Here's a look at the top 10 most read articles published at New Jersey Stage during the week of January 23-29, 2022.  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 10 includes articles involving 5 counties in New Jersey (Bergen, Essex, Gloucester, Mercer, Middlesex). 

1) Creating Art From Newspapers Every Day For 18 Years - (MONTCLAIR, NJ) -- Physical newspapers may be part of a dying breed, but they still hold beauty and wonder for many.  Long-time Montclair resident Peter Jacobs is one who not only loves newspapers, but creates art with them each day. In fact, he has created a collage from daily newspapers every single day, uninterrupted, for nearly 18 straight years.

2) Peppa Pig’s Adventure Comes To NJPAC - (NEWARK, NJ) -- Peppa Pig Live! Peppa Pig’s Adventure will bring the loveable, cheeky little piggy to live audiences across the United States, with a stop at New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark on Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 6:00pm.  Come join Peppa Pig on an exciting camping trip in the woods with George and her school friends, including Pedro Pony, Suzy Sheep and Gerald Giraffe.

3) Production Assistant Bootcamp To Take Place at Rutgers University February 5-6 - (PISCATAWAY, NJ) -- The NJ Motion Picture and Television Commission invites New Jersey residents interested in pursuing a career in film and television production to apply for the upcoming Production Assistant Bootcamp scheduled for February 5 and 6 at Rutgers University in Piscataway.

4) Russian Ballet Theatre Brings "Swan Lake" to Newark, Trenton, and Sewell in February - Russian Ballet Theatre is bringing a breathtaking new production of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake to 52 cities across the United States, including four local stops in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Ballet fans will have the unique opportunity to enjoy this update on a classic, with dates set for Sunday, February 13th in Newark at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC); Tuesday, February 15th in Trenton at the Patriots Theatre at the War Memorial; Wednesday, February 16th in Sewell, South Jersey at Investors Bank Performing Arts Center; and Thursday, February 17th in Reading at the Santander Performing Arts Center.

5) Flux plays at the opening screening of the Spring 2022 New Jersey Film Festival! - Cléa van der Grijn’s Flux is an experimental short film that’s being shown at the New Jersey Film Festival on Friday, January 28th, 2022. The film explores themes such as death, loss, and the self-reflection that naturally occurs when one is isolated. The music in the background is in the style of Sean-nós, a traditional Irish style of a capella usually performed in the Irish language. This choice of music incorporated the Irish heritage of Cléa van der Grijn into the film as well as added to its ghostly nature; the slow and controlled vocals of the Sean-nós added an element of darkness as well as spirituality that captures the viewer’s attention. Cléa van der Grijn has said that she tries to understand the culture of death and loss through her art, and that definitely comes through in Flux.

6) Riverside Gallery presents "Movement Recovery" by Tai Woong Kang - (HACKENSACK, NJ) -- Painter and Professor Tai Woong Kang’s solo art exhibition Movement Recovery is on view at the Riverside Gallery in Hackensack from January 29th to February 12th. The exhibition consists of abstract paintings that explore the original state of humanity as harmony with nature and the cosmos, thereby exposing the fallacies of fast-paced modernity. 

7) Rock On! This Week's Sound Bites...1/27/22 - “The hours and the money,” jokes Pennington, NJ resident and funny lady Anita Wise as she explained why she got into comedy; “It’s fun, it’s very fun, it’s really fun. Nobody who knew me growing up expected this to happen.”  

8) Gallery Aferro To Present The Northern New Jersey Scholastic Art and Writing Awards - (NEWARK, NJ) -- Gallery Aferro and the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers invite New Jersey teens in grades 7–12 to enter their original work to the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Youth artists in Bergen, Essex, Passaic, Hudson, Morris, Sussex, Union, and Warren County are invited to enter the country's longest-running and most prestigious scholarship and recognition program for creative students.The deadline to apply in the Northern New Jersey Art region is December 18, 2021.

9) The Gallery at Paper Mill hosts "Color Abstraction" Exhibition - (MILLBURN, NJ) -- Paper Mill Playhouse has announced the reopening of the reimagined and reinvigorated The Gallery at Paper Mill in the Renee Foosaner Art Gallery. The inaugural exhibition, Color Abstraction, will run from January 26 through April 24 and will feature three local artists: Dorothy Ganek (South Orange), Calina Hiriza (Millburn), and Jesús Núñez (Millburn).

10) Princeton Symphony Orchestra To Present An All-New, Outdoor Princeton Festival - (PRINCETON, NJ) -- The Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) promises to deliver an all-new, outdoor Princeton Festival June 10-25, 2022 with a cohesive campus plan, community cooperation, and exciting artists. A cadre of opera singers are poised to inhabit the comic characters of Derrick Wang's Scalia/Ginsburg and W.A. Mozart's The Impresario, as well as Benjamin Britten's full-length opera Albert Herring. Concerts featuring top performers such as Storm Large, the Signum Quartet, and Baroque ensemble The Sebastians ensure multiple evenings of first-rate, live music covering a variety of genres of yesterday and today.

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