Post Tagged with: "STAGES at Camden County College"

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Triple A. It’s better than an A plus. Amazing. Astonishing. Astounding. Stages at Camden Community College’s production of AVENUE Q brings you back to a time when everyone in the audience is exactly at the same place. In front of you are apartments and a street–Avenue Q–to be exact. It’s [...]

  This is the inaugural episode of Stage Magazine’s “Curtain Up!” podcast.  Hosted by Chris Laning, each weekly episode will give you a run down of the shows opening that upcoming weekend.  What a great way to find out, quickly and easily what is going on in and around [...]

Camden County College’s Theatre Department is proud to announce the… PROFESSIONAL THEATRE TRAINING PROGRAM. If you’ve been waiting for the right opportunity, that will finally give you the chance you’ve needed to make it happen- at a cost that finally makes sense…..wait no longer. Starting Fall 2013! For more information [...]

Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE is naturally not about learning to drive as it is learning all about life’s often hard truth, as well as the wrong truth (the lies we tell ourselves), and the sad truth about human failings. It’s a play about mistaking [...]

THE MOUSETRAP by Agatha Christie produced by STAGES at Camden County College directed by Donald Swenson in Blackwood, New Jersey is sadistically enthralling. The show is a two-act dramatic play with a fifteen minute intermission that centers around a group of eight individuals snowed in at a guest house in [...]

It has been said that Thornton Wilder’s OUR TOWN is performed at least once a day in this country or abroad. Yet we constantly need to be reminded of its message: life is for living. The latest production in our area, at STAGES at Camden County College, is a worthy [...]

Before we start the review, we need a rehearsal. I must teach you this. It goes: dum DUM DUM! Don’t confused! It’s not dumb, DUMB , DUMB, it’s dum DUM DUM! It is the 3-tone, brass movie-music fanfare which indicates something mysterious and dangerous is associated with the name just [...]

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin was a very funny man. Living a short but successful life from January 15, 1622 to February 17, 1673, we know him better by his pen name, Moliere. THE SCHOOL FOR WIVES was his 1662 return to a theme which had won him great favor the previous year [...]

Who knew art and science could be so funny? Steve Martin, that’s who. And, Director Marjorie Sokoloff. And, the audience at yesterday’s matinee at Stages’ outstanding production of Steve Martin’s PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE at Camden Community College. I wish I had seen it sooner. From heavy drama of [...]

AS YOU LIKE IT is one of Shakespeare’s most charming comedies, especially when performed by a youthful and exuberant cast as in the production at Camden County College in Blackwood. The play embodies many plot devices often used by the Bard: banished people, fraternal treachery, a girl disguised as a [...]

LITTLE WOMEN ran for only 137 performances on Broadway, kept alive for that long, I suspect, by mothers and grandmothers who had read and loved the book and wanted to share the joy with their daughters and granddaughters. Stages tried, they really did, but the music, lyrics and book were [...]

Director Marjorie Sokoloff, Artistic Director of Stages and Head of Theatre Department at Camden County College, combines horror and comedy on a set that is at first seemingly simple. Pillowman, a three act play written by Martin McDonagh, is a chiller with an odd sort of tickle. Katurian,the protagonist (played [...]