New Jersey Stage: Daily Edition 09-02-22

Here is the morning update for New Jersey Stage for 09-02-22.

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!

theatre

Premiere Stages at Kean University Seeks Submissions to Annual Play Festival

(UNION, NJ) -- Premiere Stages, the professional theatre company in residence at Kean University, is accepting submissions for the 18th annual Premiere Play Festival. This yearly competition for unproduced scripts offers developmental and production opportunities to up to five playwrights with strong ties to the greater metropolitan area (New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Delaware). Premiere will accept submissions September 1 through November 14, 2022.

PHOTOS from "I Ought To Be In Pictures" at Nutley Little Theatre

(NUTLEY, NJ) -- Nutley Little Theatre is presenting I Ought To Be In Pictures over three weekends in September from September 9-24. The play by Neil Simon tells the story of Herb Tucker, a man who, sixteen years earlier walked out on his wife and children in New York to pursue a career as a screenwriter in Hollywood. Photographer John Posada was on hand during a rehearsal to take photos.

music

A Conversation with Dionne Warwick, Who Appears at UCPAC in Rahway on September 9

Legendary singer and recording artist Dionne Warwick is coming back to New Jersey to perform at Union County Performing Arts Center in Rahway on September 9, 2022. Warwick, 81, is a six-time Grammy Award-winner who has performed on more than 75 charted hit songs and sold over 100 million records including “Walk on By,” “Do You Know the Way to San José,” “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again,” and “That’s What Friends are For.” Her latest efforts are her 2019 recordings, She’s Back and Dionne Warwick and the Voices of Christmas.

Chestnut Grove to Perform at WXPN's Xponential Music Festival

(PHILADELPHIA, PA) -- Rock n Roll outfit, Chestnut Grove will hit the road this fall for dates taking them throughout their home state of Pennsylvania, upstate New York, Virginia and to Camden, NJ for WXPN’s Xponential Music Festival on September 18th. Their newest single, “All For You” out now and from their forthcoming EP, Can’t Stand The Music, due in early 2023. On August 26, the band performed a “revved-up” Free at Noon set for an energetic audience who danced, sang along and got a preview of the new EP.

Hidden In Plain View Release New EP "Tantrums"

Hidden In Plain View have released their EP "Tantrums." Along with the release of the EP, HIPV are announcing a special vinyl release of the album that will be available from Mt. Crushmore Records as well as new merchandise available at the band’s merch store.

Princeton Girlchoir, Boychoir leave marks on Prague, Vienna, Montreal, and Quebec City through song

(PRINCETON, NJ) -- Not only do Princeton Girlchoir and Princeton Boychoir perform throughout New Jersey, but they also travel nationally and internationally — through skies of blue and clouds of white — to share in song both with and for others. Following two years of largely virtual rehearsals and performances due to the pandemic, students at Westrick Music Academy are happy to return to a wonderful world of singing together in person with other choirs.

Parrotbeach LIVE! in Seaside Heights, NJ

Music lovers replete with comfy beach chairs, colored blankets, and ice-cold coolers wait beside the ocean in Seaside Heights, NJ this Thursday, August 18, 2022 evening for the start of a free concert by the Jimmy Buffett tribute band, Parrotbeach.

Hopewell Theater presents Karan Casey

(HOPEWELL, NJ) -- Karan Casey, one of Ireland's finest singer-songwriters - and a leading advocate for gender balance in the Irish folk and traditional music scene - will make her first U.S. tour in three years from September 1-18, a slate of 13 performances that will highlight her recent work, including her album Hieroglyphs That Tell the Tale and new, as-yet-unreleased material. The tour comes to The Hopewell Theater on Friday, September 16.

film

The Sun Rises in The East opens the Fall 2022 New Jersey Film Festival on Friday, September 9

The Sun Rises in The East, directed by Tayo Giwa, has positioned itself as one of Fall 2022 New Jersey Film Festival’s most anticipated premieres. Recruiting vintage archived photos, historians, credited authors, and schoolchildren of the 70s, The Sun Rises in The East turns out to be an impressively well-rounded, impenetrable fortress of investigation. By streaming together vignettes of accounts, this Brooklyn-born documentary successfully takes audiences through the mythology of The East. A vague name for what represents Brooklyn’s black community’s cultural touchstone of the 1970s. Just like the best mythologies, The East’s origin story is rich in historical significance and revels in transnational vibrancy. Kwasi Konadu, author of A View from The East, dates the beginning of The East with a school named “Uhuru Sasa Shule,” which is Kiswahili for “Freedom Now School.” Uhuru Sasa Shule originated from the collective need to take back control of black people’s education from white teachers’ and administration’s lack of concern towards black school children. Moreover, the opening scene triumphantly blazons The East as “a cultural community of individuals who wanted institutions and businesses run by, founded by black people,” or put more simply, “history in the making...home, and a revolution.” What this documentary highlights is how often the making of a revolution is bred through a systematic pattern of oppression.