Partying with the Great Gatsby

by Bruce Chadwick - published 2023-10-27
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is considered by many to be the greatest novel ever written by an American (all right, Herman Melville's Moby Dick a close second). It is the story of an incredibly wealthy World War I war hero who has not seen his girlfriend in five years and tries desperately to get her back. He buys a Rolls Royce car, builds a multi-million-dollar mansion and throws the wildest parties the 1920s had ever seen. The problem is that in those long, long five years she married and had a child. So where does our rich war hero, Jay Gatsby, go?

State Theatre New Jersey presents "Chicago, the Musical"

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- State Theatre New Jersey presents four performances of Chicago the Musical - Saturday, November 18 at 2:00pm & 8:00pm and Sunday, November 19 at 1:00pm & 6:30pm. Tickets range from $40-$105. Chicago has everything that makes Broadway great: a universal tale of fame, fortune, one show-stopping song after another, and spectacular dance numbers.

Makin Waves Song of the Week: "Sunny V" by Jerry Weldon

by Bob Makin - published 2023-10-27
Jersey Jazz great Jerry Weldon will record a live album on Nov. 3 at New Brunswick Performing Arts Center. One of the tunes he'll record, "Sunny V," is the Makin Waves Song of the Week.

New Jersey Stage: Daily Edition 10-27-23

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!

SCTC Presents "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"

by Shen Shellenberger, JerseyArts.com - published 2023-10-27
Next up at the South Camden Theatre Company's Waterfront South Theatre is "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," based on the award-winning 2003 novel by British author Mark Haddon and adapted for the stage by Simon Stephens. The production opens on Nov 3 and continues Friday and Saturday evenings, and Sunday afternoons through Nov 19, 2023.

PHOTOS from "Doctor Frankenstein" at OCC

by John Posada - published 2023-10-26
(TOMS RIVER, NJ) -- The Ocean County College Repertory Theatre Company presents Doctor Frankenstein, a new play by George Allison that asks the question, "What if Mary Shelley got it wrong... on purpose?" Performances take place in the Black Box Theater at the Grunin Center for the Arts from Thursday, October 26 through Sunday, November 5, 2023. Photographer John Posada was on hand to take photos.

Rock On! This Week's Sound Bites...10/26/23

by Danny Coleman - published 2023-10-26
"Friends & Family," began Firefall's Jock Bartley, "Our manager Len Fico who is also our record label, he suggested to me and Mark Andes when Mark was still in the band and who has since retired before we started this record; he said, "You know, the original guys in Firefall, many of you played in other famous bands; why don't you do an album of just their material?" When he said that, the lightbulb went off in my head and I said, "That's great but why don't we expand that?"

New Jersey Stage: Daily Edition 10-26-23

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!

Rutgers Jewish Film Festival: Throughout All the Wars and All the Troubles

by Bruce Chadwick - published 2023-10-25
When it comes to film festivals, Karen Small, the executive director of the Rutgers Jewish Film Festival, has seen it all – several times.