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New Jersey Talent will be featured during 2025 North to Shore Festival

Prolific Asbury Park singer and songwriter Alexander Simone (grandson of the legendary Nina), Atlantic City's R&B songstress Mary Cross, and the pioneering female rapper, Newark's MC Rah Digga, are just a few of the beloved local talents who will present events as part of this year's Prudential North to Shore Festival. Performances and programs will be held June 14-29, 2025 in Asbury Park and Newark, while performances in Atlantic City will extend throughout the coming year.



Middletown Arts Center to Hold Spring Arts & Crafts Festival

(MIDDLETOWN, NJ) -- The Middletown Arts Center hosts the outdoor Spring Arts & Crafts Festival on Saturday, May 10, 2025, from 11:00am to 3:00pm. Admission is free. Dozens of vendors will be on hand with unique items including hand-crafted jewelry, paintings, candles, wood carvings, baked goods, charcuterie cups, home decor, original artwork, pet products and more.



American Repertory Ballet presents "PASIÓN"

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- American Repertory Ballet's 2024-2025 season at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center concludes on May 9-11, 2025 with PASIÓN a joyful program with Spanish, Mexican, and Cuban choreographic ties. Featured choreography includes Paquita, an iconic classical ballet set in Spain, The Time That Runs Away by Stephanie Martinez, danced to popular songs from the '50s and ’'60s, and a dynamic world premiere with live music by Cuban choreographer Luis Napoles.



Garden State New Play Festival to Take Place in Jersey City

(JERSEY CITY, NJ) -- Jersey City Theater Center and The New Jersey Play Lab present the inaugural Garden State New Play Festival from May 1-4 and May 8-11, 2025 at White Eagle Hall and Five Corners Library Theatre. This groundbreaking festival offers a reimagined model for new play development—one rooted in community, advocacy, and artistic equity.










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Garden

Garden State Art Weekend

Saturday, April 26, 2025 @ 11:00am
Middletown Arts Center
36 Church Street, Middletown, NJ 07748



Rod

Rod Picott/Anya Hinkle

Saturday, April 26, 2025 @ 8:00pm
Jersey Shore Arts Center
66 South Main Street, Ocean Grove, NJ 07756



Beatles

Beatles vs. Stones - A Musical Showdown

Saturday, April 26, 2025 @ 4:00pm
New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (NBPAC)
11 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901



Chamber

Chamber Music Ensemble Spring Concert

Saturday, April 26, 2025 @ 2:30pm
Kean Stage - Enlow Recital Hall
215 North Avenue, Hillside, NJ 07205



Crossing

Crossing Over with Psychic Medium John Edward

Saturday, April 26, 2025 @ 7:00pm
Carteret Performing Arts Center
46 Washington Ave, Carteret, NJ 07008







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Old Crow Medicine Show Brought the Porch to the People at MPAC in Morristown




Jersey Arts TV: 'the ripple, the wave that carried me home' Sweeps into Luna Stage

Written by Tony-nominated playwright Christina Anderson, "the ripple, the wave that carried me home," is a moving exploration of a family's response to injustice and a daughter's reckoning with her political inheritance.




INKubator New Play Festival at Art House Productions

How would you feel about being able to influence the trajectory of a play from the ground level? Art House Productions will let you do just that. INKubator New Play Festival is about the art of the staged reading and the power of the audience. You'd be hard pressed to find a theatergoer unfamiliar with a staged production, and yet so many audience members have never experienced a staged reading. The former brings you all the pomp and circumstance of a fully realized world, complete with scenic, costume, sound, lighting design, and more. Most of what you'd find on a Broadway stage is a great example of a [staged] production. The latter is solely reliant on its author, actors, and the audience. It is exactly as it sounds: you are watching the actors read the script aloud, from their seats on stage.




New Release Review - "Sinners"

The most famous legend in all of musical lore is that of guitarist Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil in exchange for blues greatness. With Sinners, writer/director Ryan Coogler takes inspiration from Johnson's story and remixes it as a vampire thriller and a tribute to popular music's roots in the Delta blues. An alternate title might be "The House That Honeydripped Blood."




