Glorious quest BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
Chivalry and great music live in stirring 'Man of La Mancha' revival
Chivalry and great music live in stirring 'Man of La Mancha' revival
Sabrina LeBeauf, taking a break from rehearsing at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival in Madison, remembers the time that "The Cosby Show" writers came up with a "Macbeth" script.
Uninspired staging sabotages 'Our Town' with Paul Newman
Spirited ladies bring all their 'hattitude' from McCarter to Broadway
Twelve-year-old Alexa Eisenstein of Millburn does not expect many of her friends to come and watch her perform in the off-Broadway play "Far Away," at the New York Theatre Workshop.
The music of Richard Rodgers supplied the theme for New York City Ballet's playful opening-night gala last Tuesday.
Priscilla Lopez, 54, started her Broadway career in 1966 in the chorus of a notorious flop, "Breakfast at Tiffany's," which closed during previews. Such flops as "Henry, Sweet Henry" and "He…
Maranda LeBar just turned 10 this month, and she spent her birthday in an unusual way: Dancing and singing on a parade float.
A teeming, tragicomic saga of present-day Russia, "The Fourth Sister" is sprawling, overpopulated and often noisy as hell.
40-year veteran Del Rossi will keep managing theater until a successor is found
BY PEGGY McGLONE
Star-Ledger Staff
Many playwrights were strongly influenced by New York Shakespeare Festival impresario Joseph Papp, and Rich Orloff is among them, even though he has only read about the man.
Stories of betrayal and corruption in New Jersey are not limited only to today's headlines and HBO spaghetti operas.
Women's Theater Company effectively handles a tricky topic
This guy now writes a wry drawing room trifle regarding a couple of posh lesbians?
Indeed he has. Not a particularly witty comedy of manners, yet one that nicely parodies the genre. (Or is that gender?) As to what purpose -- alas, that point goes undetected.
Play deftly dramatizes remarkable life of Barbara Jordan
"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" has finally arrived at the Forum Theatre in Metuchen.
When a new theater company gets under way, picking the very first work to present is a tricky matter.
Rome Neal saunters on the stage of the Crossroads Theatre Company in New Brunswick, wearing a dark blue plaid jacket that doesn't quite complement his black pants. The black-and-blue metapho…
Frankly, like many another middle-aged white theatergoer, I don't know hip-hop from bebop.
Fortunately, there's no need to be knowledgeable about hip-hop culture to see "Def Poetry Jam on Broadway," which opened Thursday at the Longacre Theatre.
Opening yesterday at Primary Stages in an off-Broadway premiere starring Sandy Duncan, "The Fourth Wall" proves to be a playful little comedy garnished with liberal political undertones.
The African Globe TheatreWorks in Newark has taken a Broadway musical and turned it into a play with music.