CRANFORD – Staging a play about one of the most iconic blockbusters in film history might seem like a monumental task for a small theatre, but Cranford Dramatics Club’s (CDC) season opener production of The Shark Is Broken proves that powerful performances and sharp storytelling can captivate any au...

GARWOOD – The Garwood Partnership forArts and Culture is pleased to announce the October art exhibit “Fall into Art.” At Alonsos Cafe (348 North Ave.), the nature photography of Katie Carolan is displayed. Als Deli (345 North Ave.)features the dramatic photos of Steve Barcan. The Garwood Public Libr...

CRANFORD –The Theater Project will continue its fall 2025 New Play Readings and discussion series at 2 p.m. on Saturday, October 18, at Cranford Community Center’s 110seat theater.Admission is free, with no registration required.The October 18 event will comprise readings of three plays by two playw...

FANWOOD – To celebrate Halloween, nonprofit Jersey Central Theatre Company will be presenting a staged reading of a spooky fun new play, The Secret of the Mummy’s Tomb on Saturday, November 1 at 7:30 p.m. at the Patricia M. Kuran Cultural Arts Center (The Carriage House) next to Fanwood Borough Hall...

FANWOOD -- In a unique collaboration, the Fanwood Memorial Library, EllisAngel, a Scotch Plains-based artist and activist, and PEN America presents The Censor’s Cut: Weavings for Intellectual Freedom, an art installation of paper weavings taken from shredded banned books. The public is invited to vi...

Throughout his career, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson has rarely told a contemporary story. He has explored different aspects of America’s past and how they inform the modern world, but only two of his films, 1996’s “Hard Eight” and 1999’s “Magnolia”, take place in the years they were released...

SUMMIT — Vivid Stage, in residence at Oakes Center at 120 Morris Avenue in Summit, will present The Mighty Four by Catherine Butterfield, a world premiere production about family, friends and politics, from October 2 through 12.In the play, the lives of a prominent liberal couple are upended when th...

MORRISTOWN – American songwriter extraordinaire David Wilcox is coming to the Troubadour Acoustic Concert Series on Friday, October 3, 7:30 p.m. at the Morristown Unitarian Fellowship, 21 Normandy Heights Rd., Morristown. Fretboard master Todd Dennison will open.David Wilcox has long been a quiet fo...

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...