Here's a look at the top 15 most read articles published at New Jersey Stage from October 6-12, 2024. 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, Hudson, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, and Ocean).
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1) Events This Week in New Jersey from October 8-15, 2024 - Here is a look at upcoming events taking place from October 8-15, 2024 along with our featured listings. New Jersey Stage offers previews of events throughout the Garden State as well as select shows in New York City and Philadelphia areas.
2) bergenPAC presents An Evening with Cher: The Memoir on November 22nd - (ENGLEWOOD, NJ) -- Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC) is excited to announce that the legendary Cher will appear on stage in conversation to celebrate the release of Cher: The Memoir Vol. 1 on Friday, November 22, 2024 at 7:00pm. Every ticket purchase comes with a copy of the book.
3) A Conversation with Bob Carpenter of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Which Brings its "Farewell Tour" to MPAC on October 9th - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is celebrating 58 years together with an All the Good Times: Farewell Tour performance at MPAC in Morristown, NJ on October 9, 2024.
4) Fall 2024 New Jersey Film Festival Winners Announced! - All the works that were part of the Fall 2024 New Jersey Film Festival Competition were selected by a panel of judges including media professionals, journalists, students, and academics. These judges selected the 21 finalists which were publicly screened at our Festival. The finalists were selected from 402 works submitted by filmmakers from around the world. In addition, the judges chose the Prize Winners in conjunction with the Festival Director.
5) Newark Arts and Russo Development to Celebrate the Grand Opening of "Newark Artspace" on Thursday - (NEWARK, NJ) -- Newark Arts and Russo Development will celebrate the official grand opening of "Newark ArtSpace" at Vermella Broad Street on Thursday, October 10, 2024. Coinciding with the Newark Arts Festival, the gallery is the first-ever space that Newark Arts operates on a year-round basis and provides a dedicated home to the city’s vibrant culture of local and regional artists. The event will feature new art from Newark Arts' "Radical Reimagining" exhibition and feature works of over twenty artists, curated by Armisey Smith. Their art will remain on display until December 1st.
6) Old Library Theatre presents the Tony Award Winning Musical "Nine" - (FAIR LAWN, NJ) -- Old Library Theatre (OLT), Fair Lawn Recreation Department's resident theatre company, will present the musical Nine, over two weekends, October 18-19 and October 24-27, 2024. Based on Federico Fellini's semi-autobiographical film 8 1/2, this dazzling production of Nine – with a cast of 19 brilliant performers, and a 10-piece orchestra – tells the story of celebrated film director Guido Contini as he navigates a personal and professional crisis while balancing the many women in his life.
7) Hugh Jackman's "From New York, With Love" Shows to Take Place at Radio City Music Hall - (NEW YORK, NY) -- Hugh Jackman, the Academy Award® nominated and Tony, GRAMMY and Golden Globe winning performer, announced an exciting series of 12 performances at Radio City Music Hall. These special shows will kick off the weekend of January 24, 2025, and will continue through select weekends in April, May, June, and July with the final shows on August 15 and 16.
8) Good and Evil Collide in "Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical" at MCCC's Kelsey Theatre - (WEST WINDSOR, NJ) -- An epic struggle between good and evil comes to the Kelsey Theatre stage when Off Center Stages kicks off the Halloween season with Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical from October 18-27, 2024 on the West Windsor Campus of Mercer County Community College (MCCC). It is based on Robert Louis Stevenson's novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, one of the most famous pieces of English literature and considered a defining book of the Gothic horror genre.
9) Ocean County Library Toms River Branch to Present '45 Years of Amityville: Cult Classic, Local Connections' - (TOMS RIVER, NJ) -- Most of us know that The Amityville Horror, which redefined the thriller genre, turns age 45 this year. What many don't know is that the Ocean County Library has a featured role. Join us for a screening of this unforgettable film and a display of Amityville artifacts in the Bishop Memorial Wing of the Toms River Branch on Saturday, October 26, 2024. The event runs from 1:00pm to 4:00pm.
10) "Bruce Songs: The Music of Bruce Springsteen, Album-by-Album, Song-by-Song" takes a Scholarly Look at Springsteen's Musical Legacy - (WEST LONG BRANCH, NJ) -- Rutgers University Press published a book by two Monmouth University professors, Bruce Songs: The Music of Bruce Springsteen, Album-by-Album, Song-by-Song, on Springsteen's birthday, September 23, 2024. The authors are renowned music scholar Kenneth Womack, Ph.D., professor of English and Popular Music, and music historian Kenneth L. Campbell, Ph.D., professor in the Department of History and Anthropology. The book offers an in-depth exploration of Springsteen's musical legacy.
11) Hoboken High School Drama Students Present Staged Reading of "Fortune" - (HOBOKEN, NJ) -- The drama students of Hoboken High School and their director, Danielle Miller, along with celebrated actress Joy Kelly and the Hoboken High School Chorus, present a staged reading of George Cameron Grant’s empowering play Fortune on April 28, 2017 at 7:00pm at Hoboken High School as a fundraiser for its theater program. George’s powerful and noble work is about the most unforgettable women you have never known, Rose Fortune, who was born a slave, and through a 90-year life span, became a symbol of truth, social equality, and human spirit.
12) 23rd Annual Newark Arts Festival Takes Place Through Sunday - (NEWARK, NJ) -- Mayor Ras J. Baraka announced that the 23rd Annual Newark Arts Festival has begun, and will continue through Sunday, October 13, 2024, at a number of sites across the City.
13) Cousin Brucie Presents Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr., Darlene Love, and The Soundtrack of Our Lives LIVE! at PNC Bank Arts Center - Even though it’s evening, music lovers inside Holmdel, NJ’s PNC Bank Arts Center amphitheater this Thursday, September 26, 2024 are excited to “let the sunshine in” with a Garden State Arts Foundation concert entitled Cousin Brucie Presents Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr., Darlene Love, and The Soundtrack of our Lives with Deborah Rennard and Al Sapienza.
14) HYCIDE to Launch the "Black & White Book" at The Newark Museum of Art on October 12th - (NEWARK, NJ) -- On October 12, 2024, HYCIDE will celebrate the launch of the Black & White Book – a 452-page volume that explores race as a social construct and celebrates the power of Black culture and self-definition. The event will be held at the Newark Museum of Art from 6:00pm to 9:00pm. Admission is free.
15) The Princeton Folk Music Society presents Beppe Gambetta on October 18th - (PRINCETON, NJ) -- The Princeton Folk Music Society presents a fusion of American and Italian folk music traditions with Beppe Gambetta on Friday, October 18, 2024 at Christ Congregation Church in Princeton. Showtime is 8:00pm. The concert is available in-person and as a livestream on their YouTube channel.
15) [TIE] Theater Q Asbury to Debut in October with "Zanna Don't - The Reboot!" - (ASBURY PARK, NJ) -- Theater Q Asbury, New Jersey's new LGBTQ+ focused theater company, will make its debut this October with Zanna Don't – The Reboot! running from October 10-13, 2024 at the House of Independents in Asbury Park. This fresh take on the 2003 Off-Broadway musical is directed by its original creator, Freehold native Tim Acito, and promises to bring audiences a joyous, funny, thought-provoking celebration which manages to be timely and vintage at the same time.
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