Review: Powerful 'Selling Kabul' @ Premiere Stages through 9/24 buzzes with energy rarely found in N.J. theater by Patrick Maley

Sylvia Khoury's "Selling Kabul" is a tense and moving play, full of hard choices and wrenching sacrifices. Under the direction of Taylor Reynolds at Premiere Stages, starring AFSHEEN MISAGHI…

SOURCE: NJ.com at 2:26pm on September 14, 2023[SHARE]

Coronavirus in N.J.: What's reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled by Patrick O'Shea

George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick has begun its 2021 season online with Theresa Rebeck's "Bad Dates," available through March 14.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 11:40am on March 7, 2021[SHARE]

Coronavirus in N.J.: What's reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled by Patrick O'Shea

George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick begins its 2021 season online Feb. 23-March 14 with Theresa Rebeck's "Bad Dates."

SOURCE: NJ.com at 7:33am on March 4, 2021[SHARE]

Coronavirus in N.J.: What's reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled by Patrick O'Shea

George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick will begin its 2021 season online Feb. 23-March 14 with Theresa Rebeck's "Bad Dates."

SOURCE: NJ.com at 7:54am on February 25, 2021[SHARE]

Central Jersey theater's opening night bound to be a 'Bad Date'

The New Brunswick-based George Street Playhouse led off its all-online 2021 season on Feb. 23 with "Bad Dates," a one-woman comedy written by Theresa Rebeck and starring Drama Desk Award-win…

SOURCE: NJ.com at 8:28am on February 24, 2021[SHARE]

Coronavirus in N.J.: What's reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled by Patrick O'Shea

George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick will begin its 2021 season online Feb. 23-March 14 with Theresa Rebeck's "Bad Dates."

SOURCE: NJ.com at 12:38pm on February 15, 2021[SHARE]

Coronavirus in N.J.: What's reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled. by Patrick O'Shea

George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick will begin its 2021 season online Feb. 14-March 7 with Theresa Rebeck's "Bad Dates."

SOURCE: NJ.com at 11:10am on February 5, 2021[SHARE]

Coronavirus in N.J.: What's reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled. by Patrick O'Shea

George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick will begin its 2021 season online starting Feb. 14-March 7 with Theresa Rebeck's "Bad Dates."

SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:47am on January 26, 2021[SHARE]

Coronavirus in N.J.: What's reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled by Patrick O'Shea

George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick is one of the venues posting a virtual 90-minute production of "A Christmas Carol" with Jefferson Mays in 50 roles, through Jan. 3.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 12:05pm on December 31, 2020[SHARE]

Coronavirus in N.J.: What's reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled by Patrick O'Shea

George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick is one of the venues posting a virtual 90-minute production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL with Jefferson Mays in 50 roles, through Jan. 3.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 11:55am on December 24, 2020[SHARE]

Coronavirus in N.J.: What's reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled by Patrick O'Shea

George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick is one of the venues posting a virtual 90-minute production of "A Christmas Carol" with Jefferson Mays in 50 roles, through Jan. 3.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 5:35pm on December 15, 2020[SHARE]

N.J. stages devising ways to greet the season amid the coronavirus pandemic by Patrick O'Shea

George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick and Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn have joined the group of theaters hosting the Jefferson Mays' "A Christmas Carol" virtual benefit performance.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 4:15pm on November 25, 2020[SHARE]

Coronavirus in N.J.: What's reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled by Patrick O'Shea

George Street Playhouse is posting a virtual 90-minute production of "A Christmas Carol" with Jefferson Mays in 50 roles, Nov. 28-Jan. 3.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 12:43pm on November 18, 2020[SHARE]

Act 2: N.J. theater revives coronavirus-interrupted world premiere on the web by Patrick O'Shea

The world premiere production of the comic drama CONSCIENCE closed just days after its opening night at George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick. But no, it wasn't a flop.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:40am on October 26, 2020[SHARE]

Coronavirus in N.J.: What's reopening, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled by Patrick O'Shea

George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick has shifted its spring performances of "A Walk on the Moon" to next season. Contact 732-246-7717 or georgestplayhouse.org.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 3:40pm on October 1, 2020[SHARE]

Coronavirus in New Jersey: What concerts, festivals and shows have been rescheduled, canceled by Patrick O'Shea

George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick has shifted its spring performances of "A Walk on the Moon" to next season. Contact 732-246-7717 or georgestplayhouse.org.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 12:52pm on May 26, 2020[SHARE]

Middlesex County residents creatively craft PPE for healthcare workers in the fight against coronavirus by Asia Grace

Contributing to the avant-garde PPE trend, Shannon White, prop master of the county's prestigious George Street Playhouse, is also fashioning face shields and gowns with the use of a 3D prin…

SOURCE: NJ.com at 12:49pm on May 5, 2020[SHARE]

Theater: The confrontation between senators McCarthy and Chase Smith explored onstage in CONSCIENCE by Ted Otten

Of Republican Sen. Joseph Raymond McCarthy (1908"1957) of Wisconsin, President Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, "I will not get in the gutter with that guy," but Jersey-born, two-time Tony Aw…

SOURCE: NJ.com at 12:57pm on March 5, 2020[SHARE]

Theater: Audiences 'stunned into enthralled silence' at performances of MIDWIVES by Ted Otten

The reviews have been excellent and audiences, according to the play's director David Saint, have been "stunned into enthralled silence" by the play's emotional power and, at the talk-back s…

SOURCE: NJ.com at 2:54pm on February 5, 2020[SHARE]

MIDWIVES is evocative and unnerving in New Brunswick: review by Patrick Maley

David Saint's production of MIDWIVES at George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick is evocative and challenging, invested as much in the characters on stage as it is in the struggles underlyin…

SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:40am on January 30, 2020[SHARE]

A thriller that will have the audience asking: Did she or didn't she? by Natalie Pompilio

The world was a very different place in 1997 when Chris Bohjalian published MIDWIVES, the first of his best-selling novels. The action unfolds in a sparsely-populated state before cellular p…

SOURCE: NJ.com at 11:29am on January 23, 2020[SHARE]

The 10 best N.J. theater productions of 2019; our picks by Patrick Maley

"Little Girl Blue: The Nina Simone Musical" at George Street Playhouse. The other stellar production in the state this year was in a theater space no longer operating: George Street's tempor…

SOURCE: NJ.com at 11:43am on January 7, 2020[SHARE]

Theater: One-woman show, MY LIFE ON A DIET, at George Street Playhouse through Dec. 15 by Ted Otten

Like most good things, the run of "My Life on a Diet" at New Brunswick's George Street Playhouse through Dec. 15 is all too soon to end. The show is a 90-minute journey through the life and …

SOURCE: NJ.com at 12:52pm on December 11, 2019[SHARE]

'My Life on a Diet' is a live memoir wrapped in surprising charm in New Brunswick: review by Patrick Maley

This is a veteran entertainer showing the skills she has honed during a long career of getting laughs and earning applause, bringing this all to bear on her life story with great charisma.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:41am on November 27, 2019[SHARE]

Theater: George Street Playhouse season opens with LAST DAYS OF SUMMER by Ted Otten

The show, which boasts a script and lyrics by Steve Kluger on whose best-selling novel the show is based and a vibrant 1940s style score by Jason Howland whose musical "Little Women" was Ton…

SOURCE: NJ.com at 10:24am on November 4, 2019[SHARE]