MILLBURN, NJ — Since their inception in 1996, the Paper Mill Playhouse Rising Star Awards for Excellence in High School Musical Theatre, presented by the Investors Foundation, have ignited the careers of many notable performers, all of whom attended high school in New Jersey. Paper Mill Playhouse has announced the 2021 nominees. Award recipients will […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Ember, the critically acclaimed choral ensemble of Schola Cantorum on Hudson, will present a live and virtual season finale concert, “Emerge,” where the group will examine this period in our lives between what was and what will be. Ember will perform live on Saturday, June 12, at 7 p.m. at St. […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — West Orange High School senior and AP Art student Cristal Perez was awarded second place in the mixed media category at the annual Congressional Art Competition during a virtual ceremony on May 5. U.S. Rep. Donald Payne Jr., who represents the 10th Congressional District, congratulated Perez on her accomplishment. In describing […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — In the midst of a pandemic and with most schools open only for virtual learning until recently, the Bloomfield High School theater department still managed to put on all three of its scheduled shows this school year. The last one of the school year — “Six Feet Apart,” a night of song, […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Seton Hall’s WSOU 89.5 FM received a celebrated plaque from the band Hellyeah on the occasion of its first and most famous album “Hellyeah” being classified as gold after selling more than 500,000 copies. Hellyeah’s album success marks another milestone for WSOU, following in the footsteps of its most recent album […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Stephane Wrembel has announced Django A Gogo Festival 2021, which will be held Thursday, June 3, through Sunday, June 6, comprising four concerts and an intensive two-day guitar workshop. This world-class event celebrates the music and life of legendary musician and composer Django Reinhardt. The concert repertoire follows the Django canon and […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Warren Court Art Walk will be Saturday, May 22, Sunday, May 23, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Montrose Park Historic District of South Orange. Local artists Sybil Archibald, Wendy Bellermann, and Leslie Goldman have been prolific during the pandemic and they’ve decided it’s time to make lemonade […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — It began with an artist’s sketch. William Coronado, a grades 6-12 art instructor at Cicely L. Tyson Community School of Performing and Fine Arts, decided to create a wall mural as a tribute to the school’s matriarch, award-winning actress of stage and screen Cicely L. Tyson. The disruption caused by the […]
ORANGE / WEST ORANGE, NJ — Luna Stage, in association with Ping Chong and Company, will premiere “2.2 Square Miles of Soul: Voices of Orange,” a documentary film centering the voices and experiences of people from Orange, streaming May 13 to 23. This new work is the latest in Ping Chong and Company’s “Undesirable Elements” […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Wolfgang Scheitinger, a 2019 graduate of West Orange High School, has been selected to have his original composition “flutters and murmurs of a curious heart and mind” premiered on May 7 at the 2021 National Society of Composers Virtual Conference. Scheitinger’s composition was one of six selected from a field of […]