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East Lynne Theater Company Announces 2025 Season 
(CAPE MAY, NJ) -- Cape May's award-winning, Equity professional East Lynne Theater Company – now in its 45th year – has announced its 2025 Season. The season includes: "Ken Ludwig's Dear Jack/Dear Louise;" "Every Brilliant Thing" by Duncan MacMillan; "No Regrets: An Evening with Edith Piaf" starring Yael Rasooly; and "Sherlock Holmes: Scandals," two Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories adapted by Mark Lang.
Jersey Arts TV: 'the ripple, the wave that carried me home' Sweeps into Luna Stage 
Written by Tony-nominated playwright Christina Anderson, "the ripple, the wave that carried me home," is a moving exploration of a family's response to injustice and a daughter's reckoning with her political inheritance.
INKubator New Play Festival at Art House Productions 
How would you feel about being able to influence the trajectory of a play from the ground level? Art House Productions will let you do just that. INKubator New Play Festival is about the art of the staged reading and the power of the audience. You'd be hard pressed to find a theatergoer unfamiliar with a staged production, and yet so many audience members have never experienced a staged reading. The former brings you all the pomp and circumstance of a fully realized world, complete with scenic, costume, sound, lighting design, and more. Most of what you'd find on a Broadway stage is a great example of a [staged] production. The latter is solely reliant on its author, actors, and the audience. It is exactly as it sounds: you are watching the actors read the script aloud, from their seats on stage.
The trial that shook a nation - Roundtable Theatre Company presents the musical "Parade" 
(FAIR LAWN, NJ) -- Roundtable Theatre Company presents the Tony-award winning musical PARADE, with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, and book by Alfred Uhry, from April 25 - May 3, 2025. Set in 1913 Georgia and inspired by true events, PARADE recounts the story of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager wrongfully accused of a heinous crime.
music
Rock On! This Week's Sound Bites...4/24/25 
"I would say Blues-Rock is where I kind of hang in," states Kelli Baker. "We definitely do a lot of Blues stuff but I like the Americana and the Rock that goes with it too. So, Blues-Rock is usually a pretty good space for me to hang out in."
Michael Arnone's 32nd Annual Crawfish Fest takes Place May 30th through June 1st 
(AUGUSTA, NJ) -- Michael Arnone's 32nd Annual Crawfish Fest takes place at the Sussex County Fairgrounds from Friday, May 30 through Sunday, June 1, 2025, bringing the best food, music, and culture that Louisiana and New Orleans have to offer to the East Coast.
Larry Fuller Trio at May Jersey Jazz LIVE! in Madison 
Pianist Larry Fuller has always loved musicians who "play at an incredible level but still remain accessible to an audience." Some examples among pianists, he said, are Oscar Peterson, Monty Alexander, Cedar Walton, and Ahmad Jamal. That will be the musical essence of Fuller's performance when he leads a trio on Sunday, May 4, 2025 at the New Jersey Jazz Society's Jersey Jazz LIVE! concert at the Madison (NJ) Community Arts Center. His music, he said, will hopefully "uplift people with the spirit and energy of swinging."
"The World of Hans Zimmer - A New Dimension" comes to Prudential Center in September 
(NEWARK, NJ) -- Hans Zimmer presents The World of Hans Zimmer – A New Dimension, a 24-city arena tour debuting in North America this fall, following a tremendously successful European run of the internationally acclaimed production in 2024. The newly staged live show will visit Prudential Center on Sunday, September 14, 2025 at 7:30pm for one show only, and features Zimmer's brand-new arrangement of the two-time Academy Award® winner's diverse collection of scores, precisely synchronized with epic film sequences.
film
21st Annual Passaic Film Festival to Take Place on Saturday 
(WAYNE, NJ) -- The Passaic County Board of County Commissioners is proud to host the 21st Annual Passaic County Film Festival on Saturday, April 26, 2025 at the Passaic County Community College Public Safety Academy, located at 300 Oldham Road in Wayne. Screenings begin at 11:00am.
New Release Review - "Sinners" 
The most famous legend in all of musical lore is that of guitarist Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil in exchange for blues greatness. With Sinners, writer/director Ryan Coogler takes inspiration from Johnson's story and remixes it as a vampire thriller and a tribute to popular music's roots in the Delta blues. An alternate title might be "The House That Honeydripped Blood."
art
The Art House Gallery Presents "Ending Up" — A Bold New Installation and Artwork by DISTORT 
(JERSEY CITY, NJ) -- Art House Productions presents "Ending Up" by DISTORT — a bold, immersive exhibition from one of New Jersey's most celebrated muralists. The exhibition runs from Saturday, May 3 through Sunday, June 1, 2025 at the Art House Gallery.
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NJPAC hosts An Evening With Conan O'Brien And Stephen Colbert to benefit Montclair Film
December 7, 2025
Community Chorale Brings Together Kean Students, Alumni and Local Residents
December 7, 2025
UCPAC presents Cherish the Ladies Celtic Christmas Concert on December 7th
December 7, 2025
The Future of Jazz Orchestra presents Home for the Holidays at Bell Theater
December 7, 2025
Guitarists Frank Vignola and Vinny Raniolo Bring Their 'Joyful Jamming' to Madison
December 7, 2025
Gregory Burrus Productions Presents Singer, Actress and Broadway Personality Tina Fabrique at Mt Zion AME Church Blues and Blessings
December 7, 2025
American Theater Group and UCPAC's Play Reading Series present "The Unwitting Magician"
December 8, 2025
Monmouth University's Center for the Arts presents Exhibition on Screen - Rembrandt
December 8, 2025
Gerald Charles Dickens to Perform his One-Man "A Christmas Carol" to Benefit Allaire Village
December 9, 2025
State Theatre presents Engelbert Humperdinck - "A Winter World of Love"
December 9, 2025
