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The Theater Project to Present Reading of "Intake: Heaven" by Sheila Duane

(CRANFORD, NJ) -- Even Paradise has support staff, according to Intake: Heaven, Sheila Duane's comedy about the afterlife's processing department, which will have its first public presentation as part of The Theater Project's 2025 New Play Reading Series. The reading takes place Saturday, May 17, 2025 at the Cranford Community Center. The reading is scheduled for 2:00pm.



Vivid Stage Offers Sample Class Day for Vivid Dreamers Summer Theatre Camp

(SUMMIT, NJ) -- Vivid Stage is offering a Sample Class Day for its Vivid Dreamers summer theatre program for students entering grades 4 through 10. The free Sample Class Day is Saturday, May 17, 2025 from 1:00pm-2:30pm at the Oakes Center in Summit, and registration is required. Vivid Dreamers is a program that celebrates the unique creativity of each individual student, and helps them to develop their own voice and personal expression.



Lori Perbeck: "Edge of Light"

by Tris McCall
published 2025-04-30

Ours is a town receptive to strange photographs. Artists and viewers still operate under the twin signs of Edward Fausty and Shandor Hassan, former residents of 111 First Street and audacious image-makers, city-scapers, and saturators of our fields of vision. Dorie Dahlberg, Frank Hanavan, and Grant Hardeway have all demonstrated how much urban storytelling they can coax out of an odd picture. Then there's Susan Evans Grove, an experimentalist unabashed, who finds constellations in the pockmarked hulls of ships, and, through tricks of illumination and shadow, turns arrangements of cosmetics bottles into post-apocalyptic skylines. Grove's hallucinations teach us something important about light: under the direction of a skilled illusionist, it obscures as much as it shows.



New Jersey Stage: Daily Edition 04-30-25

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!










bergenPAC announces shows by Grupo Mania, Colin Jost and Almost Queen

(ENGLEWOOD, NJ) -- Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC) has announced three new shows: Grupo Mania on Sunday, June 29, 2025 at 7:00pm; Colin Jost on Friday, August 1, 2025 at 8:00pm; and Almost Queen on Saturday, September 6, 2025 at 8:00pm.



The Morris Choral Society to Conclude Season with Spring Concert on May 17th

(MORRISTOWN, NJ) -- The Morris Choral Society concludes its current season with their Spring Concert on Saturday, May 17, 2025 at the Morristown United Methodist Church on the Green. Entitled, "The Sublimely Ridiculous & The Ridiculously Sublime," the concert begins at 7:00pm.



Monmouth County 2025 Travel Guide is now available in Digital and Print formats

(FREEHOLD, NJ) -- The Monmouth County Board of County Commissioners has announced that the 2025 Monmouth County Travel Guide is now available in both digital and print formats.



Clinton Area Stage Troupe is Holding Auditions for "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat"

(ANNANDALE, NJ) -- Clinton Area Stage Troupe is holding open auditions for their summer musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, to be performed from July 18-26, 2025 at North Hunterdon High School in Annandale.



Pushcart Players to Celebrate 50 Years of Inspiring Young Audiences Nationwide

(VERONA, NJ) -- Pushcart Players, New Jersey's award-winning professional touring theater company for young audiences, joyfully announces its "50th Anniversary Garden Party" - a landmark celebration of five decades of storytelling, education, and imagination. The event takes place on Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 3:00pm.







 

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The Barn Theatre presents Monty Python's "Spamalot"

(MONTVILLE, NJ) -- The Barn Theatre presents Monty Python's Spamalot weekends from May 15 through June 6, 2026. King Arthur's legendary quest for the Holy Grail gets a hilarious twist in this uproarious musical, lovingly ripped from the 1975 classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail.



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Music Mountain Theatre presents "Disaster!"

(LAMBERTVILLE, NJ) -- Music Mountain Theatre presents Disaster! weekends from May 15 through June 7, 2026. Earthquakes, tidal waves, infernos and the unforgettable songs of the '70s take center stage in Broadway’s side-splitting homage to classic disaster films.



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Princeton Summer Theater Announces 2026 Season

(PRINCETON, NJ) -- Princeton Summer Theater has unveiled its 2026 subscription season which will run from June 11th to August 1st, featuring an exciting lineup of three mainstage pieces and a family-friendly musical. Productions include Barefoot in the Park, The 39 Steps, True West, and You're a Good Man Charlie Brown.



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Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey presents "Private Lives"

(MADISON, NJ) -- The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey presents Private Lives by Noël Coward from May 16 to June 7, 2026 in the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre. A razor-sharp comedy of manners, Private Lives crackles with Coward's signature wit and elegance.



Crossroads

Crossroads Theatre Company presents "Sizwe Banzi Is Dead"

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- Crossroads Theatre Company presents Sizwe Bansi Is Dead from May 19 - June 14, 2026 at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center. This is a powerful, funny, and deeply moving story about identity, survival, and the extraordinary ingenuity of ordinary people navigating an unjust system.












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Makin Waves Song of the Week: "Bike in the Ocean" by Kevin Hill & Secret Sound

The Makin Waves Song of the Week is "Bike in the Ocean,"a single from "Day/Night," the new album by Kevin Hill & Secret Sound.




Rock On! This Week's Sound Bites... 05/28/2026

It has been said before that time travel was a pipe dream, impossible, a crazy Einstein theory but today, thanks to the wonder of the internet, there is a growing consensus that it may be very possible but what if this space can prove it's not only possible but for a few hours now and it's quite probable?




Makin Waves Song of the Week: "Shine" by Helen O'Shea feat. Michelle Moore

The Makin Waves Song of the Week is "Shine" by Princeton singer-songwriter Helen O'Shea. The song from Helen's latest album, "Songs in the Key O," features E Street Band backing vocalist Michelle Moore.








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