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In Chicago, they sexed it up from the original script. In Poland, they added a scene in which the husband beats his wife, apparently thinking that's what the audience would demand. In Long Branch, though, NJ Rep shoots for a...

Readers with cinemaphotographic memories will recall our tongue-in-cheek lineup of films that the Count Basie Theatre might have pulled together to commemorate the old Carlton's 80th birthday this year — a whacky assemblage of mostly forgotten movies that have in...

Yes, folks, that's him: Peter Tork, the manically cute Monkee grown older and wiser. Forty years later, he's still at the music game, and tonight steers some variant of the Monkeemobile into the lot at Long Branch's Brighton Bar. That's...

Inspired in seemingly equal parts by Karl Marx, Woody Guthrie and the Clash, singer-songwriter Billy Bragg has cut a singular path through the world of popular music. On Sunday, the iconoclastic guitar slinger from Barking, England brings his axe and...

Gilda Rogers in her new coffeehouse/bookstore on Shrewsbury Avenue. Gilda Rogers wants to get conversations started — real conversations, about politics, race, sexuality, whatever it is that divides people. So she's started a new bookstore called Frank Talk Art Bistro...

Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit heralds the return to the Shore of loud popsters Dramarama, of 'Last Cigarette' fame, and scans the entertainment horizon to also find • dramatic torment on a local stage (not exactly date night material,...

Ahh, that first, hot cup of coffee. Not just the first of the day; the first of one's life. Bob Henry recalls losing his coffee virginity, and how that experience led, decades later, to his manning the bean counter at...

The timing is favorable, to say the least, what with the end-of-days mood darkening Wall Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, not to mention Main Street. Red Bank's annual Dine Downtown promotion kicks off tonight for a month of Tuesday & Wednesday...

Talk about "a show about nothing:" Yasmina Reza's Tony-award winning play Art centers on an all-white painting in which one of the three characters invests a hefty sum. What ensues, though, is emphatically not nothing — not to these guys....

'Infinite Sky,' from Anthony Almeida's show of Everglades images at Red Bank's McKay Gallery. One of the busiest weekends since mid-summer kicks off tonight with a gallery show of monochromatic photos from the Everglades, in Red Bank; a cadaver-cool punkabilly...

As a tight end for the New York Giants, Mark Bavaro lived up to the team name: he once dragged what seemed to be the entire defensive backfield of the San Francisco 49ers 20 yards downfield after a catch. With...

Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit takes a look at the noteworthy durability of a pop-rock band based in Middletown called the Wag. Given a name they weren't sure they wanted when they started out a decade ago, the powerpoppy...

Things like props, scenery, costumes and even rehearsal schedules don’t matter too much when it comes to New Jersey Repertory Company’s long-running series of script-in-hand readings at its downtown Long Branch playhouse. It's a series that's seen the likes of...

Today's edition gives the rundown on these events happening locally tonight and tomorrow: • A funeral, of sorts, for Gram Parsons, a guy who's been dead 35 years but whose music is very much alive in a tribute show in...

In today's edition of Red Bank oRBit, editor Tom Chesek tries to pin down just what it was about Zuleyka's Kitchen in Red Bank that first captivated him: It could have been the surprising and innovative sides that garnished a...

Bargains, lightly used, in Atlantic Highlands Saturday. In today's edition of Red Bank oRBit, your comprehensive guide to what's going on around The Green, you'll find: • a item on the nearly nude, airborne dancers in "Garden of Earthly Delights"...

Is lower Broad Street ready for a $15 lobster and bacon sandwich on toasted brioche roll? The owners of the three-week-old Broad Street Filling Station think it is, and how. They've also got a roast duck sandwich and an ahi...

Jillian Rhys shows off her stuff in Asbury Park, and the so-called 'Vagina Monologues of childbirth' makes its Middletown debut. In today's edition of Red Bank oRBit: • a singer gives birth to a new identity • moms give voice...

You may have noticed the cryptic, vaguely erotic posters around Red Bank for "Garden of Earthly Delights" starting tonight at the Two River Theater. Well, Red Bank oRBit has not only the details, but an interview with MacArthur Award recipient...

Red Bank oRBit — the redbankgreen sibling site that debuted August 1 as your thrice-weekly tickler on what's happening in the world of arts, entertainment, shopping and dining — is going daily. Six days a week, to be specific. Taking...