Here's a look at the top 15 most read articles published at New Jersey Stage from February 11-17, 2024. Each week we publish about 70 articles, including several original columns and features, along with news releases for events happening throughout the state and nearby areas like Philadelphia and New York City. This week's top 15 includes articles from 6 counties in New Jersey (Atlantic, Bergen, Burlington, Mercer, Monmouth, and Morris).
1) Events This Week in New Jersey: February 13-20, 2024 - Here is a look at upcoming events taking place from February 13-20, 2024 along with our featured listings. New Jersey Stage offers previews of events throughout the Garden State as well as select shows in New York City and Philadelphia areas.
2) Black Box Studios and The Elated System presents Doom Dogs featuring Reeves Gabrels at Debonair Music Hall - (TEANECK, NJ) -- Black Box Studios and The Elated System presents Doom Dogs, with opener Reg Bloor, on Friday, March 15th, 2024, 8:00pm at Debonair Music Hall. Doom Dogs is an improvisational trio featuring Reeves Gabrels on guitars, Jonathan Kane on drums, and Jair-Rohm Parker Wells on basses. With a collective background that includes collaborations with David Bowie, The Cure, Swans, and more, Doom Dogs create mesmerizing original music that blends and transcends musical genres.
3) Makin Waves with Candy Cavity: 'Brought Back to Life' - Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Jersey Shore-based Candy Cavity will have released an acoustic remake of its 2021 single, “Secret Lover,” featuring founding singer-songwriter-guitarist Candace Schur, pictured, longtime lead guitarist Steven Markow, and new rhythm section Jenny “Cat” Ketrow on bass and Cathy Berg on drums.
4) BlowUpRadio.com's New & Notable NJ Music 2/12/24 - 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 Ali Zanders, RGD, and Sally Draper. Plus a look back at "Poet Of The Great Plains" by Christian Beach.
5) Danny Coleman's Rock On Radio Show to Celebrate 15th Anniversary at Salty's Beach Bar - (LAKE COMO, NJ) -- Danny Coleman's Rock On Radio will celebrate 15 years of covering the music scene with a "15th Anniversary Celebration Bash" on April 28, 2024 at Salty's Beach Bar (1705 Main Street) in Lake Como, NJ from 1:00pm-6:00pm. The night will include performances by Radio Fiction, The Williamsboy, Dave Vargo, Jerry Monk, Helen O’Shea and Friends, Jump Back and more. Admission is free; there will be an available menu as well as a cash bar.
6) Garden of Laughs Returns March 27th with All-Star Lineup - (NEW YORK, NY) -- Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. (NYSE: MSGE) ("MSG Entertainment") and the Garden of Dreams Foundation announced the return of Garden of Laughs to The Theater at Madison Square Garden on March 27, 2024 at 8:00pm. This year's show, hosted by Steve Schirripa, will include sets by the biggest names in comedy: Bill Burr, Michael Che, Chris Distefano, Jim Gaffigan, Heather McMahan, Sam Morril and Jon Stewart. Garden of Laughs is an all-star comedy benefit that has raised more than $6 million for the Foundation.
7) Chatham Players presents "The Beauty Queen of Leenane" - (CHATHAM, NJ) -- The Chatham Community Players presents the gloriously funny; wickedly amusing play, The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh from March 1-16, 2024 at The Chatham Playhouse. Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, this play tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag, her manipulative aging mother, whose interference in Maureen’s first and possibly final chance of a loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that leads inexorably towards the play’s terrifying dénouement.
8) Second Annual Ashley Lauren Foundation's Chefs Who Care premiere tasting event to Take Place in Spring Lake - (SPRING LAKE, NJ) -- The Second Annual Ashley Lauren Foundation's Chefs Who Care premiere tasting event will take place on Monday, May 20, 2024 . Celebrate top chefs from Manhattan and New Jersey at the illustrious Essex and Sussex in Spring Lake while enjoying premium wine and spirits, live entertainment, special guests, an extraordinary auction, and some swag. This premiere gathering of renowned chefs aims to raise funds and awareness for The Ashley Lauren Foundation, which provides much needed hope, help and support for children with cancer and their families throughout the State of New Jersey.
9) McCarter Theatre presents An Evening with Jon Stewart - (PRINCETON, NJ) -- Jon Stewart has announced a series of stand up comedy performances in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Delaware. Produced by Live Nation, the tour comes to the McCarter Theatre Center with performances on Friday, March 29 at 7:30pm and Saturday, March 30 at 7:30pm.
10) Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey Announces 2024 Season - (MADISON, NJ) -- The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (STNJ) has announced its 2024 season, which features a wickedly funny musical comedy, the highly anticipated return of one of England's most-cherished novelists, and a Shakespeare masterwork not seen in the subscription series in 20 years. The season will include five shows on its Main Stage at The F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre on the campus of Drew University and one summer production on The Outdoor Stage — The Greek Amphitheater on the campus of Saint Elizabeth University in Florham Park.
11) Makin Waves Song of the Week: "Look Alive" by The Azures - Jersey Shore psychedelic blues band The Azures, winners of the 2023 Makin Waves Song of the Year, just dropped their self-titled debut album.
12) Rock On! This Week's Sound Bites...2/15/24 - "Yes, it's my first time coming to Jamey's, I'm bringing my band, The High Rollers," said an excited Early Times as he discussed his upcoming debut at Jamey's House of Music in Lansdowne, PA on February 24, his new record "Electric City" and more. "I have a keyboard player, a drummer and a bass player, I play guitar and sing. We do, for the most part, a night of original music.That doesn't mean that I don't occasionally throw in something that people know but I kind of live and die on what I write and what I'm trying to present and it usually goes off pretty well. We're gonna do around a two-hour show; I've never been in Lansdowne and I'm really looking forward to it and I'm hoping to get some people to come out and I feel that when we play a place for the first time that we always make new fans who find us, I think, a little refreshing from the usual bar bands that are playing blues."
13) Borgata presents "An Evening With John Legend: A Night of Songs and Stories" - (ATLANTIC CITY, NJ) -- Multi-platinum, 12-time GRAMMY® Award-winner John Legend will bring "An Evening With John Legend: A Night of Songs and Stories," to select venues across the country this Summer. Locally, the tour comes to the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City on Friday, June 21, 2024.
14) Bordentown Thespians presents the musical, "The Addams Family" - (BORDENTOWN, NJ) -- The Addams Family, with music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, will be presented on February 23rd at 7:30pm and February 24th at 2:00pm & 7:30pm at the Bordentown Performing Arts Center. This musical, featuring the iconic characters created by Charles Addams, will be performed by the award-winning theatre students of Bordentown Regional High School.
15) Princeton University Art Museum Appoints Shara Pollie as Senior Associate Director for Museum Development - (PRINCETON, NJ) -- Shara Pollie has been named senior associate director for Museum development at the Princeton University Art Museum. With more than twenty years of non-profit leadership, Pollie joins the Museum from the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation, where she served first as senior director of development and then as executive vice president. She began her new position at Princeton on February 12, 2024.
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