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Makin Waves Song of the Week: "Suicide Doors" by Billy Penn & the Inside Drivers

by Bob Makin

The Makin Waves Song of the Week is "Suicide Doors," a recent single by the Jersey Shore rockabilly trio Billy Penn & the Inside Drivers.



 

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New York City's 41st Annual April Fools' Day Parade looks at "What's Real and What's Not"

(NEW YORK, NY) -- New York City's 41st Annual April Fools' Day Parade returns on April 1, 2026. In an era when truth is optional, elections are negotiable, civil rights are conditional, and reality itself has been rebranded as "fake," the parade once again pokes fun at the past year's displays of hype, hypocrisy, deceit, bigotry, and downright stupidity because the alternative is despair.



Daily Edition 03-13-26

Here is the morning update from New Jersey's arts newswire. We regularly publish between 8-15 new articles and news reports each day. Nobody covers the Arts throughout the Garden State like New Jersey Stage!



Rock On! This Week's Sound Bites... 03/12/2026

"I'm alright my friend, how are you; it's going back a bit but I'm still grumpy, nothing changes, I'm alright and above ground as they say," laughed the always engaging Rick Wakeman as he discussed his upcoming March 13 Colonial Theatre show in Phoenixville, PA, his March 25 show at the Bergen PAC in Englewood, NJ and his March 29 show in Red Bank, NJ at The Vogel. 



Princeton Symphony Orchestra Announces Top Soloists and Programming for 2026-27 Season

(PRINCETON, NJ) -- Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) has announced the programming in their 2026-27 Season. Highlights include Grammy Award®-winning soprano Christine Goerke singing Wagner and Mahler, and returns by violinist Simone Porter, cellist Joshua Roman, and 2025 audience favorite, pianist Maxim Lando. The returning soloists will perform concertos by Mozart, Shostakovich, and Brahms, respectively, demonstrating variances in the classical form through the modern era.










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Tropicana Showroom presents Mammoth

(ATLANTIC CITY, NJ) -- Wolfgang Van Halen brings his band Mammoth to Tropicana Showroom on Friday, March 13, 2026 at 7:00pm. The GRAMMY® Award-nominated songwriter, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and producer continues to separate Mammoth from the pack.


South Camden Theatre Company presents "The Revolutionists"

(CAMDEN, NJ) -- South Camden Theatre Company presents The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson across three weekends from March 13-29, 2026. The play takes place in 1793 where four bold women—playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, ribbon-loving Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle—team up in a wild, feminist comedy set amid the Reign of Terror.


The Blue Moon Theatre presents "The Importance of Being Ernest"

(WOODSTOWN, NJ) -- The Blue Moon Theatre presents The Importance of Being Ernest across two weekends from March 13-22, 2026. In this classic by Oscar Wilde, a country gentleman named Jack maintains a double life in London as Ernest to escape the responsibility of being guardian to his niece, Cecily, and to pursue the desirable Gwendolyn.


Players Guild of Leonia presents "The Psychic"

(LEONIA, NJ) -- The Players Guild of Leonia presents The Psychic by Sam Bobrick across three weekends from March 13-29, 2026. The production, directed by Terri Caust, takes you into a world where nothing is quite as it seems.


Spotlight Players presents "Once Upon a One More Time"

(MATAWAN, NJ) -- Spotlight Players is thrilled (and yes, just a little smug) to present the NJ community theatre premiere of Once Upon a One More Time, a glitter-drenched, pop-powered fairy tale remix that proves there's more than one way to live happily ever after. Performances run across two weekends from March 13-22, 2026. This is a jukebox musical based on songs popularized by Britney Spears and Book by Jon Hartmere.







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Jersey Arts Podcast: 'Queen of Kids' Music' Laurie Berkner is Back on Home Turf for McCarter Concert
Laurie Berkner has been dubbed "The Queen of Kids' Music" by People Magazine, and it's not hard to see why. Berkner's songs have been streamed 1.7 billion times. She's sold 1.5 million albums and appeared at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Carnegie Hall, and the White House. She was even seen her in the recent HBO documentary, Happy and You Know It, which features some of the biggest names of the genre.



Jersey Arts Podcast: 'Dog Man: The Musical' Unleashes the Pilkey-verse Onstage

From the mind of Captain Underpants creator Dav Pilkey, Dog Man is half man, half police officer, and the beloved subject of 14 graphic novels, a major motion picture, and a theatrical production—Dog Man: The Musical. Director/choreographer Jen Wineman, book writer/lyricist Kevin Del Aguila, and composer Brad Alexander discuss bringing this beloved character and his strange, silly world to the stage.




