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RED BANK: CURTAIN UP THIS WEEKEND
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Lindsay Wood as Maria joins the Phoenix troupe in bringing ‘The Sound of Music’ to the Basie boards beginning this Friday — while Moliere’s ‘The School for Wives’ receives aContinue reading "RED BANK: CURTAIN UP THIS WEEKEND"
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September 11th, 2014 @ 12pm
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LINCROFT: CHARLIE IN THE BOX
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The students of the Brookdale Community College Theater Club bring the irreverent black comedy DOG SEES GOD to the stage of BCC’s Performing Arts Center, this Thursday, Friday and Saturday.Continue reading "LINCROFT: CHARLIE IN THE BOX"
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September 9th, 2014 @ 12pm
NAVESINK: SUDDENLY, THIS SUMMER
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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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August 15th, 2014 @ 12pm
RED BANK: CROSSINGS ON BRIDGE AVE
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Flamenco dancers, live music and samplings from area restaurants are on hand outside Two River Theater during Thursday’s pre-party for Crossing Borders, the annual festival of new Latino plays curatedContinue reading "RED BANK: CROSSINGS ON BRIDGE AVE"
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August 13th, 2014 @ 12pm
Post by Bon Jovi. Pop music hearththrob Jon Bon Jovi brings his side project, Kings of Suburbia, to the stage of the Count Basie Theatre in a benefit performance forContinue reading "RED BANK: BIG NIGHT FOR BON JOVIALS"
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July 30th, 2014 @ 8am
LINCROFT: WINTER WONDERLAND AT BCC
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The Summer Shakespeare Ensemble returns for its annual plein-air production at Brookdale Community College, as A WINTER’S TALE continues for four more evening performances, July 17 – 20. Is itContinue reading "LINCROFT: WINTER WONDERLAND AT BCC"
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July 15th, 2014 @ 12pm
RED BANK: GREASE IS THE VERB
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Maggie Bera and Phil Mazzara co-star in the Phoenix Productions staging of GREASE, going up this weekend at the Count Basie Theatre. Born in the nostalgia craze of the post-hippieContinue reading "RED BANK: GREASE IS THE VERB"
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July 9th, 2014 @ 12pm
SHREWSBURY: ‘BOARDWALK’ TO BROAD STREET
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They’re dressed in the photo for a holiday-season presentation, but the troupers of NINE Theatricals have a summertime treat in store, when they bring their original BOARDWALK PLAYS to theContinue reading "SHREWSBURY: ‘BOARDWALK’ TO BROAD STREET"
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July 7th, 2014 @ 12pm
RED BANK: SOCCER THRILLER AT BASIE
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Red Bank-area soccer fans half-filled the Count Basie Theatre Tuesday afternoon for a free live screening of the World Cup match between the United States and Belgium, won in extraContinue reading "RED BANK: SOCCER THRILLER AT BASIE"
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July 2nd, 2014 @ 6am
Jon Bon Jovi and “his local side band,” the Kings of Suburbia, will perform at Red Bank’s Count Basie Theatre in a fundraiser for the Parker Family Health Center onContinue reading "RED BANK: BON JOVI TO PLAY BASIE"
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June 30th, 2014 @ 7am
RED BANK: USA V. BELGIUM, FREE AT BASIE
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Red Bank-area soccer fans will be able to watch Tuesday’s World Cup knockout round match between the United States and Belgium on a much larger screen than the one atContinue reading "RED BANK: USA V. BELGIUM, FREE AT BASIE"
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June 29th, 2014 @ 11am
NAVESINK: A STONE CHURCH ‘SUPERSTAR’
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The Stone Church Players wrap up their production of the Webber-Rice rock opera JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, with two more performances this weekend. It wasn’t all so very long ago thatContinue reading "NAVESINK: A STONE CHURCH ‘SUPERSTAR’"
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June 28th, 2014 @ 12pm
RED BANK: CHAZZ AT THE BASIE
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Chazz Palminteri brings his solo stage play A BRONX TALE back to the Count Basie Theatre, for a two-night stand. (photo by Joan Marcus) In the 1993 film A BronxContinue reading "RED BANK: CHAZZ AT THE BASIE"
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June 24th, 2014 @ 12pm
RFH NEWS: STROKE, SWIM, SWASHBUCKLE
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The Tower Players at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School, shown here in THE THREE MUSKETEERS — ALL SWASH AND NO BUCKLE, earned a number of nominations and awards for theirContinue reading "RFH NEWS: STROKE, SWIM, SWASHBUCKLE"
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June 24th, 2014 @ 6am
LITTLE SILVER, M’TOWN: LIBRARY LEGENDS
