'Elf' opens at the Paper Mill Playhouse by Ronni Reich

Bells jingle and snowflakes spin. Every tree in sight is festooned with ropes of colorful lights, and if you look up, you just might see a certain someone's sleigh flying overhead.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 6:00am on December 2, 2014[SHARE]

'The Fabulous Lipitones' opens at the George Street Playhouse by Ronni Reich

A barbershop quartet gets a surprise when it goes looking for a new member

SOURCE: NJ.com at 6:00am on December 2, 2014[SHARE]

Holiday CDs: Dreaming of a 'Frozen' Christmas with Pentatonix and Idina Menzel by Ronni Reich

Also: Michael Feinstein records seasonal classics in cabaret style

SOURCE: NJ.com at 6:00am on November 30, 2014[SHARE]

Arts events: 'Wicked,' Motown legends, and 'Robin Hood' on Broadway by Ronni Reich

New cast members and new shows grace the Main Stem

SOURCE: NJ.com at 6:00am on November 25, 2014[SHARE]

Top 5 N.J. shows this week by Ronni Reich

'Elf' begins performances at the Paper Mill Playhouse

SOURCE: NJ.com at 6:00am on November 25, 2014[SHARE]

'Robeson' opera opens at NJPAC by Ronni Reich

Trilogy: An Opera Company paid homage to the great NJ-born bass

SOURCE: NJ.com at 6:00am on November 25, 2014[SHARE]

Top 5 N.Y. shows this week: 'The Illusionists' on Broadway, Hilary Hahn by Ronni Reich

Also: Disenchanted! takes the stage off-Broadway

SOURCE: NJ.com at 6:00am on November 24, 2014[SHARE]

'Elf' brings outsize holiday spirit to the Paper Mill Playhouse by Ronni Reich

James Moye takes on the Will Ferrell role in a musical version of the 2003 movie

SOURCE: NJ.com at 6:00am on November 21, 2014[SHARE]

Arts events: 'The Nutcracker' story, Rockettes by Ronni Reich

Also: The NJSO invites singers to raise their voices for a 'Gospel Hallelujah'

SOURCE: NJ.com at 6:00am on November 18, 2014[SHARE]

Top 5 N.Y. shows this week: 'Honeymoon in Vegas,' Meredith Monk by Ronni Reich

Also: Work by Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar appears off-Broadway

SOURCE: NJ.com at 6:00am on November 17, 2014[SHARE]

Ashleigh Smith wins Sarah Vaughan International Vocal Competition by Ronni Reich

Vaughan, the legendary vocalist who hailed from Newark, started her own career after winning a competition for amateurs at the Apollo Theater in New York.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 5:54pm on November 16, 2014[SHARE]

A new 'Side Show' hits Broadway by Ronni Reich

Director Bill Condon is out to resettle the score for Daisy and Violet Hilton with a revised version of "Side Show" that opens tomorrow.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 6:00am on November 16, 2014[SHARE]

Making this 'Honeymoon' last on Broadway by Ronni Reich

Tony Danza returns to "Honeymoon in Vegas," by Jason Robert Brown and Andrew Bergman

SOURCE: NJ.com at 6:00am on November 9, 2014[SHARE]

N.Y. Philharmonic's 'Show Boat' bit of a rough ride by Ronni Reich

The latest in the orchestra's series at Avery Fisher Hall is a tame affair compared to last season's imaginative "Sweeney Todd."

SOURCE: NJ.com at 6:00am on November 7, 2014[SHARE]

Top 5 N.J. shows this week by Ronni Reich

The Second City visits NJPAC and Jeremy Denk plays the McCarter Theatre

SOURCE: NJ.com at 6:00am on November 5, 2014[SHARE]

Top 5 N.Y. shows this week: 'Show Boat;' Bradley Cooper on Broadway by Ronni Reich

Also: Stockhausen at The Kitchen

SOURCE: NJ.com at 6:00am on November 3, 2014[SHARE]

Arts events: Free Broadway for kids, Second City at NJPAC by Ronni Reich

Also: The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra continues its series of special events

SOURCE: NJ.com at 12:00pm on October 28, 2014[SHARE]

Montclair teen Collin Kelly-Sordelet makes his Broadway debut in 'The Last Ship' by Ronni Reich

Collin Kelly-Sordelet plays two young characters with pivotal roles in the new musical by Sting

SOURCE: NJ.com at 8:00am on October 26, 2014[SHARE]

'The Understudy' opens at the McCarter Theatre by Ronni Reich

Theresa Rebeck's dark comedy is now onstage in Princeton

SOURCE: NJ.com at 6:00am on October 23, 2014[SHARE]

'Henry VIII' opens at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey by Ronni Reich

Paul Mullins directs the rarely-staged work

SOURCE: NJ.com at 6:00am on October 23, 2014[SHARE]

'The Death of Klinghoffer' opens at the Metropolitan Opera by Ronni Reich

John Adams' opera began performances Monday night

SOURCE: NJ.com at 4:30pm on October 22, 2014[SHARE]

'Lines in the Dust' hits close to home at Luna Stage by Ronni Reich

Millburn High School is the setting for Nikkole Salter's play, which revisits school integration in a contemporary context.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 11:30am on October 22, 2014[SHARE]

'The Death of Klinghoffer' at the Metropolitan Opera protests: 'The world is coming apart at the seams' by Ronni Reich

What looked like hundreds of protestors -- some in wheelchairs in tribute to the victim, who was paralyzed -- were cordoned off across the Lincoln Center plaza and there was a heavy police p…

SOURCE: NJ.com at 1:50pm on October 21, 2014[SHARE]

Upcoming arts events: 'Sweeney Todd's Woods,' 'Show Boat,' Jeremy Jordan by Ronni Reich

The New York Philharmonic continues its successful series of musicals in concert

SOURCE: NJ.com at 7:00am on October 21, 2014[SHARE]

Top 5 N.Y. shows this week: 'A Delicate Balance,' 'Klinghoffer,' Joyce DiDonato by Ronni Reich

Also: A new David Auburn play begins performances

SOURCE: NJ.com at 6:00am on October 20, 2014[SHARE]