 2 matinee of the musical at the Minskoff Theatre will be slightly altered
Jerry Dalia/Surflight TheatreCindy Williams, left, and Jo Anne Worley star as Olive and Florence, the female equivalents of Oscar and Felix, in Surflight Theatre’s production of…
JASON MEEHANNoah Zachary in "Spring Awakening" at ReVision Theatre in Asbury Park. At any musical, people always applaud after every song. It's only polite. When they're enthusiast…
IAN AUGUST Whatever happened to Ian August? At the start of the new millennium, August was delivering some of the state's best performances on Jersey stages. He was terrific in "A Funny…
Samuel AllenKevin Isola as the Maniac takes over the interrogation room of the Central Police Headquarters in Milan, Italy. The second act of "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" begins at the…
Alecia BrooksDirector Carlos Armesto with actresses Elena Ricardo, center, and Renée Bang Allen, rehearsing "€œSpring Awakening."€ A director must get the rig…
Patti LuPone returns to Broadway with Mandy Patinkin Spend "An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin" on Broadway, starting in November at the Barrymore Theatre. LuPone and …
Michael GoldsteinMal McCree and Paul Notice in Samuel J. and K. at Passage Theatre It's a silver anniversary for Passage Theatre Company of Trenton. The troupe, which opened in1986 with a mi…
Gerry GoodsteinPhilip Goodwin, who has won three Helen Hayes Awards for his work in the Washington, D.C., theater scene, will star in "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" at the Shak…
The stars keep saying yes to director David Hyde Pierce, who's casting the season opener at the George Street Playhouse. "It Shoulda Been You" " a musical about the travails of putting on a …
Jerry Dalia/Surflight TheatreJudd Hirsch directs and stars in "Art" at the Surflight Theatre in Beach Haven. The "Taxi" star plays Marc, the same character he played in t…
A play about a blind woman and the struggles she has before and after an operation may not seem to be the ideal summer entertainment. Perhaps that's why at Sunday night's performance of "Mol…
Tidbits from the world of the New Jersey stage
Cynthia Meryl brings her extraordinary New Jersey Youth Theatre to NJPAC in Newark
Roy GroethingMichelle Wilson, Nyahale Allie and Ley Smith in "Follow Me to Nellie's," the winner of the new play festival at Premiere Stages at Kean University in Union. The plot isn't so ho…
Couresty of The Theater Project The cast of Penny Penniworth featuring Rick Delaney (left), Jenelle Sosa (bottom center), Terri Sturtevant (top), and Harry Patrick Christian (down right) in …
Frances Micklow/The Star-LedgerSouth Orange, N.J., native Zach Braff (“Scrubs,†“Garden Stateâ€Â) makes his playwriting debut with “…
Daniel HeddenCynthia Meryl, artistic director of the New Jersey Youth Theatre, directs the cast of "Kiss Me, Kate" at a rehearsal. It all started simply because parents didn't have…
Peter Marshall finds himself in the center square this week on the Jersey Shore. The longtime host of "Hollywood Squares" will star in A.R. Gurney's "Love Letters." It's a two-character play…
Jason Meehan Photography .Alyse Alan Louis (Kira) and Bernard Dotson (Danny) in Revision Theatre's Xanadu. At least "Xanadu" knows exactly what it is. "This," says one character, "is childre…