The MAC Players Bring Disney's The Little Mermaid to the Middletown Arts Center This July The question of what makes a regional theater production worth attending — really worth attending, in the way that leaves an audience thinking about it on the drive home — is rarely answered by production budget or venue size. It […]
Dio Rules Storms New Jersey: A Full-Throttle Celebration of Ronnie James Dio’s Legacy Arrives July 11 New Jersey’s live music circuit continues to assert itself as one of the most vital and genre-spanning ecosystems in the country, and this summer delivers a night that cuts straight to the core of hard rock and heavy metal […]
Maplewoodstock 2026 Returns with Anders Osborne and Lettuce Headlining as New Jersey’s Premier Free Music Festival Enters Its Third Decade New Jersey’s summer festival circuit is once again preparing for one of its most defining cultural moments as Maplewoodstock 2026 takes shape, reaffirming its position as one of the state’s most enduring and community-driven live […]
Teatro Nuovo Brings the Golden Age of Italian Opera to New Jersey with a Landmark Bel Canto Celebration at Montclair State University There are few art forms capable of transporting audiences across centuries quite like opera. Combining extraordinary vocal performance, dramatic storytelling, orchestral brilliance, and theatrical spectacle, opera has remained one of the world's most […]
ArcoStrum Brings a Boundary-Smashing Global Music Experience to New Jersey’s Acclaimed Back Deck Concert Series New Jersey’s summer arts calendar continues evolving far beyond traditional concert formats, and one of the season’s most ambitious and visually immersive performances may arrive on Saturday, July 11, 2026, when ArcoStrum takes over the celebrated Back Deck Concert Series […]
The Flip Side Brings Fast-Paced Improv Comedy to Madison with a Night Built Entirely by the Audience New Jersey’s performing arts scene has long thrived on creativity, experimentation, and the ability to bring communities together through live entertainment. From world-class theaters and concert halls to intimate black-box venues and local arts centers, the Garden State […]
Lindsey Stirling Brings the Duality Untamed Summer Tour 2026 to PNC Bank Arts Center for an Unforgettable Night of Music, Movement, and Visual Spectacle Lindsey Stirling has spent more than a decade redefining what a live concert can be. Equal parts virtuoso violinist, contemporary dancer, aerial performer, composer, and multimedia artist, she has created a […]
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey Is Staging One of the Funniest Theatrical Experiments in American Playwriting This Summer The premise of Ken Ludwig's Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery is also its central theatrical joke, and it is announced in the production's own marketing with the directness that the play itself embodies: five actors, forty […]
Teatro Nuovo Brings the Golden Age of Italian Opera to New Jersey with a Landmark Bel Canto Celebration at Montclair State University There are few art forms capable of transporting audiences across centuries quite like opera. Combining extraordinary vocal performance, dramatic storytelling, orchestral brilliance, and theatrical spectacle, opera has remained one of the world's most […]
TUSK: The Classic Fleetwood Mac Tribute Brings a Full-Spectrum Revival of a Legendary Sound to New Jersey This July New Jersey’s live music calendar continues to deepen its reputation as one of the most dynamic and musically diverse in the country, and this summer adds another essential date for fans of timeless songwriting, rich harmonies, […]
Camp Screamo Comes to Asbury Park: Silverstein, Story of the Year, and a New Generation of Post-Hardcore Energy Take Over The Stone Pony Summer Stage For more than half a century, New Jersey has occupied a unique place in the evolution of alternative music. From the boardwalk clubs of the Jersey Shore to legendary venues […]
"Weird Al" Yankovic Brings the Bigger & Weirder 2026 Tour to PNC Bank Arts Center for an Unforgettable Night of Comedy, Music, and Pop Culture Few performers have built a career as enduring, inventive, and universally recognizable as "Weird Al" Yankovic. For more than four decades, he has transformed popular music into a uniquely American […]
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