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(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.
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."
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.
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.
(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.
(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.
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."
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(EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- Wit, a drama by Margaret Edson and directed by Ed Faver runs weekends from April 25 - May 4, 2025 at Playhouse 22, as part of the theater's "On the Edge" series. The play centers on Vivian Bearing, a brilliant and seemingly unemotional poetry professor as she undergoes an experimental and extremely aggressive chemotherapy treatment for metastatic Stage IV terminal ovarian cancer.
(HAWTHORNE, NJ) -- The Passaic County Board of County Commissioners invites residents and visitors to embrace the power of creativity and community at Art in the Park, a two-day celebration of art, culture, and local talent. The festival will take place on Saturday, April 26 and Sunday, April 27, 2025 from 11:00am to 5:00pm at Goffle Brook Park in Hawthorne.
