Art House Productions is at the center of a large-scale public art installation. "In The Wind" is a large-scale public art installation transforming Lincoln Park in Jersey City with artist-designed flags featuring original work by Hudson County artists.

Jersey Arts has a new feature on ArtYard Celebrating a Decade Presenting Bold Work in a Creative Home

Starting Wednesday, July 15th and every Wednesday and Thursday in July, Leonieke Scheuble the winner of two International Women in Jazz Awards, the New Jersey Governors Award brings her Leonieke's WE 3 Trio to the Carriage House at Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn.

The Lizzie Rose Music Room presents Jeffrey Gaines on Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 7:30pm. Gaines has been heralded for his soul-searching lyrics and his powerful live performances. With only his voice and a guitar for accompaniment, Gaines has earned a reputation as a captivating performer...

(BASKING RIDGE, NJ) American Theater Group (ATG), in partnership with the Sieminski Theater, will collaborate to offer a Summer Theater Workshop for adults and high school and college students. The program will instruct students on using their own "lived experiences" to develop personal short plays.

(HACKETTSTOWN, NJ) -- Broadway veteran John Leone, an original cast member of Jersey Boys, will lead the cast of Centenary Stage Company's production of Maltby & Shire's Closer Than Ever, the finale of the theatre's 2026 SUMMERFEST season. It runs from July 30 through August 9.

Outpost in the Burbs will present an extraordinary evening of music featuring singer-songwriter and guitarist Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips on Saturday, November 21, 2026 at the First Congregational Church. The special concert will serve as a fundraiser in support of Toni's Kitchen.

(SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- The New Jersey Folk Festival (NJFF) is back for the 51st year on Saturday, August 29, 2026 at Davidson's Mill Pond Park in South Brunswick. The event is free and open to the public. It runs from 11:00am to 5:00pm.

(PRINCETON, NJ) -- Since 1930, the stage now known as the Ed and Marie Matthews Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center has welcomed some of the world's most celebrated artists and performances. From Jimmy Stewart to Yo-Yo Ma, from Lucille Ball to the world premieres of Our Town and Having Our Say...

Spotlight Central and Love Imagery have photos and a recap of Straight No Chaser at the Ocean City Music Pier on June 29, 2026.

Frank Hanavan’s Hoboken is wet. In his streetscapes, surfaces glisten. The sky is rarely glowering, but it does seem full; ready to have something to say, or wrapping up something that it is busy saying. The canopy of foliage that hangs over the streetcorners feels saturated with moisture...

What did we publish yesterday? 07-08-26 In addition to our Events This Week columns, we ran stories on theatre, music, comedy, art, and community. Nobody covers the Arts throughout the Garden State like New Jersey Stage!

Here is a look at upcoming events taking place from July 7-13, 2026 along with our featured listings. New Jersey Stage offers previews of events throughout the Garden State as well as select shows in New York City and Philadelphia areas.

Riverside Gallery presents a group exhibition, The City and Her Subconscious, from July 10 to August 5, 2026. The exhibition features the works of Miro Sinovcic, Minseok Kang, and Adem Gjonbalaj. In addition, the gallery showcases a summer collection of multiple artists within the gallery's roster.

Here is a look at shows taking place from July 7-13, 2026 along with our featured listings and a look at some upcoming shows. New Jersey Stage offers previews of concerts throughout the Garden State as well as select shows in New York City and Philadelphia areas.

(ATLANTIC CITY, NJ) -- Tour organizers for the acclaimed 80's New Wave tour TOTALLY TUBULAR FESTIVAL have announced a line-up change due to the unfortunate cancellation of The Motels. The tour comes to the Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena on Saturday, August 8, 2026.

Here are previews of plays taking place from July 7-13, 2026 including a look at productions currently being presented and those coming soon. New Jersey Stage covers Equity, community, college, and high school theatre. Check back every week for the weekly theatre preview.

(BEACH HAVEN, NJ) -- Surflight Theatre presents Pretty Woman: The Musical from July 28 through August 16, 2026. Fall in love all over again with one of the most beloved romances of all time!

