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theatre
Jersey Arts TV: The Little Mermaid Makes a Splash at the Paper Mill Playhouse 
Disney kids, and Disney adults, can rejoice! Paper Mill Playhouse is bringing "Disney's The Little Mermaid" to the stage.
bergenPAC Announces 2025 New Jersey High School Musical Award Winners 
(ENGLEWOOD, NJ) -- On June 2, 2025, bergenPAC's Performing Arts School proudly hosted the High School Musical Awards Ceremony. This prestigious event celebrated and showcased the exceptional talents of students and staff from high schools across New Jersey involved in musical theater. This year, bergenPAC received nearly three times as many applications as last year, and are thrilled with the program's growth, which highlights the talents of students from all over the state.
Jersey Arts Podcast: 'Rent' Moves into the Pioneer Productions Stage in Morristown 
Today we're talking all things, "Rent." Pioneer Productions Company of Morristown will be bringing the larger-than-life rock opera to a more intimate setting.
The Theater Project presents "And in This Corner... Cassius Clay" 
(SUMMIT, NJ) -- In response to the body blows pummeling arts organizations nationwide, The Theater Project will deliver a one-two punch with the premier New Jersey production of And in This Corner... Cassius Clay, the centerpiece of its thirty-first summer season. Idris Goodwin's 2016 award-winning drama will run August 14–24, 2025 at the Oakes Center.
Vivid Stage presents Final Episode of Gemstones June 21-22 
(SUMMIT, NJ) -- Vivid Stage, in residence at Oakes Center at 120 Morris Avenue in Summit, is celebrating its 30th Anniversary season, marking decades of bringing contemporary theatre to audiences in the state of New Jersey. Coming up is the final episode of the original series, Gemstones, by Phoebe Farber. This episode, which will recap the entire season and wrap up the family's story, runs Saturday, June 21 at 8:00pm and Sunday, June 22, 2025 at 2:00pm.
music
State Theatre New Jersey presents One Vision of Queen Featuring Marc Martel 
(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- State Theatre New Jersey presents One Vision of Queen featuring Marc Martel on Friday, June 13, 2025 at 8:00pm. Tickets range from $39-$118.
The Princeton Symphony Orchestra Presents the 'Princeton Festival' 
The Princeton Festival was first founded in 2004, beginning its inaugural season in 2005 with four performances of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd in the Kirby Theatre at the Lawrenceville School and a performance by the Concordia Chamber Players. It has since grown to a nearly month-long event featuring opera, musical theater, baroque and chamber music, and a constantly evolving selection of other genres, including dance, world music, orchestral pops, and choral concerts.
Rock On! This Week's Sound Bites...6/5/25 
"Well, I had the great pleasure a few years back of interviewing most of the musicians who played on "Highway 61 Revisited," Dylan's 1965 album, one of his 1965 albums which in my view is still the greatest album ever made by anybody. After all of the magazine features, there was a vast whole of interview material that didn't make it to the articles just because of limited space and I always felt that one day it would make the crux of a good book and this being the 60th anniversary year of Dylan going electric and of "Highway 61" so it seemed an opportune moment."
Count Basie Center for the Arts presents Graham Nash 
(RED BANK, NJ) -- Graham Nash, two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and founding member of both the Hollies and Crosby, Stills & Nash, will perform at Count Basie Center for the Arts on Tuesday, July 8, 2025. Nash will be joined on stage by Todd Caldwell (keyboards and vocals), Adam Minkoff (bass, drums, guitars and vocals) and Zach Djanikian (guitars, mandolin, drums and vocals), performing favorites from across his sixty-year career. Showtime is 7:30pm.
Ocean County Library presents RB Express 
(TOMS RIVER, NJ) -- Slip into summer on a good note – actually, a concert full of good notes, sung by Ocean County's own RB Express. The vocal quartet will perform your favorites from the '50s through the '90s at the Ocean County Library, Toms River Branch on Wednesday, June 25, 2025. Showtime is 6:30pm.
film
Burn Ceremony hypnotizes at the 2025 New Jersey International Film Festival 
Watching Burn Ceremony feels less like viewing a film and more like being pulled into a trance. It’s definitely not something you watch casually. It demands attention - focus - concentration. Alexander Girav’s experimental short is hypnotic and deliberate, offering no clear narrative but instead crafting an experience rooted in sensation and atmosphere.
Screening of A Place of Honor at the 2025 New Jersey International Film Festival is on Saturday, June 7th! 
A Place of Honor is a short documentary, directed by Vanessa Roth, that recounts the lived experiences of veterans and gold star family members from before, through and after the war who found renewed purpose and meaning in their lives when they decided to create the only memorial and museum dedicated to the lives lost in Vietnam.
Child No. 182 screens at the 2025 New Jersey International Film Festival on Thursday, June 5th 
In Child No. 182, filmmaker Camilla Roos turns the lens inward to explore the earliest years of her own life, spent drifting through Finland's child protection system in the 1960s and 70s. Over the course of this 50-minute documentary, we explore the emotional landscape of a child trying to reach stability within an inherently unstable situation. It’s a deeply personal and engaging portrait, one that is all the more intriguing as it is of the filmmaker herself.
Joyful short Ash Wednesday screens at the 2025 New Jersey International Film Festival on Thursday, June 5th 
In Ash Wednesday, writer and director Grace O’Brien delivers a vibrant, funny, and heartfelt portrait of teenage awkwardness, budding faith, and the bonds of friendship. Set in a Catholic school on one of the holiest days of the liturgical calendar, this coming-of-age short uses humor to explore how periods, rituals, and identity intersect in unexpected and entertaining ways.
art
Somerset County Cultural & Heritage Commission Accepting Applications for 2025 Senior Art Show 
The Somerset County Cultural & Heritage Commission is accepting applications for its juried 2025 Senior Art Show. To be eligible, artists must be Somerset County residents and at least 60 years of age. Acceptable artwork mediums include acrylics, oils, pastels, watercolors, crafts, digital/computer art, mixed media, works on paper, photography, and sculpture. The deadline for registration and submission is Monday, July 14.
poetry
Cape May Poet Laureate Sylvia Baer hosts writing workshops on poetry, fiction, memoir and children's literature this July 
(CAPE MAY, NJ) -- Cape May MAC (Museums+Arts+Culture) once again presents Cape May Poet Laureate Sylvia Baer in a new series of writing workshops this summer open to writers of all levels. Sylvia brings her engaging teaching style and deep literary knowledge to this series that will explore four different genres of writing: poetry, fiction, memoir and children's literature.
books
Celebrate Reading and Community at the Fourth Annual Passaic County Book Festival 
(CLIFTON, NJ) -- The County of Passaic, in partnership with the PALS Plus Library Consortium, proudly presents the fourth annual Passaic County Book Festival at Weasel Brook Park on Saturday, June 14, 2025, from 11:00am to 4:00pm.
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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
Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena presents Warren Zeiders
November 14, 2025
UCPAC presents Black Sabbath and Metallica tribute bands on Friday
November 14, 2025
Billy Strings to Play Two Nights at Prudential Center
November 14-15, 2025
