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theatre
Eagle Theatre presents "The Wild Party" (HAMMONTON, NJ) -- Eagle Theatre’s 2022-2023 Mainstage Season kicks off with a bang of a soiree…literally. Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party runs this February 9-26, 2023. The prohibition-era musical is based on Joseph March’s 1926 book-length ballad. Once the poem entered public domain, two writers simultaneously wrote musicals with the same title and premiered them Off-Broadway in the same 1999-2000 season. Lippa’s version found success with original cast members of note including Broadway stars Idina Menzel, Taye Diggs, and Brian D’Arcy James. Eagle Theatre brings this jazz-infused, thrilling production to South Jersey as part of their 2022-2023 Season of Creativity, Community, and Connection.
Old Library Theatre Presents The 12th Annual One Act Play Festival This Weekend (FAIR LAWN, NJ) -- Old Library Theatre presents the 12th Annual One Act Play Festival on January 14-15, 2023. Now in its 12th year, the Old Library Theatre One Act Play Festival presents five original works selected from over three-hundred submissions from author’s nationwide.
RVCC Theatre Launches School-Time Series with Show About Underground Railroad (BRANCHBURG, NJ) -- The Theatre at Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg will launch its School-Time Series of productions for young people with a performance of Finding North on Friday, February 3 at 10:00am. The play brings to life the powerful stories of the strivings, sacrifices, and dreams of John P. Parker, a former enslaved man who dedicated his life to helping enslaved people escape through the Underground Railroad in southern Ohio.
music
Zappa Alumni Mike Keneally To Release New Album “The Thing That Knowledge Can’t Eat” Frank Zappa alumni Mike Keneally will be releasing his new solo album “The Thing That Knowledge Can’t Eat” on February 24, 2023. Pre-orders are available now at store.keneally.com. The release features guest appearances by Steve Vai, Eric Slick, Nick D'Virgilio and others.
"Punk Rock Vegan Movie" - Written and Directed by Moby ‘Punk Rock Vegan Movie’, a new documentary written and directed by Moby, will have its world premiere and be the Opening Night film for the 2023 Slamdance Film Festival on January 20 in Park City, Utah. The film, which is Moby’s directorial debut, is a passionate and stylistically idiosyncratic look at the ongoing relationship between the worlds of punk rock and animal rights. It includes interviews with some of the biggest names in punk and rock history, like Ian Mackaye, HR, Dave Navarro, Ray Cappo, Andrew Hurley, Tony Kanal, Tim McIlrath, Water Schreifels, Dave Dictor, Derrick Green, Steve Ignorant, Theo Kogan, Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, Amy Lee, and Captain Sensible.
Westminster Conservatory presents "Of Foreign Lands and People" (PRINCETON, NJ) -- On Sunday, January 22 at 3:00pm, Westminster Conservatory will present “Of Foreign Lands and People,” a recital of music by Robert Schuman and others for solo piano and piano four-hands. The performers are Conservatory faculty members Galina Prilutskaya and Inessa Gleyzerova Shindel. The concert will take place in Bristol Chapel, 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, New Jersey. Admission is free and masking is recommended.
Violinist Hilary Hahn in Sibelius concerto with New Jersey Symphony, plus music by Coleridge-Taylor and Prokofiev (NEWARK, NJ) -- Music Director Xian Zhang leads the New Jersey Symphony and violinist Hilary Hahn in the Sibelius Violin Concerto on a January 28–29 program featuring Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Ballade in A Minor and Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912) was a prolific black British composer of chamber music, choral works, songs and orchestral works, including the brilliant single-movement Ballade in A Minor. His popularity briefly eclipsed that of Edward Elgar, an early mentor. Prokofiev composed his Fifth Symphony toward the end of World War II, a period of increasing optimism. The work’s premiere in Moscow in January 1945—with the sound of artillery audible in the background—was the high point of Prokofiev’s career after his return to the Soviet Union in the 1930s.
Rauw Alejandro to Perform at Prudential Center (NEWARK, NJ) -- After a tremendously successful 2021 World Tour, Latin GRAMMY® award winning and GRAMMY® nominated Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Rauw Alejandro has announced the details of his SATURNO WORLD TOUR 2023 coming to Newark’s Prudential Center on Thursday, March 23, 2023. The Saturno World Tour will take the Reggaeton superstar and special guest Jabbawockeez to Puerto Rico, the United States, Canada and Mexico. With his hometown Puerto Rico shows already sold out, Rauw has announced the tour dates, venues and cities for his North American Tour, including stops in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
art
Barsky Gallery of Hoboken Presents an artist's reception for "Graffiti Dreams" by Kim Schmitt Thomas (HOBOKEN, NJ) -- The Barsky Gallery in Hoboken will hold an intimate reception to honor artist Kim Schmitt Thomas' solo art exhibition entitled "Graffiti Dreams." The show is already on view at 89 Hudson Street, Hoboken, NJ, and the reception will take place on Thursday, January 19th, from 6:00pm-9:00pm, to celebrate her exceptional talent.
Powerful Artworks by Alison Saar in Dialogue with the Toni Morrison Papers at the Princeton University Art Museum (PRINCETON, NJ) -- As part of a campus-wide celebration of the life’s work of Toni Morrison (1931–2019)—acclaimed author, essayist, Nobel Laureate, and Princeton professor—the Princeton University Art Museum will present an exhibition bringing together selections from the Toni Morrison Papers with sculptures, prints, and textiles by the artist Alison Saar (born 1956).
"Gigantar" to be Unveiled in Asbury Park on Saturday (ASBURY PARK, NJ) -- A 24-foot guitar, named “Gigantar" by its creator - sculptor / world-renowned Artist Shannon (MacDonald), born and raised in New Jersey, has chosen The Stone Pony in Asbury Park as the place of unveiling before it takes its five-state journey from New Jersey to Illinois… where its final destination and permanent home will be on the great wall of the “Illinois Rock & Roll Museum on Route 66”.
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