(GARWOOD, NJ) -- Before taking their award-winning production to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland this August, Cheese Platter Productions will present one final hometown performance on July 26th, and one final opportunity for audiences to help send the company overseas.

East Lynne Theater Co. begins building a new artistic bridge between the two cities with the launch of its Philadelphia Summer Residency Series — a new chapter in the tale of two historic cities connected by a shared cultural life. The series begins with "Funny Girls" from July 24 to August 4th.

(BELVIDERE, NJ) -- Country Gate Players presents The Addams Family Musical (Youth Production) from July 24-26, 2026. This is the spectacular culminating production of their 2026 Summer Youth Performance Workshop.

(CRANFORD, NJ) -- CDC Theatre presents Stages of Madness from July 30 to August 1, 2026. This a slightly unhinged night of original works by emerging and established playwrights.

Bernards Township Parks & Recreation and Trilogy Repertory presents Shrek, The Musical across two weekends from July 16-25, 2026 at Pleasant Valley Park Amphitheater. Everyone's favorite ogre is back in the hilarious stage spectacle based on the Oscar-winning, smash hit film. Admission is free.

Villagers Theatre's TeensVill program presents The Wedding Singer across two weekends from August 7-16, 2026. Based on the popular movie, the play takes place in New Jersey in 1985. A wannabe rock star (aka a professional wedding singer) is left at the altar and finally changes his tune.

(CHATHAM, NJ) -- Chatham Players present Jersey Voices - New Works by Jersey Playwrights - across two weekends from July 24 to August 2, 2026. One act plays by David Weil Baker, Clinton Festa, Charles Grayson, Steven Hayet, Jeanne Johnston, Matt McHugh, and Missy Renwick will be performed.

(DOVER, NJ) -- Dover Little Theatre presents The Solve It Squad weekends from July 24 to August 8, 2026. The play takes place 20 years after the murder of his beloved dog, Cluebert, when a familiar case comes across the desk of FBI agent, Scrags.

(RED BANK, NJ) -- Phoenix Productions presents Rock of Ages from July 10-12, 2026 at Count Basie Center for the Arts. Rock of Ages takes you back to the time of big bands with big egos playing big guitar solos and sporting even bigger hair!

(ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, NJ) -- Magnolia Productions presents Are The Bennet Girls Ok? across two weekends from July 31 to August 8, 2026 at The Theater at The Navesink Library. This is an adaptation of Pride & Prejudice by Emily Breeze.

(LAMBERTVILLE, NJ) -- Music Mountain Theatre presents Urinetown weekends from July 10 through August 2, 2026. A sidesplitting sendup of greed, love, revolution (and musicals!), in a time when water is worth its weight in gold.

(HOLMDEL, NJ) -- Holmdel Theatre Company presents Spring Awakening across three weekends from July 31 through August 16, 2026. An angsty rock musical adaptation of the seminal play about the trials and tribulations of growing up.

First Avenue Playhouse presents Mary Chase's "Harvey" weekends from July 10-25. This Pulitzer Prize-winning play tells the gentle, whimsical story of Elwood P. Dowd, a kind & amiable man who goes through life accompanied by his best friend — a 6-foot-3½-inch tall invisible white rabbit named Harvey.

(EDISON, NJ) -- Middlesex County's Plays-in-the-Park presents Guys and Dolls from July 29-August 8, 2026 with performances at 8:00pm. Set in Damon Runyon's mythical New York City, Guys and Dolls is an oddball romantic comedy. The production is directed by Matt Muccigrossi.

(WEST WINDSOR, NJ) -- Off-Centre Stages presents Stephen Sondheim's Company weekends from July 31 to August 9, 2026 at the Kelsey Theatre. The production is directed by Jonathan Edmondson. On the night of his 35th birthday, confirmed New York City bachelor, Robert, contemplates his unmarried state.

(HOBOKEN, NJ) -- Mile Square Theatre will present its first-ever Pre-Professional Theatre Program production, Urinetown: The Musical from July 24-26. The entire production is led by a team of professionals - the assistants and cast are all young artists ages 18 to 25...

