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Archive for February, 2009

27 Feb

Weekend: NIGHTS ON BROADWAY

Trag’ and Vaudeville: The musical force that is TRAGEDY brings “the Number One heavy metal tribute to the Bee Gees in the Tri-State area, New England, the United Kingdom and eastern Pennsylvania” back to the center lanes of Asbury’s atom-age center for the alterna-arts, this Saturday night.
TJ TO THE MAX: Tom Jones at the Paramount [...]

27 Feb

Weekend: THE LOCAL STOPS HERE

Operatically trained songbird Carly McIlvaine entertains in the civilized setting of the Middletown Library this Sunday afternoon.
DECO DANCE: Art Deco Jazz Quartet at Middletown Arts. Located five minutes by train from Red Bank and mere steps from the NJ Transit ramp, the Middletown Arts Center is a cultural resource that’d be the envy of many [...]

27 Feb

Weekend: NOT FOR KIDS ONLY?!

Canned wonder: Wang Xinyi and the acrobats of the New Shanghai Circus star in a Sunday matinee show at the Count Basie Theatre.
AISLE OF LUCY: THE SECRET GARDEN at Brookdale Community College. Moody, borderline sadistic and suffused with all the warmth of an Edwardian-era ghost story, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1909 young reader novel The Secret [...]

26 Feb

A BANDIERA OF BROTHERS AT BASIE

O Bobby Where Art Thou: Busily rehearsing BANDS OF BROTHERS, his latest conceptual jukebox show with official “Basie house band” The Jersey Shore Rock ‘N Soul Revue.
If you’ve even so much as heard a single note of live music emanating from a boardwalk bar, an august auditorium or a plein-air portable stage around these parts, [...]

25 Feb

LIVING IN THE MOMIX

Four dancers equal one creepy creature in OPUS CACTUS, one of the works excerpted in the MOMIX REMIX program that appears in Red Bank on Friday night.
By DIANA MOORE
He’s been called a “master of illusionist theatre,” an innovator who “choreographs dance sculptures that bring together acrobatics, gymnastics, mime, props, and film.”
Ask Moses Pendleton, and he’ll [...]

24 Feb

THE FIXE IS IN AGAIN, FOODIES

The Bitici family’s TORCELLO restaurant on Broad Street is one of the new names participating in the latest Dine Downtown promotion, offered by Red Bank RiverCenter this March.
We’ve repeated this line at least a couple of times before, but it’s a good one: the restaurant business is looking like a big old fallen soufflé here [...]

23 Feb

BIG BANGS, PINSKY PARKS, AND THE G

Maya Angelou comes to Brookdale Community College in Lincroft this Wednesday for a SOLD OUT speaking engagement.
We’ve grown up with her never far from our eyes and ears; checked dog-eared paperbacks of her books out of our school Media Resource Centers and watched her count it down with Herry Monster on Sesame Street. Seen her [...]

22 Feb

CARPETBAGGING THE OSCARS

Peter Dobson’s work in progress EXIT 102 is screened as part of a day-long Classic Car Show in and around Asbury’s Convention Hall this Sunday.
Like, one should worry about going out on Oscar weekend? As if there’s another more crucial social engagement, a bigger and better place to be, than rolling vicariously in the glamour, [...]

20 Feb

Weekend: WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE

Aparna Ramaswamy and the cast of Ragamala Music and Dance Theatre take the stage of Monmouth University’s Pollak Theatre on Saturday night, as part of the school’s Celebrate South Asia Festival.
FORCE BE WITH YOU: Ragamala Music and Dance Theater at the Pollak Theatre. The centerpiece of Monmouth University’s Celebrate South Asia series — a multi-platform [...]

19 Feb

WELCOME BACK TO THE DOLLHOUSE

EDITOR’S NOTE: We posted this story last November while counting down the days to WRAT-FM’s much anticipated Electric Ballroom Anniversary Party, only to find the dream deferred when the Stone Pony got shut down for emergency roof repairs (a condition we snarkily referred to as the “nervous exhaustion” of nightclub ailments). With the Pony back in [...]

19 Feb

A C.K. AFTER TRUTH, IN RED BANK

Louis C.K. brings his standup act to the stage of the Count Basie Theatre for the first time this weekend.
We first noticed the balding, bearded, t-shirted comic named Louis C.K. during his occasional panel appearances on the engagingly sloppy Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn — this after the Boston-bred standup had logged twenty-plus years as [...]

18 Feb

AN UNCOMMON TALE, ON RIVER RD.

Author John Burnham Schwartz visits Fair Haven this week, in support of his novel THE COMMONER.
Yesterday here in oRBit, we brought you an exclusive chat with a first-time author — a dapper, 79-years young chap by the name of Robert “RJ” Wagner.
The Hollywood legend will be signing copies of his movieland memoir early next week [...]