Here's a look at the top 15 most read articles published at New Jersey Stage from February 16-22, 2025. 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 6 counties in New Jersey (Bergen, Camden, Essex, Monmouth, Ocean, and Union).
Make sure your events are part of our weekly columns by sending press releases to us at [email protected]. Event previews are always one of the most popular areas of the website. Event previews get noticed when we first publish them and then get noticed again when they are brought back to the main area of the site the week the event takes place - sometimes even several months later. We also run weekly columns promoting events, music, and theatre shows taking place for the week. These columns include our featured event previews and event listings along with all of our event previews of the week. Your events can stand out for as low as $10! Many times, they are among the most read stories of the week. There is no cost for us to run your press releases!
1) The Penguin Rocks Hall of Fame - A personal rock hall of fame by music writer Gary Wien, publisher of New Jersey Stage. You can hear the artists, the albums, and see the years between his favorite songs released since he began buying records. You can also create instant playlists of NJ artists, songs by 80s-90s, 2000s-2010, and 2011 to the present. Give it a shot!
2) Events This Week in New Jersey from February 18-24, 2025 - Here is a look at upcoming events taking place from February 18-24, 2025 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.
3) Tribute to Southside Johnny, Part 2 - After Southside Johnny announced he was retiring from touring in December, we reached out to some SSJ fans to pay tribute to Johnny. Responses kept coming in after the first tribute, so here are a few more tributes.
4) Westfield Arts Collective Announces Plans to Transform Historic Rialto Theater into Center for Creativity at; The Rialto - (WESTFIELD, NJ) -- The Westfield Arts Collective (WAC), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded by Westfield residents, announced bold plans to transform the historic Rialto Theater in downtown Westfield, New Jersey, into the Center for Creativity @ The Rialto. To bring the vision of creating an adaptive, community-centric creative space to life, WAC will establish a capital campaign to raise funds from government, foundation, corporate and individual sources.
5) Students of Nettingham Performing Arts Company Bring Fairy Tales to Life in "Into the Woods JR." - (SCOTCH PLAINS, NJ) -- Students from Nettingham Middle School's Performing Arts Company are set to enchant audiences with a fresh and humorous take on classic fairy tale characters in their production of Into the Woods JR. Directed by Katherine Decker Lewis, with music direction by James Mosser and choreography by Samantha Simpson, this beloved musical promises to be a magical and unforgettable experience. Performances take place February 21-23, 2025.
6) New Jersey Performing Arts High School Makes History - (TOMS RIVER, NJ) -- The Ocean County Vocational Technical School's (OCVTS) Grunin Performing Arts Academy (GPAA) is thrilled to announce that its fall drama production, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, has been selected to perform at the International Thespian Festival, the world's largest celebration of high school theatre. This prestigious event will take place at Indiana University Bloomington from June 22-27, 2025.
7) Monmouth County Park System to Hold Summer Job Fair - (TINTON FALLS, NJ) -- Spend the summer working in the parks! The Monmouth County Park System is looking to hire lifeguards, camp counselors, seasonal maintenance workers, and more for June, July and August. Opportunities in the Park System's therapeutic recreation department include camp counselors for special needs camps and inclusion coaches.
8) The Songs That Made Me: My Personal Hall of Fame - The cliché is that people often think the best music of their life came out when they were a teenager and they sort of tune out new songs as they get older. I never really agreed with that idea and wanted to put it to the test. What are the songs that mean the most to me throughout my life? The ones you hear the chorus as soon as you see the title? When did they come out? And did I ever stop listening to new music?
9) Nearly 1,000 students to attend Women's History Month concert by New Jersey Youth Symphony at UCPAC - (RAHWAY, NJ) -- The New Jersey Youth Symphony (NJYS), a program of Wharton Arts, announced that nearly 1,000 elementary and middle school students will attend a free Education Concert on Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at 10:00am at the Union County Performing Arts Center in Rahway. Students from Union, Essex, Morris, and Passaic counties will attend this special event celebrating Women's History Month, with music selections by Louise Farrenc, Florence Price, Chen Yi, and Gabriela Lena Frank.
10) Mayor Baraka Opens Ronald L. Rice Arts Center West for Youth Exploration of Arts and Music - (NEWARK, NJ) -- Mayor Ras J. Baraka, the Office of Violence Prevention and Trauma Recovery (OVPTR), Invest Newark, members of the family of the late New Jersey State Senator Ronald L. Rice, and other dignitaries opened the Ronald L. Rice Arts Center West on February 18, 2025. The facility is located at 460-462 South 18th Street in the West Ward.
11) Pioneering Color & Light Festival to Illuminate Asbury Park - (ASBURY PARK, NJ) -- On March 21-22, 2025, the historic seaside town of Asbury Park will host the inaugural Color & Light Festival, a groundbreaking event set to redefine the cultural landscape of New Jersey and the Tri-State Area. The festival will transform the façade of Asbury Park's iconic Paramount Theatre with dazzling projection mapping "shows" set to music.
12) Old Library Theatre is Facing Significant Challenges, Has Paused Operations Due to Status Change with Borough of Fair Lawn - (FAIR LAWN, NJ) -- Old Library Theatre (OLT) is facing significant challenges following a change in its status with the Borough of Fair Lawn. These changes have resulted in increased fees that are unmanageable for OLT, necessitating an adjustment of its season and cancellation of future productions for the next six to nine months. This pause will allow OLT the necessary time to incorporate and secure insurance in order to continue operations.
13) South Camden Theatre Company presents "Hollywood, Nebraska" by Kenneth Jones - (CAMDEN, NJ) -- South Camden Theatre Company kicks off their 2025 season with Hollywood, Nebraska by Kenneth Jones weekends from February 28 through March 16, 2025. In the play, two forty-something actresses have returned to their dying hometown in the Great Plains of Nebraska.
14) Sirius Radio Broadway host Seth Rudetsky to interview and accompany Broadway star Adam Pascal at Bell Theater - (HOLMDEL, NJ) -- Adam Pascal, the original Roger from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical Rent, is coming to Bell Theater at Bell Works in Holmdel on Saturday, March 8, 2025 at 8:00pm. This one-night-only performance is part of Seth Rudetsky's Big Fat Broadway Live series, an up-close and personal mix of songs from Pascal's Broadway career, plus intimate, behind-the-scenes stories coupled with Rudetsky's funny, insightful and revealing questions.
15) Tickets Now on Sale for United Solo's Spring 2025 Festival - (NEW YORK, NY) -- United Solo's Spring 2025 Festival brings a lineup of dynamic performances from around the world to Theatre Row, running from March 18 through April 20.
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