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
Chatham Players Announce 2024-25 Season 
(CHATHAM, NJ) -- Chatham Players has announced their 2024-25 season. Productions include Sideways by Rex Pickett; A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; World Builders by Johnna Adams; You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown by Clark Gesner; Home, I'm Darling by Laura Wade; and Tape by Stephen Belber.
George Street Playhouse presents Pulitzer Prize Finalist, "What the Constitution Means to Me" 
(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- George Street Playhouse has announced the complete cast and creative team for its production of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Drama, What the Constitution Means to Me, written by Tony Award nominee Heidi Schreck (Uncle Vanya), and directed by Laiona Michelle (Little Girl Blue). What the Constitution Means to Me will begin previews on September 24, 2024, and open on September 27 for a limited run through October 13, 2024.
music
Friends of the Brothers with Jaimoe LIVE! at The Vogel 
Fans of Southern Rock wait in the lobby of Red Bank, NJ's Vogel theater this Friday, August 9, 2024 for the start of tonight's special event — a sold-out performance by the Allman Brothers tribute band, Friends of the Brothers, featuring special guest drummer Jaimoe, the sole surviving original member of The Allman Brothers Band.
BlowUpRadio.com's New & Notable NJ Music 8/19/24 
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 Fear Of Falling, Boogie Down Apocalypse, Sean Kiely, Ferocious Designs, and Surfing For Daisy. Plus a look back at "Stupid American Song" by Rick Barry.
film
New Release Review - "Alien: Romulus" 
Has any mainstream franchise been so heavily manipulated by individual directors as the Alien series? Each new director has taken the series in their own direction, for better or worse, but usually worse. Ridley Scott's 1979 original had a very simple premise, essentially a 1950s b-movie with post-Star Wars FX and '70s gore. With Aliens, James Cameron delivered a war movie, replacing Scott's slow burn horror with balls to the wall action. David Fincher gave us a prison movie with Alien 3, while dealing with much studio interference. Alien: Resurrection saw Jean-Pierre Jeunet give us...well, whatever that was (all I remember is Sigourney Weaver's basketball skills, or am I thinking of Kurt Russell in Escape from LA?). Scott made a surprise return to the series and bored the pants off us with the Chariots of the Gods-influenced Prometheus and Covenant, though they did feature the memorable sights of Michael Fassbender snogging himself and Noomi Rapace performing a self-abortion.
community
Sponsors Tee Up for The Theater Project's Annual Golf Outing on September 9th 
(KENILWORTH, NJ) -- Eight community, corporate, and individual sponsors have signed on to support The Theater Project's annual golf outing on Monday, September 9, 2024 at the Galloping Hill Golf Course in Kenilworth.
Uncover Prohibition-Era Shore Skullduggery at the Ocean County Library Brick Branch 
(BRICK TOWNSHIP, NJ) -- Explorer Steve Nagiewicz's chance find of an unknown shipwreck off the New Jersey coast led to a more intriguing discovery - evidence of shady business that thrived when alcohol was illegal. Join them for "Rumrunners, Prohibition and the Rise of the Mob" at the Ocean County Library Brick Branch on Tuesday, September 17, 2024. The event begins at 6:30pm.
books
Author Daniel Rachel to Talk about "Too Much Too Young: The 2-Tone Records Story" at WORD Bookstore 
(JERSEY CITY, NJ) -- On Wednesday, September 11, 2024, author Daniel Rachel will be visiting WORD Bookstore in Jersey City to read and discuss his book Too Much Too Young: The 2-Tone Records Story. This book is a fascinating look at the genre of ska's most important record label and its founding days. The event begins at 7:00pm. Admission is free.
