Shark Week: WILD OCEAN is among the in-your-face docs and fiction features screening this weekend at the Garden State Film Festival in Asbury Park.
Tributes to a couple of music-biz legends, personal appearances, panel discussions and features from four continents are among the attractions this weekend, as the Garden State Film Festival unspools its way through [...]
Former United States Poet Laureate (and native son of Long Branch) Robert Pinsky makes a special homecoming appearance on Thursday as part of Monmouth University’s Visiting Writers series.
By TOM CHESEK
Here at Red Bank oRBit, where our interview subjects often reach the level of sophistication represented by Jackie the Joke Man, we’re grateful for those [...]
Punkpoetpriestess and all-around SuperMom Patti Smith appears this Sunday at Asbury’s Paramount Theatre, in a talkback with the audience following a screening of the Smith-themed documentary DREAM OF LIFE.
By TOM CHESEK
If you go way back with Patti Smith — and no matter where and when you picked up on her career, you’re gonna wanna trace [...]
After apparently hiding out for years in an undisclosed location, Solar Circus returns to the Stone Pony on Friday for what promises to be a memorable one night stand.
Don’t look now, but one of the area’s most fondly remembered jam bands is reforming for a one-night-only gig at the Stone Pony this Friday, March 27.
For the [...]
James Sugg vows to care for the foundling MELISSA ARCTIC as his own, in the musical play now onstage at Two River Theater. (Photos by T. Charles Erickson)
It’s got nothing to do with that Spring Awakening, but it is the time of year that theatrical stages — from church basements and school assembly rooms, to [...]
Bre Cade and Deborah Murad are the women in the complicated life of THE WEDDING SINGER, the musical now onstage at JCC of Monmouth’s Axelrod Performing Arts Center. (Photos by Morris Antebi)
With an irresistible boy-meets-girl plotline set in the mulleted world of 1985 New Jersey, the 1998 Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore comedy The Wedding Singer was one of those moderately successful [...]
Mixed doubles: Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood (top) return once more to the Count Basie Theatre on Friday night, while Cheech and Chong (below) pick it up in Asbury Park on Saturday, following a bit of a hiatus.
In an interview right here in oRBit during their 2008 stop at the Count Basie Theatre, improv impresarios [...]
The beyond-legendary Billie Holiday is evoked by the Shore’s own Layonne Holmes in a special appearance Friday night at the Fromagerie.
Tributes to the still-late, still-great Billie Holiday have come in many sizes, shapes and packages over the years — from the Diana Ross screen credit Lady Sings the Blues to the equally late ‘n great [...]
Chairman of the ‘board: Grammy winning pianist George Winston returns to Monmouth University’s Pollak Theatre for a solo concert on Thursday, March 26.
By TOM CHESEK
Spring, as they say, has sprung; the lamb’s poised to pin the lion, and it’s fitting that the change of seasons would bring with it a visit by an artist whose [...]
LA noir-wave storyteller Stan Ridgway rolls right-coast on Wednesday night, with a presentation at Asbury’s Wonder Bar entitled DESERT OF DREAMS: A Sandstorm of Song.
By TOM CHESEK
A twenty-dollar bill found on the Santa Monica pier. Just one of many people, places and things name-checked in the liner notes to The Big Heat, the frankly amazing [...]
The artist known as Pinky, pictured at home in Red Bank, is recuperating from a serious injury in New Mexico. Meanwhile, a great group of her friends wants her to be able to return home, and they’re throwing a big party to that end on April 2. (Photo courtesy of Bobbie Kingsley)
By TOM CHESEK
In an [...]
The lion, the lamb, and the wardrobe budget: Two River Theater Company has positioned MELISSA ARCTIC, which opens this week, as a bridge between Winter’s tail and a Spring frolic.
By TOM CHESEK
Just when you thought it was safe to poke your head up from the groundhog hole, Red Bank’s resident professional theater company has readied [...]
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