Coronavirus in N.J.: What’s reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled. (Jan. 27, 2021)
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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.
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Late philanthropist Betty Wold Johnson first became a supporter of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center more than a decade ago. (quiggyt4/Shutterstock)
NEWARK, NJ Late philanthropist Betty Wold Johnson first became a supporter of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) more than a decade ago. Now, courtesy of a $20 million donation to the Newark-based nonprofit, Johnson has earned a solemn and heartfelt thank you for making the largest gift in its history.
On Tuesday, NJPAC announced that Johnson, who died in May at the age of 99, has bequeathed a $20 million gift to its endowment fund.
Will concerts return in 2021? Legendary N.J. promoter talks new timeline, hopes and worries
Updated Jan 25, 2021;
Posted Jan 24, 2021
Lady Gaga is one of several A-list performers slated to play New Jersey this year, rescheduled from 2020. (Ronald Martinez | Getty Images)
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As thousands of New Jerseyans are now being vaccinated each week, the path toward concerts’ electrifying return becomes a little clearer.
Yet there’s still so much to be worked out, especially regarding the state’s precarious timeline: Several massive music events, at MetLife Stadium and on beaches in Wildwood and Asbury Park, are already on the 2021 calendar (rescheduled from 2020) with hundreds of thousands of tickets sold and no certainty the shows will actually go on.
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
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