Thursday, November 29, 2018
And who's to blame the Paper Mill or any other regional theater for trotting out the safe bet around the holidays?
SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:08AMWednesday, November 7, 2018
Jersey City Theater Center production presents Euripides's "Trojan Women," with a linguistic tapestry of 12 languages
SOURCE: NJ.com at 01:47PMSaturday, November 3, 2018
Three hours of farce is a bit like an overfull bowl of ice cream: a fun guilty pleasure that in the end proves taxing and occasionally laborious.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:00AMMonday, October 29, 2018
Marisela Trevino Orta's new play, now playing in Long Branch, is a dark and moving folktale.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 04:22PMThe season opening production of a new play by Walter Anderson feels too safe and predictable.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 02:16PMTuesday, October 23, 2018
This provocative play by Dominique Morisseau centers on five lives just on the periphery of the riots
SOURCE: NJ.com at 05:35PMTuesday, October 16, 2018
"Black Tom Island," an excellent new play, tells the story of an actual explosion near Jersey City in 1916.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 04:30PMIn "Uncle Vanya: Scenes from a Jersey Life in Four Acts" at Hudson Theatre Works, the adaptation is heavy-handed, and the characters are opaque.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 02:17PMWednesday, September 26, 2018
Sam Shepard's play should linger with audiences well after leaving the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:16AMEverything from the direction to the sets to the choreography is stolid and uninspired in this tale about a child's first theater experience, now showing at Two River Theater.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:07AMThursday, September 20, 2018
"The Age of Innocence," adapted for the stage by Douglas McGrath from Edith Wharton's 1921 Pulitzer-winning novel, plays at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton until Oct. 7.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:06AMTuesday, September 18, 2018
Nicole Pandolfo's "Brick City," now receiving its world premiere at Union's Premiere Stages, tells its story in a manner we know well enough by now, but struggles to make a compell…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 11:01AMFriday, August 24, 2018
Victoria Mack, a regular performer on this Madison stage, makes her Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey directorial debut with a light, confident hand on this farcical ghost story.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AMMonday, August 20, 2018
Under Nadia Tass' direction, the play's illustrious cast does fine work to flesh out Michael Tucker's characters to whatever degree the script allows for development throughout the ensemble.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 11:04AMThursday, July 26, 2018
An apprentice work that is far less complex or well crafted than Shakespeare's mature tragedies, the play is often a guilty pleasure.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:13AMTuesday, July 17, 2018
"Linger" examines how the shockwave of one event can emanate and wreak havoc on life after life.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:15AMThursday, July 5, 2018
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey moves down the street to the Greek Theatre at the College of Saint Elizabeth for its annual outdoor production.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:16AMSaturday, June 23, 2018
The play sets itself up as a psychological examination of life in turmoil, but Orville and the rest of the characters are painted in broad strokes at New Jersey Repertory Company.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:20AMFriday, June 22, 2018
The new honkey-tonk musical now running at Red Bank's Two River Theater grafts Anton Chekhov's 1896 psychological melodrama "The Seagull" onto contemporary Music City.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:00AMTuesday, June 19, 2018
Taking his first crack at directing Shakespeare for the Public's free Shakespeare in the Park, Ruben Santiago-Hudson has crafted an "Othello" that disperses the force of the hero's…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:29AMWednesday, June 13, 2018
Featuring a cast boasting a dazzling collective resume of stage and screen success, the show at Paper Mill Playhouse adapts the 2008 documentary "Gotta Dance."
SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:42AMThursday, May 24, 2018
Likely Moliere's play most familiar to modern audiences, "Tartuffe" has great fun piteously lampooning conservative notions of religion, gender and power.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:52AMWednesday, May 23, 2018
Christopher Durang's acerbic world-premiere "Turning Off the Morning News" shines at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:55AMWednesday, May 9, 2018
'The Nerd' plays at George Street Playhouse through May 20
SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:46AMThursday, April 26, 2018
The 1995 production returns to the Luna Stage with reflection and humanity for the American icon
SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:02AMWednesday, April 25, 2018
Chloe Hung's great new play, "Issei, He Say, or the Myth of the First," is playing at NJ Repertory Company through May 20
SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:00AMTuesday, April 24, 2018
Brian Friel's 1990 play focuses on one weighty summer in the lives of five sisters sharing a small cottage in rural northwest Ireland
SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:00AMSaturday, March 3, 2018
'Wild Horses' seems like that stranger at the bar late in the night who is just dying to tell a story. Nobody likes that person.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:50AMTuesday, February 27, 2018
'The Bridge of San Luis Rey,' adapted from the Thornton Wilder novel, plays in Red Bank through March 18
SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:00AMWednesday, February 14, 2018
"What Stays," a new play at Summit's Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre, fosters a space for plenty of baggage
SOURCE: NJ.com at 11:00AMBehind Laiona Michelle's electric performance, the closing half hour of this play very abruptly becomes great theater
SOURCE: NJ.com at 11:00AM 
