Here's a look at the top 15 most read articles published at New Jersey Stage from June 4-10, 2023. 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 15 includes articles from 8 counties in New Jersey (Bergen, Essex, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Somerset, and Union).
1) New "Walking Dead" Spinoff Shot Throughout New Jersey - (NEWARK, NJ) -- AMC’s The Walking Dead franchise has expanded its universe to New Jersey for its upcoming series, The Walking Dead: Dead City. The show is the fourth spinoff in The Walking Dead universe and will follow Maggie and Negan as they explore a postapocalyptic New York City cut off from the mainland. Eli Jorné, who wrote and co-executive produced the original series, serves as the showrunner, while Scott M. Gimple, chief content officer of The Walking Dead franchise, oversaw the series. The six-episode season will premiere on Sunday, June 18 at 9:00pm on AMC and AMC+.
2) Satire artist Joey Skaggs Oral History films screen at the 2023 New Jersey International Film Festival on Sunday, June 11 - The 2023 New Jersey International Film Festival brings with it the seventh and eighth episodes in the ongoing oral history series: Joey Skaggs Satire and Art Activism, 1960s to the Present and Beyond, directed by Judy Drosd and Joey Skaggs.
3) Springsteen Archives and Transparent Gallery Present Warren Zanes Book Event - (ASBURY PARK, NJ) -- The Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music at Monmouth University in collaboration with Transparent Clinch Gallery are presenting a book signing event with Warren Zanes on June 15, 2023 at the gallery. Zanes, author, musician, and professor, will be discussing his new book, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, among other topics, with Danny Clinch.
4) A Haunting Tennessee Williams Play in Madison: "The Rose Tattoo" - As Tennessee Williams’ enchanting The Rose Tattoo begins, you are looking at, are part of, a home in a small town on the Gulf Coast, somewhere near New Orleans in the early 1950s, with people running about. The house is an old, ramshackle building with a large porch and a dirt yard – very 1950s Deep South. It is home for a lower middle-class seamstress/dressmaker, the beautiful but troubled Serafina Delle Rose (Antoinette LaVecchia) and her 16 year old daughter, who is growing older very fast. Around them are friends, other teenagers, a priest, women neighbors, the usual gang of small-town folks in the South.
5) Paper Mill Playhouse Announces Cast and Creative for "Rent" - (MILLBURN, NJ) -- Paper Mill Playhouse (Mark S. Hoebee, Producing Artistic Director; Michael Stotts, Executive Director), recipient of the 2016 Regional Theatre Tony Award, has announced the cast and creative team for Rent by Jonathan Larson, directed by Zi Alikhan (Resident Director of Hamilton) and choreographed by Steph Paul (New York Theatre Workshop: How to Defend Yourself). The show runs June 7 through July 2, 2023.
6) Nutley Little Theatre presents "Hand to God" - (NUTLEY, NJ) -- Nutley Little Theatre presents the hysterically irreverent twisted comedy, Hand to God, opening Friday, June 9th, and continuing through June 24th. Written by Robert Askins, the play tells the story of a devilish, scandalous, and foul-mouthed hand puppet who manages to tear apart the balance in a Christian Puppet Ministry youth group – exposing the startling fragile nature of faith, morality, love, and how easily blood can flow.
7) Film on acclaimed photographer Linda Troeller screens at the 2023 New Jersey International Film Festival on Saturday, June 10 - The relationship between women and water is one that has lasted the test of time. From King Arthur’s Lady of the Lake to La Llorona, there seems to be an intrinsic connection between the flowing liquid and the female form. Artist Linda Troeller devoted her life’s work to this link, analyzing the “intimate relationships between water, the female gaze,” and herself. Healing Waters directed by Derek Johnson and Ali Scattergood brings viewers on a tour of Linda Troeller’s artistic body of work, her impact, her findings, and her ongoing journey.
8) NJPAC Announces Lineup for Horizon Sounds of the City 2023 - (NEWARK, NJ) -- New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) has announced the annual Horizon Sounds of the City 2023, a FREE live summer concert series taking place under the stars during the summer every Thursday Night starting July 13 – August 17 from 6:00pm – 9:00pm on the NJPAC Campus at Chambers Plaza.
9) Top 15 Most Read Stories At New Jersey Stage From May 28 to June 3, 2023 - Here's a look at the top 15 most read articles published at New Jersey Stage from May 28 to June 3, 2023. 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 15 includes articles from 8 counties in New Jersey (Camden, Essex, Hudson, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, and Union).
10) Wonderful feature Stargazer screens at the 2023 New Jersey International Film Festival on Sunday, June 11 - Stargazer, a film by Alan McIntyre, truly delves into the idea about what stories get to be told, how they are told, and most importantly for the films case, who gets to tell them? The story follows Grace, an undergraduate student desperate to tell the story of a forgotten astronomer named Cecilia Payne, whose accomplishments were stolen by men and never brought to light as her own. Grace’s journey to share this story is complicated by Spike, a journalist looking to make the story his own, and Diana, a dancer who brings context about Ancient Greece, power, and the role of women to men. These two complicate Grace’s point of view, and makes her choose which she thinks is right, as Diana says in the film, she has to choose whether to “Fuck the man or say fuck you to the man”. Throughout the film, Grace’s journey is a search for clarity, self-discovery, and to find what role people play in telling other stories, and these decisions and answers are all complicated by Diana and Spike’s opposing forces.
11) Music, Art, Sights, and Sea with Smooth Cruise New York - (NEW YORK, NY) -- On June 22nd the Cornucopia Majesty sets sail in New York harbor for the return of the Smooth Cruise New York with performances by Jonathan Butler and Gerald Albright. Added to the experience is a showing by Artist of the stars, noted painter Bernard Jackson.
12) Rock On! This Week's Sound Bites...6/8/23 - "I'm looking forward to that; It has been a while," said a very happy Joe Louis Walker as he prepares to hit the road for the first time since November of 2022 with a new album in tow; an album that is perhaps one of his best to date and high on the charts.
13) RVCC Students Create Tunnel Mural for Bound Brook Train Station - (BRANCHBURG, NJ) -- Students from Raritan Valley Community College’s Arts & Design department, led by their professor, Ji Yong Kim, recently completed a 2,000-square-foot mural at the Bound Brook New Jersey Transit station tunnel.
14) Elizabeth's Portuguese Day Parade 2023 takes place this weekend - (ELIZABETH, NJ) -- The Portugal Day Parade in Elizabeth is recognized as the one of oldest running Portuguese parades in the state of New Jersey. Since 1987, Portugal Day in Elizabeth has become a cherished annual tradition, and this year they already have record setting participation confirmed. This year’s event is no exception to the growing numbers of attendees bringing together thousands of families and friends of all backgrounds, including but not limited to Portuguese organizations, dance groups, social clubs and local businesses to commemorate the Portuguese traditions.
15) Montclair Film's 2023 Emerging Filmmaker Competition Award Winners -(MONTCLAIR, NJ) -- On Saturday, June 3, 2023, Montclair Film held the Awards Ceremony for its annual Emerging Filmmakers Competition. All the winning films were presented on the big screen at The Clairidge, and the filmmakers participated in a Q&A following their film. Executive Producer and Director Rasheed Daniels served as the emcee for the event. All the winners were then celebrated at a Red- Carpet Reception at Cinema505.
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