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This Week in Music: Previews for Concerts from August 12-18, 2025

Here is a look at shows taking place from August 12-18, 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.




 

New Jersey Stage: Daily Edition 08-12-25

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!





MPAC presents Tommy James and The Shondells on Thursday

(MORRISTOWN, NJ) -- Mayo Performing Arts Center (MPAC) presents New Jersey Hall of Fame inductee Tommy James and The Shondells on Thursday, August 14, 2025 at 8:00pm. He's celebrating six decades of hitmaking as he performs the songs that have made him an enduring music legend since the 1960s. Limited tickets remain.



Lizzie Rose Music Room presents Sugaray Rayford

(TUCKERTON, NJ) -- The Lizzie Rose Music Room presents Sugaray Rayford on Friday, August 22, 2025 at 7:30pm. He is a Grammy nominated American Soul Blues singer and songwriter with six albums in his catalog.



bergenPAC presents Jane Lynch and Kate Flannery - "The Trouble with Angels"

(ENGLEWOOD, NJ) -- Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC) presents Jane Lynch and Kate Flannery's "The Trouble with Angels" on Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 7:00pm. It’s like the Rat Pack... but with a couple of broads. 





BlowUpRadio.com's New & Notable NJ Music 8/11/25

by Lazlo
published 2025-08-11

Lazlo, founder of BlowUpRadio.com (an online radio station based around New Jersey artists), shines a light on some of the many new releases from NJ based musicians each week with this column. This week Lazlo takes a look at new releases by Greg McGarvey, Stomer, Shotgun Bill with the Tango Kid, Mars Kushi, and Jared Hart. Plus a look back at "Broken Glass Dance" by Red Flag Fleet.



New Jersey Stage: Daily Edition 08-11-25

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!





PHOTOS from "RENT" at Algonquin Arts Theatre

by John Posada
published 2025-08-10

(MANASQUAN, NJ) -- Algonquin Arts Theatre is presenting RENT by Jonathan Larson from August 10–18, 2025. RENT is back in an all-new production, bringing its powerful story of love, friendship, and resilience to the Jersey Shore. With unforgettable songs like "Seasons of Love" and a message that resonates as strongly today as ever, this Tony Award® and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical is the must-see event of the summer. Photographer John Posada was on hand to take photos.



Top 15 Most Read Stories At New Jersey Stage from August 3-9, 2025

Here's a look at the top 15 most read articles published at New Jersey Stage from August 3-9, 2025. Each week we publish about 70 articles, including several original columns and features, along with news releases for events happening throughout the state and nearby areas like Philadelphia and New York City. This week's top 15 includes articles from 6 counties in New Jersey (Bergen, Essex, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, and Ocean).



New Release Review - "Weapons"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-08-09

The art of magic is largely the art of distraction. Many of the best magicians are also very good comedians, able to keep their audience distracted with enough comic shtick that they don't notice the leggy assistant being replaced by a dummy that's about to be sawn in half. Writer/director Zach Cregger's 2022 debut Barbarian was a classic magic trick. With that film, Cregger drew us in with what we thought was its story, only to take us by surprise in pulling several rabbits out of his hat. Barbarian's distraction was very entertaining, but the magic was also impressive. With his follow-up, Weapons, Cregger once again provides a very engaging distraction, but the magic is underwhelming this time. If Barbarian was a creepy horror movie with occasional moments of hilarity, Weapons is an entertaining character-driven black comedy skirting the periphery of an uninspired horror movie.


 

UPCOMING EVENTS
New Release Review - "Weapons"
George Street Playhouse presents "My Lord, What A Night"

Tuesday, April 28, 2026 @ 7:30pm
New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (NBPAC) New Brunswick, NJ

 

New Release Review - "Weapons"
Kean University Orchestra

Tuesday, April 28, 2026 @ 8:00pm
Kean Stage - Enlow Recital Hall Hillside, NJ

 





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