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RED BANK: A SPLASHY DEBUT FOR PHOENIX
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Phoenix Productions starts a new season at the Basie with a splash, as family favorite THE LITTLE MERMAID opens this weekend.
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April 27th, 2016 @ 10am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: A BARD AT THE END OF THE WORLD
William Shakespeare's PERICLES sets sail in previews this weekend at Two River Theater, in an all-new production infused with the songs and original music of Grammy winning singer, actor, composer and musician Rinde Eckert.
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April 15th, 2016 @ 12pm
MIDDLETOWN: THE PLAY’S THE ‘STING’
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The Monmouth Players cap a Season of Suspense at Navesink Arts Center, with the satirical British murder plot A STING IN THE TALE.
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April 6th, 2016 @ 7am
RED BANK: TWO RIVER TOASTS ARTS ANGELS
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Two River Theater Company co-founders Joan and Robert Rechnitz were joined on the evening of March 28 by Red Bank Councilman Ed Zipprich and philanthropist Ivan Polonsky, for the 2016-17Continue reading "RED BANK: TWO RIVER TOASTS ARTS ANGELS"
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April 4th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: DOLLS GO TO HEAD OF THE CLASS
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The Broadway Dolls are back in town, this time raising funds for Red Bank's St. James School with "A Little Taste" (and a smorgasbord of help) from some of the town's favorite restaurants.
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April 1st, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: FAMILIAR FACES RETURN TO TRTC
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New roles for familiar faces, new stagings of beloved classics...and the world premiere of a play set in Red Bank, NJ...all on the just-announced 2016-2017 schedule from Two River Theater Company.
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March 29th, 2016 @ 5am
LINCROFT: BARD BIRTHDAY BASH AT BCC
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The public is invited to dress as their fave Shakespeare character and read from the Bard's works, when the Brookdale PAC hosts the sixth annual Shakespeare Read-A-Thon on April 21.
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March 25th, 2016 @ 5am
RBR’S MONAGHAN AN OUT-LOUD WINNER
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RBR senior and award-winning actor Patrick Monaghan makes a big impression at the state championships of the Poetry Out Loud competition.
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March 23rd, 2016 @ 9am
RED BANK: DAVID CROSS TAKES BASIE STAGE
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Elvis, Jerry Lee, Johnny (Mathis) and more, as the Count Basie springs into action with vintage jukebox hits and off-beat comedy.
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March 21st, 2016 @ 12pm
RED BANK: MILLION $ MARCH ON MONMOUTH
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Elvis, Jerry Lee, Johnny (Mathis) and more, as the Count Basie springs into action with vintage jukebox hits done live.
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March 17th, 2016 @ 5pm
RED BANK: MEGASTARS TO LIGHT UP BASIE
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Screen siren Sophia Loren and Broadway bombshell Patti LuPone up the star-power ante at the Count Basie, Thursday and Friday nights.
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March 16th, 2016 @ 6am
RED BANK: TEACHING MR. SHAKESPEARE
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Forty teachers from Monmouth and other NJ counties gathered for a how-to on teaching the works of William Shakespeare, in a workshop hosted at Two River Theater.
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March 10th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: MISSION HOUSE WINS OK
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Architect Ned Gaunt’s rendering of the proposed St. Crispin’s Social Ministry House on the St. Anthony of Padua campus. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARDContinue reading "RED BANK: MISSION HOUSE WINS OK"
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March 4th, 2016 @ 6am
LINCROFT: PLAY WRINGS HUMOR FROM PHONE
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The students of Brookdale's performing arts program present the comic stage thriller DEAD MAN'S CELL PHONE, going up in a one-weekend engagement this Friday night.
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March 3rd, 2016 @ 6am
RFH DRAMA STUDENTS TO PERFORM AT NYU
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RFH teacher Suzanne Sweeney's anti-bullying play THE BYSTANDER will be performed by students this April in NYC, as part of New York University's Forum on Educational Theatre.
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March 3rd, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: BASIE’S FAMILY-FRIENDLY BEARS
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A special live performance featuring the beloved Berenstain Bears is designed for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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February 24th, 2016 @ 12pm
RED BANK: TWO RIVER WALKS A TIGHTROPE
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The family drama ROPES goes up in previews at Two River Theater, marking the start of a run that offers performances both in an English translation and in the play's original Spanish.
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February 19th, 2016 @ 8am
BONNIE AND CLYDE ride again, as the Tower Players of Rumson-Fair Haven Regional present their spring musical production.
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February 15th, 2016 @ 5am
RED BANK: NJSO PLAYS IT TO THE HILTY
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Broadway bombshell Megan Hilty (above) is the special guest Valentine of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra for a Friday night Count Basie concert. Carolyn Wong (below) takes the Sunday soloContinue reading "RED BANK: NJSO PLAYS IT TO THE HILTY"
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February 11th, 2016 @ 12pm
MIDDLETOWN: SOMETHING’S NOT NORMYLE
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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"
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February 5th, 2016 @ 7am
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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.
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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
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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 ...