Category Archives: Theater

RED BANK: T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center sets 'Basie 2020' slate of events to commemorate 85th anniversary of the Count Basie Orchestra.

RED BANK: Robert Rechnitz, who co-founded the Two River Theater with his wife and directed a number of its productions, has died.

RED BANK: A combo food market/basement jazz club proposed for Broad Street wins praise from business owners and zoning board approval.

RED BANK: Zoning board agenda Thursday includes downtown speakeasy/ food market; changes to theater plaza; and new home where last one burned down.

RED BANK: Another branding deal adds another corporate name to the marquee of the venue locals know simply as 'the Basie.'

RED BANK: Count Basie surprises construction workers with free lunch from food truck, served with quips by comedian Jon Stewart.

RED BANK: Comic Jon Stewart returns to the stage of the Count Basie this month for a Q&A to raise money for the theater's $26 million expansion.

RED BANK: Here are the high school thespians named winners of 2018 Basie Awards Wednesday night.

RED BANK: Count Basie Theatre is now the Count Basie Center for the Arts, a change made to reflect the venue's transformation into an an arts 'campus,' officials said.

RED BANK: Two River Theater founders Joan and Bob Rechnitz donate $5 million to Riverview, and it's not the first time, either.

RED BANK: Ticket sales rose for the fourth straight year at the Count Basie in 2017, making it the state's top venue of its size once again.

RED BANK: Basie hosts #GivingTuesday to help get show tickets to veterans.

RED BANK: Two River Theater employee gets surprise, earnest proposal on stage of 'The Importance of Being Earnest,' which centers on an offer of marriage.

LINCROFT: The EEK!spanded 15th annual Brookdale Haunted Theater returns for the first of three big weekends, starting, you guessed it, Friday the 13th.

RED BANK: The Basie's upstairs Studio 99 is the scene for an encore presentation of Dunbar Rep's 'Butterfly Confessions,' beginning Friday.

RED BANK: Wear your PJs to the theater, when Two River hosts a four-day stand of SKELETONS, A Day of the Dead Bedtime Story for all ages.

MIDDLETOWN: The Stone Church Players and Monmouth Players once again warm up autumn audiences in their landmark performance venues.

LITTLE SILVER: A Red Bank Regional senior joins a select group of veteran playwrights and actors as her short drama is presented as part of a major theater festival.

RED BANK: With Steven Van Zandt donning a hardhat over his head scarf, Count Basie Theatre puts shovels in the ground for $23 million expansion.

Red Bank's Phoenix Productions goes "Into the Woods" at the Basie...and Middletown's Monmouth Players go "Moon Over Buffalo" at Navesink Arts...as the fall stage season heats up on the greater Green.