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The author presents a review of the theatrical production "Hello, Dolly!" at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey.

Laura, Laura, Laura. Any way you look at it, Laura Ingalls Wilder is the star of ''Little House on the Prairie, the Musical,'' now at the Paper Mill Playhouse. In the 1930s and '40s, the real Wilder wrote about her 19th-century childhood in the ''Little House'' books, which inspired the heartwarming NBC series. Melissa Gilbert, who played Laura for nine seasons, from 1974 to 1983, is the star attraction at the Paper Mill. And Kara Lindsay, who plays Laura in the musical, is the star performer. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews the theatrical production "The Sound of Music," starring Elena Shaddow, Maya Fortgang, and Amanda Harris, performed at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New York until December 30, 2012.

With its spring-loaded backflips, airborne spins, rambunctious kicks and balletic pivots, the athletic ensemble in ''Newsies the Musical,'' which opened on Sunday at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, N.J., puts up a persuasive struggle against corporate greed. But the irrepressible physicality of that scrappy band of ragamuffins is just part of what turns this canny stage transformation of Disney's 1992 big-screen misfire into a crowd pleaser. The story was inspired by the 1899 New York City newsboy strike. In the show's version of history, Joseph Pulitzer, followed by William Randolph Hearst and other newspaper publishers, raises the distribution price charged to delivery boys, hoping to increase profits and offset declining circulation. This prompts poor street kids across the boroughs to form an impromptu union and take action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Divas are fascinating creatures, if only because their aura of entitlement usually masks an insecure and tortured soul. It's this soul that Terence McNally is seeking to expose in his 1995 play, ''Master Class,'' revolving around the opera singer Maria Callas, which is currently receiving a highly respectable production at Paper Mill Playhouse. ''Master Class,'' though, has always been more of a performance piece than a well-made play; the licenses Mr. McNally takes with both the dramatic form and with the true nature of a master class itself are geared to keep the focus on the character he places center stage -- not so much for development as for introspection -- and inevitably on the actress playing her. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reviews the musical `Gypsy' performed at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey.

Reviews a May, 1998 performance of Robert Johanson's production of Stephen Sondheim's `Follies,' at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey.