30 Oct
It’s reportedly a SOLD OUT affair by the time we post this, but if you scored tickets to Stephen Colbert’s fundraiser appearance for the Two River Theater (hosted, actually, at the TRT’s bigger/older friend, the Count Basie), you know about as much as we do as to what to expect when Aaron Posner interviews this national [...]
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28 Oct
It’s just too made to order. A Halloween that falls on a Saturday, just a night or two removed from the full moon, and with the arcane ritual of Daylight Savings Time adding an extra hour of witching to the endless night. Of course, as horror buffs can tell you, anything that looks too good [...]
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27 Oct
Toil and trouble: The Weird Sisters herald the return of MACBETH to the Two River Theater, in a recorded performance that screens for free tonight.
Get ready to dump those Trick or Treat swag bags and buckets out on the table — we’re already hopelessly into an event-packed Halloweek, and the oRBit desk is here to [...]
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26 Oct
The East Coast crowds in Hiptown really dig his style of wares: Brian Wilson and his most happening band of helpers return to the stage of the Count Basie Theatre TONIGHT in a last-ditch effort to keep the summer thing going right up to Halloween’s doorstep.
By TOM CHESEK
It was “the steal of the night,” in [...]
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23 Oct
Raspberry berate: The Raspberry Brothers lend their comic commentary track to a screening of the way-80s vamp THE LOST BOYS, Saturday night at The Showroom.
Atlantic Highlands Halloween Lantern Tours. We’ve always marveled at the spectacularly cupola’d “cottages” that ring the Victorian Hill section of Atlantic Highlands; colorfully hulking antiques that exist far from the beaten [...]
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22 Oct
The great musical master Dick Hyman, pictured with an array of some of his coolest vintage albums, visits the area this Sunday in an encore appearance with Doctor Jazz himself, Art Topilow.
By TOM CHESEK
Dick Hyman! Who wouldn’t get excited at the mention of the name?
If, like us, you’re a recovering record hound and seeker after [...]
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22 Oct
The new Cronkite? Veteran MTV newsman and film blogger Kurt Loder hosts Saturday’s presentation of ASBURY SHORTS, on the screen of the Paramount Theatre.
Time was, just about everyone was selling Asbury Park short — and now in the time of the city’s remarkable, even recession-busting, rebirth, a handful of local arts-minded individuals in the year-round [...]
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21 Oct
The Junior League of Monmouth County caps a November weekend of special activities in Red Bank with an appearance by Alec Baldwin, who faces the audience at Two River Theater on 11/21. (Photo by Robert Ascroft)
Just announced yesterday by the Junior League of Monmouth County is a special appearance by Alec Baldwin, an event that [...]
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21 Oct
From Z to A and back again: Josh Zuckerman and Beth Arentsen team up for two big benefit shows for the 4H Kids this Saturday, organized by mutual friend and shared guitarist Steve DeVito.
By TOM CHESEK
Holiday Express founder Tim McLoone called them “the adult orphans” among us — the residents of local group homes and [...]
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20 Oct
Alix Strauss, author of THE JOY OF FUNERALS and the new DEATH BECOMES THEM, visits the Performing Arts Center at Brookdale Community College this Thursday in an appearance tied to the opening of the annual Haunted Theater attraction.
By TOM CHESEK
While Alix Strauss never exactly set out to be branded as the “Death Lady,” it’s a [...]
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20 Oct
Port of Lost Souls: Greg Oliver Bodine returns to Paranormal Books in Asbury Park with DARK SOUNDINGS, a one-man program of ‘”two ghostly tales of ship and shore.” (Photo by Charles Jeffreys)
In the little more than a year since Paranormal Books and Curiosities creaked open its doors in Asbury Park, proprietress Kathy Kelly and krew [...]
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18 Oct
Danny Scheie as donkey-konked Bottom flirts with fairy queen Titania (Pegge Johnson) in Aaron Posner’s production of Shakespeare’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, opening this weekend at Two River Theater in Red Bank. (Photos by Kevin Berne)
By TOM CHESEK
The drama club of Brookdale Community College did it out on the lawn at Riverside Gardens. The good [...]
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