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A joyous new musical comedy celebrating the power of community through music, dance, and laughter. After leading their college dance team to a state championship, friends Mary and Preeti head to Nationals until a disagreement over blending traditional and contemporary Indian...
A mother fights for her son's future after one incident puts everything at stake. Dominique Morisseau's urgent drama about race, class, and American education.
Multimedia conversation spotlighting Brooklyn's Black bohemian arts movement, inspired by Nelson George's forthcoming book Brooklyn Bohemians. Features Nelson George, Carl Hancock Rux, Jessica Care Moore, Tracie Morris, DJ Spinna, Vernon Reid and more. Part of the Dodge Poetry...
Filmmaker and author Nelson George leads a multimedia conversation exploring the Brooklyn Moon poetry scene and its place in the Black bohemian arts movement. The evening features Jessica Care Moore, Tracie Morris, Vernon Reid, Carl Hancock Rux, DJ Spinna, and more, bringing...
The Dodge Poetry Festival, North America's largest poetry festival, returns to the New Jersey Performing Arts Center October 15–17, 2026. The festival features poet and punk rock icon Patti Smith, U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze, Elizabeth Acevedo, Pulitzer Prize winner Tyehimba...
Domestic Blitz is Stephanie Griffin's farce about exhausting family dynamics, presented as part of The Theater Project's 2026 New Play Readings series. The play is a fast-paced, absurd satirical comedy that explores family dysfunction, generational gaps, and the suffocating...
Free poetry-infused play space on NJPAC's Chambers Plaza, featuring poets reading on the Community Catalyst Stage, drumming and dancing workshops, and more. Part of the Dodge Poetry Festival.
BroadwayWorld Award winner and singer-songwriter Becca Kidwell returns to Boston with “Fifty Ways to Leave Your Forties,” a funny, heartfelt musical celebration of turning 50, starting new chapters, and discovering that “late” is a myth. Following a sold-out New York City...
North Jersey's improv comedy troupe Howdy Stranger brings its annual Halloween show, featuring fast-paced improv games with a Halloween twist followed by an audience-driven zombie survival storyline called the Improv Zombie Apocalypse. The cast features Ryan Huban, Dreena Moran...
Trumpeter Jon Faddis headlines this Jazz@ThePoint festival concert. Faddis is known as one of the most innovative and inspiring jazz trumpeters of his time, once called the best ever by Dizzy Gillespie. Part of the Red, White & Louis themed festival celebrating Louis Armstrong.
Jersey Boys is a national tour of the Broadway sensation. It is available as an add-on to season tickets as part of State Theatre New Jersey's 2026-27 Broadway Season.
Trumpeter Jon Faddis headlines this Jazz@ThePoint festival concert. He is known around the world as one of the most innovative and inspiring jazz trumpeters of our time, with Dizzy Gillespie calling him "the best ever -- including me!"
A free late-night event featuring a tribute to Louis Armstrong through the years, following the Saturday headliner concert at the Jazz@ThePoint festival.
ME is a riveting, emotionally charged stage play that follows a group of women who begin as complete strangers and emerge as an unbreakable sisterhood. Brought together through a community support group, these women carry vastly different stories — but one devastating thread...
Meredith Willson's six-time, Tony Award-winning musical comedy follows fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys' band he vows to organize. His plans to skip town are foiled when he...
Patti Smith: Songs and Stories is a featured performance within the Dodge Poetry Festival, North America's largest poetry festival, produced by NJPAC and returning to Newark October 15–17, 2026. Known as the "punk poet laureate," Patti Smith performs alongside an array of poets...
Acclaimed trumpeter Terell Stafford performs a free late-night concert as part of the Jazz@ThePoint festival, following the Jon Faddis headliner concert. The performance includes a tribute to Louis Armstrong through the years.
A new comedy by Erin Mallon in which Barb, who desperately needs friends, moves to a 55+ community and joins a Bingo Night that turns into a full-blown orgy. Barb must decide whether to stay in her safe, predictable world or take a chance and truly live before it's too late...
Destroying David is a thrilling, witty and heartfelt solo show about the power of art to help us through our darkest hours.
Award-winning pianist Dmitry Shishkin opens the Princeton Symphony Orchestra's 2026-27 Season performing Sergei Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. The program also features Joan Tower's Suite from Concerto for Orchestra and Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra, both...
Alex Edelman's acclaimed one-person comedy follows the comedian as he responds to an antisemitic tweet and ends up attending a meeting of White Nationalists in Queens. The show explores antisemitism, identity, assimilation, and empathy with humor and depth. Starring Jacob...
An immersive mafia wedding experience created by Jennifer Graziano, creator and executive producer of VH1's Mob Wives, featuring Mob Wives star Renee Graziano. Guests become part of a high-stakes Italian wedding where old grudges surface, alliances shift, secrets are revealed...
"Midnight at the New Dawn" is a new, wickedly funny, warm-hearted comedy set in a New Jersey diner on New Year’s Eve. Four couples arrive at different crossroads in their relationships, with only two hours until midnight to figure out what comes next. Things get even more...
A screening of the documentary The Immigration Paradox, featuring interviews from across the immigration debate, is followed by a panel of immigrants and immigration activists sharing their lived experiences. The event explores the tension between personal identity and the...
A preview of a new nostalgia-soaked '80's-influenced multimedia song cycle composed by William Brittelle for Roomful of Teeth, performed by the group along with members of Metropolis Ensemble.
The NEC Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Ken Schaphorst explores the many ways blues are expressed in music for voice and big band. The program features early, traditional blues works including Count Basie's Every Day I Have the Blues, Billy Eckstine's Blowin' the Blues...
Little Big Town, the award-winning country music group comprised of Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Phillip Sweet, and Jimi Westbrook, performs live for one night only at NJPAC. The group is known for their signature vocal harmonies and chart-topping hits, and has earned...
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A Beat of Our Own McCarter Theatre Center (10/07-10/25) |
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Pipeline Vanguard Theater (10/08-10/25) |
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Discover Tchaikovsky New Jersey Performing Arts Center (5/15-5/15) |
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Joshua Bell Leads Beethoven State Theatre New Jersey (3/11-3/11) |
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Mozart & Ravel Richardson Auditorium (1/08-1/08) |
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Brad Upton: The Comedy Zone Stockton University Performing Arts Center (10/17-10/17) |
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Inaugural Light Opera of NJ Youth Ensemble Concert St. Mark's Episcopal Church (10/10-10/10) |
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Neruda Songs and Poulenc's Gloria New Jersey Performing Arts Center (4/17-4/17) |
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Aziz Ansari: Hypothetical Tour State Theatre New Jersey (10/29-10/29) |
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Star Wars: A New Hope in Concert State Theatre New Jersey (5/23-5/23) |
