Here's a challenge for husbands and wives: Arrive home and announce you want to take a vacation alone. Be prepared for "What do you mean?" as well as the inevitable "And what are you going t…
NEW YORK " Imagine challenging a young dancer to hold the stage, alone, for 11 minutes. Sylvia Waters, the founding artistic director of Ailey II, is fearless pushing her charges " which is …
A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us About Justice Kenji Yoshino Ecco Press, 320 pp., $26.99 Reviewed by Benjamin Ivry Kenji Yoshino teaches constitutional law at Ne…
The woman famous for having portrayed Reva Shayne Lewis Cooper Spaulding Lewis in "The Guiding Light" will now be playing a character with far fewer names. Kim Zimmer, the four-time Daytime …
What, no mistaken identity? That's the only element of farce that Ken Ludwig has omitted in his extraordinarily funny "The Fox on the Fairway." Fans of slamming doors and double-entendres h…
Starting Tuesday, Mary Testa will be at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, reading newspapers and solving each puzzle in them.
How fitting that a production of "Spring Awakening" will arrive in New Jersey soon after spring has awakened around the state.
MEETING -- Beth Painter plays Dr. Zavala, an overly concerned psychologist, and Harriet Trangucci of Summit is convincing as the mother of a child diagnosed with attention deficit disorder i…
David Mamet's hard-hitting "Glengarry Glen Ross" is the second Mamet play to be produced locally within the last two weeks. Hard on the heels of Summit's "Speed the Plow," the Chatham Player…
George Pacciello/staff photographerThe tale of a disfigured musical genius living beneath a grand Parisian opera house in the 1800s, tormenting performers, will be brought to life at North H…
How can a play in which an Israeli soldier is at the mercy of a Palestinian woman be so dull?
How can a play in which an Israeli soldier is at the mercy of a Palestinian woman be so dull?
"Don Juan" is about to make a number of new conquests.
Not necessarily the famed romantic lover, but Stephen Wadsworth's new version of Moliere's 1665 comedy-drama. Those who appreciate the classics must see what Wadsworth has accomplished, both on the page and on the stage of the McCarter Theatre in Princeton.
He's from Israel. She's from Jordan. But despite their different backgrounds, they forge a friendship.
If it sounds like the plot of a play, it almost is.
"Don Juan" is about to make a number of new conquests.
Not necessarily the famed romantic lover, but Stephen Wadsworth's new version of Moliere's 1665 comedy-drama. Those who appreciate the classics must see what Wadsworth has accomplished, both on the page and on the stage of the McCarter Theatre in Princeton.
He's from Israel. She's from Jordan. But despite their different backgrounds, they forge a friendship.
If it sounds like the plot of a play, it almost is.
James Rebhorn, 53, is one of those actors whose name you may not know, but you never forget his face, from such films as "Meet the Parents," "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle" and "Th…
James Rebhorn, 53, is one of those actors whose name you may not know, but you never forget his face, from such films as "Meet the Parents," "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle" and "Th…
Each January, the Paper Mill Playhouse traditionally presents a sex farce ("Out of Order," "It Runs in the Family") or a revival of a Broadway comedy ("Art," "An Ideal Husband" or this year…
Each January, the Paper Mill Playhouse traditionally presents a sex farce ("Out of Order," "It Runs in the Family") or a revival of a Broadway comedy ("Art," "An Ideal Husband" or this year…
It's fitting that Laura Benanti plays Cinderella in the Broadway revival of "Into the Woods." In many ways, her life has been a fairy tale.