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All Productions for the week of Sunday, February 05, 2012:

• Art
  (2/11/2012 - 2/19/2012)
  by The Company (at Hackensack Cultural Arts Center in Hackensack)

  (Chistopher Hampton,Yasmina Reza) How much would you pay for a white painting? Would it matter  who the painter was? Would it be art? One of Marc’s best friends, Serge, has just bought a very expensive painting. It’s about five feet by four, all white with white diagonal lines. To Marc, the painting is a joke, but Serge insists Marc doesn’t have the proper standard to judge the work. Another friend, Ivan, though burdened by his own problems, allows himself to be pulled into the this disagreement. Eager to please, Ivan tells Serge he likes the painting. Lines are drawn and these old friends square off over the canvas, using it as an excuse to relentlessly batter one another over various failures. As their arguments become less theoretical and more personal, they border on destroying their friendships. At the breaking point, Serge hands Marc a felt tip pen and dares him: "Go on." This is where the friendship is finally tested and the aftermath of action, and its reaction, affirms the power of those bonds.(less)(more)
• The Boys Next Door
  (2/3/2012 - 2/18/2012)
  by Soar Productions (at The Post Theater in Sandy Hook in Sandy Hook)

  (Tom Griffin) The gentle comedy of a houseful of four special young men living together in  support and trust lightens the heart and uplifts the soul, as their simple good nature and unique sense of happiness and humanity seek connection with an outside world skeptical of their continued quest for routine existence. The place is a communal residence in a New England city, where four mentally handicapped men live under the supervision of an earnest, but increasingly "burned out" young social worker named Jack. Norman, who works in a doughnut shop and is unable to resist the lure of the sweet pastries, takes great pride in the huge bundle of keys that dangles from his waist; Lucien P. Smith has the mind of a five-year-old but imagines that he is able to read and comprehend the weighty books he lugs about; Arnold, the ringleader of the group, is a hyperactive, compulsive chatterer, who suffers from deep-seated insecurities and a persecution complex; while Barry, a brilliant schizophrenic who is devastated by the unfeeling rejection of his brutal father, fantasizes that he is a golf pro. Mingled with scenes from the daily lives of these four, where "little things" sometimes become momentous (and often very funny), are moments of great poignancy when, with touching effectiveness, we are reminded that the handicapped, like the rest of us, want only to love and laugh and find some meaning and purpose in the brief time that they, like their more fortunate brothers, are allotted on this earth.(less)(more)
• Cyrano de Bergerac
  (2/10/2012 - 2/25/2012)
  by Nutley Little Theatre (at Nutley Little Theatre in Nutley)

  (Edmond Rostand) The honorable and intelligent Cyrano is unable to pursue the beautiful Roxanne  because of his shame over the size of his nose. Living vicariously through the handsome Christian de Neuvillette, Cyrano is able to express his feelings for and to Roxanne but must still deal with his own loneliness.(less)(more)

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