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PHOTOS from "Raisin" at Axelrod PAC
by John Posada
published 2023-02-27

(DEAL PARK, NJ) -- To mark the 50th anniversary of its 1973 premiere on Broadway, the Axelrod Performing Arts Center is presenting the musical Raisin now through March 12. The musical is based on Lorraine Hansberry’s classic A Raisin in the Sun, which explores a Black family's journey to a better life as they aspire to move out of the projects in the Southside of Chicago in the 1950s. Raisin is a poignant reflection on the American Dream. Photographer John Posada was there to take photos.




 

BlowUpRadio.com's New & Notable NJ Music 2/27/23

by Lazlo
published 2023-02-27

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 releases by Lemboi, Regency Club, retrohaze, and Hodera.



New Jersey Stage: Daily Edition 02-27-23

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 "Drop Dead!" at WHATCo

by John Posada
published 2023-02-27

(WEST HUDSON, NJ) -- The West Hudson Arts & Theater Company (WHATCo) is celebrating their Main Stage 2023 season with the debut of the comedy farse Drop Dead! by Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore, and with a much-anticipated move to a new performance space in Harrison, NJ. Productions of this potboiler murder mystery continue Friday and Saturday, March 3rd and 4th at 7:00pm. Photographer John Posada was on hand to take photos.



State Theatre New Jersey Presents "R.E.S.P.E.C.T."

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- The fully renovated State Theatre New Jersey presents R.E.S.P.E.C.T., an electrifying tribute celebrating the legendary Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin on Saturday, March 11 at 8:00pm and Sunday, March 12 at 2:00pm. Tickets range from $40-$98.





Leroy Johnson Felt Called to Make Art

by Ilene Dube, JerseyArts.com
published 2023-02-25

Gazing out the window on NJTransit south to Trenton, and then on Amtrak further south to Philadelphia and Baltimore, one sees brick row houses, sometimes crumbling, sometimes boarded up, covered with words that express desolation. There are solitary figures here and there, or perhaps a face looking out from a window. Better times might have been in the past, for these places.



Axelrod Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Tony Award-winning Musical "Raisin"

by Gina Marie Rodriguez & Dave Tavani, JerseyArts.com
published 2023-02-25

What happens to a dream deferred?



Princeton University’s Richardson Chamber Players Spotlight Female Composers

by Laurie Granieri, JerseyArts.com
published 2023-02-25

Barbara Rearick could picture it: female student vocalists from the Princeton University Glee Club invoking the spirit of women's suffrage, saturating Richardson Auditorium with the rousing lyrics to Dame Ethel Smyth's 1911 anthem, "The March of the Women":



25 Years of The Wag: Brian Ostering Talks History, Special Night, and New Album

by Gary Wien
published 2023-02-24

The Wag will celebrate the band's 25th Anniversary and the release of their new album, Blue Bottles and Copper Coins, at The Strand Theater in Lakewood on Saturday, March 25, 2023. Based in Monmouth County, the band includes Brian Ostering and his wife Alicia Van Sant, Don Lee, and Joshua Van Ness. All four take turns as lead vocalist through catchy original songs and create an tremendously fun atmosphere on stage. They perform everywhere from coffeehouses and libraries to clubs and concert halls and have played shows in England, Canada, Japan, and the West Coast. Not many bands ever last a decade much less twenty-five, so we reached out to Brian to learn the complete story of the band and talk about the new album and special night.



Makin Waves Song of the Week: "Your Story" by Tide Bends

by Bob Makin
published 2023-02-24

Tide Bends’ latest single, “Your Story,” is the Makin Waves Song of the Week.


 

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