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New Jersey Stage: Daily Edition 10-03-26

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Here is the morning update from New Jersey's arts newswire. We regularly publish between 8-15 new articles and news reports each day. Nobody covers the Arts throughout the Garden State like New Jersey Stage!

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Jersey Arts Podcast: Kathryn Grody's Unexpected 3rd Act


It's in the third act of a three-act story structure when everything comes to a head. The plot builds to its peak, the characters demonstrate development, and the audience/reader/listener experiences the story's climax—and maybe even a moral.

Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Theater & Music Theater presents "Quite Contrary"


(PRINCETON, NJ) -- The Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Theater and Music Theater at Princeton University presents Quite Contrary, a gothic fantasy re-imagining of the life of Mary Shelley and the ghosts that haunted the creation of her legendary novel, Frankenstein. The new play is written by senior Marlie Kass and is directed by sophomore Nora Glass. Performances are October 9-10 at 8:00pm and October 11, 2026 at 2:00pm in the Wallace Theater at the Lewis Arts complex on the Princeton campus.

music

Makin Waves Song of the Week: "The Only Man to Make It Through the Dance" by Jake Thistle


The Makin Waves Song of the Week is "The Only Man to Make It Through the Dance" from "A Stranger By Design," the latest album by Jake Thistle.

Rock On! This Week's Sound Bites... 10/01/2026


What do you call a rocker by night who pays tribute to multiple classic rock bands and someone who has done children's music during the day? You call him Paulie Z that's what.

Ted Chubb Quintet at NJ Jazz Society's Jersey Jazz LIVE!


In 2020, trumpeter Ted Chubb and his wife, Rachel Ryl, purchased The Statuary, a former sculpture factory in Jersey City, and converted it into a jazz club. Five years later, Chubb's quintet recorded an album, Live at the Statuary, which was released in May of this year by Circle 9 Records.

Air Supply's A Matter of Time Tour LIVE! at MPAC


Spotlight Central and Love Imagery have photos and a recap of Air Supply at Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown on September 20, 2026.

film

2026 Teaneck International Film Festival announces Lineup


(TEANECK, NJ) -- The Teaneck International Film Festival, a project of The Puffin Foundation, Ltd., will celebrate its 21st anniversary November 5–12, 2026 with a lineup of documentaries, narrative features and shorts focused on the festival's enduring theme, "Activism: Making Change." The eight-day festival will bring filmmakers, actors, activists, producers and community leaders to venues throughout Teaneck and Fort Lee for screenings, filmmaker conversations and special events.

MPAC presents Movie Magic in Morristown this Fall


(MORRISTOWN, NJ) -- This season, Mayo Performing Arts Center (MPAC) is bringing movie magic to Morristown, invoking nostalgia for its origins as The Community Theatre, the crown jewel of Walter Reade's chain of movie houses during the Golden Age of Hollywood. The fall lineup features beloved films reimagined for MPAC's role today as the heart of live entertainment in Morris County.

art

HYCIDE Founder Akintola Hanif to Host Retrospective of His Work at XPANSE Arts Space


(NEWARK, NJ) -- Photographer and filmmaker Akintola Hanif will exhibit a retrospective of his work spanning more than 20 years of photos – from street photography and documentary portraiture to erotica and studio images–on October 9, 2026 at HYCIDE XPANSE [arts axis] in Newark, NJ from 6:00pm to 9:00pm.

Jersey Arts TV: Canadian Indigenous Artist Nadia Myre Celebrates Her First U.S. Solo Show at Montclair Art Museum


In a pre-digital world, culture was rooted in tactile, fragile, handcrafted heirlooms. In her first expansive solo show in the USA, Nadia Myre: Analog/ues, Canadian Indigenous artist Nadia Myre translates complex Native and settler histories of North America into multimedia works that open cross-cultural dialogues.




 

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