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MIDDLETOWN: The Stone Church Players and Monmouth Players once again warm up autumn audiences in their landmark performance venues.
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
ON THE GREEN: TWO TICKETS ON THE AISLE
Red Bank's Phoenix Productions goes "Into the Woods" at the Basie...and Middletown's Monmouth Players go "Moon Over Buffalo" at Navesink Arts...as the fall stage season heats up on the greater Green.
MIDDLETOWN: BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE
MIDDLETOWN: The Monmouth Players warm up for a new season with a sampler of soliloquies 'n such by Shakespeare.
MIDDLETOWN: DAZE OF THEIR ‘PRIVATE LIVES’
MIDDLETOWN: Monmouth Players stage an elegantly acid-tipped Coward comedy, plus a sober spoken-word Holocaust remembrance.
MIDDLETOWN: DURANG, IN SMALL DOSES
MIDDLETOWN: The Monmouth Players serve up a weekend's worth of short plays by the modern absurdist Christopher Durang.
MIDDLETOWN: PLAYERS DISH UP FINE ‘DINING’
MIDDLETOWN: Monmouth Players take it into A.R. Gurney's engagingly experimental ensemble comedy 'The Dining Room" for six performances.
MIDDLETOWN: A WILDER WAY TO HOLIDAY
MIDDLETOWN: Monmouth Players serve up some more Thornton Wilder, plus dessert, with "A Long Christmas Dinner."
MIDDLETOWN: The Monmouth Players continue a Season of Classics with no less than DEATH OF A SALESMAN, beginning Saturday night.
ON THE GREEN: BIG THEATER ON SMALL STAGES
ON THE GREEN: The musical GYPSY highlights a weekend of new stage shows from Phoenix Productions, Monmouth Players and Stone Church Players.
MIDDLETOWN: WILDER TIME TO BE HAD BY ALL
MIDDLETOWN: The Monmouth Players serve up an appetizer for their forthcoming season, with an intimate program of one-acts by the great Thornton Wilder.
MIDDLETOWN: THE PLAY’S THE ‘STING’
The Monmouth Players cap a Season of Suspense at Navesink Arts Center, with the satirical British murder plot A STING IN THE TALE.
MIDDLETOWN: SOMETHING’S NOT NORMYLE
The creepy janitor (Bill Normyle) has a proposition for sweet and innocent Rhoda (Anna Cibrian) as the Monmouth Players present the 1950’s suspenser ‘The Bad Seed,’ starting Saturday at Navesink Arts.Continue reading "MIDDLETOWN: SOMETHING’S NOT NORMYLE"
MIDDLETOWN: FULL-TIME SANTA, TEMP ELF
Each tells a tale of Christmas set in a Macy’s department store. One is earnest and uplifting, and involves a real Santa mistaken for a fake one. The other is lessContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: FULL-TIME SANTA, TEMP ELF"
MIDDLETOWN: TELL LAURA WE LOVE HER
Kelly Cibrian, Jeff Caplan and Bill Lee star, as the Monmouth Players continue their Season of Suspense with the classic mystery of LAURA. A murdered woman of mystery, who mayContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: TELL LAURA WE LOVE HER"
RED BANK: TRAGIC DIVAS, COMIC THRILLERS
Rehearsals proceed at Phoenix Productions’ new Chestnut Street headquarters for EVITA, going up this weekend on the Count Basie stage with Kelliann De Carlo in the title role. (Click toContinue reading "RED BANK: TRAGIC DIVAS, COMIC THRILLERS"
NAVESINK: PLAYERS WRAP UP A ‘PRESENT’
Eric McDonough (center) and his fellow Monmouth Players serve up Noel Coward’s PRESENT LAUGHTER at the Navesink Arts Center. Way back in 1953, a fledgling theatrical troupe by the nameContinue reading "NAVESINK: PLAYERS WRAP UP A ‘PRESENT’"
NAVESINK: MONMOUTH PLAYERS BESEECH THEE
AJ Melnick heads a youthful cast as Jesus, as the Monmouth Players present their production of GODSPELL inside the Navesink Arts Center. (Photo courtesy of Monmouth Players) The 2014-2015 seasonContinue reading "NAVESINK: MONMOUTH PLAYERS BESEECH THEE"
MIDDLETOWN: A ‘RABBIT’ RUN IN NAVESINK
David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer winning drama RABBIT HOLE makes its local debut this weekend in a staging by the Middletown-based Monmouth Players. As the area’s longest continuously operating theatrical troupe —Continue reading "MIDDLETOWN: A ‘RABBIT’ RUN IN NAVESINK"
NAVESINK: BRIT FARCE, SCOTTISH PLAY
The venerable venues of the Navesink Arts Center (long ago, the original Middletown Library) and the “Old Stone Church” at All Saints are the scene for a new season ofContinue reading "NAVESINK: BRIT FARCE, SCOTTISH PLAY"
NAVESINK: SUDDENLY, THIS SUMMER
The short plays of the late great Tennessee Williams are explored by the Monmouth Players, in a special two-weekend presentation at the troupe’s Navesink Arts Center homestage. When last weContinue reading "NAVESINK: SUDDENLY, THIS SUMMER"
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RED TRUCKS AT RED ROCK
A small dishwasher fire at Red Rock Tap and Grill was put out quickly by firefighters overnight, causing minimal damage. Red Bank Fire Depar ...
