New Jersey Stage: Daily Edition 04-21-23

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!

Rock On! This Week's Sound Bites...4/20/23

by Danny Coleman - published 2023-04-20
“We Kind of just do long weekends and come back,” says Karla Bonoff as she prepares to return to the Sellersville Theater tonight April 20 for an 8 p.m. show. “Sometimes we'll be a month off and then we go out and work a lot so, it's never really like one long tour; it's just kind of a constant; you know?  

New Jersey Folk Festival Bridges Tradition and Innovation

by Ilene Dube, JerseyArts.com - published 2023-04-20
As we stroll through our neighborhoods at dinner time and the aromas of garlic, cumin, fenugreek, chilies, cabbages and tomatoes waft through the air, we are reminded that one in five people in the state is from somewhere else. Each community that settles in New Jersey brings with it a wealth of folkways. The New Jersey Folk Festival has been celebrating this for nearly half a century.

Luna Stage Explores NJ's Black History Through the Lens of Howe House

by Maddie Orton, JerseyArts.com - published 2023-04-20
The historic James Howe House was home to a formerly enslaved man, abolitionist and Montclair's first African American homeowner. Thanks to a large-scale collaboration between historians, preservationists, artists, and the teams at Luna Stage and Crossroads Theatre Company, the story of Howe House over the last nearly 200 years will be told through the upcoming play "The Ground on Which We Stand."

French Canadian Trio É.T.É. Brings High-Energy Music to the Folk Project in Morristown on April 28th

(MORRISTOWN, NJ) -- A whirlwind of French-Canadian music comes to the Troubadour Acoustic Concert Series on Friday, April 28 with the award-winning, young Québécois trio, É.T.É. The band combines the region's energetic traditional music with the virtuosity of classical and jazz. The show begins at 7:30pm at the Morristown Unitarian Fellowship. Multi-instrumentalist Russ Rentler will open.

New Jersey Stage: Daily Edition 04-20-23

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!

The Playground Theatre Project presents "Lost Angels" at The Vogel

(RED BANK, NJ) -- The Playground Theatre Project, an outreach program of Actors Playground School of Theatre, will present Lost Angels at The Vogel on Sunday, April 30 at 2:00pm and Monday, May 1 at 7:30pm. The play, written and directed by Ralph Colombino, takes place during a lock down where 11 high school students are stuck in a classroom without a teacher and only texts and the PA system to let them know what is happening in the rest of the school.

PHOTOS from "The Prom" at Old Library Theatre

by John Posada - published 2023-04-19
(FAIR LAWN, NJ) -- Old Library Theatre is presenting the New Jersey Community Theater premiere of the Broadway musical, The Prom. The closing weekend takes place April 21-23 with performances on Friday and Saturday evening at 8:00pm, and a Sunday matinee at 2:00pm. Photographer John Posada was on hand to take photos

The Passaic County Arts Center hosts "Everything's Fine" by NJ artist Gwenn Seemel

(HAWTHORNE, NJ) -- The Passaic County Arts Center hosts "Everything's Fine" by New Jersey artist Gwenn Seemel from April 22 through July 16, 2023. The artwork is from a series of surreal paintings about mental health.