(WILLIAMSTOWN, NJ) -- The Road Company presents The Wizard of Oz: Youth Edition from July 30 through August 1, 2026. This is a 60-minute, kid-friendly stage adaptation of the classic 1939 film. It follows Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto as a tornado sweeps them to Oz.

The Broadway Theatre of Pitman presents Landon Bryant & Mary Ryan Brown on Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 7:30pm. Get ready for a night of big laughs and sharp Southern storytelling as they bring their Southern Nights Comedy Tour to the stage. Special guest Jamie Pappas will open the night.

interACT Theatre Productions presents interACT Sings: Around the World on July 24-25, 2026 at The Burgdorff Center for the Performing Arts. This is a first-class musical journey to benefit the theatre company's 2026-27 season. A cocktail hour takes place at 6:30pm; showtime is 7:30pm.

(HADDON HEIGHTS, NJ) -- The Village Playbox presents Guys and Dolls weekends from July 31 through August 9, 2026. Hailed as the perfect musical comedy, this award-winning classic gambles with luck and love under the bright lights of Broadway.

(RIVERSIDE, NJ) -- Masquerade Theatre presents a staged reading of Executive Decisions by Dan Jankauskas from July 10-12, 2026. It tells the story of two coworkers, Fives and Tenner, who are suddenly faced with the prospect that their routine deskwork has lethal consequences.

What did we publish yesterday? 07-07-26 In addition to Lazlo's look at new music by NJ artists, we ran stories on theatre, music, comedy, dance, books, kids, and community. Nobody covers the Arts throughout the Garden State like New Jersey Stage!

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (STNJ) invites audiences to experience Shakespeare the way it was meant to be — immediate and gloriously bold — with Rogue Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor, running August 14-23, 2026 at the F. M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre on the campus of Drew University

Parking Spot: The Musical!, an original musical comedy created by NJ husband-and-wife team Louis Armistead and Lyndsey Alexander, will make its world premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. What started as a joke about the impossible search for parking in Jersey City is about to take center stage

Bring the kids to a book reading with local author and illustrator Katy Tanis on Thursday, July 23, 2025 at the Plumsted Branch of the Ocean County Library. Tanis will be reading her latest book Love Under the Sea and creating a banana sea creature craft. The event begins at 11:00am.

(PISCATAWAY, NJ) -- On Saturday, July 4, 2026, Middlesex County unveiled a transformative new chapter for East Jersey Old Town Village, guided by the American Alliance of Museums accreditation process and a commitment to providing best-in-class services to visitors.

(BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ) -- Wharton Arts is now accepting registrations for the Fall 2026 semester of its Performing Arts School (PAS), offering a diverse lineup of performing arts classes for students of all ages and experience levels.

(WEST WINDSOR, NJ) -- Ariel and all of her friends are bound to make a big splash when The Yardley Players presents "Disney's The Little Mermaid," across two weekends from July 10-19, 2026, at the Kelsey Theatre on Mercer County Community College's West Windsor Campus.

(AVENEL, NJ) -- Avenel Performing Arts Center presents a comedy night headlined by Maureen Langan, a semifinalist from Season 18 of America's Got Talent, on Saturday, July 11, 2026. The lineup also includes Sandy Ehlers and Brian Balthazar. Showtime is 7:00pm.

Watchung Booksellers is hosting an author talk and Q&A on Wednesday, July 15, 2026 at 7pm to spotlight Positively Fourth and Mercer: The Inside Story of New York's Iconic Music Club, The Bottom Line. This panel discussion features Bottom Line co-founder Allan Pepper & music journalist Billy Altman.

OCC Repertory Theatre Company presents Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady across two weekends from July 10-19, 2026 at Grunin Center for the Arts. This is the award-winning story of a cockney flower girl transformed into an elegant lady, which is widely considered one of the greatest musicals of all time

(JERSEY CITY, NJ) -- Washington Park Association of Hudson County (WPA) joins with SMUSH Gallery to produce Dancing in the Park, to be presented on Wednesday, July 15, 2026 at 7:00pm. In its third iteration, Dancing in the Park offers the public a free outdoor professional modern dance concert.