CREATIVE COVER UP
The windows of Pearl Street Consignment on Monmouth Street were smashed when a driver crashed their car through them injuring an employee la ...
THEY’RE BACK!
Ospreys returned to the skies over Red Bank this week for the first time since they migrated to warmer climes in late fall. With temperature ...
SPRING IS SPRUNG
RED BANK: Spring 2024 arrives on the Greater Red Bank Green with the vernal equinox at 11:06 p.m. Tuesday.
RED BANK’S FINEST – AND NEWEST
Red Bank Police Officer Eliot Ramos was sworn in as the force’s newest patrolman Thursday, and if you’re doing a double take thinkin ...
EASTER EGG MAYHEM AT THE PARK
An errant whistle spurred an unexpectedly early start to the Spring Egg Hunt on Sunday, which had been scheduled to begin at eggsactly 11am ...
PRESEASON DOCKWORK
RED BANK: With winter winding down, marina gets ready for boating season with some dockwork on our beautiful Navesink River.
CORNED BEEF AND DISCO FRIES?
It’s Friday, and smart Lent-observing Leprechauns know the pot of gold at the end of Red Bank’s rainbow is actually the deliciou ...
SURFBOARD DITCHED
It’s a violation of etiquette in surfing to ditch your board.  (it could hit another surfer and hurt them). But someone appears to ha ...
ELSIE, TAKE ME WITH YOU!
Soaked by pouring rain with the temperature hovering in the low 40’s, this sign in the window of Elsie’s Subs on Monmouth Street ...
WALK THIS WAY
PARTYLINE: Before-and-afters of a sidewalk cleanup on West Street.
SOGGY NOTION
RED BANK: Breezeway sculpture captured the mood downtown as heavy rains fell Saturday morning.
HOME DELIVERY
RED BANK: After a subdivision, an instant house rises on a new Catherine Street lot.
COMMUNITY PROFILES
For Black History Month, Red Bank's Community Engagement and Equity Advisory Committee has been running a series of local profiles on Facebo ...
HEARTY FAREWELL FOR HARDY
RED BANK: Council to honor DPU supervisor Rich Hardy, who retired recently after almost 39 years of keeping things running.
HOMEBOUND? READ ON…
RED BANK: Can't get to the public library? It's now offering free delivery and pickups for homebound borough residents.
TAMING A BEAST OF A WEEK
RED BANK: After the second snowfall of the week, a borough family finds the perfect use for it – a Godzilla snow sculpture.
RED BANK: LIBRARY CLOSED, BUT THE HILL’S OPEN
RED BANK: Though the library was closed by a snowstorm, kids got to enjoy the riverfront property's steep slope Tuesday.
LIGHT(HOUSE) MAKEOVER
This year, getting ready for spring means a midwinter makeover for Strollo's Lighthouse in Red Bank.
TODAY: LOCAL PUPPY COMPETES ON ANIMAL PLANET’S “PUPPY BOWL”
Red Bank’s very own rescue puppy, Biscuit, is set to compete in Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl this Sunday, February 11, at 2 PM. Th ...