Coronavirus in N.J.: What’s reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled. (Feb. 17, 2021)
Updated Feb 22, 2021;
The Watchung Arts Center will host a “Big Easy Mardi Gras” virtual celebration on Saturday, Feb. 20 at 8 p.m.
The Mardi Gras Band will return after last year’s sellout performance with band leader and bassist Thaddeus Exposé, vocalist Arlee Leonard, pianist Brandon McCune, drummer Gordon Lane, trumpeter Michael Green and clarinetist Marty Eigen
The concert will be streamed live via Zoom from the center on Stirling Road in Watchung. Tickets are $20. Visit watchungartscenter.eventbrite.com, phone 908-753-0190 or email wacenter@optionline.net.
Coronavirus in N.J.: What’s reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled. (Feb. 10, 2021)
Updated Feb 10, 2021;
Posted Feb 10, 2021
Fort Lee-based Nai Ni Chen Dance will present a Year of the Golden Ox Chinese Lunar New Year celebration online from Feb. 11-13.nianichen.org
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A pair of New Jersey-based dance troupes are celebrating this weekend’s holidays with online performances:
♦ Nai Ni Chen Dance Company of Fort Lee will present a series of seven “Year of the Golden Ox” programs in observance of the Chinese Lunar New Year, Feb. 11-13.
A one-hour special celebration highlighting the company’s repertory and past notable performances by guest artists will be featured 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, Thursday, Feb. 11. One-hour sessions of dance and music will be offered 11:30 a.m. and 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 12-13, each followed by live chats.
New Jersey remembers music icon Mary Wilson who died at age 76
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Feb 09, 2021, 7:34pm EST
Singer Mary Wilson – a founding member of The Supremes – is being remembered across New Jersey for her decades of music and cultural impact.
The Supremes are one of the most iconic and successful musical groups in history. The group was the subject of an exhibit at the Grammy Museum Experience in Newark last week. Wilson was among the three founding members of the Motown group.
“She was from another time, but felt contemporary,” says Grammy Museum director of programming Mark Conklin.
Wilson visited the museum in 2019 and participated in a virtual education program at the museum last year amid the pandemic.
Coronavirus in N.J.: What’s reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled. (Jan. 27, 2021)
Updated Feb 01, 2021;
A pair of New Jersey-based theater companies will be debuting online productions over the next week spotlighting important women in history:
♦ East Lynne Theater Company will present Stephanie Garrett reading “Lynching, Our National Crime,” a speech Ida B. Wells delivered at the National Negro Conference (forerunner to the NAACP) in New York City in the spring of 1909. The prerecorded performance will premiere 8 p.m. tomorrow, Thursday, Jan. 28, on ELTC’s YouTube channel and be available for viewing through Feb. 28.
Wells’ work began in the early 1890s, and by 1909, she was the most prominent anti-lynching campaigner in the United States. She died in 1931 and received a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for her reporting.
Coronavirus in N.J.: What’s reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled. (Jan. 20, 2021)
Updated Jan 27, 2021;
On Monday, Jan. 23, 1989, surrealist artist Salvador Dali died at the age of 84.
On Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021, the Ridgewood-based First Flight Theatre Company will bring him back to life with a virtual performance of “Salvador,” the Rick Young short play imagining the waning years of the eccentric Spanish artist’s life.
The production will be performed live online 7 p.m. Sunday, then be available for on-demand viewing through 11 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 27. A benefit performance for The Actors Fund, donations start at $10.
The play follows Dali as he sits in the plaza in front of the Teatro-Museo Dalí in Figueres, Spain, greeting guests as they arrive from all over the world to take a look at his collection and reminiscing about his art, life, loves and losses. The cast includes actors from New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles: Circus-S