WESTFIELD -- Greek-American pop star Evangelia, whose music blends modern pop with Greek sounds, returns to her Garden State roots for a live performance at the Saturday “Big Night Out” event at this year’s NJ Greek Fest, hosted by Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church.A variety of ticket options are a...

CRANFORD -- Get ready to see, climb and touch a truck on Sunday May 31, from 10 a.m. to noon. Cranford Community Connection committee is bringing back the big trucks in its annual Touch-ATruck event to a new location this year—to 65 Jackson Drive, in the Cranford Office Park off Commerce Drive. Kids...

WESTFIELD — The New Jersey Festival Orchestra closes its season with One Thousand and One Nights, an evening inspired by the legendary Arabian tales that gave rise to Rimsky-Korsakov’s beloved orchestral masterpiece Scheherazade. Presented in collaboration with the Slovak-American Cultural Center (S...

CRANFORD – Friedrich Biermann was a child when he first saw Nazis march through the streets from the balcony of his childhood home in Vienna. Soon, school friends began to ignore him, and his teachers locked him in a dark closet during the school day before telling him never to come back.Seeing thei...

WESTFIELD — The recipe for a perfect summer day includes delicious food and activities, all sound tracked by entertaining music. Arts on the Lawn, an upcoming event hosted by Westfield High School, checks those boxes and more. On Saturday May 16, families are invited to come support and celebrate st...

FANWOOD -- The Fanwood Performance Series presents an evening of jazz featuring homegrown musicians on June 13.Saxophonist Pat Gannon – an alumnus of Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School (class of 2018) and its premier jazz band, the Moonglowers – will bring his organ quartet to Fanwood’s Carriage Hous...

WESTFIELD -- Steeple Concerts at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Westfield is honored and delighted to invite the general, music-loving public to a long-awaited, live performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s masterful Great Mass in C-minor. On Sunday, May 17, at 5 p.m., performed with full chorus and...

UNION – Premiere Stages, the professional theatre company in residence at Kean University, is pleased to announce the 2026 Premiere Play Festival Semi-Finalists.The Play Festival panel and literary staff reviewed 894 submissions, an increase of 89 submissions from the previous year, before choosing ...

WESTFIELD -- Area residents look forward each year to immersing themselves in the vibrant culture of Greece at NJ Greek Fest, hosted by Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, Westfield. And this year, the event — known for delectable Greek cuisine, a Mega 50/50 raffle and many other family-friendly act...

HOLMDEL -- The New Jersey Theatre Alliance welcomed more than 200 leaders from the arts, business, labor, and government sectors to its annual Curtain Call celebration on Monday, April 20, 2026 at Bell Works. The annual gala celebrated the strength, creativity, and collaborative spirit of New Jersey...