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Events This Week in New Jersey from June 3-9, 2025

Here is a look at upcoming events taking place from June 3-9, 2025 along with our featured listings. New Jersey Stage offers previews of events throughout the Garden State as well as select shows in New York City and Philadelphia areas.



New Release Review - "Fear Street: Prom Queen"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-06-03

RL Stine's series of 'Fear Street' young adult novels served as a gateway for a lot of young readers to discover the horror genre in the '90s. In 2021 Netflix released a trilogy of movies based on Stine's books, with instalments set in 1994, 1978 and 1666 that heavily drew on Scream, Friday the 13th and the folk-horror sub-genre respectively. Long envious of MCU fans who get to enjoy three or more interconnecting movies from their favourite cinematic universe every year, I was excited for a horror equivalent. Sadly the Fear Street trilogy was a mess that suffered heavily from getting itself bogged down in clunky universe building rather than telling three engaging horror stories. It may have taken the form of three movies but 2021's Fear Street was really just a TV show in disguise.



Makin Waves with Bill Brandenburg of Woodbridge Arts: Music on Main Street

by Bob Makin
published 2025-06-03

Since 2008, Bill Brandenburg has booked and managed, along with his musical co-conspirator, Al Schaefer, several music series in Woodbridge Township at the behest of Mayor John McCormac. In that time, the Music on Main Street series presented ticketed shows in a number of local venues before settling into The Avenel Performing Arts Center in 2022 where the series has presented notable acts, including Jimmy Webb, Karla Bonoff, Graham Parker, Rhett Miller, Stanley Jordan, Richie Furay and Vienna Teng.



This Week in Music: Previews for Concerts from June 3-9, 2025

Here is a look at shows taking place from June 3-9, 2025 along with our featured listings and a look at some upcoming shows. New Jersey Stage offers previews of concerts throughout the Garden State as well as select shows in New York City and Philadelphia areas.








This Week in Theatre: Previews for Plays Taking Place June 3-9, 2025

Here are previews of plays taking place from June 3-9, 2025 including a look at productions currently being presented and those coming soon. New Jersey Stage covers Equity, community, college, and high school theatre. Check back every week for the weekly theatre preview.



The Shakespeare Theatre presents classic fairytales in UNEXPECTED: The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen

(MADISON, NJ) -- The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (STNJ) presents a scripts-in-hand presentation of beloved fairytales in the Classics for Kids! production of UNEXPECTED: The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen on Saturday, June 14, 2025 at the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre. The presentation is the second production in the Theatre’s 2025 Classics for Kids! Series. STNJ company member Isaac Hickox-Young directs the whimsical and lively presentation that features well-known stories such as The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor’s New Clothes, and The Nightingale.



"Forever Donna" LIVE! at PNC Bank Arts Center

by Spotlight Central
published 2025-06-03

Spotlight Central and Love Imagery have photos and a recap of a Forever Donna tribute to Donna Summer at the PNC Bank Arts Center on May 18, 2025.



New Jersey Stage: Daily Edition 06-03-25

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!





Authentically beautiful feature Supporting Actresses screens at the 2025 New Jersey International Film Festival on June 7!

by Emma Hackbarth
published 2025-06-03

Supporting Actresses (Secundarias) is bound to be a favorite in the 2025 New Jersey International Film Festival. Everything in this beautifully executed film directed by Arturo Dueñas, is centered around a play (Cartas al Emperador, “Letters to the Emperor”) and its ensemble’s representation of it. The film title references the marginality of our main characters who are secondary actresses inside the play. The production of Cartas al Emperador positions each woman in support of the king’s story as the tangential, dramatic or comedic foil to the straight-man; all of them merely women who marked his life by visiting on his deathbed.