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NJPAC hosts Mic Check: The Nuyorican at Dodge Poetry

(NEWARK, NJ) -- New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) hosts Mic Check: The Nuyorican at Dodge Poetry in NJPAC's Chase Room on Friday, July 11, 2025 at 7:30pm. Join them for an unforgettable night of raw talent and powerful voices at this showcase produced by the Nuyorican Poets Café featuring the 2025 Nuyorican Slam Team, the next generation of spoken word excellence.



Theater Project Holds Tenth Annual Fund Racer

(UNION, NJ) -- Theater lovers can take their morning walk, daily run, or weekend bike ride and at the same time raise funds for The Theater Project, a leading incubator for rising talent, through its FundRacing 2025 project.



This Week in Music: Previews for Concerts from April 29 to May 5, 2025

Here is a look at shows taking place from April 29 to May 5, 2025 along with our featured listings and a look at some upcoming shows. New Jersey Stage offers previews of concerts throughout the Garden State as well as select shows in New York City and Philadelphia areas.



This Week in Theatre: Previews for Plays Taking Place April 29 to May 5, 2025

Here are previews of plays taking place from April 29 to May 5, 2025 including a look at productions currently being presented and those coming soon. New Jersey Stage covers Equity, community, college, and high school theatre. Check back every week for the weekly theatre preview.








Somerset Valley Players presents "The Girl on the Train"

(HILLSBOROUGH, NJ) -- Somerset Valley Players presents The Girl on the Train weekends from May 2-18, 2025. In this play by Rachel Wagstaff, Duncan Abel, and Paula Hawkins, Rachel Watson longs for a different life. Her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window every day, happy and in love. Or so it appears...



Minature Musical Makers presents "Dear Edwina"

(SOMERSET, NJ) -- Minature Musical Makers presents Dear Edwina by Marcy Heisler from May 2-4, 2025 at Villagers Theatre. This is a heartwarming musical about the joys of growing up, from the creators of Junie B. Jones The Musical. The show’s heroine is an advice-giver extraordinaire, like a spunky, singing version of Dear Abby.



Westfield Community Players presents "Steel Magnolias"

(WESTFIELD, NJ) -- Westfield Community Players presents Steel Magnolias across three weekends from May 3-17, 2025. In this popular comedy-drama by Robert Harling, the local ladies meet each week for appointments at the Louisiana beauty salon run by Truvy Jones.



New Release Review - "The Accountant 2"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-04-29

2016's The Accountant performed modestly at the box office yet somehow became the most rented title on US VOD platforms of 2017. Despite such unlikely returns, it has taken almost a decade for a sequel to surface, with original director Gavin O'Connor and writer Bill Dubuque back on board. Despite having so much time to refine this, O'Connor and Dubuque's sequel plays like it was rushed to market, with a script desperately in need of a couple more rewrites and baggy pacing that cries out for some judicious editing.



New Jersey Stage: Daily Edition 04-29-25

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!