(SUMMIT, NJ) -- Bring your blankets, lawn chairs, and picnic baskets to Reeves-Reed Arboretum and celebrate summer with their 2025 concert series, Sounds of a Summer Night! All performances will be held on select Wednesday evenings on the grounds of this non-profit public garden located in Summit.
(NEWARK, NJ) -- For almost 30 years, Horizon Sounds of the City has attracted thousands of fans to New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC)'s Chambers Plaza for Newark's largest outdoor dance party. Each performance feels like a festival thanks to the weekly presence of food trucks, sponsor giveaways and resource tables run by healthcare organizations and Newark nonprofits.
(MORRISTOWN, NJ) -- The Morris Museum presents Back Deck 2025 - the sixth year of their popular concert series featuring big international names and regional superstars in jazz, classical, and genres in-between. Patrons are invited to bring chairs, set up picnics, and enjoy the sunset for this special program.
(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- State Theatre New Jersey presents their annual free summer movie series from July 1 through August 5, 2025. The series offers screenings of Despicable Me 4, Moana 2, The Wild Robot, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, and Inside Out 2.
(SOUTH ORANGE, NJ) -- Get your family and friends together for a summer filled with music and joy! Heading into its 20th Anniversary season, the South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC) is proud to present local artists of all genres including Classic Rock, Country, Indie Covers, Neo Soul, Funk, and more, as part of South Orange Summer Nights at Flood's Hill in Meadowland Park.
Spend your summer evenings with us and enjoy free live music in one of the beautiful parks in Middlesex County during their annual Music-in-the-Park Series. All you need is your favorite lawn chair and your love of the arts. Concerts take place at Raritan Bay Waterfront Park in South Amboy; Thompson Park in Jamesburg; Spring Lake Park in South Plainfield; and Medwick Park in Carteret.
(TUCKERTON, NJ) -- Twisted Livin', New Jersey's emerging blues-rock contenders who continue their ascension to becoming one of the best new groups to emerge from the Jersey Shore, return "by popular demand" to one of the area's premiere music venues, Lizzie Rose Music Room, for two big shows: Saturday, July 5 (performing with Blues People) and then again on Thursday, August 7, when they'll headline the highly-regarded Tuckerton-based venue.
(CAPE MAY, NJ) -- Cape May MAC (Museums+Arts+Culture) once again presents Cape May Poet Laureate Sylvia Baer in a new series of writing workshops this summer open to writers of all levels. Sylvia brings her engaging teaching style and deep literary knowledge to this series that will explore four different genres of writing: poetry, fiction, memoir and children's literature.
(SUMMIT, NJ) -- Vivid Stage presents Summer Solos - their annual weekly reading series - Wednesdays throughout July on the lawn of the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey. The series will include works by Kevin Daly, Elizabeth Strout, Megan Gogerty, and Eric Coble.
(MADISON, NJ) -- Starting as an act at Renaissance festivals, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again] was designed by playwrights Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield to draw audiences back to the Bard's original texts. The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey will present this play at the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre on the campus of Drew University from July 9 to August 3, 2025 for the first time in nearly a decade-long hiatus.
