Side-Splitting Comedy

New Jersey Repertory Company, located at 179 Broadway in Long Branch is proud to present the New Jersey premiere of the Steven Canny, John Nicholson British comedy, “The Hound of the Baskervilles”. Directed by Mark Shanahan, the plays stars Wynn Harmon, Gary Marachek, and Rich Silverstein. Tickets can be ordered by calling 732-229-3166 or by visiting www.njrep.org.

PART OF THE EUGENE O'NEILL FESTIVAL AH, WILDERNESS!

Return to an idyllic age of Americana in Eugene O’Neill’s unabashedly romantic and sweetly funny Ah, Wilderness!

Ah, Wilderness! features an almost entirely local cast. From the great American playwright O’Neill, who is better known for his darker stories, comes a joyous and truthful depiction of American family life at the turn of the 20th century. 

Ah, Wilderness! is produced as part of the Eugene O’Neill Festival at Arena Stage, a two-month citywide examination of the life and work of American playwright Eugene O’Neill. Featuring partnerships with education and arts organizations in the area, the festival runs March 9-May 6, 2012 and features three full-length productions and more than 20 readings, workshops, radio plays, lectures, panels, presentations and art exhibits. 

As the Connecticut-based Miller clan plans their traditional Fourth of July festivities, their dreamy-eyed middle child, Richard, is wrestling with cultural conventions, political uncertainty, the power of literature and the exquisite pain of love. The memories of family life were never so delicately portrayed as in O’Neill’s only comedy. His coming-of-age love letter to a simpler time astounded critics at its premiere as “one of his best works … alternately poignant and disarming” (New York Times). 

AH, WILDERNESS! PRESS RELEASE

The Pearl Theatre Company Presents

A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN

• The Pearl at Stage 2
• Mar 6 - Apr 15, 2012
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McCarter Theatre presents

Elevator Repair Service's original production to play new limited engagment!

GATZ
Text: THE GREAT GATSBY 
by F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Directed by JOHN COLLINS
March 14 - May 6, 2012

“The Little Prince”

“The Little Prince” continues through Oct. 16 at the New Victory Theater, 209 West 42nd Street, Manhattan; (646) 239-6200, newvictory.org.

OCT 7 – NOV 6, 2011 in the Kogod Cradle

The Book Club Play 

                                            by resident playwright Karen Zacarías 

directed by Molly Smith 

Ana is a Type A personality living in a letter-perfect world: a husband who adores her, the perfect job, and her greatest passion, Book Club. But when bizarre circumstances put her ideal book club under a magnifying glass, things begin to heat up and more truths are told than anyone bargained for. Resident playwright Karen Zacarías (Legacy of Light) brings Arena Stage the latest chapter of her “delightful, fresh comedy” (TalkinBroadway.com) about life, love, literature and the side-splitting results when friends start reading between the lines.

From Page to Stage

Charlotte's Web

December 7, 2010 – January 2, 2011

Adapted from the book byE.B.White

By Joseph Robinette

Directed by Matt Pfeiffer

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You grew up with it. Your kids love it. Now see it brought spectacularly and imaginatively to life onstage. With adults, kids, and puppets, too! Celebrate the true meaning of friendship and family with Charlotte the spider, Wilbur the pig, and all the humans and animals on the Zuckerman farm. From the director of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, this is perfect holiday experience to share with your whole family.

All's Well That Ends Well By William Shakespeare

Directed by Stephen Fried

September 15 - October 10

Not seen on The Shakespeare Theatre stage in more than a decade, this new vision of Shakespeare's mercurial romance features an ensemble cast of nine actors switching identities as the play moves from Rossillion to Paris to Florence and back again. Whether

the love story ends well or not well is often a matter of debate, and that ambiguity is,

in part, what has made the tale so compelling to audiences for over four centuries.

The Little Prince by John Scoullar and Rick Cummins Directed and Conceived by Scott Hitz

November 26 –December 31, 2010

Thursdays –Sundays, 8PM Saturdays & Sundays, 3PM

Written by Rick Cummins and John Scoullar, this beloved classic of children's literature has been turned into a warm, wondrous production for the whole family. Based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's fable ab

out a pilot who crash-lands in the desert and meets an openhearted boy from another planet, gently reminds us to hold onto what is truly important in life. Multiple Emmy Award-winning Designer Michael Schupbach (Avenue Q, Sesame Street, Jim

Henson's Puppet Workshop)designs the characters in this production!

Romeo and Juliet By William Shakespeare - Craig Colfelt, Play Master

November 5-21, 2010

7:30 p.m. Fridays

3:00 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays

Shakespeare’s definitive portrait of young love vs. old hatred comes to new life in this innovative and intimate staging. Featuring a cast of six and a blend of contemporary and Renaissance design elements, this is a Romeo & Juliet for everyone. Music, comedy, romance, drama and swordplay combine

to make it the ideal Shakespeare production for the whole family.

THE COLLECTION AND A KIND OF ALASKA Two plays by Harold Pinter

November 3 – December 12, 2010

at Classic Stage Company

136 E. 13th St.

Atlantic eagerly returns to the work of Harold Pinter, several seasons after its acclaimed production of his first andlast plays, The Room and Celebration. Here again, the plays are separated chronologically by twenty years; both,however, are steeped in the author’s signature humor, mystery and psychological tension.

