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theatre
Bordentown Regional High School Students Nominated for Greater Philadelphia Cappie Awards 
(BORDENTOWN, NJ) -- Bordentown Regional High School is proud to announce that their production of the musical Curtains and the BRHS Cappies Critic Team have been nominated for five 2025 Greater Philadelphia Cappie Awards.
Black Box presents Staged Reading of "Three Tall Women" by Edward Albee 
(TEANECK, NJ) -- In association with The Estate of Edward Albee, Black Box presents a staged reading of Edward Albee's Three Tall Women (1991) on Wednesday, May 14, 2025 at Debonair Music Hall. The winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize, the play is about a compelling woman more than ninety years old who reflects on her life. The reading is scheduled for 7:30pm.
The Theater Project to Present Reading of "Intake: Heaven" by Sheila Duane 
(CRANFORD, NJ) -- Even Paradise has support staff, according to Intake: Heaven, Sheila Duane's comedy about the afterlife's processing department, which will have its first public presentation as part of The Theater Project's 2025 New Play Reading Series. The reading takes place Saturday, May 17, 2025 at the Cranford Community Center. The reading is scheduled for 2:00pm.
Vivid Stage Offers Sample Class Day for Vivid Dreamers Summer Theatre Camp 
(SUMMIT, NJ) -- Vivid Stage is offering a Sample Class Day for its Vivid Dreamers summer theatre program for students entering grades 4 through 10. The free Sample Class Day is Saturday, May 17, 2025 from 1:00pm-2:30pm at the Oakes Center in Summit, and registration is required. Vivid Dreamers is a program that celebrates the unique creativity of each individual student, and helps them to develop their own voice and personal expression.
music
The Newton Theatre presents FJ - A Tribute to Foreigner & Journey 
(NEWTON, NJ) -- FJ - A Tribute to Foreigner & Journey comes to The Newton Theatre on Saturday, August 2, 2025 at 8:00pm. The music and energy of two legendary stadium rock bands comes together in one electrifying show!
Songs of Love and Exile brings immigrant voices to center stage 
(RIVER EDGE, NJ) -- On Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 4:00pm, River Crossing Concerts presents Songs of Love and Exile featuring soprano Sun Young Chung, cellist Thapelo Masita, and pianist Slavina Zhelezova for a poignant and timely recital exploring the inner landscapes of displacement, longing, and resilience.
Broadway's The Phantom of the Opera Singer to Join Artist's Reception Event Honoring Anne Bachelier 
(LAFAYETTE, NJ) -- Skylands Museum of Art has announced that Broadway's The Phantom of the Opera singer, Satomi Hofmann will join the May 3, 2025 Artist's Reception for Anne Bachelier, creator of the museum's current exhibition featuring the oil paintings that illuminate the gothic tale. The day's festivities will also include an artist's meet and greet, book signing and silent auction, featuring not only the last three limited-edition editions of Bachelier's books, a new oil painting called "Night of the Masks" but also two "Fondest Greetings" prop letters from the show, both of which were tucked into Madame Giry's bodice then read/sung aloud in performance in the Broadway production.
The 14th Annual Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition is Now Accepting Entries 
(NEWARK, NJ) -- The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) has announced the opening of the 14th annual Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition. The search is on for the next great jazz singer! Solo vocalists from around the world are encouraged to submit their entries before September 2, 2025, by visiting SarahVaughanCompetition.com. In the Fall, the Top Five Finalists will be announced followed by a final competition and performance on the iconic NJPAC stage in Newark, New Jersey.
art
Riverside Gallery presents "Where We Left Off" - a Solo Exhibition by Jamie Joe 
(HACKENSACK, NJ) -- Riverside Gallery presents Where We Left Off, a solo exhibition by Korean American artist Jamie Joe from May 8-17, 2025. In this new body of work, Joe explores the suspended spaces between pause and persistence—where memories surface, yearnings stir, and unfinished stories quietly live on. Her abstract and figurative expressionist paintings seek to unearth the vivid fragments of the psyche, creating a dialogue between personal recollection and collective experience.
Young Artists Take the Spotlight at the Iris Gallery @ SOPAC 
(SOUTH ORANGE, NJ) -- The South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC) is proud to announce the return of the INSPIRED MINDS: Young Artist Exhibition, a showcase of exceptional visual art created by high school students from across Essex County. This vibrant and inspiring exhibition will be on display in the Herb + Milly Iris Gallery from May 15 through August 17, 2025.
Lori Perbeck: "Edge of Light" 
Ours is a town receptive to strange photographs. Artists and viewers still operate under the twin signs of Edward Fausty and Shandor Hassan, former residents of 111 First Street and audacious image-makers, city-scapers, and saturators of our fields of vision. Dorie Dahlberg, Frank Hanavan, and Grant Hardeway have all demonstrated how much urban storytelling they can coax out of an odd picture. Then there's Susan Evans Grove, an experimentalist unabashed, who finds constellations in the pockmarked hulls of ships, and, through tricks of illumination and shadow, turns arrangements of cosmetics bottles into post-apocalyptic skylines. Grove's hallucinations teach us something important about light: under the direction of a skilled illusionist, it obscures as much as it shows.
community
$280,000 Grant Allows Stockton University to Provide Free Parkinson's Disease Speech Therapy 
(GALLOWAY, NJ) -- The Speech and Hearing Clinic at Stockton University will provide free therapy to people with Parkinson's Disease through a five-year grant totaling $280,000 from the Parkinson’s Voice Project in April 2025.
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EVENT PREVIEWS
The Newton Theatre presents Sister Hazel
November 13, 2025
The Search for Truth and the Persistence of Love Across Time with Novelist Amanda Peters
November 13, 2025
Lily Vakili to perform at Marksboro Mills
November 13, 2025
Outpost in the Burbs presents Emily Grove's Joni Jam
November 14, 2025
Lizzie Rose Music Room presents Griffin House
November 14, 2025
Newton Theatre presents The Breakers - Tom Petty Tribute Band
November 14, 2025
Makin Waves with Don McLean: Starry Stories
November 14, 2025
StocktonPAC presents "Black Angels Over Tuskegee"
November 14, 2025
Hats Off To Downtown brings an evening of shopping, prizes, and fun to South Orange
November 14, 2025
Fund for Irish Studies at Princeton University presents a Conversation with Olwen Fouéré
November 14, 2025
