Tag: New Jersey Theatre
Review: ‘A Christmas Carol’ at McCarter Theatre Center
A snowy Princeton afternoon may be the most festive of conditions in which to see the great McCarter Theatre holiday tradition of A Christmas...
Review: ‘The Fantasticks’ at The Eagle Theatre
What’s not to like about The Fantasticks? It’s always been a modest, gentle show that goes down easy. The Eagle Theatre’s new production adds...
Review: ‘A Night with Janis Joplin’ at McCarter Theatre Center
Janis Joplin was a true original. But as the musical/tribute concert A Night with Janis Joplin proves, she didn’t just come out of nowhere.
Joplin became...
Review: ‘Ripcord’ at South Camden Theatre Company
Ripcord is the story of a cutthroat battle of practical jokes and dirty tricks between two women in an assisted-living residence for the elderly. Does...
Review: ‘Simpatico’ at McCarter Theatre Center
“Do you want to talk, or do you want to be cryptic and weird?”
Those words – which sound like they might belong in a...
Review: ‘Appropriate’ at Princeton Summer Theater
In Appropriate, the 2014–2015 Obie Award winner for Best New American Play, playwright (and Princeton alumnus) Branden Jacobs-Jenkins boldly explores family relations, racism, religious...
Review: ‘The Crucible’ at Princeton Summer Theater
When you enter the home of the Princeton Summer Theater to see The Crucible, you may wonder at first whether you’ve wandered into the...
Review: ‘Spider’s Web’ at Princeton Summer Theater
Spider’s Web ends with the unmasking of a murderer, and it starts with… a taste test. In this play’s opening moments, two veddy proper, blindfold-wearing...
Review: ‘Hamlet’ at REV Theatre Company
Madness is unleashed among the stoic marble and stone memorial markers of iconic Laurel Hill Cemetery as REV Theatre Company, directed by Rosey Hay,...
Review: ‘Pippin’ at Princeton Summer Theater
So many men seem destined
To settle for something small,
But I won’t rest until I know I’ll have it all…
Stephen Schwartz’s lyrics for “Corner of...
Review: ‘Peter and the Starcatcher’ at Eagle Theatre
Peter and the Starcatcher creates a backstory for one of literature’s greatest heroes, Peter Pan. But much of the appeal of Rick Elice’s play...
Review: ‘Intimate Apparel’ at McCarter Theatre Center
It was as though God kissed my hands when I first pulled the fabric through the sewing machine and held up a finished garment.
That’s...
Review: ‘My Name is Asher Lev’ at South Camden Theatre Company
A sensitive young man struggles with his heritage as he tries to make his own mark on the world. A predictable story, you might...
Review: ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ at Exclamation Theater
The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare’s most controversial plays, one that has spurred argument and discord for over 400 years. Is...