UNION – Premiere Stages, the professional theatre company in residence at Kean University, has selected its four finalists for the 2025 Premiere Play Festival. Now in its 20th year, the Festival is an annual competition for unproduced scripts that offers developmental opportunities to playwrights wi...

CRANFORD — The Theater Project will give its regards to the Great White Way when it presents Broadway Jukebox at the Jardine Academy on June 28 and 29. This year’s show will star eight alumni of Theater Project Jr, a summer program for teenagers. In Broadway Jukebox, they reunite as young adults to ...

SCOTCH PLAINS – Social Justice Matters, Inc. (SJM) will observe Juneteenth 2025 on Saturday, June 14, with dance, drum and musical performances as well as mini-golf, other children’s activities, and a minimarket of Black-owned businesses, among other events.The program will be held in partnership wi...

FANWOOD -- The Carriage House Poetry Series invites the public to attend a free event on Thursday, June 19, at 7:30 p.m., featuring distinguished poet Rogan Kelly in the Carriage House Arts Center on Watson Road, off North MartineAvenue, next to Fanwood Borough Hall. (75 N. Martine Ave.)Rogan Kelly ...

RAHWAY – In observance of Juneteenth, the federal holiday that commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States, Union County PerformingArts Center (UCPAC) will offer two events celebrating Black voices inAmerica. On Thursday, June 19, at 7 p.m., UCPAC’s historic Main Stage will present the 2...

CRANFORD – On May 15, at the annual Jersey Access Group (JAG) Conference and Awards Dinner, Cranford TV-35 was honored with 11 awards in all, including three firstplace awards.First Place: “Video Coverage of the Township Committee Meeting (July 9, 2024)” video. Camera work by Don Smith and directing...

SUMMIT – Vivid Stage, in residence at Oakes Center at 120 Morris Avenue in Summit, is celebrating its 30th Anniversary season, marking decades of bringing contemporary theatre to audiences in the state of New Jersey. Coming up is the final episode of the original series, Gemstones, by Phoebe Farber....

SUMMIT – In response to the body blows pummeling arts organizations nationwide, The Theater Project will deliver a one-two punch with the premier New Jersey production of And in This Corner … Cassius Clay, the centerpiece of its thirty-first summer season.Idris Goodwin’s 2016 award-winning drama wil...

NEW PROVIDENCE—The New Jersey Youth Chorus (NJYC), a program of Wharton Arts, is excited to announce the launch of Cor Amici, a dynamic new ensemble for middle school boys beginning in fall 2025.Said NJYC Founder and Director Trish Joyce, “Designed specifically for boys in grades 6–8, Cor Amici— whi...

WESTFIELD –TheWestfield Community Concert Band, under the direction of Dr. Thomas Connors, continues its 113th season with its annual Summer Concert Series in Mindowaskin Park, East Broad Street, Westfield. The band will be performing four Thursday evening concerts on June 26, July 3, July 10 and Ju...