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LEGENDARY LOCALS OF RED BANK author Eileen Moon visits the Little Silver Library on Monday evening…while Next Stage Ensemble brings a little Shakespeare to the Middletown Township biblio. There’s theContinue reading "LITTLE SILVER, M’TOWN: LIBRARY LEGENDS"
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June 22nd, 2014 @ 12pm
RED BANK: GO, GO ANNETTE
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Film and television actress Annette O’Toole stars in Wendy Wasserstein’s THIRD, continuing through June 22 at Two River Theater. (photo by Michal Daniel) Wednesday marks the final homestretch of performancesContinue reading "RED BANK: GO, GO ANNETTE"
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June 18th, 2014 @ 12pm
RED BANK: BASIE SEDUCES WITH FREE FILMS
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A trio of classic Alfa Romeos parked outside the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank accompanied a screening of ‘The Graduate‘ Tuesday night – and inspired one woman to pose forContinue reading "RED BANK: BASIE SEDUCES WITH FREE FILMS"
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June 18th, 2014 @ 9am
NAVESINK: SIGNS OF SUMMER LIFE
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Samantha Ambler, Grace Modla and Ronnie Marvald are among the cast of VITAL SIGNS, the “suite of theatrical miniatures” that extends the Monmouth Players’ 2014 schedule into A/C season, beginningContinue reading "NAVESINK: SIGNS OF SUMMER LIFE"
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June 7th, 2014 @ 12pm
RED BANK: THIRD TIME’S THE CHARM
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Michael Cumpsty directs Christopher Sears and Annette O’Toole in a recent open rehearsal for THIRD, the play by Wendy Wasserstein now in previews at Two River Theater. As the directorContinue reading "RED BANK: THIRD TIME’S THE CHARM"
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June 2nd, 2014 @ 12pm
RED BANK: A SINGLE SHADE OF GRAY
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Peter Stone performs a balancing act between theater and stand-up, when the one-guy show MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS takes to the Basie stage on Tuesday night.Continue reading "RED BANK: A SINGLE SHADE OF GRAY"
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May 25th, 2014 @ 12pm
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RBG CUB SIGHTING
A Partyline contributor positioned on the dais at Thursday's meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment captured redbankgreen reporter intern ...
DOWNPOUR STRAINS DRAIN
Partyline captures video of a flooded intersection during Tuesday's afternoon thunderstorm.
STILL ‘OPEN’ SPACE
Next to Fins and Feathers, very surprised to see an overgrown parking lot that still sits there…overgrown and with blacktop. (Photo and te ...
DARK COMEDY BY JERSEY DIRECTOR OPENS FILM FEST
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off with "In Memoriam," a dark comedy about an actor with six months to live.
Indie Street Film Festival Kicks Off
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off.
KUDOS FOR RBCS FINANCE WHIZZES
Monmouth County Board of Commissioners and Borough Council honor Red Bank Charter School students who took second place in a national financ ...
MARINE PARK HOT DOGS
Red Bank's newly remade Marine Park also has a new lunch option, a newly licensed hot dog cart.
MATCHA CLOSE UP
Partyline captures a photographer working for Aura Coffee Roaster angles for the perfect shot of two iced matcha lattes on Broad Street Mond ...
SOUTH STREET AUTHOR TO READ AT LIBRARY SATURDAY
South Street resident Scott Robertson will read selections from his book, Contents of a Curious Mind, Saturday, Aug. 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 ...
EARTH SPIRIT FOUNDER DIES
Jocelyn Ruth Midose, longtime owner of Earth Spirit New Age Center has died.
A PERFECT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
The annual National Night Out event organized by the Red Bank Police Department drew hundreds to frolic amid the green grass and cotton cand ...
Blackhawk Helicopter Arrives for National Night Out
The Blackhawk helicopter has arrived. Everyone’s favorite part of each National Night Out hosted by the Red Bank Police Department jus ...
PARKING METER MOMENT
Patty Bishop of Verona was halfway through her haircut at Fox & Jane when she realized she needed to feed the parking meter. After she p ...
JOIN US AT JJ’S – PLEASE!
A doe-eyed sect of sentient boba teas sweetly beseeches us to join their adorable cult outside of JJ Delicacies this sticky August Sunday!
NEIGHBORS GATHER AT TINO’S
Chris Havens of River Street gathered group of Red Bankers for dinner on Thursday night. The gathering was in the back patio of Tino’s Mex ...
TREE BRANCH VS CAR
A tree branch fell on a parked car on Chestnut Street near Pearl Street Sunday. Submitted by Brian Donohue
APOSTROPHE CATASTROPHE
As a curmudgeonly curator of terrible punctuation on public signs, I’ve seen and shaken my head at a lot of gratuitous quotation marks ...
DANE FOR DEMOCRACY
redbankgreen Partyline captures a great dane who, all signs indicate, has had enough.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.
VIGIL FOR 68 DEAD
About 100 people attended a Saturday vigil at Johnny Jazz Park in Red Bank as part of a nationwide series of events to mourn the lives of pe ...