SCOTCH PLAINS — Social Justice Matters, Inc. (SJM) will observe Juneteenth 2025 on Saturday, June 21, 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...

COUNTY — The Union County Board of County Commissioners is pleased to announce the 2025 Teen Arts Touring Exhibit is now on display at the Linden Public Library, located at 31 East Henry Street in Linden. This year’s exhibit is a selection of 45 works selected from the 2025 Union County Teen Arts Fe...

GLEN RIDGE — Lunatic Fringe, New Jersey’s longest running improv troupe, will finish its 28th season with a show at the Glen Ridge Train Station Performance Space at 8 p.m. on Saturday, June 21.While they haven’t been around quite as long as the Stones, Lunatic Fringe has been creating comedy withou...

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....