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“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 12:18PMFebruary: 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 02:25PMDiPietro’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 10:43AMTony 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 12:11PMDirected in bold strokes by GSP artistic director David Saint, “Midwives” will keep you on the edge of your seat.
SOURCE: www.njarts.net at 04:03PMTHE 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“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 10:51AMThe 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 03:12PMThe 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"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 05:58PMJust 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 05:58PMI 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 05:58PMAlso 'Release Point,' 'Gypsy,' 'Red,' more
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