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New Jersey Stage: Daily Edition 10-17-26

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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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theatre

The Theater Project is Accepting Submissions for THINK FAST 2027 - Its Annual Online Festival of Short Plays


(UNION, NJ) -- The Theater Project, an incubator for new work and rising artists, has opened for submissions to its fourteenth annual THINK FAST festival of short plays, which will take place online March 5-7, 2027. The submission deadline is November 16.

Centenary Stage Company to open Fringe Festival with Phoebe Potts' Solo Show "Too Fat For China"


(HACKETTSTOWN, NJ) -- Centenary Stage Company launches its annual Fringe Festival with comedian, comic storyteller, and professional Jew Phoebe Potts and her acclaimed one-woman show, Too Fat For China, running November 5–8, 2026, in the Kutz Theatre at the Lackland Performing Arts Center on the campus of Centenary University.

Jersey Arts Podcast: Cabaret Team Brings "Mary Astor's Purple Diary" To Life


You might know classic Hollywood actor Mary Astor from The Maltese Falcon or Meet Me in St. Louis, but in 1936 her name was splashed across newspapers for a very different reason. Astor was entrenched in a messy custody battle with her ex-husband, and at the center of what was then deemed "the trial of the century" was Mary Astor's own salacious diary.

music

New Jersey Symphony Appoints Gaetan Le Divelec as Vice President of Artistic Planning & Operations


(NEWARK, NJ) -- New Jersey Symphony has appointed Gaetan Le Divelec as Vice President of Artistic Planning & Operations, effective November 1, 2026. Le Divelec joins the Symphony from the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO), where he serves as Vice President of Artistic Planning from 2022 to 2026, partnering with Music Director Nathalie Stutzmann to guide the orchestra's classical programming, from guest artists and conductors to repertoire and new series.

State Theatre New Jersey presents "The Sixties Show"


(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- State Theatre New Jersey presents The Sixties Show on Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 7:30pm. The Sixties Show, a popular, award-winning Off-Broadway show, is a high-energy, multimedia, immersive experience that celebrates the inspirational, entertaining, and historically significant music and events of the 1960s.

Makin Waves Song of the Week: "Two Moths” by Sean Kiely feat. Jean Rohe


The Makin Waves Song of the Week is "Two Moths" from "Long Live The Low," the latest album by Jersey City singer-songwriter Sean Kiely,

Rock On! This Week's Sound Bites... 10/16/2026


She has been called a "Natural born performer" but that only scratches the surface of this statuesque entertainer's description possibilities. Perhaps she has been described as a "Natural born performer" due to her past as a touring musical theater artist or a musician or maybe something else but one thing for sure is; she has the wow factor and that she is Erinn Alissa.

comedy

Classes in Clowning, Creativity, and Improv Begin in November at Vivid Stage


(SUMMIT, NJ) -- Vivid Stage, in residence at the Oakes Center in Summit, is opening enrollment for its November session of classes for adults, which runs November 4 through December 22, 2026. Classes offered this session include both Improv and new creative classes for adults. The Joy of Improv, Beyond Beginner, Intro to Longform and a one-night Holiday Mixer are all available for students seeking an improv experience. Also, there is a new one-night Clowning Workshop and a four-week Creativity Class on the Studio side. The entire season of classes is available now, offering a full range of topics and levels for all students.

art

Art House Productions presents "Urban Decay", a solo exhibition by Robert Bohn


(JERSEY CITY, NJ) -- Art House Productions presents Urban Decay, a solo exhibition by Jersey City artist Robert Bohn, curated by Andrea McKenna, on view at the Art House Gallery from Saturday, November 7 through Sunday, November 29, 2026.

The Fun Continues at Illumination 250: My Signature and The Quilt Trail Exhibitions on Display in Hackensack


(HACKENSACK, NJ) -- The Hackensack Performing Arts Center (HACPAC) announces Illumination 250's public interactive art exhibitions, My Signature: My Declaration and The Quilt Trail, are on display and open to the public to view in Hackensack, New Jersey throughout the fall.




 

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