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Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Review: NJ Premiere Stages' ‘Selling Kabul’ offers a nightmarish look at life in modern Afghanistan thru Sept 24th by Jay Lustig

TAYLOR REYNOLDS beautifully directs a cast of four wonderful actors. "Jawid" (AFSHEEN MISAGHI in the play's most memorable performance) feels guilty that he has achieved his comfort by worki…

SOURCE: www.njarts.net at 05:22PM
Saturday, March 6, 2021

‘Bad Dates’ represents good start for George Street Playhouse’s virtual season by Jay Lustig

“What kind of a cruel universe would do this to me?” asks Haley Walker in Theresa Rebeck’s one-woman play, “Bad Dates.” She’s referring to the fact that she can’t find a pair o…

SOURCE: www.njarts.net at 12:18PM
Tuesday, January 5, 2021

2020: Looking back at a year in the arts like no other by Jay Lustig

February: George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick presents a notable world premiere: “Midwives,” a riveting drama about a home birth gone wrong and its aftermath.

SOURCE: www.njarts.net at 02:25PM
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

George Street Playhouse’s virtual version of politically relevant CONSCIENCE will reunite cast by Jay Lustig

DiPietro’s play is an absorbing one, making these historical figures into believable flesh-and-blood characters. And its relevance to current politics is so obvious it hardly even needs to…

SOURCE: www.njarts.net at 10:43AM
Monday, March 2, 2020

Top 10 NJ Arts Events of the Week: Jurassic World Live, ‘Conscience,’ The Fab Faux, more by Jay Lustig

Tony winner Harriet Harris will star as Sen. Margaret Chase Smith in CONSCIENCE, a new play by Joe DiPietro (MEMPHIS; THE TOXIC AVENGER; I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE) that will b…

SOURCE: www.njarts.net at 12:11PM
Tuesday, February 11, 2020

George Street Playhouse presents world premiere of harrowing drama MIDWIVES by Jay Lustig

Directed in bold strokes by GSP artistic director David Saint, “Midwives” will keep you on the edge of your seat.

SOURCE: www.njarts.net at 04:03PM
Monday, January 6, 2020

Top 12 NJ Theater productions of 2019: ‘The Niceties,’ ‘The Immigrant,’ ‘Chasing Rainbows’ and more by Jay Lustig

THE IMMIGRANT at George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick. George Street found an underappreciated gem in Mark Harelik’s 1985 drama about a Russian Jew who moves to Central Texas in the earl…

SOURCE: www.njarts.net at 12:39PM
Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Renee Taylor’s ‘My Life on a Diet’ is really more about a life in showbiz by Jay Lustig

“My Life on a Diet” is fun, breezy and reliably entertaining — in dieting terminology, it will satisfy you without really filling you up — as well as absolute catnip for those who lo…

SOURCE: www.njarts.net at 10:51AM
Thursday, November 7, 2019

George Street Playhouse begins new era with ‘Last Days of Summer’ by Jay Lustig

The Elizabeth Ross Johnson Theater (the larger of NBPAC’s two theaters) is as beautiful and comfortable a space as one could have hoped for, and director Jeff Calhoun has assembled a fine …

SOURCE: www.njarts.net at 03:12PM
Friday, April 12, 2019

A glimpse of George Street Playhouse’s future by Jay Lustig

The George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick will begin previews of the last show of its 2018-19 season, “Too Heavy for Your Pocket,” on April 23. And it also, this month, announced its …

SOURCE: www.njarts.net at 12:18PM
Monday, May 25, 2015

Tommy James tells all: The glorious highs and little-known dark side of a hit-filled career by Jay Lustig

"Think of it as 'Jersey Boys' meets 'The Sopranos,' " says Robert Nederlander Jr., president and CEO of Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment, one of the companies involved in the joint develo…

SOURCE: NJ.com at 05:58PM

'Rain - A Tribute to the Beatles' opens 11-week run on Broadway by Jay Lustig

Just keep in mind that, despite the Broadway setting (and the Broadway ticket prices), this is basically just a concert by a Beatles tribute band. And it’s not as if those are in short…

SOURCE: NJ.com at 05:58PM

'Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark' - a review by Jay Lustig

I bought a $142 ticket for the Sunday matinee this past weekend. It was a very good seat, in the lower balcony (or, as it was called, the Flying Circle), though I would have been sitting clo…

SOURCE: NJ.com at 05:58PM
Friday, August 17, 2012

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards