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The Centenary Stage Company announces the 2016 Women Playwrights Series (WPS) line-up, with the works of playwrights Patricia Cotter, Emma Stanton and Sonya Sobieski, and three distinctive new plays which will feature professional casts and directors and be presented in the Lackland Center Wednesday

Last Saturday, Paper Mill Playhouse was privileged to participate in an on-stage marriage proposal during a performance of PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES - watch the moment during intermission below! PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES will run eight times a week at the Millburn, New Jersey, theater through May 1, 2016

? Centenary College Theater Department's Nextstage Repertory presents Into the Woods April 28 through May 8 in the Sitnik Theater of the Lackland Performing Arts Center.

Dancer and percussionist Yahaya Kamate will be the featured guest performer at the Northern New Jersey Community Foundation's (NNJCF) ArtsBergen Connect the Dots event on Tuesday April 19.

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Fans of television's Modern Family will love THE SURROGATE, by Patricia Cotter, which will be the final presentation of the 2016 Women Playwrights Series at the Centenary Stage Company, on Wednesday, April 27th at 7:30 PM in the Lackland Center.

Sesame Street Live: Elmo Makes Music is on tour and hits New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) at 1 Center Avenue, Newark, New Jersey with three performances set for Friday, October 7, 2016 at 6:30PM and on Saturday, October 8th at 10:30AM & 2PM.

'FLY' is on the Crossroads Theater Stage through April 17th.

We interviewed Mary Testa who will perform in Two River Theater's production of 'Pericles' from April 16th to May 8th.

'Start Down' written by Eleanor Burgess and directed by Margo Whitcomb is being performed by Centenary Stage Company now through April 24th.

George Street Playhouse presents Aaron Posner's MY NAME IS ASHER LEV, which runs tonight, April 12, through May 1 at the New Brunswick theatre.

Hudson Theatre Works, North Jersey's most innovative professional theater company, announces its upcoming spring production and its slate for Playworks, its annual new play reading series.

If it's not one thing, it's your mother.

?Bergen Performing Arts Center located at 30 North Van Brunt Street in Englewood, New Jersey presents Curious George: The Golden Meatball-Sunday, May 22, 2016 at 1PM and 4PM.

?Singer/songwriter/rocker Sarah Borges will perform at The Loft at Union County Performing Arts Center in Rahway on Saturday, April 16th at 8 p.

Legendary singer-songwriter John Hiatt has been touring the country in support of his new album, Terms of My Surrender, and will play the South Orange Performing Arts Center May 1 at 7:30 p.

?The Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders is proud to support American Theater Group (ATG), one of New Jersey's newest nonprofit theatre companies, in the American premiere of Joe Slabe's new musical Crossing Swords at UCPAC's Hamilton Stage in Rahway April 21 to May 1.

 New shows on sale this week at bergenPAC: George Lopez-Saturday, June 25, 2016 at 8PM; Colvin & Earle-Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 8PM; Herman's Hermits Starring Peter Noone and The Buckinghams-Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 8PM; and Linda Eder-Saturday, November 19, 2016 at 8PM.

'Michel Camilo: Solo Piano' at NJPAC is part of the TD Bank Jazz Series and will be on the Newark stage on Sunday, April 17th at 4:00 pm and 7:00 pm.

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Back by popular demand New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) presents an evening with Comedian & WBLS Radio Host EARTHQUAKE  for his annual Father's Day Celebration! Earthquake hosts a hilarious night, with performances by Lavell Crawford, Michael Blackson, Deon Cole and Pat Brown! A grea

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As part of the partnership with Westfield Garden State Plaza mall in Paramus, NJ, bergenPAC presents Backstage, the first of two concert series that will be taking place throughout the 2016 year at the Garden State Plaza: a family programming series geared to ages 2-10.

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey 2016 Annual Gala invites guests "behind-the-scenes," into the Theatre's renovated "theatre factory" today, April 9, 2016 for an evening of festivities that includes an alluring array of unique silent auction items, delicious food and libations, a star-studded ca

Emmy Award-Winning Actress Kim Zimmer will do a Meet and Greet for fans following the Sunday April 17th performance of Old Love New Love by Laura Brienza at Luna Stage in West Orange, NJ.