Bucks County Playhouse premieres the new comedy, “Ebenezer Scrooge’s Big Playhouse Christmas Show,”December 8 through December 31. Producers Robyn Goodman, Alexander Fraser, Stephen Kocis, and Josh Fiedler announced the new show which is written by the Broadway team of Gordon Greenberg (“Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn”) and Steve Rosen (“The Other Josh Cohen”). It is directed […]
“A Christmas Carol” is a celebration of the holiday season, and the adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic tale that is coming to the Bucks County Playhouse promises to also celebrate theater and New Hope itself. “Ebenezer Scrooge’s Big Playhouse Christmas Show” is a comedic take on the story of a miser who is shown the […]
by Philip Dorian view review on secneonstage.com Great art it’s not, but if you’re looking for a recipe for farce, all the ingredients can be found in “A Comedy of Tenors,” Ken Ludwig’s sequel to his enormously successful “Lend Me a Tenor.” Slamming doors to resounding laughter this month at Paper Mill Playhouse, this second coming […]
by Allen Neuner view review on outinjersey.net Farce is like a soufflé: Difficult to create, but sheer delight when all the ingredients come together perfectly. Ken Ludwig, a Tony Award and Olivier Award winning playwright, is the master chef behind A Comedy of Tenors, a tasty confection set in the world of classical music, currently playing at […]
by Bob Rendell read review on TalkinBroadway.com Ken Ludwig’s most successful and widely produced play, Lend Me a Tenor, opened in the West End in 1986, arrived on Broadway in 1989, and has since been ubiquitous on American stages. Last season, thirty years after Tenor’s London debut, Ken Ludwig delivered a sequel called A Comedy of […]
by Hayley Levitt view review on TheaterMania.com One of the beautiful things about theater is its ability to open minds to new ideas, experiences, and world views. One of the other fine qualities of the stage is its ability to close up shop on all of that tiresome business for a minimum of two hours. The […]
by Jim Beckerman view article on Playbill.com Encore, encore. Which is operaese, as you know, for “more, again.” That – no more, no less – is what Paper Mill Playhouse is offering through Feb. 26. With the applause of four years ago still clearly ringing in their ears, they’ve brought back most of their 2013 […]
by Marilyn Lester read review on TheaterPizzazz.com Let it be said first and foremost that in this production of The Producers, the Tony-winning Paper Mill Playhouse has a big fat hit on its hands. The only tragedy in the Mel Brooks/Thomas Meehan comedy is that it plays for one month only in Millburn. (Brooks wrote […]
by Jonathan Sym read review on tapinto.net What do you get when you to put together dancing Nazi Storm Troopers, a gay director and a greedy Jewish theater producer from the Bronx? Add to that an oversexed immigrant secretary from Sweden, a “Black Irish” cop and the Village People. No, it’s not an acid-laced Halloween […]
by Suzanna Bowling read review on T2Conline.com Director Don Stephenson’s The Producers at Paper Mill Playhouse is delightful, effervescent and dare I say, better than the Broadway production? The cast is flawless with David Josefsberg (On Broadway in An Act of God, Honeymoon in Vegas, Les Misérables, Motown, The Wedding Singer) as the definitive Leo […]
