Neptune News

Liz Brasher has just finished up a wildly successful stint on the West Coast in the midst of her 44-date cross country run and is excited to announce she will be heading back in the fall for a tour with the venerable, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees, The Zombies in September. More information on that tour can be found here.

 With runs in Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavia and Germany already complete, 2 Tone pioneers The Selecter and The English Beat Feat. Ranking Roger are excited to announce a North American leg of their co-headline tour, hitting the West Coast this Fall.  Both bands will play full sets of their hits and more each night, followed by a joint encore.  Originally a six-date tour in the UK and EU last year, the legendary acts teamed-up to play nearly 40 dates together due to phenomenal demand – including SOLD OUT shows at London's iconic Roundhouse and Amsterdam's Melkweg, selling nearly 40,000 tickets.  Life-long friends, they are two of the main bands to come out of 2 Tone – a crucial musical and cultural movement which is still as relevant today as it was over 30 years ago.

Join STG in celebrating our beloved Paramount Theatre with The Paramount 90th Anniversary Celebration: The People's Theatre, featuring a FREE Death Cab for Cutie concert at The Paramount Theatre on June 23, 2018 at 8pm. The concert, hosted by comic Hari Kondabolu, also features special guests

The final production of Neptune Theatre's 55th season is the worldwide musical (and feature film) phenomenon; MAMMA MIA!. Set on a remote Greek island during the summer of 2008, MAMMA MIA! tells the story of Sophie, a spirited bride-to-be who invites three of her mother's old flames to her wedding in the aim of finding her father much to the dismay of Donna, her fiercely independent mother.

TEDxAsburyPark "Passion," one of the largest and highest-rated TEDx conferences on the east coast, is set to take the stage at the legendary Paramount Theatre on Saturday, May 19th.

POPTONE have released a new video for 'Go!' and kicked off their West Coast tour ahead of their debut album release. Through this project, Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins - both founders of Bauhaus, Tones On Tail and Love and Rockets -they continue to carry the torch of these critically acclaimed bands. As Poptone, they are now joined by Kevin's daughter Diva Dompé on bass.

Artadia announces the Awardees for the 2018 New York Artadia Awards: Terence Nance and Jessica Vaughn. As the 2018 New York Artadia Awardees, Nance and Vaughn will receive $10,000 in unrestricted funds as well as access to the ongoing benefits of the Artadia Awards program.

Main Street Theater (MST) announces its 43rd Season which includes eight productions on the MainStage and seven at its Theater for Youth for 2018-2019.

In the UK Premiere from Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning writer Robert Schenkkan (Hacksaw Ridge, All the Way), the political thriller Building The Wall comes to Park Theatre. A harrowing tale of the terrible events that resulted when Donald Trump made good on his promise to build a 'beautiful wall' between Mexico and the United States. The official press night will be Friday 4 May, 7pm.

Jesse McCartney is an singer, songwriter, and actor. He achieved fame in the late 1990s on the daytime drama All My Children as JR Chandler. He later joined boy band Dream Street, and eventually branched out into a solo musical career. Additionally, McCartney has appeared on shows such as Law & Order: SVU, Summerland, and Greek. McCartney also is known for lending his voice as Theodore in Alvin and the Chipmunks and its sequels, as well as voicing Robin/Nightwing in Young Justice and Roxas and Ventus in the video game series Kingdom Hearts developed by Square Enix.

La Strada Ensemble Theater presents Rainbow Festival 2018: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Theater, three programs of varied, cutting edge one-act plays created by playwrights from across the United States, a production directed and performed by our youth company and a Cabaret right after the gay pride march in Asbury Park beginning June 1 at Jersey Shore Art Center, 66 South Main Street, on the 3rd Floor, Ocean Grove, New Jersey.

Overview of Neptune Theatre's First Ever 'Show and Tell' Event

In the UK Premiere from Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning writer Robert Schenkkan (Hacksaw Ridge, All the Way), the political thriller Building The Wall comes to Park Theatre. A harrowing tale of the terrible events that resulted when Donald Trump made good on his promise to build a 'beautiful wall' between Mexico and the United States. The official press night will be Friday 4 May, 7pm.

STG Presents Cafe Tacvba at The Moore Theatre on Tuesday, September 11, 2018. Cafe Tacvba is widely recognized as Mexico's leading alternative rock band and indeed one of the most influential alternative groups to come out of Latin America, spearheading a non-conformist musical movement with their blending of elements such as rock, indigenous folk, electronic and punk music. With a career spanning over 25 years, they continue to expand an already massive audience of devoted fans throughout the Americas, Europe and beyond. They have won multiple Latin Grammys and a Grammy, and their album, Re, was named the 'Number One Latin Rock Album of All Time' in 2013. (Rolling Stone)

The Great South Bay Music Festival - Long Islands longest running, and largest 4 day, all ages Music & Arts Festival, returns to the picturesque waterfront at Shorefront Park in Patchogue Village from Thursday, July 12 through Sunday, July 15th. 

Omnivore Recordingswill embark upon an ambitious reissue of three classic albums by the Posies, who celebrate their 20th anniversary this year. A PledgeMusic pre-order campaign has launched at https://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/the-posies

Comedian and actor Hari Kondabolu cleverly blends personal and political humor in his debut Netflix Original stand-up comedy special, Hari Kondabolu: Warn Your Relatives. Filmed in front of a packed audience at The Neptune in Seattle, WA, Hari is able to magically turn discomfort into laughter when he compares terrorism and mass shootings, explains why firefighters are better than cops, and recalls the time he got heckled by Tracy Morgan. Hari Kondabolu's Warn Your Relatives comes to Netflix May 8th.

On May 4, Belly return with DOVE, their first full length album release in 23 years. Today, the album is available to stream via NPR Music First Listen, who said 'Dovelooks at the past only as a pathway to the present — at the sum of lives that have never stopped being lived, whether or not Belly was around to chronicle them.'

Comedian HARI KONDABOLU (The Problem With Apu) announces his new comedy special 'WARN YOUR RELATIVES' which premieres TUESDAY, MAY 8 on NETFLIX. Filmed in front of a packed audience at The Neptune in Seattle, WA, Hari cleverly blends personal and political humor, magically turning discomfort into laughter as he compares terrorism and mass shootings, explains why firefighters are better than cops and recalls the time he got heckled by Tracy Morgan.   

Comedian HARI KONDABOLU (The Problem With Apu) announces his new comedy special 'WARN YOUR RELATIVES' which premieres TUESDAY, MAY 8 on NETFLIX. Filmed in front of a packed audience at The Neptune in Seattle, WA, Hari cleverly blends personal and political humor, magically turning discomfort into laughter as he compares terrorism and mass shootings, explains why firefighters are better than cops and recalls the time he got heckled by Tracy Morgan.