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Great short Chicken Broth Soup screens at the New Jersey Film Festival on Friday, January 24, 2025

by Yuri Kim
published 2025-01-12

It all starts with the buzzing of a fly. A woman with a cut on her lip stands crying while waiting in a hallway to see the body of her dead husband. The architecture surrounding her is uninviting. The coloring of the world is bleak, cold. The characters around her are careless and dismissive - a disinterested prosecutor who’s too preoccupied with his own phone calls, and a straight-faced doctor who clinically goes through the motions, step by step. What is the right thing to do in a world surrounded by impassion? What is fair? Is there really nothing one can do in a situation so hopeless? Or is that just an excuse to turn a blind eye? Like a persistent, buzzing fly, these questions prod and force us to jolt out of our comfortable seats while watching Chicken Broth Soup - directed and written by Deniz Büyükkırlı, who is known for her previous work on Pretty Little Liars (2015), Brave and Beautiful (2016), and Love Me As I Am (2013).




 

Makin Waves with The Weeklings: 'Excited by the Results'

by Bob Makin
published 2025-01-11

Once upon a time, Jersey rocker Glen Burtnik played Paul McCartney in the Broadway production of "Beatlemania." A tasty chunk of his career has explored Beatlemania ever since, including his current band The Weeklings, one of America's most unique celebrations of The Fab Four.



NJ Stage 2024: By The Numbers

Despite many challenges, New Jersey Stage reached over one million unique visitors for the third straight year in 2024. The website published over 3,900 articles during the year, including 930 feature articles or featured event previews and 600 columns. All in all, over 2.7 million articles were read and more than 400,000 event listings were read.



Great short The Performance premieres at the New Jersey Film Festival

by Vic Fern
published 2025-01-11

Al Nigrin, Executive Director and Curator of the New Jersey Film Festival, sits down with Salvatore Zeppi Rubinetti, the Writer & Director of The Performance for a filmmaker interview at EBTV.



Dunbar Repertory Company presents August Wilson's "Two Trains Running" at Middletown Arts Center

(MIDDLETOWN, NJ) -- The Middletown Arts Center, in conjunction with Dunbar Repertory Company, presents a special Black History Month production of August Wilson's Two Trains Running, produced by Darrell Lawrence Willis, Sr. and directed by Mark Antonio Henderson, February 6-16, 2025. Set in 1969's Pittsburgh Hill District, Two Trains Running explores racial tensions in the Civil Rights era, as argued over by regulars at a struggling diner owned by Memphis Lee, who fights to get fair compensation for his building as the neighborhood faces urban renewal.