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This Week in Music: Previews for Concerts in New Jersey from April 1-7, 2025

Here is a look at shows taking place from April 1-7, 2025 along with our featured listings and a look at some upcoming shows. New Jersey Stage offers previews of concerts throughout the Garden State as well as select shows in New York City and Philadelphia areas.



This Week in Theatre: Previews for Plays Taking Place in New Jersey April 1-7, 2025

Here are previews of plays taking place from April 1-7, 2025 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.



Daily Edition 04-01-25

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!



Get the Led Out to Play Three Nights at Scottish Rite Auditorium

(COLLINGSWOOD, NJ) -- Get the Led Out (GTLO) takes over the Scottish Rite Auditorium for shows April 24-26, 2025 at 8:00pm each night. From the bombastic and epic to the folky and mystical, GTLO has captured the essence of the recorded music of Led Zeppelin and brought it to the concert stage. The concerts are presented by the Camden County Board of Commissioners.










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The West Point Concert Band

Tuesday, April 01, 2025 @ 7:00pm
Mayo Performing Arts Center (MPAC)
100 South Street, Morristown, NJ 07960



Tuesday

Tuesday Night Record Club - Led Zeppelin, IV

Tuesday, April 01, 2025 @ 7:30pm
Monmouth University - The Great Hall
400 Cedar Avenue, West Long Branch, NJ 07764



MAC

MAC Jazz Orchestra

Wednesday, April 02, 2025 @ 3:30pm
Middletown Arts Center
36 Church Street, Middletown, NJ 07748



Crossroads

Crossroads Theatre Company presents Genesis Festival of New Plays: Silma Sierra Berrada's PEARLS

Wednesday, April 02, 2025 @ 7:00pm
New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (NBPAC)
11 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901



NYC

NYC Musical Marathon & Jack Dallas presents Repertoire 2025

Wednesday, April 02, 2025 @ 7:30pm
Man Cave
, Northern Valley, NJ 07624







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Crossroads Theatre Company presents The Genesis Festival of New Plays This Week




Kean Theatre Conservatory presents "They Promised Her the Moon"

(UNION, NJ) -- Kean Theatre Conservatory presents They Promised Her the Moon from April 4-12, 2025. The play by Laurel Ollstein takes place in 1961 when the first American woman to test for space flight stepped into an isolation tank for a record-breaking nine hours, outlasting all of the men in NASA's emerging Mercury 7 program.




Ayhan Hulagu to Bring Traditional Turkish Theater to Princeton University

(PRINCETON, NJ) -- 700-year-old traditional Turkish Theatre in America. Recognized by UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage, Turkish shadow theater will be showcased at Princeton University. Actor and playwright Ayhan Hulagu adapts the 700-year-old Karagöz tradition in The Forest of the Witch for American audiences.




State Theatre New Jersey presents Mark Normand: Ya Don't Say

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- State Theatre New Jersey presents Mark Normand: Ya Don't Say on Friday, April 25, 2025 at 7:00pm. Dubbed by Jerry Seinfeld as the "best young up-and-coming comic," Mark has quickly become one of the most talked about touring comedians on the scene.




Split Level Concerts presents Rod Picott and Anya Hinkle at Jersey Shore Arts Center

(OCEAN GROVE, NJ) -- Critically acclaimed singer/songwriters Rod Picott and Anya Hinkle will co-headline a performance at Jersey Shore Arts Center in Ocean Grove on Saturday, April 26, 2025. Showtime is 8:00pm. The show closes out the 2024-25 season of the Split Level Concerts series which highlights renowned Americana and contemporary folk musicians in a uniquely intimate setting. The series will resume in the fall.




'King James' at GSP – Entertaining, Clever, and Heartwarming

One of the great gifts a person can have in life is a good friendship. Once found, we are fortunate if it continues to develop and thrive for a long time. This is what happens in the play King James, currently playing at George Street Playhouse. Written by Rajiv Joseph, the show centers around a friendship which develops due to the amazing career of NBA superstar LeBron James. The friendship is between two young men who both love basketball. But it becomes more than that as it goes on.




Gary Solomon of The THE BAND Band to pay tribute to Bob Dylan at Lizzie Rose Music Room

(TUCKERTON, NJ) -- The Lizzie Rose Music Room presents a solo acoustic tribute to Bob Dylan featuring Gary Solomon of The THE BAND Band on Friday, April 4, 2025. Doors are at 7:00pm, showtime is at 7:30pm.




Algonquin Arts Theatre presents the 2025-2026 jazz series

(MANASQUAN, NJ) -- Algonquin Arts Theatre presents the 2025-2026 jazz series with three performances curated by James Langton. The series includes tributes to Duke Ellington, winter wonderland tunes, and Benny Goodman. Each show takes place on a Sunday afternoon.










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(NEWARK, NJ) -- New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) presents the world-renowned singer, songwriter, and music producer Natalia Lafourcade on Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 8:00pm. She is one of this century's most influential voices in Latin popular culture.

(NEW YORK, NY) -- Richard Frankel, Tom Viertel, Steven Baruch, and Marc Routh proudly announce the world premiere of The Jonathan Larson Project, a new musical that celebrates the dozens of unheard songs, unfinished and unproduced musicals, and pop songs found in files and boxes when the visionary writer of RENT died suddenly at the age of 35 in 1996. Conceived by Jennifer Ashley Tepper and directed by John Simpkins, The Jonathan Larson Project features more than 20 undiscovered songs by the Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning writer.

(PRINCETON, NJ) -- April 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of "The Great Gatsby," and Princeton University Library (PUL) is celebrating with a suite of on- and off-campus programming inspired by the library's significant Fitzgerald and "The Great Gatsby" related holdings, including the F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers, which were donated to the University by his daughter in 1950.

(NEW YORK, NY) -- SoHo Playhouse presents the world premiere of Gloaming, Nowhere, created and performed by J.S. Streible, with original songs by Streible, running March 12 – April 5, 2025 in a limited engagement for 23 performances in the theater's intimate Huron Room. Gloaming, Nowhere is the world's first Neo-Appalachian, Afrolachian, Southern Pop Revusical.

(ORADELL, NJ) -- Love, laughter, and a few moving boxes set the stage for Things My Mother Taught Me, a charming, engaging comedy by Katherine DiSavino, presented by Bergen County Players, one of America's longest-running little theater companies. The show opens on Saturday, March 15, and runs through Saturday, April 5, 2025 at the Little Firehouse Theatre in Oradell.









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BlowUpRadio.com's New & Notable NJ Music 3/31/25

Lazlo, founder of BlowUpRadio.com (an online radio station based around New Jersey artists), shines a light on some of the many new releases from NJ based musicians each week with this column. This week Lazlo takes a look at new releases by Chemical-X, The Porchistas, Renee Maskin, Dante Paulo Tagliani, and Ciara Zwicker. Plus a look back at "Seventy Degrees" by Jonathan Andrew.



Makin Waves Song of the Week: "Over U" by Strawberry Sore Throat

The Makin Waves Song of the Week, "Over U," is one of the 10 tracks featured on two new EPs released simultaneously by Strawberry Sore Throat, the recording side project of Makin Waves Award-winning singer-songwriter Stella Mrowicki.



Rock On! This Week's Sound Bites...3/27/25

"We never do a soundcheck, original music never gets a soundcheck. There's no such thing as a soundcheck, we just plug in and play when we're ready to go," laughed Our Marvelous Lives keyboardist Mike Fury as he and vocalist/guitarist Max Huber discussed their upcoming gigs, new release and their recording process. 



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