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Northeast Film Festival
Teaneck, NJ
Teaneck International Film Festival
Teaneck, NJ

Teaneck International Film Festival
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Jewish Film Festival of the Katz JCC
Cherry Hill, NJ
CUT International Short Film Festival
Millville, NJ
Montclair Film Festival
Montclair, NJ
Newark Black Film Festival
Newark, NJ
New Jersey Jewish Film Festival
West Orange, NJ
Thomas Edison Film Festival
Jersey City, NJ
Brightside Tavern Film Festival
Jersey City, NJ
Golden Door International Film Festival
Jersey City, NJ
Jersey City International Television & Film Festival
Jersey City, NJ
Princeton Environmental Film Festival
Princeton, NJ
Princeton Student Film & Video Festival
Princeton, NJ
Trenton Film Festival
Trenton, NJ

New Jersey Film Festival
Voorhees Hall #105/Rutgers University
71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ
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New Jersey International Film Festival
Voorhees Hall #105/Rutgers University
71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ
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Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
New Brunswick, NJ
Asbury Music & Film Festival
Asbury Park, NJ
Bread & Roses Film Festival
Asbury Park, NJ
Count Basie Center Breakthrough Filmmaker Film Fest
Red Bank, NJ
FilmOneFest
Atlantic Highlands, NJ

Garden State Film Festival
Various venues in Asbury Park, Ocean Grove, and Cranford NJ
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Hang On To Your Shorts Film Festival
Asbury Park, NJ
Indie Street Film Festival
Red Bank, NJ
Monmouth Film Festival
Holmdel, NJ
Lighthouse International Film Festival
Long Beach Island, NJ
Salem County Film Festival
Woodstown, NJ
Westfield International Film Festival
Westfield, NJ
Barrymore Film Center
Fort Lee, NJ
Monmouth Film Institute
Holmdel, NJ
Netflix in Fort Monmouth
Eatontown, NJ
New Jersey Motion Picture & Television Commission
South Jersey Film Office Cooperative

Here are previews of plays taking place from May 19-25, 2026 including a look at productions currently being presented and those coming soon. New Jersey Stage covers Equity, community, college, and high school theatre. Check back every week for the weekly theatre preview.

(LONG BRANCH, NJ) -- New Jersey Repertory Company (NJ Rep) will present the world premiere of Jack Canfora's The Vienna Lessons, directed by Evan Bergman, with performances from June 4-28, 2026. The play takes place in Vienna, 1787. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, at the height of his powers but struggling financially, meets a serious and supremely confident teenager who wants to hire him as a teacher, Ludwig Van Beethoven.

(CAPE MAY, NJ) -- The reimagined East Lynne Theater Company opens its Season Forty-Six with the extraordinary, real-life story Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years by Emily Mann, running June 18 to July 19, 2026 at the Clemans Theater for the Arts at the Allen AME in Cape May.

(MORRISTOWN, NJ) -- Janelle James, who stars in the scene-stealing role of "Ava Coleman" in the Emmy-nominated ABC comedy series Abbott Elementary, performs an evening of stand-up comedy at Mayo Performing Arts Center (MPAC) on Saturday, July 11, 2026 at 8:00pm.
