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Daily Edition 01-17-24

NJ Stage Daily Update

Here is the morning update for New Jersey Stage for 01-17-24.

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!

theatre

This Week in Theatre: Previews for Plays Taking Place January 16-23, 2024

Here are previews of plays taking place from January 16-23, 2024 including a look at productions currently being presented and those coming soon. New Jersey Stage covers Equity, community, college, and high school theatre.

Bergen County Players presents "Pride and Prejudice"

(ORADELL, NJ) -- Heed the invite from some of the most memorable characters in fiction! Bergen County Players (BCP), one of America's longest-running little theater companies, will open its first mainstage production of the new year with a comedic retelling of Jane Austen's great romantic tale Pride and Prejudice. Performances run weekends from February 3-24, 2024 at the Little Firehouse Theatre in Oradell.

Black Box Studios presents Selections from "The Rock Musical Soul Searching" and a Staged Reading of "Second Chances"

(TEANECK, NJ) -- Featuring the music of Avi Kunstler, a special evening of Selections from The Rock Musical Soul Searching, preceded by a staged reading of the play with music Second Chances, will be presented by Black Box Studios on Wednesday, January 24th at 7:30pm at Debonair Music Hall in Teaneck, NJ.

music

This Week in Music: Previews for Concerts Taking Place January 16-23, 2024

Here is a look at upcoming shows taking place from January 16-23, 2024 along with our featured listings. New Jersey Stage offers previews of concerts throughout the Garden State as well as select shows in New York City and Philadelphia areas.

BUSH - Load: The Greatest Hits Tour dates announced; includes shows in Holmdel and Atlantic City

(ATLANTIC CITY, NJ) -- GRAMMY®-nominated, multi-Platinum band BUSH will celebrate its 30th anniversary with an extensive North American headline tour. Bush – Loaded: The Greatest Hits Tour will kick off on July 26 in Bend, OR and include shows at PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel on August 21 and Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena in Atlantic City on August 23. Jerry Cantrell and Candlebox will be the special guests on all dates. Additional guests will be announced.

Prudential Center presents Janet Jackson

(NEWARK, NJ) -- One year after announcing her highly anticipated return to the road with her ninth concert tour, Together Again, five-time GRAMMY®️ Award-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame®️ Inductee Janet Jackson reveals she will be adding 35 dates to the run. In addition, Nelly will join Jackson on tour across all dates as her special guest. Produced by Live Nation, the new leg of this tour will start in summer 2024, and include a stop at Prudential Center in Newark on Tuesday, July 9, 2024.

bergenPAC presents Saxon & Uriah Heep: Hell, Fire & Chaos – The Best British Rock & Metal

(ENGLEWOOD, NJ) -- Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC) presents a night of the best British rock and metal with Saxon and Uriah Heep on Friday, May 3, 2024 at 8:00pm. Tickets range from $39-$99.

Sum 41 Announces Final World Tour; includes shows in Asbury Park, NYC, and Philly

(ASBURY PARK, NJ) -- Grammy-nominated band Sum 41 has announced their last headlining world tour, 'Tour Of The Setting Sum', to celebrate the upcoming release of their final album Heaven :x: Hell. Sum 41 will be making stops in the United States, Japan, Mexico, Germany, Italy, and more before playing their final show as a band in Toronto, Ontario, at Scotiabank Arena on January 30, 2025. Locally, the band comes to The Stone Pony Summer Stage in Asbury Park on May 4th; Brooklyn Paramount in NYC on May 6th; and the Skyline Stage at The Mann in Philadelphia on May 18th.

Princeton Makes' Java Jam to feature The Fészer Band

(PRINCETON, NJ) -- Princeton Makes, a Princeton-based artist cooperative, will feature the Fészer Band at its monthly Java Jam, to be held on Sunday, January 21, 2024 at the Princeton Makes artist studios and art market in the Princeton Shopping Center. Showtime is 4:00pm.

