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Brundage Park Playhouse presents "Footloose"

(RANDOLPH, NJ) -- Brundage Park Playhouse presents Footloose across two weekends (February 7-9 and February 14-16, 2025). This is a musical version of the 1984 film. A rebellious teenager moves to a small middle-America town where dance is forbidden, and encourages his classmates to defy the local pastor and call for a rock’n’roll prom.



Aspire PAC presents "Sweeney Todd (High School Edition)"

(FAIR LAWN, NJ) -- "God, that's good!" Get ready for some macabre madness when Aspire Performing Arts Company's production of Sweeney Todd High School Edition comes to the Fair Lawn Community Center from January 24-26, 2025. Featuring music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Hugh Wheeler, it won the Tony Award for Best New Musical in 1979.



USA Today 10Best Readers Choice Awards Names Madison Resort Wildwood Crest #1 Best New Hotel In America

(WILDWOOD CREST, NJ) -- Madison Resort Wildwood Crest has been awarded the prestigious title of #1 Best New Hotel in the USA Today 10Best Readers' Choice Awards. This recognition is a significant milestone for Madison Resorts, which opened the Wildwood Crest property in May 2024. Among 18 hotels nominated nationwide, Madison Resort was the sole representative from the New Jersey tri-state area and is the first New Jersey hotel - and the first ever from the Greater Philadelphia and South Jersey Region - ever to win this coveted award.



Fool Moon Theatre Company Searches for New 'Home' - Company's 2025 season on hold barring a place to perform

(EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, NJ) – The award-winning Fool Moon Theatre Company, which for the past three years has performed over 10 shows at Margate Community Church, is in search of a new performance space to call "home."








New Jersey Stage: Daily Edition 01-08-25

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!





New Jersey Film Festival Spring 2025 Video Overview

by Vic Fern
published 2025-01-08

Prof. Al Nigrin, Executive Director and Curator of the New Jersey Film Festival, provides an overview of the films that make up the Spring 2025 festival. The festival runs January 24 - February 21st 2025, view the full lineup and learn more here. 



Katchats with Callum - the girl with the purple hair

by KAT Lini Falcey
published 2025-01-07

Callum is a 17 year old singer songwriter from Berlin, MD that blends her influences of Indie Pop, Folk, Jazz and R&B into something truly special. Recently I was contacted by Callum's management. They read the article on My Musical Journey at New Jersey Stage. Her manager felt I would be a good fit working with her and her team in 2025.



Lighthouse International Film Society to Screen "Porcelain War"

(LOVELADIES, NJ) -- As Russia's aggression threatens its existence, an amateur force of Ukrainian writers, musicians, teachers and artists take up arms to stave off their destruction. These ordinary people in extraordinary situations are the subjects of a new film, "Porcelain War," a Ukrainian documentary shortlisted this year's Oscars. 



State Theatre New Jersey presents An Evening with Sutton Foster

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- State Theatre New Jersey presents An Evening with Sutton Foster on Friday, January 31, 2025 at 8:00pm. The Tony® Award-winning artist will perform from her extensive Broadway catalog including, The Music Man, Anything Goes, and Sweeney Todd.







 

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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.



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.



MPAC's

MPAC's Summer 2026 Preview

(MORRISTOWN, NJ) -- From the versatility of Tony winner Darren Criss, the comedy of Abbott Elementary's Janelle James and the nostalgic hits of the Grateful Dead, ABBA and more, Mayo Performing Arts Center's summer lineup features a diverse set of performances and events.












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Rock On! This Week's Sound Bites... 07/23/2026

"Correct! I actually performed on The Totally Tubular Festival two years ago. I was playing solo that night and they asked me to come back, so I thought I'd do something a bit different and so I decided to reform my backing band from 1988, The Lost Toy People. The last show we played together was with Depeche Mode and OMD at the Rose Bowl for the legendary 101 Concert and the other night in Phoenix was our first show in 38 years; how about that?"




Wesley Pierre: "Catharsis"

Even those who don't know very much about visual art are familiar with the Cubist approach to the human body. Pablo Picasso liked to present a person from many angles at once, and compress three-dimensional form into a two-dimensional frame. No matter what step she's on, that nude descending a staircase comes at us all at once. We know we're looking at an individual person, even if it's never clear which of those fields of color represent the present moment and which are afterimages, projections, and vapor trails. Representing human beings like this guarantees that there’ll be distortions: facial features in strange places, unexpected angles, duplicates and odd subtractions, clashes between heads, necks, and torsos, the shuffling of expressions, and the surprise and disquiet that comes when an obviously human figure doesn't look much like a human at all.




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.








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