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PSEG True Diversity Film Series Presents: Economic Justice: Poverty, Injustice, and Racism FREE on Zoom on Monday, May 24, 2021 at 7:00 p.

Frank Sinatra, legendary singer, actor and music icon, was honored at a special luncheon on Sunday, May 16th, in Avon-By-The-Sea, New Jersey.

The “live” virtual fundraising gala, which will be hosted by TONY Award-winning actress Anika Noni Rose also includes Crossroads' presentation of the its inaugural Champion of the Arts Award to global healthcare company Johnson & Johnson.

Bloomfield Thespian Society will present its Spring Project, Six Feet Apart, a live theatrical event in a Covid safe setting.

 The Bellevue Theatre in Upper Montclair is slated to reopen in the fall or early 2022.

Launching May 13 at 5 PM, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey will host an online auction of artwork and experiences in support of its virtual gala, Paint the Town.

For 24 years, New Jersey Theatre Alliance (“the Alliance”) has offered a spring festival of performances, workshops, and readings throughout the state.

Ember, the critically acclaimed choral ensemble of Schola Cantorum on Hudson will present a live and virtual, season finale concert entitled “Emerge,” where we examine this period in our lives between what was and what will be.

Newark will be filled with music again this summer as NJPAC’s much-loved free outdoor concert series, Horizon Foundation Sounds of the City, returns with in-person performances on the Arts Center’s Chambers Plaza starting July 15.

In nine performances from June through August, the NJSO Chamber Players will perform a three-concert series curated by Resident Artistic Catalyst Daniel Bernard Roumain, a three-concert series curated by Concertmaster Eric Wyrick and a three-concert family series for music lovers of all ages.

Since their inception in 1996, the Paper Mill Playhouse Rising Star Awards for Excellence in High School Musical Theatre presented by the Investors Foundation have ignited the careers of many notable performers, all of whom attended high school in New Jersey.

The Northern New Jersey Community Foundation's ArtsBergen initiative announces an open call to artists.

Luna Stage announces two free public conversations in conjunction with its world premiere 2.

Paul Pecorino, currently starring as Jane opposite Reb Eco as Tarzan in the new seven-part miniseries THE DESTRUCTION OF JANE, will be this week's special guest on the popular radio talk show “State of the Arts” on WPKN (89.

Shirley Ubell, modern dancer, dance therapist, and founder and longtime artistic director of the nonprofit Center for Modern Dance Education (CMDE), in Hackensack, New Jersey, died on April 11 in Lafayette, Calif.

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Audiences can reserve their free tickets to Two River Theater's Tiny Shakes: Romeo and Juliet, co- directed by Aneesha Kudtarkar and Em Weinstein.

The Axelrod Performing Arts Center will bring live performances to the Jersey Shore with the Vogel Summer Concert Series.

Arts Ed Newark has been approved for a $100,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to support an arts education collective impact project entitled, “Trauma-Informed Care and the Arts”.

MPAC has invested in the safety and well-being of its customers/patrons, employees and community by partnering with Atlantic Health System.

Maplewood Township, South Orange Village, SOMA Cross Cultural Works and the AAPI Community unite to recognize and celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

CHRIS PINNELLA: A NIGHT OF CLASSICS (RE) IMAGINED, will perform Thursday May 20th at The Vogel at The Count Basie Center for the Performing Arts.

On Wednesday, May 26 at 4pm, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) will salute Princeton High School's (PHS) class of 2021 with an outdoor concert of works by American composers, performed by the PSO Brass Quintet.

State Theatre New Jersey has appointed a new member to its Board of Trustees: Joey Grinkley, Associate Director, Global Supply Business Development Merck Manufacturing Division at Merck & Co.

In this unforgettable play, based on the best-selling book by Cheryl Strayed and adapted for the stage by Oscar-nominated writer Nia Vardalos, wit and hard-won wisdom are dished out in the advice column exchanges between a writer who goes by the name of “Sugar” and her readers.