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. A cast of internationally acclaimed guest vocalists and renowned Lincoln Center stage director Beth Greenberg join Maestro Wroe and NJFO to present this haunting tragedy of rival families, thwarted love, unhealthy obsessions and the manipulation of an innocent woman.

BlowUpRadio.com's New & Notable NJ Music 1/15/24

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 The Stewart Dolly, sparks fly from a kiss, Indeyevid, and Part-Time Custodian. Plus a look back at "Winter Kills" by The Whirling Dervishes.

comedy

The Basie presents Bianca Del Rio: Dead Inside Comedy Tour

(RED BANK, NJ) -- The Count Basie Center for the Arts presents Bianca Del Rio: Dead Inside Comedy Tour on Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 8:00pm. Bianca Del Rio, dubbed "The Joan Rivers of the Drag World" by the New York Times, is a dimple-cheeked, larger-than-life drag queen and outrageous comic who isn't afraid to shock and offend.

film

Middletown Arts Center presents Movies at The Mac

(MIDDLETOWN, NJ) -- The Middletown Arts Center presents Movies at the MAC! After years of watching at home on TV or even a phone, now is your chance to enjoy some of Hollywood's finest with fellow fans on the big screen at the Middletown Arts Center. Movies at the MAC launches with three separate programs spotlighting the best in comedy, theater and music on celluloid. Each will each feature monthly screenings with discounted tickets available for MAC Members.

Grunin Center presents screening of "Beyond Their Years: The Incredible Legacies of Herb Carnegie and Buck O’Neil"

(TOMS RIVER, NJ) -- The Grunin Center for the Arts presents a screening of the documentary "Beyond Their Years: The Incredible Legacies of Herb Carnegie and Buck O’Neil" on Thursday, February 29th. The film will be screened at 11:00am and 6:00pm with a panel discussion following the evening screening. The film depicts the compelling story of parallel lives lived by sports and social justice icons Herb Carnegie (hockey) and Buck O'Neil (baseball), who were excluded, because of their race, from competing at the highest professional leagues of the sports they loved.

Augusta Palmer’s insightful documentary The Blues Society screens as the Spring 2024 New Jersey Film Festival Opener on Friday, January 26!

Augusta Palmer screens her third film at the Spring 2024 New Jersey Film Festival and I wanted to talk to her about the amazing new documentary The Blues Society which she has just released. Here is my interview with her:

art

Grounds For Sculpture to Present Slow Motion, Guest Curated by Monument Lab

(HAMILTON, NJ) -- Grounds For Sculpture (GFS) presents Slow Motion, an exhibition that expands the boundaries of contemporary sculpture through the use of unconventional materials and processes, guest curated by Monument Lab. Founded in 2012, Monument Lab is a nonprofit public art and history studio based in Philadelphia, which cultivates and facilitates critical conversations around the past, present, and future of monuments. Traditional approaches to monument-making emphasize durability, solidity, and myths of enduring permanence; however, Slow Motion, which will be on view from May 5, 2024 through September 1, 2025, will embrace the pleasures and possibilities of material transience.

Mason Gross Galleries presents "Polychrome: Beyond the Silhouette"

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- Mason Gross Galleries presents Polychrome: Beyond the Silhouette, a Rutgers University Master of Fine Art Thesis Art Exhibition. from January 16-31, 2024. The exhibition features five rising New Jersey based BIPOC artists (Alfred Dudley III, Kabi Raj Lama, Maisie Luo, Maura Torres Diaz, and Sandra S K Amoabeng) who make painting, sculpture, installation, videos, and performances.

community

Penn Live Arts Presents Ukraine: The Edge of Freedom

(PHILADELPHIA, PA) -- Penn Live Arts (PLA) – the leading presenter of innovative and transformative performing arts experiences in Philadelphia – presents Ukraine: The Edge of Freedom, from Sunday, February 25, 2024 - Sunday, March 3, 2024. The project focuses on artists calling attention to the challenges Ukraine has been facing, kicking off with a performance by Balaklava Blues followed by performances by Ukrainian jazz pianist and film composer Fima Chupakhin, vocal artist and composer Mariana Sadovska, and finally, the avant-garde folk music group, DakhaBrakha. The festival also includes a Ukrainian Community Day celebrating local Ukrainian-American artists, and the opening of a new art exhibit by Kyiv-based artists Anna Khodkova and Kristina Yarosh, as the project highlights the artistry and soul of this European country rich with cultural history.

