The Dark Side of the Room: The Pink Floyd Experience returns to the Basie boards, with their annual dose of aural ecstasy for all four of your ears.
1. The Pink Floyd Experience at Count Basie Theatre. As the Canadian-based Annerin Productions hastens to point out, The Pink Floyd Experience is NOT an impostor show. Of [...]
Actor and playwright Carlyle Brown is THE FULA FROM AMERICA, in a one-man show that’s also a one-weekend show at Two River Theater. (photos courtesy of Alabama Shakespeare Festival)
We deal with a lot of hyphens in this business. Actor-comedian, for one. Singer-songwriter, for another. Producer-director, painter-photographer, dancer-puppeteer — as we recall we even interviewed a [...]
EDITOR’S NOTE: As you might have figured, the promoters have cancelled this show due to weather. No reschedule date has been announced as yet, but you’ll surely read it here first.
The Spring Skaward Tour brings some superska partystarters — including Dave Wakeling (left) and the English Beat, plus Angelo Moore (right) and Fishbone — to [...]
The wonderful thing about Tiggas: Asbury Park poet and spoken word artist Tylik “Tigga” Railey brings his autobiographical performance piece PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY to The Showroom this Thursday night, in a premiere event that was rescheduled from this past December.
By TOM CHESEK
Last summer, after the actress, writer and dancer Lorraine Stone hosted a poetry program over [...]
Why is this woman so happy? Gretchen Rubin has a real understanding of Happiness — the concept, the lifestyle, and THE HAPPINESS PROJECT, her Number One bestselling “shticklet” that she’ll be sharing from at NovelTeas Authors Aromas & Gifts this Thursday night.
By TOM CHESEK
So this past Saturday found us having lunch with an old friend [...]
IT’S ALL A BLUR, really it is, as Doug Ferrari’s SICA gallery in Long Branch hosts the opening of a group show exhibit that reflects the “hyperactive overstimulation” of modern life. Reception’s on Sunday; artworks are up and ready for your perusal — now!
1. BAREFOOT IN THE PARK at Two River Theater. Broadway burgomeister Neil [...]
Check, please: ITALIAN RESTAURANT is one of the signature pieces by the late great sculptor George Segal, pictured by photographer Donald Lokuta and included in a major exhibit of work by both Segal and Lokuta at the Monmouth Museum. (all photos courtesy of Donald Lokuta)
“I made up my mind that daily life is extraordinary.”
A handful [...]
This dapper chef will take a captive audience into the delightful depths of gastronomy next week when he hosts a cooking clinic at Restaurant Plan B. (Photos by Dustin Racioppi)
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI
For anyone with more than just a casual connection to Matt Levine, it should go virtually undisputed that he has two loves in life: [...]
An uncharacteristically shy David Henry Sterry (here surrounded by the images of his younger selves that adorn his website) is ringmaster for an event built around the theme of HOLLYWOOD AND THE SEXWORKER — along with a bracing round of PITCHAPALOOZA — this Sunday in Asbury Park.
By TOM CHESEK
Hey, it’s never been an uncommon thing [...]
You say that John Prine’s not a household name in your household? We’ve got a full house of fans at the Count Basie this Saturday who say otherwise.
By TIM CRONIN
Editor’s Note: When we heard that John Prine was coming to town, we worried that the highly regarded but low-profile singer/songwriter — a guy who sets [...]
If you’ve entered our oRBit without docking at our mothership site redbankgreen, you might have missed some stories of eminent interest, from the virtual village green that covers this particular slice of waterfront like no other media source; be it print, pixels or pocket-size. Let’s zoom in on a few from the past couple of [...]
Red Barron: legendary pianist Kenny Barron comes to the Basie as the leader of the Monterey Jazz Festival Allstars, in a concert appearance on Thursday night.
Interview by JOE MUCCIOLI
Formidable. Intimidating, even.
That’s the vibe we get over here at the oRBit desk when we consider Mr. Kenny Barron — mystic keeper of all 88 keys plus [...]
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