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theatre
NBPAC presents The Devil and Daisy Dirt 
(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- The Devil and Daisy Dirt comes to the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (NBPAC) on Saturday, November 8, 2025. It's a bluegrass tall tale about the Jersey Devil with live music and an 8′ wearable puppet. Showtime is 7:00pm.
music
MPAC presents George Thorogood & The Destroyers 
(MORRISTOWN, NJ) -- Mayo Performing Arts Center (MPAC) presents George Thorogood & The Destroyers on Tuesday, September 9, 2025 at 7:30pm. The band has been a staple on rock radio for 50 years. Canyon Lights will open the night. Limited tickets remain.
Blackberry Smoke LIVE! at bergenPAC 
Spotlight Central and Love Imagery have photos and a recap of Blackberry Smoke at bergenPAC on August 27, 2025.
film
New Release Review - "The Toxic Avenger" 
Even as a schlock-obsessed kid I saw right through Troma's cynical attempts to manufacture prefabricated cult movies. Filmmakers don't make cult movies. Audiences make cult movies. Anyone who sets out to make a cult movie is on a hiding to nothing, but Troma thought they could game the system simply by giving their movies lurid titles and VHS artwork that the films inevitably failed to live up to, and in doing so they gave birth to the likes of The Asylum, with their endless Sharknado rehashes.
Terrific Shorts Program at Fall 2025 New Jersey Film Festival on Sunday, September 7! 
Here is the line-up for the Shorts Program at the Fall 2025 New Jersey Film Festival on Sunday, September 7:
community
Beneath the Moon, Art and Science Come Alive: Rahway's Festival of the Moon Celebrates Creativity Through Music, Performance, and Discovery 
(RAHWAY, NJ) -- The City of Rahway has partnered with Rahway SID and Union County Performing Arts Center to present the Festival of the Moon from October 4-20, 2025. Memorable performances evoking and celebrating the moon will be performed onstage while Luke Jerram's world famous Museum of the Moon is suspended mid-air over the orchestra section inside the majestic UCPAC theater.
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