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Meredith

Meredith Willson’s The Music Man

Friday, October 16, 2026 @ 8:00pm
Mayo Performing Arts Center (MPAC) Morristown, NJ

There’s trouble in River City when a fast-talking salesman gets his heart stolen by the town librarian. Meredith Willson’s six-time, Tony Award-winning musical comedy THE MUSIC MAN follows fast-talking traveling salesman, Harold Hill, as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys’ band that he vows to organize – this, despite the fact that he doesn’t know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian, the librarian, who transforms him into a respectable citizen by curtain’s fall.  Featuring songs such as “Seventy-Six Trombones,” “Ya Got Trouble,” “‘Till There Was You,” “Pick-a-Little” and “Gary, Indiana,” THE MUSIC MAN is a family-friendly story to be shared with every generation.

   
Lyndon

Lyndon Ji, piano

Friday, October 16, 2026 @ 2:00pm
Grunin Center - Bösendorfer Recital Room Toms River, NJ

Concert pianist Lyndon Ji enjoys a diverse performing career in solo and chamber settings, with a particular enthusiasm for introducing lesser-known works to audiences of all backgrounds. This afternoon program will explore modernist French music from Fauré to Lili Boulanger to Murail, as well as the mystic sound world of Scriabin through a selection of études and the ineffable Fifth Sonata. Lyndon currently serves as staff pianist at Rutgers, Artistic Director of the Bay Area International Piano Competition, and appears in concert regularly throughout the East Coast.

   
Premiere

Premiere Stages at Kean presents Effa Loves Baseball

Friday, October 16, 2026 @ 7:30pm
Kean Stage - Enlow Recital Hall Hillside, NJ

Effa Manley manages the Newark Eagles, a team she wants to take all the way to the Negro League World Series. Effa battles the press, coaching staff, segregation, and sometimes herself to win at the business of the game she loves most of all. She doesn’t worry about what it will cost her, even if it’s everything. Effa Loves Baseball is about the first woman inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

   
Viaje

Viaje Tropical

Friday, October 16, 2026 @ 8:00pm
Union County Performing Arts Center (UCPAC) - Main Stage Rahway, NJ

Disfruta una experiencia unica llena de salsa e ritmos latinos con los éxitos que están conquistando Youtube. Viaje Tropical – Tony Succar con Mauricio Mesones.

   
George

George Street Playhouse presents The Unexpected 3rd

Friday, October 16, 2026 @ 7:30pm
New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (NBPAC) New Brunswick, NJ

Written by and Starring Kathryn Grody  
Directed by Timothy Near  
 
A Radical, Rollicking Rumination on the Optimism of Staying Alive 

   
Vivid

Vivid Stage presents B.I.N.G.O. (or Brittney Isle’s Nice Geriatric Orgy)

Friday, October 16, 2026 @ 8:00pm
Oakes Center Summit, NJ

Barb desperately needs friends. That’s why she moved to this 55+ community in the first place. So what better way to meet new people than to join a good old fashioned Bingo Night? When Bingo Night turns into a full-blown orgy, Barb must decide: does she stay in her safe, predictable world? Or does she play a new game of chance and truly live before it’s too late?

   
Curtis

Curtis Salgado - The Original Blues Brother

Friday, October 16, 2026 @ 7:30pm
Lizzie Rose Music Room Tuckerton, NJ

Some nights you go to a concert. Some nights you get a piece of music history.

   
Kean

Kean Department of Theatre presents "References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot"

Friday, October 16, 2026 @ 10:00am
Kean Stage - Bauer Boucher Theatre Center Union, NJ

References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot is an Obie Award-winning surrealist play by José Rivera that follows Gabriela, a lonely housewife in Barstow, California, awaiting her soldier-husband Benito’s return from the Gulf War in 1991. In the poetic fantasy world she creates as she drifts through her days in the Mojave desert, her housecat and a local coyote strike up a romance, while the celestial man-in-the-moon and her very real teenage neighbor Martín vie for her affection.

   
Kean

Kean Department of Theatre presents "References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot"

Friday, October 16, 2026 @ 7:30pm
Kean Stage - Bauer Boucher Theatre Center Union, NJ

References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot is an Obie Award-winning surrealist play by José Rivera that follows Gabriela, a lonely housewife in Barstow, California, awaiting her soldier-husband Benito’s return from the Gulf War in 1991. In the poetic fantasy world she creates as she drifts through her days in the Mojave desert, her housecat and a local coyote strike up a romance, while the celestial man-in-the-moon and her very real teenage neighbor Martín vie for her affection.

   
Midnight

Midnight at the New Dawn

Friday, October 16, 2026 @ 8:00pm
Kelsey Theatre West Windsor, NJ

This special co-production between Maurer Productions OnStage and Maurer TheaterWorks Presents reunites an acclaimed, Perry Award–winning creative team for the world premiere of an original new comedy. Inspired by stage legends like Neil Simon and Noël Coward — and fueled by the delightful chaos of internet-age relationships — this sparkling ensemble play is a recipe for laughter. It’s New Year’s Eve. The coffee is hot and the clock is ticking at the New Dawn Diner, where the lives of several couples converge. As midnight approaches, old loves are tested, new sparks fly, and everyone must decide who they’re bringing into the new year, and who they’re leaving behind. Funny, tender, and full of heart, Midnight at the New Dawn is a romantic comedy about risk, resilience, and the hope that comes with every fresh start.

   
Growing

Growing Stage presents Roald Dahl’s MATILDA the Musical

Friday, October 16, 2026 @ 7:30pm
The Historic Palace Theatre Netcong, NJ

Inspired by the twisted genius of Roald Dahl, the Tony Award-winning Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical is the captivating masterpiece from the Royal Shakespeare anarchy of childhood, the power of imagination and the inspiring story of a girl who dreams of a better life.

   
MAC

MAC Players at the Middletown Arts Center present "Gypsy, a Musical Fable"

Friday, October 16, 2026 @ 7:00pm
Middletown Arts Center Middletown, NJ

Regarded by many theatre professionals as the finest musical ever created, Gypsy is the ultimate tale of an ambitious stage mother fighting for her daughters’ success – while secretly yearning for her own. Set all across America in the 1920s and 30s, when vaudeville was dying and burlesque was born, Arthur Laurents’ landmark show explores the world of two-bit show business with brass, humor, heart and sophistication.