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David Lindsay-Abaire’s highly acclaimed and oft-produced play about American class divide and the perspectives that define it, now receiving a lively staging at New Brunswick’s George Street Playhouse, is brimming with lightning-quick wit, but beyond the regularly hilarious dialogue lies a penetrating and unsentimental examination of life and ethos at [...]

It is off-putting as an audience member to be thrust immediately into a Ku Klux Klan meeting as a play opens. It is further cringe-inducing to be implicated in that meeting as the leader addresses the audience directly while cheering with graphic and vitriolic specificity “the hero who killed Martin [...]

If the George Street Playhouse’s set for ONE SLIGHT HITCH looks familiar, that’s because it occupied prime time television screens for close to fifteen years in the eighties and nineties. Featuring a center-stage couch, stairs to an unseen second floor, an archway offering a glimpse into the dining room, and [...]

Hitchcock had a sense of humor, right? One hopes so, anyway, lest the joys of THE 39 STEPS’s delightfully irreverent comic sendup of his work would be lost on the master himself. Goofy, hammy, and at all times utterly self-conscious, THE 39 STEPS at The George Street Playhouse is an [...]

New Brunswick, NJ – Attendees of George Street Playhouse’s Annual Gala have come to expect some top-notch entertainment at the annual event. The New Brunswick theatre will hold their annual fete on Sunday, May 6 at The Heldrich in New Brunswick, and they announced today that Tony Award nominees HOWARD [...]

New Brunswick, NJ – George Street Playhouse and Artistic Director David Saint have finalized casting on the final production of the New Brunswick theatre’s 2011-12 season, THE 39 STEPS. Joining two-time Tony Award nominee Howard McGillin will be Broadway and Regional vets Michael Thomas Holmes, Stacie Morgain Lewis and Mark [...]

What if the tyrant listened to the chorus leader, however unwillingly? What if—maybe just once—Tiresias successfully tore down the obstinance of Oedipus or Creon? What might the world look like if these were not such ridiculous propositions, and blind determination was not necessarily destined to win the day? It might [...]

There’s a cliché about life, art, and imitation. It posits a quaint notion about how our lives come to follow similar story lines as the art meant to reflect and critique human experience. Of course, one can only imitate something that one is not, and so John Logan’s RED would [...]

Imagine you and some friends have been sentenced to a month of detention in high school. Feeling creatively cruel, your principal decides that you will serve out your punishment by operating the lights at your school’s yearly production of The Nutcracker. Imagine how you and your friends would be sitting [...]