Wiener & Joey Skaggs: The Solomon Project screen at the Spring 2024 New Jersey Film Festival on Friday, February 9

by Anita LaBelle - published 2024-02-03
From college admissions to court proceedings, the humdrum chores of life can seem grim. What’s one way to make them tolerable? Laughter. In both Wiener and Joey Skaggs: The Solomon Project, comedy is used to ease the tension of everyday affairs while simultaneously bringing to the forefront the issues of our society that collectively weigh us down.

New Jersey Festival Orchestra presents iconic Donizetti tragedy "Lucia di Lammermoor"

(SPRINGFIELD, NJ) -- Brigadoon meets Macbeth in New Jersey Festival Orchestra's February 17th production of Lucia di Lammermoor, Donizetti's spellbinding tale of marriage, madness and murder. Internationally acclaimed guest vocalists join Maestro Wroe and NJFO to present this haunting romantic thriller about a young and fragile woman living in a world of shadows.

Makin Waves Song of the Week: "Beautiful Losers" by The Antoine Poncelet Band

by Bob Makin - published 2024-02-02
​​​​​​​New Jersey's own goth n' rollers The Antoine Poncelet Band have released their fourth digital single, "Beautiful Losers," a gothic prog-rock ode to the broken hearts of the world.

Hypnotic Seeing Other People screens at the Spring 2024 New Jersey Film Festival on Friday, February 9

by Kevin Reardon - published 2024-02-02
Amanda Prager shows us an absurdist, over the top, and stylish take on a toxic relationship in her short film Seeing Other People. What starts as a typical dating scenario quickly turns magical, dangerous, and horrifying as a young woman, Anne, tries arguing with her hive-minded boyfriend, Jesse.

New Jersey Stage: Daily Edition 02-02-24

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!

"The Cher Show" Celebrates the Life and Legend of a Musical Icon at the State Theatre

by Gina Marie Rodriguez, JerseyArts.com - published 2024-02-01
People's Choice. Billboard Music. Kennedy Center Honor. Golden Globe. Emmy. Grammy. Oscar. No, I’m not just naming awards for fun; this is but a tiny sampling of the accolades amassed by the one, the only, the wholly inimitable, CHER.

Jazz at the Vogel: Tenor Saxophonist Joshua Redman's Music Connects with the "American Experience"

by Jay Sweet - published 2024-02-01
In September 2023, when tenor saxophonist Joshua Redman released his first album on the Blue Note label, Where We Are, Frank Alkyer of DownBeat described it as "a confessional about America, one full of hopes and dreams, but also reality and confusion, and love, and loss."

Rock On! This Week's Sound Bites...2/1/24

by Danny Coleman - published 2024-02-01
"Yes, Saturday February 10; I've done this a few times with this group; it has been going for I think about 30 years with different configurations and I've been in and out of it over the years but I've been a mainstay for the last three years now and it's just so much fun. We not only do little tiny individual mini-sets but we do a lot of collaborating, a lot of harmony and it's a really fun show for us," states singer/songwriter Lucy Kaplansky about the upcoming February 10 "On A Winter's Night" show at Monmouth University's Pollack Theater in Long Branch, NJ. "I've played there a bunch of times over the years and the good thing about the setup is that everyone can see; it is kind of a clever way to set up a theater and it's intimate." 

New Jersey Film Festival Spring 2024 Wild Fire Video Q+A with Director Jennifer Cooney

by Vic Fern - published 2024-02-01
Here is the New Jersey Film Festival Spring 2024 Wild Fire Video Q+A with Director Jennifer Cooney, Anran Li and Festival Director Al Nigrin: