NEW PROVIDENCE -- The New Jersey Youth Symphony (NJYS), a program of Wharton Arts, is proud to announce that Vanessa Cabrera has been awarded the George Marriner Maull Career in Music Scholarship Award.This $1,000 scholarship recognizes an exceptional graduating senior who has demonstrated outstandi...

WESTFIELD -- The Rialto’s Spotlight Series continues this spring with Publishing Prose and Pop Biographies: Wendy Loggia,an evening exploring the craft of writing, storytelling, and publishing. The program takes place on Thursday,May 14, 2026 at 7:00 p.m. at the Rialto.This month’s Spotlight welcome...

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 ...