WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange Public Library and West Orange Arts Council present “Play Ball! Art and Sports” on Thursday, April 22, at 7 p.m. Award-winning art history lecturer Janet Mandel will visually illustrate the excitement, drama and human connection that come from sports. This event will take a look at how sports […]
NEWARK, NJ — Newark Symphony Hall, New Jersey’s largest black-led arts and entertainment venue, has announced Yendor Theatre Company as its first company-in-residence. YTC’s first production with the venue will be Richard Wesley’s “Black Terror,” co-produced by WACO Theater Center, which is based out of Los Angeles’ North Hollywood neighborhood. The production will be directed […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The students in West Orange High School’s advanced placement art class refused to let the coronavirus pandemic silence their creative voices; they channeled their anxiety and frustration into powerful works that helped them cope during the turmoil of the past 12 months. And now the world has the chance to see […]
MONTCLAIR, NJ — Montclair Art Museum has announced that Ira Wagner has been appointed the museum’s executive director. Wagner serves as the 10th director since the museum’s founding in 1914. Upon longtime Director Lora Urbanelli’s retirement last spring, Wagner stepped in as interim director, pending the arrival of a successor. When the pandemic forced the museum […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Ember, the critically acclaimed choral ensemble of Schola Cantorum on Hudson, will present the live concert “Release,” in which the ensemble examines the period in life between what was and what will be. A live performance will be held Friday, April 16, at 8 p.m. at Our Lady of Sorrows Church, […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — West Orange High School will present its annual spring musical, “The Shows Must Go On,” on Friday, April 23, and Saturday, April 24, at the Oskar Schindler Performing Arts Center, 4 Boland Drive, beginning at 8 p.m. The program will be a celebration of the musicals produced at West Orange High […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Luna Stage will present a bold new theatrical experience in three parts: “#RIFT,” by Gabriel Jason Dean. Through the lens of two real-life brothers — one a convicted murderer, the other a playwright; one a member of the alt-right, the other an A.O.C.-type progressive — “#RIFT” explores whether it is possible […]
MONTCLAIR, NJ — Vanguard Theater Company has been awarded an $18,900 grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts to support supplies and equipment expenses associated with resuming in-person programming at 180 Bloomfield Ave., Montclair, and sleepaway camp. The COVID Critical Needs program was created by the council to support COVID-19–specific updates for […]
BLOOMFIELD / NEWARK, NJ — Bloomfield filmmaker Karen Stefano and Newark filmmaker Brooks Walker will each screen a film at the 19th annual Garden State Film Festival, which runs from March 23 to 28, both in person and virtually. Among the selection of more than 300 films, the Garden State Film Festival will screen Stefano’s […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Like all students in Bloomfield this year, Lisa Basile’s English-as-a-second-language students haven’t gotten the chance to be in their regular classrooms at Bloomfield High School because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which meant they didn’t get to put on their annual arts event in the BHS library and art gallery this winter, […]