Hugh Hanson News

There are some stirring and strange goings-on at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. The company's outstanding production of Noel Coward's madcap comedy, Blithe Spirit is now on stage through September 2.

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey continues its 56th season with its third Main Stage production, Blithe Spirit. Veteran company member Victoria Mack, who was last seen on the Main Stage in this season's Tartuffe, will make her STNJ directing debut. Company favorites Brent Harris, Tina Stafford, Ames Adamson, and Susan Maris will be joined by Kate MacCluggage of The 39 Steps fame in this delightful British comedy by Noel Coward. Performances begin August 15. Patrons can purchase tickets at The F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre located at 36 Madison Avenue in Madison by calling the Box Office at 973-408-5600 or by going online at www.ShakespeareNJ.org.

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey continues its 56th season with its third Main Stage production, 'Blithe Spirit.' Broadwayworld.com had the pleasure of interviewing Susan Maris about her career and upcoming show.

Broadway brings Charles Dickens' novel to life in this Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical about an orphan boy on his quest to find love and family. Equal parts charming and sober, Oliver! is widely hailed as a true theatrical masterpiece by actors and family audiences alike.

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey continues its 56th season with its third Main Stage production, Blithe Spirit. Veteran company member Victoria Mack, who was last seen on the Main Stage in this season's Tartuffe, will make her STNJ directing debut. Company favorites Brent Harris, Tina Stafford, Ames Adamson, and Susan Maris will be joined by Kate MacCluggage of The 39 Steps fame in this delightful British comedy by Noel Coward. Performances begin August 15. Patrons can purchase tickets at The F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre located at 36 Madison Avenue in Madison by calling the Box Office at 973-408-5600 or by going online at www.ShakespeareNJ.org.

The Who's 1969 iconic rock concept album comes to life on the stage in a truly unique theatrical event. Deaf, dumb and blind young Tommy overcomes impossible odds to rise to stardom during this high-energy, inspiring and sometimes puzzling adventure about healing and the resiliency of the human spirit. 

Belly laughs, scandal, harmonies, hilarity and camaraderie abound in the Ziegfeld Theater's rendition of The Full Monty.

The Ziegfeld Theater, helmed by new Artistic Director Hugh Hanson, is ready to heat up to summer a little early with the cult favorite film-turned-Broadway-musical, The Full Monty.

With its winter production of Joseph Kesselring's classic comedy, Arsenic and Old Lace, Portland Stage's serves up a delightful vintage cocktail - complete with more than one amusing twist. The 1947 play, people with a cast of loveable, zany misfits who cheerfully engage in murder and mayhem retains its appeal seven decades later in this stylishly directed and colorfully acted production.

The Classical Greek Theatre Fesival's production of Euripides' Herakles is a captivating portrayal of the effects of war upon the psyche of a soldier returning from the battlefield struggling to reintegrate with society.

The Classical Greek Theatre Fesival's production of Euripides' Herakles is a captivating portrayal of the effects of war upon the psyche of a soldier returning from the battlefield struggling to reintegrate with society.

Exit the King is now on stage at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (STNJ) through August 28th. This enthralling show is by Romanian-French writer Eugene Ionesco, translated by Donald Watson with absolutely splendid direction by the theatre's Artistic Director, Bonnie J. Monte.

The Colorado Theatre Guild's 11th Annual Henry Awards will take place Monday, July 18, 2016 at the PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Avenue in Parker, Colorado. The evening begins at 6 p.m. with cocktails and the awards ceremony will begin at 7 p.m., followed by an after-party. Tickets are $23 for CTG members (limit 2 per person online with the code Henry2016), $30 non-members or $50 VIP. Tickets go on sale June 20 through the PACE Center website, parkerarts.org, or by calling the box office at 303-805-6800. 

Caught somewhere between classical and modern modes, The Liar is a truly entertaining evening.

This whip-smart comedy takes on the naughty fun of the best-selling book and highly-anticipated movie and brings it to outrageous life with musical numbers, steamy performances highlighting the famous hunk and his grey tie, and lots of hilarious surprises. The performance will offer pre-show cocktails, as well as the opportunity to take photos with the star himself. It's a riotous night of fun that will leave your inner goddess breathless.

'Henry VIII' directed by Paul Mullins in now onstage at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey through November 9th. Area audiences should relish the opportunity to see a stellar cast in Shakespeare's epic pageant.

A wickedly funny, adult-themed spoof of the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy of erotic romance novels by E. L. James is coming to the Gallo Center for the Arts for one night only. 'SPANK! The Fifty Shades Parody' takes the stage at 8 pm tonight, October 11.

'Wittenberg' written by David Davalos and directed by Joseph Discher is now on stage at The Shakespeare Theatre on New Jersey. Metropolitan area audiences will delight at this totally original new play.

The Shakespeare Theatre presents the New Jersey premiere of the award-winning play WITTENBERG by David Davalos, in which he ingeniously manipulates time and space to unite an unusual trio-Doctor Faustus, Martin Luther, and Hamlet-for a witty and provocative debate about faith, fate, existence, and tennis. The 'big questions,' the enigmas that eternally puzzle mankind, are given clever and delightfully quirky forum in this contemporary riff on the age-old and eternal conudrums. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!