Theater

BRT Finally Shows Cabaret After Pandemic Shut Down Production in 2020 The stage was set. It was Spring, 2020 and Bristol Riverside Theatre had two more shows planned to finish out the season. We had just finished shooting promotional videos for Cabaret when everything started to shut down. And, well, you know the rest of […]

Lately, I‘ve been doing some critical thinking about Western culture. Don’t get me wrong, there are some aspects of western culture I love: art, music, science, philosophy. But we have to admit that there are some really toxic aspects as well: racism, genderism, sexism, classism, ableism, religionism, individualism, ethnocentrism, capitalism, and the general disregard for […]

Nothing says the holiday season is upon us like the annual interpretations of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. And, after a pandemic hiatus, theatres across the country are again lighting their stages to showcase the Christmas tale of redemption. A perennial favorite for families in the Delaware Valley is McCarter Theatre Center’s annual production of […]

Laughter, they say, is good for the soul. Theatre has provided escapism and comic relief for ages, and if ever there was a time when the world needs the arts, that time is now. And, I think all of us could use a good laugh these days. There’s plenty of laughs to have at Bristol […]

Theatres across the country have struggled so much during the pandemic. But as Spring is on the horizon and cases are on the decline, local and regional theatre is finally making a comeback. McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton has reopened their doors and kicked off their season with Dreaming Zenzile, a musical based on the life of […]

When one thinks of ballet, it’s likely that the images dancing in their head are ones of Sugar Plum Fairies from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. And nothing says the holidays are upon us like the annual performances of The Nutcracker, like the one the New Jersey Ballet Company has been putting on for 50 years. The […]