Category Archives: Entertainment

Theater Week tramps on over at Red Bank oRBit, with a look at THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, the latest musical extravaganza staged by Red Bank's own Phoenix Productions at the Count Basie Theatre. It's a thoroughly modern move for the Phoenix,...

Theater Week of Sorts continues in today's Red Bank oRBit with a look at The Housewives of Mannheim, the new show at New Jersey Rep in Long Branch, and its "real housewives" of 1944 Brooklyn. We talk to playwright (and...

Today's Red Bank oRBit offers up a double feature that spotlights the return of a local classic and a coming-attractions trailer for one of the most highly anticipated sequels in cinema-buff circles. First, we finally get around to answering the...

Tuesday's Red Bank oRBit brings you an update on the kids from Rockit! For Kids, the Red Bank-based classic rock conservatory whose students have been leaving parents, professional musicians and even Rockit commander Bruce Gallipani "blown away" with their rapidly...

The dean of NJ stage critics — the Star-Ledger's Peter Filichia — has seen the future of regional theater, and her name is Isabel Wallace. As reported in today's Red Bank oRBit , the 9-year old fourth-grader from Little Silver...

Today's Red Bank oRBit brings news of a real treat for fans of Billie Holiday. Holiday Express/The Shirleys/Springsteen vocalist Layonne Holmes (right) takes the spotlight at Rumson's David Burke Fromagerie this Friday night only in a jazz-combo salute to the...

As the music director for The Downtown, Chris Masi is responsible for wrangling seven nights and two stages worth of live entertainment every week at the Red Bank hotspot. So it's understandable that the expanded and reimagined club's one-year anniversary...

She writes, she directs, she sings: Suzanne Sweeney leads her actors in warm-up vocal exercises before a recent rehearsal for this weekend's show. By LAURA KOSS Sitting alone in an otherwise empty auditorium, Suzanne Sweeney watches from the fourth row...

We may be on the verge of spring, but at the Two River Theater Company, winter's got one more hand to play. Today's edition of oRBit has the details on Melissa Arctic, the springtime musical adapted from Shakespeare's classic The...

Breaking on the crest of today's news in Red Bank oRbit.... We've got an exclusive on a new series of summertime surf movie nights to be presented by Michael Boylan of Red Bank's own Stokaboka outdoors in the parking lot...

A fine art exhibit of "Spraypaint SurrealiZm" and a concert featuring Israel's hottest reggae/klezmer/jam band? It's just another day of illuminating finds at Red Bank oRBit, redbankgreen's companion site for arts and entertainment. Today's edition takes you to McKay Imaging...

When Jackie Martling enters an establishment of mixology, the scatology hits the fans, as the Joke Man breaks down all resistance with his patented blend of good cheer and appalling taste. The longtime Howard Stern sidekick comes to Monmouth County's...

Phoebe Ryan's much-anticipated — at least in the hallways of Red Bank Regional High, where she's a senior — pass through the American Idol machinery may not have proved as Tivo-worthy as her admirers wished. The 17-year-old Rumson resident's Idol...

John Belushi, Bill Murray, John Candy, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert — and Shad Kunkle? Well, why not? Today, Red Bank oRBit, talks to one of the rising stars of Second City, the legendary comedy troupe that spawned all of those...

So what's a Momix Remix? It's a look back at more than 25 years worth of invention from the atelier of celebrated choreographer Moses Pendleton and his Momix Dance Theater company. A Momix performance finds human bodies exploring new and...

Chubby's owner Mike Gilson pleaded his case, but got little sympathy from the governing body, including Council President Art Murphy, below. First, there was the October 2007 donnybrook outside Chubby's Waterside Café that took cops from several towns to quell...

Today in Red Bank oRBit, we've got something special for your post-Valentine's hangover: our own interview with Hollywood legend Robert Wagner, known for everything from the original Titanic to TV's Hart to Hart, and even the Austin Powers franchise. Wagner...

How about a paper explaining that thing on His head? Download that dictionary app into your iPods, Brucies. The second installment of "Glory Days: A Bruce Springsteen Symposium" is coming to Monmouth University in September. If it's anything like the...

Today's Red Bank oRBit has a tantalizing peek behind the curtain at 'Mary's Wedding,' the new play that you've no doubt seen advertised on posters and flyers all over town but had never heard of. The Two River Theater Company...

Following previews, 'ReEntry' is now fully underway at at Red Bank’s Two River Theater, and today's Red Bank oRBit salutes it with an admiring review. The play, by Emily Ackerman and KJ Sanchez, weighs the costs of war through the...