"That's Not Right"

Art fairs, I have learned, are a little bit like the senior prom. They might not be your idea of a good time. But you don't want to be stuck at home while everybody else is on the dancefloor. Even if you don't party, it's still nice to be asked.




Stanley Jordan to Perform at Avenel Performing Arts Center

(AVENEL, NJ) -- Woodbridge Township presents Stanley Jordan at The Avenel Performing Arts Center with support from Woodbridge Arts on Friday, May 2, 2025 at 7:30pm. James "Biscuit" Rouse will open the night.




New Release Review - "The Ugly Stepsister"

Combining the bawdiness of Walerian Borowczyk's medieval fantasies with the postmodernism of Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, Norwegian writer/director Emilie Blichfeldt's The Ugly Stepsister might be described as a neo-fairy tale. It's essentially the Cinderella story, taking elements from both the Perrault and Brothers Grimm versions, and it's set in a beautifully rendered version of some non-existent Scandinavian kingdom of the past. But the trouble with fairy tales is that they were written hundreds of years ago when the world was a cruel and insensitive place, and their black and white presentation of good and evil doesn't fit with our modern sensibilities. Nor does the reprehensible idea present in so many fairy tales that physical "ugliness" is a sign of bad moral fibre.




State Theatre New Jersey 2025 Benefit Gala to Feature Performance by Tony(R) Award-winner Kelli O'Hara and Honor Arts Advocates John and Jeanne Fitzgerald

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- State Theatre New Jersey welcomes patrons for A Night in Lights Annual Benefit Gala on Saturday, June 7, 2025. Proceeds from STNJ's Annual Benefit Gala directly support its mission to provide transformative arts education programs, affordable ticketing initiatives, and community outreach efforts that bring the joy of live entertainment to everyone, regardless of their circumstances.










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(WEST LONG BRANCH, NJ) -- The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music has announced the honorees of its third annual American Music Honors event, to be held Saturday, April 26, 2025 on the campus of Monmouth University in West Long Branch. The 2025 honorees are: Smokey Robinson, John Fogerty, Emmylou Harris, Tom Morello, and Joe Ely. The event begins at 8:30pm.

(NEWTON, NJ) -- Home Again is a tribute to the multi-award winning singer-songwriter Carole King. The tribute comes to The Newton Theatre on Saturday, April 26, 2025 at 8:00pm.

(BOONTON, NJ) -- LoMotion Live presents a brand-new theatrical experience, The Devil and Daisy Dirt, featuring live music, a life-sized puppet, and a deep dive into New Jersey's most intriguing lore. The performance takes place Saturday, April 26, 2025 at The Parsippany Arts Center. Showtime is 8:00pm.

(CRANFORD, NJ) -- The fifth annual Cranford Film Festival will showcase selected short films from rising and established filmmakers at the Cranford Theater on Saturday, April 26, 2025. Filmmakers and enthusiasts alike are invited to participate in an evening celebrating the best and most creative voices in short film.

(GLASSBORO, NJ) -- Rowan University's Marie Rader Series presents Chanticleer: Music of a Silent World on Saturday, April 26, 2025 at Pfleeger Concert Hall in Glassboro. Showtime is 7:30pm.









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Makin Waves Song of the Week: "I Know Your Number" by Arlan Feiles

The Makin Waves Song of the Week is "I Know Your Number," the second single from Jersey Shore troubadour Arlan Feiles' brand-new LP, "Diaspora."



Rock On! This Week's Sound Bites...4/24/25

"I would say Blues-Rock is where I kind of hang in," states Kelli Baker. "We definitely do a lot of Blues stuff but I like the Americana and the Rock that goes with it too. So, Blues-Rock is usually a pretty good space for me to hang out in."



​​​​​​​Makin Waves Song of the Week: "Gibraltar" by Defecting Grey

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Each year-end coverage of Makin Waves features "The Dirty Jersey Dozen," a list of the 12 indie Jersey music acts that made the most waves. Two bands that likely would be on the all-time Dirty Jersey list are Gigantic, a Jersey Shore trio inspired by the primal pop of The Pixies and Nirvana, and Alternative Tentacles recording act Buzzkill, also a trio from the days when New Brunswick was the state's best music scene.



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