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NJ Stage 2024: By The Numbers

Despite many challenges, New Jersey Stage reached over one million unique visitors for the third straight year in 2024. The website published over 3,900 articles during the year, including 930 feature articles or featured event previews and 600 columns. All in all, over 2.7 million articles were read and more than 400,000 event listings were read.



Great short The Performance premieres at the New Jersey Film Festival

by Vic Fern
published 2025-01-11

Al Nigrin, Executive Director and Curator of the New Jersey Film Festival, sits down with Salvatore Zeppi Rubinetti, the Writer & Director of The Performance for a filmmaker interview at EBTV.



Dunbar Repertory Company presents August Wilson's "Two Trains Running" at Middletown Arts Center

(MIDDLETOWN, NJ) -- The Middletown Arts Center, in conjunction with Dunbar Repertory Company, presents a special Black History Month production of August Wilson's Two Trains Running, produced by Darrell Lawrence Willis, Sr. and directed by Mark Antonio Henderson, February 6-16, 2025. Set in 1969's Pittsburgh Hill District, Two Trains Running explores racial tensions in the Civil Rights era, as argued over by regulars at a struggling diner owned by Memphis Lee, who fights to get fair compensation for his building as the neighborhood faces urban renewal.



What's Special About North Jersey?

What's special about North Jersey? Attend the North Jersey National Heritage Area (NHA) Information Session on Thursday, January 23, 2025 and find out!








Opera, Dance and Classic Rock Highlight Spring Stockton PAC Shows in Galloway

(GALLOWAY, NJ) -- Like the new year, Stockton University's Performing Arts Center (PAC) is emerging from the winter and warming up with shows sure to please everyone.



NJPAC presents MOMIX-Alice

(NEWARK, NJ) -- Get Ready to witness a night of spectacular dance and illusion with MOMIX-Alice, a magical performance created by the dance company MOMIX comes to New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) on Sunday, January 26, 2025 at 7:00pm.



Comedian Laurie Kilmartin (CONAN staff writer) to Headline Four Shows in Rutherford

(RUTHERFORD, NJ) -- Comedian and veteran CONAN staff writer Laurie Kilmartin is headlining four shows at Bananas Comedy Club in Rutherford on Friday, January 24 and Saturday, January 25, 2025. Kilmartin's comedy is famously dark.



Shakespeare '70 presents "The Clean House" at Kelsey Theatre

(WEST WINDSOR, NJ) -- A housemaid that would rather tell jokes than clean, her married doctor employers, and a sister begging to do the cleaning herself all adds up to some messy situations when Shakespeare '70 presents The Clean House from January 17-26, 2025 at the Kelsey Theatre on the West Windsor Campus of Mercer County Community College (MCCC).



Vivid Stage Presents a Reading of "The Mountaintop" on January 19th in Collaboration with Interweave and Saint John's Church

(SUMMIT, NJ) -- Vivid Stage is celebrating its 30th Anniversary season, marking decades of bringing contemporary theatre to audiences in the state of New Jersey. On Sunday, January 19, 2025 at 4:30pm, Vivid will co-sponsor a reading of Katori Hall's play The Mountaintop with Interweave and Saint John's Lutheran Church of Summit in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy. The reading will take place at Saint John's (587 Springfield Avenue) in Summit. No tickets are necessary; all are welcome.







 

EVENT PREVIEWS

MPAC

MPAC Announces Free Summer Concert Lineup for 2026

(MORRISTOWN, NJ) -- Mayo Performing Arts Center's Arts in the Community free summer concert schedule for 2026 has been announced. MPAC will present six free concerts between June and August. The lineup includes the return of three of their most popular events – Bollywood Dance Party, Country Line Dancing and Salsa at Sunset, as well as singer-songwriters, and more.



Classic

Classic American Tales' presents Tales at the Dormer House every Thursday

(CAPE MAY, NJ) -- From June 4 through October 15, 2026 (except for July 2), Classic American Tales (CAT) once more presents Tales at the Dormer House in which guests are treated to lemonade and tasty treats while listening to stories written by noteworthy authors, read by a variety of performers. The schedule is 4:00pm every Thursday at the historic Dormer House Bed and Breakfast (800 Columbia Avenue) in Cape May, NJ. Performances are on the front porch, weather permitting.



East

East Lynne Theater Company presents "Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years" by Emily Mann

(CAPE MAY, NJ) -- The reimagined East Lynne Theater Company opens its Season Forty-Six with the extraordinary, real-life story Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years by Emily Mann, running June 18 to July 19, 2026 at the Clemans Theater for the Arts at the Allen AME in Cape May.



Princeton

Princeton Summer Theater presents "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown"

(PRINCETON, NJ) -- Princeton Summer Theater's 2026 Children's Show is You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, which runs weekends from June 20 to August 1, 2026. A beloved musical since its premiere in 1967, Clark Gesner brings Charles M. Schulz's "PEANUTS" characters to the stage. The musical ventures through the highs and lows of young life, from baseball and homework to young love and friendship. With an empathetic and whimsical eye, You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown reminds us of the importance of connection and joy.



2026-27

2026-27 Season Preview: Split Level Concerts at Jersey Shore Arts Center

(OCEAN GROVE, NJ) -- Split Level Concerts at the Jersey Shore Arts Center (JSAC) in Ocean Grove has announced the full concert lineup for its third season. All shows will take place beginning at 8:00pm in JSAC's Palaia Theater. The season lineup includes Willie Nile, John Gorka, Dan Bern, Catie Curtis and Band, Stephen Kellogg, Abbie Gardner, Heather Maloney and Band, and Kim Richey. As they have done in prior years, artists from the Asbury Park music scene will open many of the shows.












LATEST COLUMNS


Makin Waves Song of the Week: "A Light To Come Home To" by Lisa Bouchelle

The Makin Waves Song of the Week is "A Light To Come Home To" by Jersey roots rocker Lisa Bouchelle featuring Americana legends Amanda Shires and Larry Campbell.




Rock On! This Week's Sound Bites... 07/16/2026

Loss, we've all suffered it. Some of us more than others,some less and still yet there are those of us who've not had loss of any significance to this point. Loss, like anything else, is directly related to perspective. What may seem like a huge loss to one, is insignificant to another. People pass away, bad days do the same, they fade into the night or disappear at the bottom of one's favorite drink until they are swept away by the morning's sunrise and things are new. Some loss stays a bit longer, adding scars to our bodies until they become topographical maps of memories; reminders of what not to do or what we didn't do or should've done.




Makin Waves Song of the Week: "Body Cast" by Tiny Cities

The Makin Waves Song of the Week is "Body Cast," the latest video from the North Jersey dynamic duo Tiny Cities.








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