WESTFIELD — The New Jersey Festival Orchestra (NJFO), led by Music Director David Wroe, opens its 2025–26 season with “The Gypsy Spirit,” a dazzling celebration of folk energy and symphonic brilliance, on Saturday, September 27 at 7 p.m. at The Presbyterian Church in Westfield.This season-opening pe...

SCOTCH PLAINS – Join us at the Scotch Plains Public Library on Thursday, October 9 AT 7 p.m. for an author talk about Atlantic City in the 1950s. Local author Rosie Genova will present a slice of Atlantic City life, based on her research for her latest release- Murder on the Steel Pier, which is set...

WESTFIELD –Mostly Music returns for another extraordinary season of live chamber music on Sunday afternoons at 3:30 p.m. at Temple Emanu-El in Westfield, NJ.The season opens on October 26 with an exploration of Bohemian, Hungarian and Russian music featuring violinists Chad Hoopes and Arnaud Sussman...

WESTFIELD — Ten years ago, Fanwood resident Megan Whitney launched a small business out of a tiny space in downtown Westfield with the idea of creating an opportunity to pass her love of sewing and quilting on to the next generation. “I had just turned 40, and I was always crafting or working on som...

FANWOOD – From New York and from England-via-Nashville, two critically acclaimed musical artists are bringing their original music to the Fanwood Performance Series on October 11.Rachael Sage is a soulful vocalist, innovativemulti- instrumentalistandawardwinningsinger/ songwriter/producerfrom NYC wh...

WESTFIELD –Virtuoso Steinway artist Drew Petersen, in concert, will launch the new 2025-2026 Steeple Concerts at St. Paul’s season on Sunday, September 21, at 5 p.m. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church is located at 414 East Broad Street in Westfield. Concert tickets, priced at $30/adults and $15/students, ...

FANWOOD – The Carriage House Poetry Series invites the public to attend a free event on Thursday, September 18, at 7:30 p.m., featuring distinguished poets Jane Ebihara and Elaine Koplow reading in the Kuran Arts Center on Watson Road, off North Martine Avenue, next to Fanwood Borough Hall. (GPS: 75...

MILLBURN – Paper Mill Playhouse (Mark S. Hoebee, Producing Artistic Director; Michael Stotts, Executive Director), recipient of the Regional Theatre TonyAward, kicked off rehearsals this week for Bull Durham, the first production of its 2025-2026 season. The new musical begins performances Thursday,...

UNION – Set in the not-so-distant future, Walden opens to find Stella (Allison Altman), a failed NASA astronaut, lives in a remote cabin with her fiancé Bryan (Anthony Vaught Merchant), an Earth Activist or EA for short, a person who uses no technology and believes the government should stop funding...

SCOTCH PLAINS — For rising high school senior Vince Larbi, author of “The Time Runner Adventures: Origins”, the road to publication was a long and challenging one.“I started working on this when I was in the fifth grade,” Vince said, speaking with The Leader last week, “There were times when I wante...