MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Columbia High School student Isaiah Thomas, this year’s Maplewood Glee Club Scholarship winner, brought down the house with standing ovations April 30 at the club’s spring concert at Prospect Presbyterian Church in Maplewood. This young artist, though only a senior at Columbia, is outstandingly talented as a singer, pianist and organist, according […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — South Orange and Maplewood students will perform in Vanguard Theater Company’s Broadway Buddy Mentorship Cabaret on Sunday, May 22, at South Orange Middle School at 7:30 p.m. The cabaret will also showcase Broadway professionals from shows including “Hamilton,” “Aladdin,” “School of Rock” and “The Color Purple,” among others, who, through Vanguard’s […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Luna Stage will hold a staged reading of “Psychodrama,” a new play by Phoebe Farber, on Saturday, May 14, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, May 15, at 3 p.m. The play, directed by Taylor Del Rossi, focuses on a weekly divorce group that has just lost their leader. Barb, their new […]
MILLBURN, NJ — As one of the nation’s leading regional theaters and producing partners for Broadway, Paper Mill Playhouse has a well-earned reputation for launching both performers and shows for the Great White Way. The theater will be the recipient of this year’s Regional Theatre Tony Award. Since their inception in 1996, the Paper Mill […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The uproarious Steve Solomon is performing his hit comedy “My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish & I’m In Therapy!” at the South Orange Performing Arts Center through May 22 and he is leaving the audience in tears — tears of laughter. The wildly successful one-man show has been enjoyed by almost […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — If you were a die-hard fan of independent music during the mid-1980s and you are the kind of person who scours local clubs in search of the next cool band to tell your friends about, then there is a good chance you’re familiar with the Cucumbers. The Hoboken-based power pop group was […]
NEWARK, NJ — Newark Celebration 350 presents Newark’s local hometown heroes and international recording artists Faith Evans, Naughty by Nature, Cissy Houston and India at the Founders Weekend Festival Celebrating 350 Years of Newark’s arts, culture and community as one of America’s great historical cities, a free event at Military Park, 51 Park Place, Newark, […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The Society of Musical Arts presents a free orchestral concert on Sunday, June 5, at 4 p.m. in the auditorium of Maplewood Middle School, 7 Burnet St. in Maplewood. The “Tragic Lovers” program will feature classics by Tchaikovsky, Wagner and Faure. For more information, visit www.soma.ar88.net or call 973-763-4939. Photos Courtesy of […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The 17th annual Gaelen Juried Art Show & Sale, sponsored by Audrey & Norbert Gaelen of West Orange, will open Sunday, May 15, and run through Sunday, June 26, at the Gaelen Gallery West on the Aidekman Campus, 901 Route 10 East in Whippany. This year 85 pieces by 54 artists […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The Cucumbers will perform a reunion show at Rent Party on Friday, May 13, with doors opening at 7:30 p.m. at The Woodland, 60 Woodland Road in Maplewood. The Cucumbers go on at 9:45 p.m. Prior to that, Bern and the Brights will go on at 7:45 p.m. and The Thousand Pities […]