by Celeste Bateman On April 23rd, ELMART Theatre Service, a Division of Celeste Bateman & Assocs., LLC, took 55 theater-goers on a bus ride across the pond to Broadway where we enjoyed the outstanding musical production of Shuffle Along at the Music Box Theatre. This production subtitled “Or The Making of the Musical Sensation of...Read More

Compiled by Celeste Bateman for ELMART Theatre Service* (Updated 10/15/14)   This year, we saw great African American plays come and go far too soon, among them After Midnight, which garnered seven Tony nominations and received one for Best Choreography (Warren Carlyle); and Holler If Ya Hear Me which incorporated the music of rapper Tupac Shakur and...Read More

Born and raised in Newark, NJ and products of the public school system, actors Jamil A.C. Mangan and Bowman Wright find themselves in the unlikely situation of co-starring in the same play (different cities), in the same role (Martin Luther King, Jr.) during the exact same run (March 29 through May 12, 2013). Jamil co-stars...Read More

Red Bank (NJ) Theater Company Hosts August Wilson Classic   Two Trains Running, the fifth installment in playwright August Wilson’s series of American plays centered around the black experience, was first produced at Yale Repertory Theater under the auspices of artistic director (the late) Lloyd Richards. It later moved to Broadway, again under the direction...Read More