Events This Week in New Jersey: January 16-23, 2024

Here is a look at upcoming events taking place from January 16-23, 2024 along with our featured listings. New Jersey Stage offers previews of events throughout the Garden State as well as select shows in New York City and Philadelphia areas.

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Erth’s

Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo Live!
Thursday, January 30, 2025 @ 7:00pm
Kean Stage - Wilkins Theatre
1000 Morris Avenue, Union, NJ 07083
category: community

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Sherlock

Sherlock Holmes: The Baker Street Irregulars
Thursday, January 30, 2025 @ 7:30pm
The Historic Palace Theatre
7 Ledgewood Avenue, Netcong, NJ 07857
category: theatre

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George

George Street Playhouse presents "Small"
Thursday, January 30, 2025 @ 7:30pm
New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (NBPAC)
11 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
category: theatre

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Blackberry

Blackberry Smoke: Rattle, Ramble and Roll Tour 2025
Thursday, January 30, 2025 @ 7:30pm
Mayo Performing Arts Center (MPAC)
100 South Street, Morristown, NJ 07960
category: music

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Sun

Sun Ra Arkestra
Thursday, January 30, 2025 @ 7:30pm
McCarter Theatre Center (Berlind Theatre)
91 University Place, Princeton, NJ 08540
category: music

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Lucrecia

Lucrecia Pays Homage to Former Bergen County Resident and Reigning Queen of Salsa, Celia Cruz

"Life is a carnival! It's much more beautiful to live it singing." If you're unfamiliar with my life's mantra, perhaps you’d recognize it if I were instead to say "la vida es un carnaval, es más bello vivir cantando." Now put a salsa beat under it and add the iconic voice of the Queen herself, Celia Cruz. Sound familiar? One would hope.

Jersey

Jersey Arts Podcast: Dancing through the Air: 'Noli Timere' Marks World Premiere at McCarter Theatre

"Noli Timere" is Latin for "be not afraid," and the name of the world premiere presentation from Director and Choreographer, Rebecca Lazier and Sculptor, Janet Echelman. The collaboration features eight multidisciplinary performers dancing up to 25 feet in the air within a voluminous, custom-designed Echelman net sculpture.

bergenPAC

bergenPAC hosts Ukraine Odesa National Ballet US Tour 2025: Don Quixote

(ENGLEWOOD, NJ) -- Step into over 200 years of history with the legendary Ukraine Odesa National Ballet as they bring the timeless classic Don Quixote to life at Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC) on Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Founded in the early 19th century, the Odesa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre stands as one of Ukraine's oldest and most prestigious cultural institutions, preserving a legacy of excellence and inspiration. Showtime is 7:00pm.

MPAC

MPAC presents Vitamin String Quartet: The Music of Taylor Swift, Bridgerton, and Beyond

(MORRISTOWN, NJ) -- Mayo Performing Arts Center (MPAC) presents Vitamin String Quartet: The Music of Taylor Swift, Bridgerton, and Beyond on Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 7:30pm. With over two billion streams, pop-culture inspired instrumentalists Vitamin String Quartet (VSQ) has helped establish classical crossover as a genuine force in contemporary music.

State

State Theatre New Jersey presents Are You Ready For It? A Taylor Experience

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- State Theatre New Jersey presents Are Your Ready For It? A Taylor Experience Starring Traci Marie, paying tribute to Taylor Swift's iconic Eras Tour on Friday, February 14, 2025 at 7:00pm. This is a fast paced, energetic, captivating show, that features a live band tribute to the most successful tour in music history.

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