Two River Theater
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The Two River Theater professional theater located on the Navesink River in Red Bank, New Jersey. It is the home of the Two River Theater Company [1]. It opened in April 2005 with a live taping of VH-1's Storytellers featuring Bruce Springsteen.[1] It features performances of professional plays, as well as musicians.
The main Rechnitz Theater seats 350 patrons, and features a modern lighting system. Also in the complex is the smaller Marion Huber Theater, a 100 seat, fully convertible, blackbox space. The futuristic lobby features 40-foot-high glass walls.
The Two River Theater Company is a professional not-for-profit regional theater company. TRTC was founded in 1994 by Joan and Robert Rechnitz and over the past 15 seasons has grown into one of the most vital and dynamic arts organizations in the region. Under the Artistic Direction of Aaron Posner, formerly of the Arden Theatre Company, the company received "Theatre of the Year" awards from the New Jersey Theatre Alliance in 2006, and from The Star-Ledger in both 2006 and 2008. TRTC is supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Dept. of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and contributions from hundreds of local and national corporations, foundations, businesses and individuals. Two River Theater Company is a member of League of Resident Theatres, Theatre Communications Group and the New Jersey Theatre Alliance. The company's Managing Director is Tom Werder, formerly of Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company. Before the construction of the Theater, shows were held on the campus of Monmouth University and at the Algonquin Theatre in Manasquan, New Jersey.
The 2009-2010 features 26 Miles by Quiara Alegría Hudes, author of the Broadway musical "In The Heights", which will be co-produced with Roundhouse Theatre in Bethesda, MD. TRTC will then co-produce William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream with California Shakespeare Theatre, directed by Posner. You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, based on the Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, which will run during the holiday season. In February, co-founder and executive producer Robert Rechnitz will direct Neil Simon comedy, Barefoot in the Park. Following Barefoot is the World Premiere production of Euripides' Orestes: A Tragic Romp adapted by Anne Washburn and directed by Posner. Orestes will be TRTC's second co-production with Folger Theatre in Washington, D.C. Concluding the 2009-2010 season is Steve Martin's comedy, Picasso at the Lapin Agile.
In January, 2008 TRTC produced a critically acclaimed production of Shakespeare's Macbeth, conceived and co-directred by Posner and Teller (of Penn and Teller), with magic designed by Teller. The show was a co-production with the Folger Theatre.
In September 2008, TRTC remounted Martha Clarke's performance piece The Garden of Earthly Delights, which played a very successful run at New York's Minetta Lane Theatre. In the Marion Huber Theater, TRTC produced the world premiere of associate artistic director KJ Sanchez's ReEntry, co-written by Emily Ackerman.
TRTC has hosted a number of luminaries and award winners including Olympia Dukakis and Edward Albee. Most recently TRTC has welcomed comedian Stephen Colbert and Academy Award winner, Philip Seymour Hoffman. In November 2009, Colbert will be joining his longtime friend Aaron Posner on stage to take part in a fundraiser titled "I Am Stephen Colbert (And So Can You)."
Making reference to popular music, Bon Jovi performed a two-hour set at the theater in 2005. Jackson Brown (joined by special guest Bruce Springsteen), performed a benefit concert at the theater in summer 2007. Rusted Root performed at TRTC in the fall of that same year.[2].
