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theatre
New Jersey Theatre Alliance Seeks Written Submissions Reflecting the Theme of Caregiving for 8th Annual "Healing Voices: Caregivers' Stories on Stage" Program New Jersey professional and family caregivers are invited to submit all forms of creative writing, including prose, poetry, and theatrical pieces that reflect the theme of caregiving or the personal healing experience. Selected pieces will be woven together by professional theatre artists into an evening of readings celebrating, exploring, and bearing witness to the caregiving experience.
music
Symphony in C Presents Bruch's Violin Concerto featuring William Hagen (CAMDEN, NJ) -- New Jersey-based young professionals orchestra Symphony in C presents violinist William Hagen in Bruch's Violin Concerto on Saturday, January 13, 2024 at Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts's Gordon Theater. The concert includes a performance of Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 26 in G minor, Beethoven's Symphony No. 4, Op. 60 in B-flat major and Jessie Montgomery's Records from a Vanishing City led by Symphony in C's Music Director, Noam Aviel. Showtime is 8:00pm.
BB Stevens releases "Christmas All Year" Hoboken based BB Stevens, whose album Not My Monkeys was put out on Stryker Records a few months ago, has released a new holiday tune - "Christmas All Year." It's a song that blends the spirit of the holiday with the recognition that his own relationship carries that spirit all year long.
Jersey Arts Podcast: Nancy Reed Dishes on Duke Ellington's "Nutcracker" and Morris Museum's new "Grinch Suite" Duke Ellington was a jazz composer and bandleader in the early 1900s. He is quite possibly one of the greatest jazz composers of all time. Written alongside collaborator, Billy Strayhorn, "The Nutcracker Suite" is a jazz reimagining of Tchaikovsky’s" Nutcracker Suite."
Rock On! This week's Sound Bites...12/7/23 "We did," began a laughing Blues/Rock guitarist Lance Lopez, "We put out a "Live in NYC" album a while back but we have put out a couple of albums since the live record. We put out a record in 2018 called "Tell The Truth" on the Mascot/Provogue label and this album came out a while back and we're pretty proud of it; we worked on it all through the pandemic so, it's a pandemic piece."
dance
NJPAC To Host Forces of Nature Dance Theatre in Celebration of Kwanzaa The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) is celebrating the Kwanzaa holiday this year with an African dance performance starring the acclaimed New York-based troupe Forces of Nature Dance Theatre on Saturday, Dec 23 at 3 p.m. in the Victoria Theater on the Lizzie & Jonathan Tisch Stage.
New Jersey Ballet presents "The Nutcracker" at MPAC with music by New Jersey Symphony (MORRISTOWN, NJ) -- New Jersey Ballet's presentation of the holiday favorite Nutcracker comes to Mayo Performing Arts Center (MPAC) for 13 performances beginning Friday, December 15 and running until Wednesday, December 27, 2023. New Jersey Symphony under the direction of Constantine Kitsopoulos will provide live orchestral accompaniment. A livestream of the Thursday, December 21 performance will also be available. Tickets range from $39-$79.
art
Ocean County Library Toms River Branch presents Gallery Exhibit "Out of the Snow" by Katy Tanis (TOMS RIVER, NJ) -- Looking for a break from the winter chill? "Out of the Snow," an exhibit of art by local author-illustrator-explorer Katy Tanis, is on display at the Ocean County Library Toms River Branch through January 31, 2024. The exhibit, in the Second Floor Gallery, features cold-weather animals in unexpected environs: Penguins in New Zealand's forests, polar bears frolicking in fireweed blooms, and even our local foxes in sandy dunes.
Family Artistry to be Showcased at Ocean County Library Toms River Branch (TOMS RIVER, NJ) -- The Ocean County Library Toms River Branch presents "Art of the UUOCC Family and Friends" in the McConnell Gallery through January 18, 2024. The watercolors, mixed media pieces, photographs, collages and quilts were created by families of the Unitarian Universalist Ocean County Congregation, a spiritual community at the Murray Grove Retreat and Renewal Center in Lanoka Harbor.
community
Jon Fried of The Cucumbers to Perform in Repeated Memories On Saturday, December 9th at 8:00pm Jon Fried of The Cucumbers will be performing with friend and poet Michael Ruby as part of the Station Hill Intermedia Lab series in Kingston, NY and the concert will be available by livestream as well. The series combines poetry, live music, and video, and this piece, Repeated Memories, features Michael reading from his book Fleeting Memories, along with additional text written for the show, while Jon offers live accompaniment on banjo, electric bass and electric guitar, along with prerecorded tracks of him playing fleeting and repeating pieces of songs well known and not.
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EVENT PREVIEWS
Mr. Ray to Perform Free Concert in Monroe Township
November 15, 2025
New Jersey Festival Orchestra Presents "Romance in the Mansion" – A Candlelight Evening of Music, Wine, and Elegance
November 15, 2025
The Dryden Ensemble presents "Daydreams (and Dictators)"
November 15, 2025
Lyceum Hall Center for the Arts presents Ensemble Novo
November 15, 2025
The Theater Project presents a Staged Reading of "B.B'S"
November 15, 2025
East Lynne Theater Company presents Story of Local, Former U.S. Marshal
November 15, 2025
The Yard at Bally's AC presents The Amish Outlaws
November 15, 2025
Meet Loaf comes to The Strand on November 15th
November 15, 2025
2nd Annual NJ Wine Expo to Take Place November 15th
November 15, 2025
Catch a Rising Star Comedy Club presents Tim Grill - "The Barely Can Stand-Up Comic"
November 15, 2025
