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Keith Reddin's new play "Frame 312" provides no answers. Nor does it offer much in the way of satisfying drama.
"I'm trying to step it up a little bit as an entertainer, not only as a tap dancer," says Savion Glover, describing his new show, which opens a three-week run Tuesday at the Joyce Theater.
Usually a stage actor must play his role for 12 consecutive weeks before he reaches his 100th performance.
But this month, when James Ludwig portrays Fred and John Christopher Jones plays Ebenezer Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol" at the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, they'll attain the magic number only after more than three years.
A timely play and an absorbing yarn, "The Story" registers as one of the best bits of news from off-Broadway in some time.
The intense snowstorm of last weekend caused all of New Jersey's professional theaters to call off their Friday and Saturday performances. But only the Paper Mill Playhouse will offer an ext…
Cast in the difficult role of a poor little rich girl with a nasty edge and a dying mother, Aubrey Dollar pretty much does everything wrong. She moves awkwardly, pitches her voices badly, winds herself in the big emotional moments and doesn't find the pathos within her not-so-nice character.
Yet you can't take your eyes off her. Dollar possesses the sort of unique personal charisma that made critics of the early 1930s take favorable notice of the pre-Hollywood Katharine Hepburn when she floundered through some early stage roles.
Hmm... why is it Mr. Sommers can't take his eyes off of Ms. Dollar? These photos may tell you why... ;-)
For the last 10 years, Madison Square Garden's spectacular musical version of "A Christmas Carol" has been delighting the dickens out of holiday audiences.
Everyone has heard that James Brown is the hardest-working man in show business. Now audiences can come to Crossroads Theatre Company in New Brunswick and discover the hardest-working woman …
Everyone in "Never Gonna Dance" tries so darned hard to please that it's a pity to report that the musical comedy, which opened yesterday at the Broadhurst, is distinctly second rate.
The one-person drama is galvanized by Jefferson Mays' remarkable performance.
"Beulah" without a sense of humor, that's "Caroline, or Change," a tuneful if dour new off-Broadway musical opening yesterday at the Public Theater
Bev Sheehan knows it sounds impossible.
"The Lying Kind" -- in which two policeman must tell two parents on Christmas Eve that their daughter has been killed -- is a comedy?
Meg Foster is returning to the Paper Mill Playhouse.
Second item.
Deft George Street production proves timely despite fall of Soviet Union
One of the most satisfying Shakespearean productions in years, this fearless new version of the "Henry IV" saga is exciting to experience and a pleasure to recall.
