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New Jersey Stage: Daily Edition 06-25-19

NJ Stage Daily Update

Here is the morning update for New Jersey Stage for 06-25-19.

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theatre

Premiere Stages Presents "The Wake"

Premiere Stages at Kean University will present Tammy Ryan’s The Wake July 11-28. The play was selected from 659 submissions as the winner of the 2019 Premiere Play Festival. In the play, Maggie and Rosemary rent a beach house in Florida to scatter their sister’s ashes six months after her death, only to find themselves and their respective partners staring down a hurricane. 

Dreamcatcher Turns 25!

Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre has announced its 25th Anniversary season, whose theme is: “Life is too important to be taken seriously.”  This professional company will present three productions, including two world premieres and one New Jersey premiere, in addition to improvisational comedy, cabaret, new play readings, a holiday variety show and many programs for seniors and students.  As always, the company and their guests will tell stories that reflect our shared experience of being human with heart and humor.

Dreamcatcher Presents Monologues at MONDO on Thursday Nights This Summer

​​​​​​​(SUMMIT, NJ) -- Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre, professional Theatre in Residence at Oakes Center in Summit presents the series Monologues at MONDO on Thursdays from July 11 through August 1 at 8:00pm. Monologues at MONDO is an annual event where Dreamcatcher’s actors perform solo works as readings in the intimate performance space at MONDO, a brownstone that houses numerous arts and culture programs in the heart of Summit.  The series provides audiences with an opportunity for casual entertainment at an affordable price, while also introducing them to highly personal works performed by professional actors. 

The Growing Stage To Kick Off 33rd Season of Summer Arts Camp

(NETCONG, NJ) -- The Growing Stage, The Children’s Theatre of New Jersey, located in the Historic Palace Theatre in Netcong kicks off their 33rd season of Summer Arts Camp.  The camp runs for 6 weekly sessions, July 8 through August 16.  The program is designed for children who will be attending kindergarten in the fall of 2019 through students who have completed eighth grade in June of 2019. This program is one of exposure and participation in the performing arts, wherein children are encouraged to work together in a creative endeavor toward a common goal.

Trilogy Repertory Offers Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors" at Pleasant Valley Park

(BASKING RIDGE, NJ) -- As the first production in Bernards Township’s “Plays in the Park” summer series, Trilogy Repertory Company will produce William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, thought to be the bard’s earliest play. The show will run on July 11, 12, and 13, and July 18, 19, and 20, at the outdoor amphitheater at Pleasant Valley Park, Valley Road, in Basking Ridge at 8:00pm each evening.  The Comedy of Errors is a rollicking farce, a non-stop series of hilarious mistaken identities when two sets of identical twins and their parents, who were all separated at birth, show up at the same time in the same place years later. 

music

Anthony Gomes: Canadian Bluesman

“The blues, for me, made sense of everything,” said Anthony Gomes, a blues artist from Toronto who currently calls St. Louis home. “I love Jimi Hendrix and I love a lot of rock ‘n’ roll music, but when I heard B.B. King it all came together for me. It was sort of like I was on the outside looking in and when I heard the blues I was on the inside for the first time. I understood what was out there and it was a great feeling. So, to me, the blues is the truth.”

Why Don’t Indie Artists Create Best Of Albums?

Imagine you are in a club watching an opening act that you’ve never seen before.  Two or three songs in it’s clear you are hooked. After their set you head over to the merch table and see several CDs they’ve released over the years.  You pick one up, then another, scanning through the titles trying to find one with songs you’ve just heard. Wouldn’t it be great if the band simply had a CD featuring their best songs?

Makin Waves Record Roundup with The Vaughns, Frank Lombardi, and Stella Mrowicki

Bob Makin takes a look at the latest releases by The Vaughns, Frank Lombardi, and Stella Mrowicki in this month's Record Roundup.

Featured Music Video: "Someday" by The Parlor Mob

This month's featured music video is by The Parlor Mob.

Bongo Boy TV - Issue 60

Here's the latest episode of Bongo Boy TV featuring great music videos from around the world.

Mary J. Blige and Nas To Perform At Prudential Center On September 8th

(NEWARK, NJ) -- Two of hip-hop and R&B’s most legendary artists – Mary J. Blige and Nas – will perform at Prudential Center on Sunday, September 8 at 8:00pm as a part of their summer co-headlining tour. The hitmaking heavyweights will be bringing a stacked setlist of songs spanning both of their careers that will make this one of the can’t miss shows of the summer.

Paramount Theatre Presents Get The Led Out

(ASBURY PARK, NJ) --  Paramount Theatre presents Get The Led Out on Saturday, November 16th at 8:00pm.  The band is a group of professional musicians who are passionate about their love of the music of Led Zeppelin. It’s been their mission to bring the studio recordings of “The Mighty Zep” to life on the big concert stage. This is not an impersonator act but rather a group of musicians who were fans first, striving to do justice to one of the greatest bands in rock history! 

film

REVIEW: "Yesterday"

There’s a famous gag in the climax of Back to the Future in which, having traveled back to 1955, Michael J. Fox’s Marty McFly finds himself fronting a band onstage at a high school dance. McFly picks up a guitar and performs a version of Chuck Berry’s ‘Johnny B Goode’, a song which wouldn’t be recorded until 1958. The school kids love this new sound, but McFly pushes his luck with some Van Halen-esque metal strumming. “I guess you’re not ready for that yet,” McFly observes, “but your kids are gonna love it!”

When I Last Saw Jesse

Jesse Ross was a student at the University of Missouri-Kansas City when he traveled to Chicago with classmates to participate in a model United Nations conference in November 2006.  Filmmaker Brian Rose, a grad student from the Kansas City area, was in Chicago just a few days earlier visiting a friend.  The two did not know each other, but their paths would ultimately meet when Rose created the documentary When I Last Saw Jesse.

Anywhere Is Here

Among the many films screened at the recent New Jersey International Film Fest at Rutgers was Anywhere Is Here, the debut feature film from Ian Lettire.  The screening took place not long after Lettire graduated from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.

REVIEW: "The Dead Don’t Die"

The late George A. Romero always claimed that critics would bash his movies, but whenever they visited his sets they always wanted to play zombies. A zombie movie seems like something that would be a lot of fun to take part in, which may explain why Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die boasts such a stacked, star-studded cast, like a ‘70s disaster movie but for hipster thespians. I hope everyone had fun making The Dead Don’t Die, because I sure did not have fun watching it.



 
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