On Stage: Theatre
The Ballad of Little Jo
Two River Theater, 21 Bridge Avenue, Red Bank
On America’s frontier, one
woman must forge her own path.
This soaring musical about the
American West is inspired by
the real-life-story of Josephine
Monaghan— a young woman
from Boston who, in the late 19th
century, made a new life in an
Idaho mining town disguised as
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a man called “Jo.” Writing in The
New Yorker, John Lahr called
The Ballad of Little Jo, “the real
thing—the best piece of musical
theater storytelling I’ve seen in a
decade.”
Two River Theater presents The
Ballad of Little Jo from June 3
through June 25.
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