Clint Black Brings His Back On The Blacktop Tour with Special Guest Gareth to CarteretPAC on April 25th

(CARTERET, NJ) -- Clint Black Brings His Back On The Blacktop Tour with Special Guest Gareth to the URSB Carteret Performing Arts and Events Center on Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 8:00pm.




Americana Women celebrates the Queens of Country and Folk at Kean University on March 21st

(HILLSIDE, NJ) -- Kean Stage presents Americana Women on Saturday, March 21, 2026 at Enlow Recital Hall. Americana Women celebrates American folk music from its earliest origins through current country, rock, and folk. The show will have you toe-tapping, clapping, and singing along! Showtime is 7:30pm.




Split Level Concerts presents Joy Clark and Sug Daniels

(OCEAN GROVE, NJ) -- The Split Level Concerts series continues when rising Americana star Joy Clark and her band take the stage at the Jersey Shore Art Center's Palaia Theater on Saturday, March 21, 2026 at 8:00pm. Philadelphia-based singer/songwriter Sug Daniels will open the show.




New Release Review - "The Bride!"

Following Hamnet and "Wuthering Heights", Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! is the latest in a line of awful movies inspired by the work of great English writers. It's Mary Shelley here of course, but Gyllenhaal also plucks from James Whale's Bride of Frankenstein. Whale cast Elsa Lanchester in the dual roles of Shelley and the titular monster, and Gyllenhaal pulls the same trick here with Jessie Buckley. That's where the similarities end however, as The Bride! has more in common with '70s exploitation flicks and '90s horror comedies than either Shelley's novel or the Universal monster movies it inspired.




Grunin Center presents Adam Moezinia Trio on March 22nd

(TOMS RIVER, NJ) -- Guitarist Adam Moezinia will perform at the Grunin Center for the Arts at Ocean County College on Sunday, March 22, 2026, at 3:00pm. The event is part of the Grunin Center's Jazz on a Sunday Afternoon concert series.




State Theatre New Jersey presents Direct from Rome: The Three Italian Tenors

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- State Theatre New Jersey presents Direct from Rome: The Three Italian Tenors on Saturday, March 21, 2026 at 7:00pm. The tenors—Gianni Leccese, Ugo Tarquini, and Alessandro Fantoni—will be making their North American tour debut accompanied by pianist Fabrizio Mocata and special guest Gaetano Amore.










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Air Supply – 50th Anniversary Celebration

 Friday, March 13, 2026 @ 8:00pm
Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC)
30 North Van Brunt Street, Englewood, NJ 07631



Dancing

Dancing at Lughnasa

 Friday, March 13, 2026 @ 7:30pm
Grunin Center - Black Box Theater
1 College Drive, Toms River, NJ 08754



Victoria

Victoria Schwartzman

 Friday, March 13, 2026 @ 2:00pm
Grunin Center - Bösendorfer Recital Room
1 College Drive, Toms River, NJ 08754



Lookingglass

Lookingglass Theatre's "Circus Quixote"

 Friday, March 13, 2026 @ 7:30pm
McCarter Theatre Center (Matthews Theatre)
91 University Place, Princeton, NJ 08540



Spyro

Spyro Gyra with Special Guest Stanley Jordan

 Friday, March 13, 2026 @ 8:00pm
Mayo Performing Arts Center (MPAC)
100 South Street, Morristown, NJ 07960







LATEST COLUMNS

"The 16th" & "Handle With Care"

No nation has seen an uglier side of the Atomic Age than Japan. Hiroshima and Nagasaki remain the only cities devastated by nuclear bombs. After surrendering to the splitters of the nucleus, the Japanese promised never to rearm until the bombers (us) gave the okay. Fidelity to that pledge didn't save them from another atomic megadisaster: the core meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor in 2011. Fifteen years later the contamination — and humiliation — remains. If a Japanese person should decline to hear a lecture about the miracle of the split atom, it's not hard to understand why.



BlowUpRadio.com's New & Notable NJ Music 3/9/26

Lazlo, founder of BlowUpRadio.com (an online radio station based around New Jersey artists), shines a light on some of the many new releases from NJ based musicians each week with this column. This week Lazlo takes a look at new releases by The Cucumbers; Dr. Void; best dressed ghost; Laree H. Cisco; DDA; Mourning Coffee, aevina; and Psychtooth. Plus a look back at "Don't You Move" by The Mighty Alrighty.



Makin Waves Song of the Week: "Open Up the Door" by Jackson Pines

The Makin Waves Song of the Week is "Open Up the Door," the latest single from Jackson Pines' new album, "Wheel."


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