Kate Swan News

Seldom does a reviewer get to see 'behind the curtain,' the director's enthusiastic vision of the set carefully sketched in a notepad long before it becomes an actual intricate tiered wooden platform or the director painstakingly folding pieces of paper together that would eventually be black lit painted, lighted and turned into the faces of the animals that would be called the jungle home. On Friday, the painted paper puppets that I saw months ago from director Drew Eberhard came to reality on top of the heads of the actors. Besides Jekyll and Hyde, the set of The Jungle Book Musical at Carrollwood Player is one of my favorites to date.

4TH WALL THEATRE opens its 20th anniversary season with the Broadway classic, Guys and Dolls in concert. The show features music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and a book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. The story is based on 'The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown' and 'Blood Pressure' - two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories - most notably 'Pick the Winner.' The show has a limited run of September 30, and October 1, 2 at the Westminster Arts Center in Bloomfield.

4TH WALL THEATRE opens its 20th anniversary season with the Broadway classic, Guys and Dolls in concert. The show features music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and a book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. The story is based on 'The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown' and 'Blood Pressure' - two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories - most notably 'Pick the Winner.' The show has a limited run of September 30, and October 1, 2 at the Westminster Arts Center in Bloomfield.

4TH WALL THEATRE opens its 20th anniversary season with the Broadway classic, Guys and Dolls in concert. The show features music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and a book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. The story is based on 'The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown' and 'Blood Pressure' - two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories - most notably 'Pick the Winner.' The show has a limited run of September 30, and October 1, 2 at the Westminster Arts Center in Bloomfield.

4th Wall Theatre, a non-union professional theatre in Bloomfield, NJ enjoys unwrapping a forgotten gem and sharing that production with their audiences. That's exactly what they are doing with their 19th season closer of the new 12 chair version of the musical Big Fish which premiered on Broadway during the 2013 season. The production ran last weekend to fantastic audience reactions and has three final performances on June 10 & 11 at 8:00 pm and a 3:00 pm matinee on June 12 which still gets you home in time to catch the Tony awards presentation on CBS.

4th Wall Theatre, a non union professional theatre in Bloomfield, NJ is presenting the new 12 chair version of Big Fish premiered on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre in 2013.     

4th Wall Theatre, a non union professional theatre in Bloomfield, NJ is presenting a one-night only reprise of Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years. 

4th Wall Theatre, a non union professional theatre in Bloomfield, NJ is presenting Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years. The show premiered at the Northlight Theatre in Chicago in 2001 and was later produced Off-Broadway in 2002. The show won the 2002 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music and Lyrics and was received nominations for both Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle Awards. 4th Wall's production will be directed by Kate Swan.

It's Romeo and Juliet with dancing, knives, and a taste for Americana. West Side Story, the nearly 60 year old Broadway musical, is deeply rooted in the musical theatre canon. A tale of two young lovers, separated by opposing street gangs explores dated (though still incredibly relevant) social stigmas outlined by ethnicity and socioeconomic status. The show is well known, beloved, and has several incredibly memorable musical numbers. So when a theatre company takes on this particular production, they also take on the reputation that precedes it - which is often more of a challenge than the show itself.

4th Wall Theatre, a non union professional theatre in Bloomfield, NJ is presenting Hands on a Hardbody which had its World Premiere at La Jolla Playhouse in 2012 and then ran at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Broadway in 2013.  4th Wall's production will be directed by Kate Swan.

4th Wall Theatre presents the Geoffrey Nauffts play NEXT FALL for three performances March 13, 14, and 15.

The weather outside may say winter, but 4th Wall Theatre has their eyes set on fall in the play NEXT FALL by Geoffrey Nauffts. The New Jersey based theater company is bringing the play to the Irvington Town Hall Theater in Irvington, NY, for two performances on March 7 and 8.

Irvington Town Hall Theater will present 4th Wall Theatre's production of NEXT FALL for two performances this weekend, March 7 & 8. The play goes beyond the typical love story to explore what it means to believe and what it might cost us not to. The play is about two gay men in a committed relationship in which one is devoutly religious and the other is an atheist. The play revolves around their five-year relationship and how they make it work despite their differences. However, when an accident changes everything, Adam must turn to Luke's family for support and answers.

Irvington Town Hall Theater will present 4th Wall Theatre's production of NEXT FALL for two performances on March 7 & 8. The play goes beyond the typical love story to explore what it means to believe and what it might cost us not to. The play is about two gay men in a committed relationship in which one is devoutly religious and the other is an atheist. The play revolves around their five-year relationship and how they make it work despite their differences. However, when an accident changes everything, Adam must turn to Luke's family for support and answers.

4th Wall Theatre closes season with the hilarious and non-reverent Avenue Q for a two weekend run.

4th Wall Theatre, a non union professional theatre in Bloomfield, NJ is presenting Avenue Q which opened Off-Broadway in March 2003, co-produced by The New Group and the Vineyard Theatre, and transferred to Broadway in July 2003. 4th Wall's production will be directed by Kate Swan. Avenue Q tells the story of a recent college grad named Princeton who moves into a shabby New York apartment all the way out on Avenue Q. He soon discovers that although the residents seem nice, it's clear that this is not your ordinary neighborhood. Together, Princeton and his new-found friends struggle to find jobs, dates, and their ever-elusive purpose in life.

4th Wall Theatre in Bloomfield, NJ will be celebrating Black History Month with the amazing two person play HAVING OUR SAY: THE DELANY SISTERS' FIRST 100 YEARS adapted by Emily Mann from the book of oral history by Sarah 'Sadie' L. Delany and A. Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany with Amy Hill Hearth.

BroadwayWorld brings you the Best of New Jersey in the year 2012. Check out the Top Theatre Stories from each month during in the year 2012. We look forward to another exciting year of theatre in 2013!

Justin Boccitto and The Group Theatre Too are currently seeking choreographers for the annual Choreographer's Canvas taking place on May 18th of 2013 at the Manhattan Movement and Arts Center.