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Musical features 3 mothers swapping stories about their lives during monthly card game
Having mentioned women's unmentionables in a worldwide way with the fresh talk of "The Vagina Monologues," playwright/performer/activist Eve Ensler felt she had liberated herself as well as …
Set for a 12 Miles run
Since "Lord of the Dance" has not appeared locally in five years, it's easy to forget how simple-minded and trashy this show is. It would be easy, indeed preferable, to forget "Lord of the D…
How to lure parents back to the theater? Keep the kids occupied
James Brennan's production is substantially stronger than the flawed, unsuccessful 1994 Broadway revival (excluding one tasteless joke involving a bedpan). This is the version that should ha…
"Just being a star isn't enough," says "Chicago" and "Wonderful Town" producer Fran Weissler. "Every star can't play every role. Some very talented stars just don't fit into your show."
Wilson sporting awards by Peter Filichia
Tracy Scott Wilson, born and living in Newark, didn't imagine such a happily-ever-after ending for her play, "The Story."
It isn't every play that opens with a guy biting down on an inner tube.
"She Loves Me" has proved to be one of the entertainment industry's most durable properties. Here are its ancestors and offspring.
Here's a riddle: How is it that Michele Ragusa auditioned for -- but didn't get -- a supporting role in the Paper Mill Playhouse production of "She Loves Me," yet wound up playing the lead?
Fine actors provide a dozen reasons to view venerable courtroom drama
Newomers to J.M. Synge's classic may experience problems following the story at all.
That's what I felt when I saw this production at the Annenberg Center in Philadelphia two weeks ago. The brogues were thick, but my main problem was that the actors were unamplified and couldn't project their voices into the auditorium. (Olwen Fouéré as the Widow Quin was completely incomprehensible.) I left at intermission, having failed to hear more than half of the dialogue.
"An American Daughter," Wendy Wasserstein's 1997 Broadway flop, is getting a substantial production at the Women's Theater Company in Wayne. But there's no hiding the reality that 50 long mi…
Gripping POW drama seems more like an encore than an original
In the year since the New Jersey Theatre Alliance launched its Web-based discount tickets service, some 3,400 last-minute seats to theater, classical music, jazz and dance performances have …
"Eve-olution" makes an agreeable date show for married-with-kids couples or a bunch of moms on a ladies' night out -- depending on the babysitter's availability, of course.
So Joe Discher, the associate artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, came out to welcome Saturday's opening night crowd to "Macbeth" -- and in doing so, said the title o…
Actress Laila Robins has a new theory on what makes the 'Macbeth' seductress tick
Sensational singing not enough to make wannabe a hit
