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A New Odd Couple: Joanne Worley and Cindy Williams: Theatre By The Shore
August 19, 2011Summer stock is alive and well and living in Beach Haven, New Jersey. Long Beach Island is where you’ll find the Surflight Theat...
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A New Odd Couple: Theatre by the Shore with Joanne Worley and Cindy Williams
August 19, 2011Summer stock is alive and well and living in Beach Haven, New Jersey. Long Beach Island is where you’ll find the Surflight Theat...
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A Tough Act To Follow
May 2, 2011It’s curtains for the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn’s 2010-2011 season, but they have gone out with a bang, choosing Ka...
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Comedy Tonight?
March 25, 2011The Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ has brought TV comedian Paul Vogt to star as Pseudolous, the scheming slave in its production...
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Can You Spell H-I-T? Dinner and a Show, A Perfect Pairing
January 26, 2011The Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey ...
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Dream the Dream
December 18, 2010The Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ is home to the first leg of another first national tour. However, its current occupant, a twe...
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A Tween Odd Couple: The Wagon Train Comes to Madison
November 12, 2010The final show in the Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey’s season, Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie, by Julie Jensen is a joi...
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Mario Cantone, Rachel Dratch, Scott Adsit, et. al. live on-stage in NJ
November 1, 2010Last night, the New York smash Celebrity Autobiography found its way to the suburbs. More importantly it brought its all-star rotating...
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Welcome to the ‘60s: Hairspray’s Got It All
October 3, 2010The roof was nearly blown off the auditorium of the Paper Mill Playhouse as Hairspray opened their new season on Sunday night and with...
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All About We: An Audience with Dame Edna and Michael Feinstein
August 28, 2010Henry Miller's Theatre is the place to be for an audience with Australia's most glamorous export, Dame Edna Everage. Dame Edna is back wi...
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Continental Divide: Mahida's Extra Key to Heaven
August 28, 2010The New Jersey premiere of a great new play has opened at the Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey entitled Mahida's Extra Key To Heaven by...
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Summer Stage
August 28, 2010Come summertime there is usually a lull in the local theatre scene. Regional theatre companies are dark as they gear up for their fall se...
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Touring the Provinces
August 28, 2010Exciting summer theatre continues throughout our area and up and down the east coast. Years ago, when New York theatres were dark for the...
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The Paper Mill Goes "The Full Monty"
August 28, 2010You'll want to see it for Elaine Stritch, however the company of The Full Monty at the Paper Mill Playhouse is a treasure trove for Broa...
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Hot Flash: This Just In!
August 28, 2010A rousing good time can be had just minutes away. SOPAC, in South Orange, offers Manhattan caliber entertainment without the commute. Wh...
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Autumnal Theatre Fare
August 28, 2010Very exciting news is upon us. A Tony award nominee is coming to Madison. A television star is coming to Millburn. First class theatre is...
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To Hamlet They Were True
August 28, 2010There are a multitude of Hamlets available for audience consumption this fall. Public television is offering the RSC's Hamlet starring D...
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The Prairie is Alive with the Sound of Music
August 28, 2010The prairie is alive with the sound of music at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn. The Little House on the Prairie lives on, first in...
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Discovering "Atlantis"
August 28, 2010The Playwrights Theatre of Madison is a diamond in the rough, a treasure trove that needs and deserves exposure. Their season is off to ...
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A Knight to Remember: Arthur Laurents Returns with a New Play
August 28, 2010If anyone in the entertainment industry, let alone the theatre deserves to be called a living legend, 92 year-old Arthur Laurents is one ...
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A River Runs Through It...
August 28, 2010The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey has pulled out all of the stops for their production of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (adap...
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Send in Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury: A Little Night Music Review
August 28, 2010The perfect musical opened tonight and is now exquisitely ensconced at the Walter Kerr Theatre. Yes, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's...
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A Twelfth Night Delight
August 28, 2010The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's Artistic Director Bonnie J. Monte has directed its newest production, Shakespeare's comedy romp,...
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Get Lost in Yonkers
August 28, 2010While one may not want to be Lost in Yonkers with Neil Simon's dour grandmother from his 1991 Pulitzer Prize winning play, you will want...
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A Blithe, Spirited, Good Time
August 28, 2010Welcome readers, to TheAlternativePress.com's new theatre column. My name is Alexander Wallick. I am Short Hills, New Jersey born and bre...