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RED BANK: TRTC REGRETS CASTING CHOICES
RED BANK: Two River Theater issues apology for failing to cast "more artists of color" in a star-studded reading of 'On Borrowed Time' slated for next week.
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RED BANK: ‘WINTER’ OF OUR DYSFUNCTION
RED BANK: Tony nominees Michael Cumpsty and Dee Hoty head up a competitive royal clan whose weapons are honed for the holidays, as THE LION IN WINTER takes the stage of Two River Theater this weekend.
RED BANK: GRANT $, GALA FOR TWO RIVER
RED BANK: Two River Theater announces a set of major grants and awards, along with a fun Halloween fundraiser on October 22.
RED BANK: MA RAINEY’S COMING TO TOWN
RED BANK: Stage and screen veteran Arnetia Walker talks to redbankgreen about her title role in MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM, the August Wilson play that opens a new season at Two River Theater.
RED BANK: MA RAINEY’S BLOCK PARTY @TRTC
RED BANK: Two River Theater sounds a keynote for their upcoming season, with a free-admission Taste of the Blues Block Party on Friday evening featuring live tunes and a chance to meet the cast of MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM.
RED BANK: WEEK TO REMEMBER MAMA @TRT
RED BANK: The season-closing production of "I Remember Mama" enters its final week at Two River Theater.
RED BANK: HERE’S THE BALDWIN- KLINE THING
RED BANK: Alec Baldwin makes a Two River Theater return, joined by Kevin Kline for a Monday night recording of his podcast "Here's the Thing."
RED BANK: THE ‘WILD THINGS’ ARE US
RED BANK: Two River Theater is WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE this Thursday through Sunday, when the all-ages audience gets into the act in a big way.
RED BANK: REINVENTING MAMA, AT TWO RIVER
RED BANK: Going up in previews this weekend at Two River Theater, a reimagined "I Remember Mama."
RED BANK: FAMILIAR FACES RETURN TO TRTC
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.
Director Jessica Stone joins actors Michael Urie and Christopher Fitzgerald in a promotional video for ‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,’ the musical comedy opening at theContinue reading "A ‘FUNNY THING’ ON THE WAY TO RED BANK"
A familiar face on the Two River Theater stage, Brandon J. Dirden returns as a first-time director, with a production of August Wilson’s SEVEN GUITARS that opens the new TwoContinue reading "RED BANK: DIRDEN ROLLS A LUCKY ‘SEVEN’"
RED BANK: ‘SQUIPS’ STAY AFTER SCHOOL
A preview of BE MORE CHILL, now in an extended furn at the Two River Theater. By TOM CHESEK The academic year may be ending right about nowfor most highContinue reading "RED BANK: ‘SQUIPS’ STAY AFTER SCHOOL"
RED BANK: TRTC TAKES A ‘CHILL’ PILL
Joe Iconis and Will Connolly offered a taste of ‘Be More Chill’ at TEDx Navesink in April. The musical opens at the Two River Theater next week. While tickets haveContinue reading "RED BANK: TRTC TAKES A ‘CHILL’ PILL"
RED BANK: TWO RIVER INTROS NEW SEASON
Returning Broadway veterans Brandon J. Dirden and Jessica Stone — plus rookie playwright Robert Rechnitz, pictured with wife and fellow Two River Theater Company founder Joan — are among theContinue reading "RED BANK: TWO RIVER INTROS NEW SEASON"
RED BANK: ‘BLUES’ ONE MORE TIME, AT TRTC
Charles Weldon (left) counsels Brandon J. Dirden in YOUR BLUES AIN’T SWEET LIKE MINE, entering the final weekend of its world premiere run at Two River Theater. (Photos by MichalContinue reading "RED BANK: ‘BLUES’ ONE MORE TIME, AT TRTC"
Former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey, former Asbury Park Mayor Ed Johnson and actor-director-playwright Ruben Santiago-Hudson take part in an April 26 panel discussion on Creating Social Change, an eventContinue reading "RED BANK: ‘BLUES’ WITH SOMETHING EXTRA"
RED BANK: A BARD OF EDUCATION, AT TRTC
A cast and crew of teens from local schools rehearse A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, the annual “Little Shakespeare” production  that presents four public performances this weekend. (Photos courtesy of TwoContinue reading "RED BANK: A BARD OF EDUCATION, AT TRTC"
RED BANK: ‘BLUES’ WITH SOMETHING EXTRA
Former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey, former Asbury Park Mayor Ed Johnson, and actor-director-playwright Ruben Santiago-Hudson take part in an April 26 panel discussion on Creating Social Change, an eventContinue reading "RED BANK: ‘BLUES’ WITH SOMETHING EXTRA"
‘BLUES’ ON RED BANK’S UPPER WEST SIDE
Actor Brandon J. Dirden returns to Red Bank as star of YOUR BLUES AIN’T SWEET LIKE MINE, the drama by Tony winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson that begins its world premiere engagementContinue reading "‘BLUES’ ON RED BANK’S UPPER WEST SIDE"
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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 ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!
SHO AND TELL
A peak inside Sho Asian Table a new restaurant still under construction and slated to open later this summer at 8 West Front Street in Red B ...
“Night of the Living Nick” Halloween Car Turns Heads
Nick Brown, a special effects artist from the Atlantic Highlands, was seen driving his creatively decorated Halloween car around Red Bank th ...
“HOLY F***!” LIGHTNING STRIKE FROM WASHINGTON STREET BACKYARD
Lightning struck during Saturday’s storms in the backyard of Washington Street resident Kimberly Johnson. The strike obviously caught ever ...
SMOKY NAVESINK SUNRISE
redbankgreen's partyline photographer Karly Swaim captured the sun rising through hazy, smoky skies above the Navesink River from NJ Transit ...
MAGGIE’S HEAT WAVE HAIRCUT
Maggie, a golden doodle who belongs to Sara Horan, shows off her new shorter-for-summer hair cut outside Fins & Feathers on Monmouth Street ...
PEACE, LOVE AND JUGGLING
Music and flow arts filled Riverside Gardens Park Friday night at the free flow arts meetup hosted by Cirque de Peace, with guest band Sweet ...
IMMIGRATION PROTESTS CONTINUE
Protests against a wave of immigration arrests in Red Bank and nationwide continued for a third and fourth straight day on Shrewsbury Avenue ...
CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...
WE’RE LICHEN THIS FUNGHI!
A mushroom sprouts from the mouth-like hole in this lichen-covered tree on the grounds of Red Bank Primary School Tuesday morning.
HELL STRIP FIREWORKS
Revelers launched fireworks from the hell strip in front of a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard on July 4, one of many impromptu and quest ...
SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.