Friday, March 13, 2015
In a new play by Michael Tucker, a couple that harbor certain irritations toward each other travel to a clothing-optional resort, where the wife has a cathartic experience with a sexy young …
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"Sizwe Banzi Is Dead," in Princeton, translates the repressive horror of apartheid into human terms through the use of easygoing humor in its early passages, then shifts into graver tones as…
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Alan Ayckbourn's "Absurd Person Singular," in Red Bank, is set during three successive Christmas gatherings and tells the story of how three British couples deal with the gradual change in s…
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A bright musical based upon a popular Will Ferrell movie, "Elf," now in Milburn, is a well-tooled production that previously won success on Broadway.
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"Camelot" now materializes at Two River Theater in Red Bank in a radically revised version that mounts its gorgeous Lerner and Loewe score within a simple framework.
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Six premieres by playwrights with ties to the Garden State are scheduled to be part of the state's 2014-15 professional theater season.
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Friday, July 18, 2014
In Tammy Ryan's play at the Zella Fry Theater, nightmares fester for a Marine and single mother as flashbacks trace what happened during her deployment to Iraq.
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In "The Devil's Disciple," George Bernard Shaw wrote a dark comedy set during the Revolutionary War that exploited Victorian blood-and-thunder melodramas and added his own ironic spin. It's …
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The Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey's current revival of Molière's 1672 comedy is presented outdoors at the Greek Theater on the campus of the College of St. Elizabeth in Morris Township.
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Saturday, June 7, 2014
The current production of "The Tempest" by the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey in Madison is less concerned with flashy stagecraft and more intent upon fleshing out the emotions that dwell…
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In the Passage Theater Company's production of "Tamer of Horses" in Trenton, a couple try to rehabilitate an illiterate gang member who seeks shelter at their home.
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"Marisol," currently being presented by Luna Stage in West Orange, is a dark fantasia that reflects a number of the social and spiritual troubles of the early 1990s.
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"Trouble in Mind," a 1955 comedy-drama by Alice Childress, is about racism in the theater world and has been rediscovered in recent years.
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The intimacy of Luna Stage amplifies the penetrating examination of hatred in Athol Fugard's 1982 play, set in 1950 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
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Paper Mill Playhouse stages a cheery and lively rendition of the lighthearted musical "Oliver!" based on a bleak tale of workhouses and thieves.
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The artful simplicity of "Our Town," at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, is enhanced by staging both beautiful and thoughtful.
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In "The High Water Mark," a new play by Ben Clawson that Luna Stage is presenting in West Orange, childhood chums reconnect in the middle of the night to hash out their midlife crises. …
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"A Most Dangerous Woman," Cathy Tempelsman's play about George Eliot now at the F. M. Kirby Shakespeare Theater, depicts a novelist whose private life scandalized the hypocritical Victorian …
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Friday, September 20, 2013
"Proof," at the McCarter Theater Center, is more concerned with the value of trust in relationships than with proving some mind-boggling equation that changes the world's understanding of th…
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More than a dozen fresh plays and musicals, either brand-new works or those being seen for the first time in New Jersey, are expected to be among the productions at the state's theaters.&nbs…
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In the romantic comedy "Saving Kitty," at the New Jersey Repertory Company, a daffy, well-off Manhattan woman with a liberal bent hosts her daughter's beau, an evangelical Christian educator…
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Robert Caisley's play revels in the awkwardness that results when a friend's new girlfriend brings aggression and harsh truths to the dinner table.
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"Venus in Fur" is a serio-comic depiction of an increasingly heated encounter between a theater director and an unknown actress that delves into aspects of power, both sexual and psychologic…
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