In The Collection (1962),a four am phone call and a surprise visitor set off a series of conversations about potential infidelities among twocouples. And a middle-aged woman who has been asleep in a hospital room awakens after thirty years and mustreorient herself to a greatly changed world in A Kind of Alaska (1982), which was inspired by the work of OliverSacks in his seminal book, Awakenings.

THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS

Before she would inspire millions, one woman would inspire her.

Performances Begin February 12th

William Gibson’s Tony Award® winning play THE MIRACLE WORKER will celebrate its 50th Anniversary of opening on Broadway with its first revival.

THE MIRACLE WORKER will star Academy Award® nominee Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) and Tony Award® nominee Alison Pill (The Lieutenant of Inishmore) as Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, iconic roles made famous by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke in the Tony Award® winning play and landmark feature film adaptation.

The cast also features Golden Globe® and Emmy Award® nominee Matthew Modine (And the Band Played On, Short Cuts), Jennifer Morrison (the Fox series House M.D., the film Star Trek), both making their Broadway debuts, and Tony Award® winner Elizabeth Franz (Death of a Salesman).

Impact and Interpretations

Casebook on Waiting for Godot 

by Ruby Cohn

Book Twelve

Review:

This book is separated into two parts- the "Impact" the play has had on dramatists and the "Interpretations" (existentialism, biblical, mythical) that many scholars have had based on the play. It dates back to Paris 1953, London 1955, Dublin 1955, Miami 1956, NY 1956 and was published by Grove Press in 1967. It is a collection of the impact, reviews, reflections and interpretations. Although, the reviews were from various Europeans and American journalists, the one that stood out the most for me was by Norman Mailer. In his review, he apologized for at first writing a negative article about the play and after giving it some serious thought, he wanted to write a positive review. The whole casebook begs to have the question who is Godot answered and my favorite attempt to solve the mystery was by Beckett himself. When asked Who is Godot? and What the mysterious Godot symbolized? he responded: "If I knew what Godot was, I would have said so."

Review from Amazon:

...of this excellent compilation when writing my senior thesis and directing Godot in 1988. Cohn collects some of the most cogent, insightful and stimulating readings on this seminal work of twentieth century theatre. If you involved in a production of Godot and want to gain insight into the layers of meaning and musicality of the text, or if you simply love Beckett and want to read some very exciting and non-pedantic writing about his magnum opus, this book is a great find.

A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

Waiting for Godot 

by Samuel Beckett

Book Eleven

Review:

"One of the most noble and moving plays of our generation . . . suffused with tenderness for the whole human perplexity . . . like a sharp stab of beauty and pain."--The London Times

Summary- Taken from SparkNotes

Two men, Vladimir and Estragon, meet near a tree. They converse on various topics and reveal that they are waiting there for a man named Godot. While they wait, two other men enter. Pozzo is on his way to the market to sell his slave, Lucky. He pauses for a while to converse with Vladimir and Estragon. Lucky entertains them by dancing and thinking, and Pozzo and Lucky leave. Pozzo and Lucky leave, a boy enters and tells Vladimir that he is a messenger from Godot. He tells Vladimir that Godot will not be coming tonight, but that he will surely come tomorrow. Vladimir asks him some questions about Godot and the boy departs. After his departure, Vladimir and Estragon decide to leave, but they do not move as the curtain falls.

 

The next night, Vladimir and Estragon again meet near the tree to wait for Godot. Lucky and Pozzo enter again, but this time Pozzo is blind and Lucky is dumb. Pozzo does not remember meeting the two men the night before. They leave and Vladimir and Estragon continue to wait.

 

Shortly after, the boy enters and once again tells Vladimir that Godot will not be coming. He insists that he did not speak to Vladimir yesterday. After he leaves, Estragon and Vladimir decide to leave, but again they do not move as the curtain falls, ending the play.

*I haven't read the play since college and wanted to refresh my memory before seeing it in previews at Studio 54. Nathan Lane and John Goodman are the big names that draw you to this production but Bill Irwin's mastery of physical comedy steals the show and your heart. John Glover's Lucky is heart rending. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes and nonsense, which has been interpreted as a somber summation of mankind’s inexhaustible search for meaning. A highbrow delight. See it while it's playing.

Edge

"The one-woman play deals with Plath’s life as a whole, including her early years in Boston, the untimely death of her brilliant father, and her infamous suicide attempt of 1953, which became the basis of her classic novel, The Bell Jar. Edge also examines her tumultuous marriage to the dark, enigmatic poet, Ted Hughes, and ultimately reveals the unsettling sequence of events that ended with her death."
taken from: http://www.nytheatre.com/

VENUE: Arclight Theatre
OPENED: September 9, 2007
CLOSES:October 6, 2007

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The Pearl

The Pearl
Split Knuckle Theatre

Tuesday, April 08, 2008, 10:00am & 12:00pm
Wednesday, April 09, 2008, 10:00am & 12:00pm

Venue: Crossroads Theatre

Program Length: 1 hour

For Students in Grades: 5-9

All Seats:$8

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