Don Stephenson has been a part of several productions at Paper Mill Playhouse. He has directed several shows include Lend Me A Tenor, A Comedy Of Tenors, and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. As an actor he starred as John Adams in 1776.
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 […]
by Michael Sommers view review on NYTimes.com It is not essential to know the Russian plays of Anton Chekhov to like the all-American charms of “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” Christopher Durang’s amiable comedy about a wacky weekend spent in Bucks County with three middle-aged siblings and a boy toy. Such knowledge lends […]
by Michael Sommers read review on nytimes.com One of the nicest features of the Broadway revival of Ken Ludwig’s “Lend Me a Tenor” back in 2010 was John Lee Beatty’s creamy rococo hotel suite where the operatic characters dashed about. The Paper Mill Playhouse’s exuberant staging of “Lend Me a Tenor” in Millburn utilizes Mr. […]
by Naomi Siegel view review on NYTimes.com The Congress is in obstructionist mode. Conservatives and liberals lock horns. Debates about taxes, an escalating war, the erosion of human liberties and a restructuring of the social order end in stalemate and standoff. “Piddle, twiddle and resolve; nothing ever do we solve,” is the way one wag […]
