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This production commits itself unabashedly to the cause of low-brow comedy.
'Thrill Me' will play at the West Orange theater before it premieres on Broadway next year.
Equity theater company and children's theater education center will move uptown from the Monroe Movement Center to space at the Artisan, scheduled for completion in March
The play takes us behind the scenes of the Woodrow Wilson administration in 1915.
Laurie Metcalf (from TV's "Roseanne") plays Annie Wilkes and (almost) makes you forget the iconic stamp Kathy Bates put on the same part.
Actress and director Jessica Stone always considered the Stephen Sondheim classic sexist -- so she decided to turn the show upside down.
This stripped-down, "avant-garde" production of the Arthur Miller classic is alternately powerful and a wee bit ridiculous.
It's the third of the company's productions to travel to the Great White Way in recent years, following "Newsies" and "Honeymoon in Vegas."
This story of illicit love, murder and madness turns out to be one of the best plays on Broadway this year.
"Sylvia" is very sweet and very slight -- a valentine to dogs and the owners they have wrapped around their paws.
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's production of the classic Holocaust drama pulls no punches.
DanceSpora, started by wife and husband dancing duo, is the first professional dance company in Trenton and they are turning five this year.
A spoof of musicals is so shrill it seems pitched at those sitting in the balcony of the theater across the street.
"The Bandstand" is a bold, uncompromising musical that jumps and swings with heart and energy.
The concert, titled "A Prayer for Peace," is the brainchild of conductor and MAO Artistic Director Jason C. Tramm.
That the play never turns suffocatingly grim is a testament to the warmth and humanity of the actresses.
The theater has not only produced the late playwright's work three times in the past four seasons, but done so with grace and nuance.
The actor gives us a dark and determined figure who confidently maintains his composure while seething viciously below the surface.
Branford Marsalis made his New Jersey Symphony Orchestra debut and delivered flash to the concert.
This "musical comedy whodunnit" doubles down on the hijinks and hammy humor.
There's probably not much that a pair of old pros like James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson couldn't put over on stage.
The company's new show is generating plenty of early hype.
Mattea Conforti is one of four young girls who share the role of Matilda, a quick-witted youngster, with the gift of telekinesis
The advance hype has been overstated -- which isn't necessarily to stay that this isn't a terrific production.
Before the fall season commences, a look back at some of last season's best shows.
