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For 2002, the New Jersey professional stage scene went 10-for-10: A playgoer would have had to visit 10 different theaters to find the 10 best attractions.
BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
[Thanks to Leanna for the link... and Happy New Year to all!]
Heraclitus' 2,500-year-old statement that "The only constant is change" is a good one to describe the New Jersey professional theater scene in 2002.
African Globe TheatreWorks is considering making its current attraction, "Black Nativity," a yearly event.
They must.
His 1980 comedy-drama, "I Ought to Be in Pictures," now at the Bickford Theatre in Morris Township, limps along for 90 minutes, steadily running out of the little gas it had in its tank.
"The Mercy Seat," which opened Wednesday at the Theatre Row complex, offers his greatest slime-ball ever -- a man who hopes to twist the World Trade Center catastrophe to his personal advant…
Charming Christmas classic interpreted as radio broadcast play
The only way to clearly describe "Gone Home," John Corwin's new drama, necessitates giving away its twist, thus robbing the work of suspense. It's petty larceny, however, because the play do…
Actor's Scrooge animates timeless 'Christmas Carol'
Ever a smart performer who sings, dances and acts with expertise, Priscilla Lopez skates gracefully upon the exceedingly thin material of her new one-woman comedy.
The cast makes "Let Me Sing" the best-sung and best-danced show that New Jersey has seen since "Follies" played Millburn's Paper Mill Playhouse in 1998 -- though it's hardly on the same grandiose scale.
And what a cast!
When they met eight years ago on Broadway -- performing in the Russian play "A Month in the Country" -- F. Murray Abraham was a poor doctor named Ignaty Illich Shpigelsky, and John Christopher Jones was a rich landowner named Afanasy Ivanovich Bolshintsov.
Now both are playing a character whose name is much better known to audiences: Ebenezer Scrooge.
"Imaginary Friends" is a wickedly stylish account of a famous feud.
Perhaps it's dubious taste to mention size when assessing a play about porno actors -- but "Adult Entertainment" is way, way, way too long for its own good.
The Crossroads Theatre Company finally has a winner with "From the Mississippi Delta."
A total eclipse of good taste, "Dance of the Vampires" is a stupid nothing of a musical inflated to "Hindenburg"-sized proportions for Broadway.
Updated 'Medea' speaks volumes about contempory tragedies
Now is the midwinter of our discontent at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival in Madison.
"There are easier ways to have a hit than to do an Italian opera on Broadway," remarks director Baz Luhrmann about his new staging of "La Bohème."
