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(NEWTON, NJ) -- Beloved genre-bending jazz ensemble Squirrel Nut Zippers are bringing their legendary Christmas Caravan Tour back for the 2025 holiday season! With a festive blend of holiday classics, original seasonal fare, and the band's signature fusion of early American jazz, swing, and vaudeville, this annual fan-favorite tour promises to, once again, spread yuletide joy across the country. The tour comes to The Newton Theatre on Saturday, December 6, 2025.
(ASBURY PARK, NJ) -- The Light of Day Foundation has announced the initial lineups for WinterFest 2026, the annual music festival taking place throughout January in Asbury Park, Red Bank, Montclair, New York City, Piermont, NY and New Hope, PA. The main event - "Bob's Birthday Bash" will take place on Saturday, January 17 at the Count Basie Center for the Arts.
(SUMMIT, NJ) -- Vivid Stage is holding an open Improv Jam on Wednesday, December 10, 2025 at the Oakes Center in Summit. The event runs from 7:30pm-9:30pm. The cost for all participants is $10.
(ASBURY PARK, NJ) -- Bobby Mahoney returns with a new single, "Smoke and Drive," paired with a cover of Social Distortion's "Machine Gun Blues." The release finds the Asbury Park songwriter and his band channeling nostalgia, grit, and heart through a rock-and-roll lens that's both timeless and unmistakably Jersey.
(LONG BRANCH, NJ) -- New Jersey Repertory Company (NJ Rep), an award-winning incubator for new plays and daring theatrical voices, has announced its 2026 Mainstage Season — a year of intimate, muscular storytelling that dives into reinvention, reckoning, genius, and the tangled threads of family history. The season includes three World Premieres and one Northeast Premiere.
After the relatively mainstream horror hat trick of Gretel & Hansel, Longlegs and The Monkey, director Osgood Perkins has returned to the more challenging fare of his earlier work with Keeper. Shot in Canada while production on The Monkey was held up by the 2023 Hollywood strikes, Keeper was quickly devised as a way to keep Perkins busy. And, boy, does it show. It has the stank of all of those half-baked horror movies that were shot in filmmakers' homes during the pandemic lockdown. There's barely enough plot here to fill a 20 minute segment of a horror anthology, never mind a feature. It's a cobbled together collection of horror clichés that only holds our attention due to a committed performance by Tatiana Maslany.
The Makin Waves Song of the Week is "Hope," an anthemic single that fights hate released by REDBIRD Flying Solo, aka Jersey Shore singer-songwriter Danielle Marrone.
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(OCEAN GROVE, NJ) -- Ruth Stage is roaring back to the Jersey Shore Arts Center with a theatrical event of rare significance: Edward Albee’s At Home at the Zoo — the complete and fully realized version of The Zoo Story, presented with the approval of the Edward Albee Estate. Performances take place January 15-17, 2025 at the Jersey Shore Arts Center.
"I definitely should've changed my name to a showbiz name years ago but it's a little too late for that," laughed guitarist Bruce Wojik as he discussed his latest album called, "The Hard Way," his band The Struggle and more. "Yeah, it came out on October 3 and I'm really excited about it. I'm hoping people will enjoy it, which would be nice but yeah, I'm just excited about it and glad to have it out."
