So how’d we do? Pretty well, in a modest sort of way. In 2023, Bookers at Jersey City’s flagship venues demonstrated imagination and broadmindedness. White Eagle Hall, for instance, supplemented the usual parade of touring guitar-slingers with dates from K-pop acts, Latin stars, and a first-rate Indian progressive rock group. Fox & Crow felt like […]
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Rogue Waves November: Live Music in Jersey City
October 2023 was for the classic rockers and the tribute acts, the legendary strummers with big names, and enthusiastic locals masquerading as internationally famous musicians. But Halloween is over, and the costumes are back in the closets. For November — the humble period nestled between the parades and the tinsel — we turn to artists […]
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At Art House Productions, ‘Tracy Jones’ Finds Laughs in Loneliness
In William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, closing this weekend at Nimbus Arts Center, the heroine declares that names don’t mean much. A block west at Art House Productions (354 Marin Blvd.), a somewhat less famous playwright comes to a different conclusion. In Stephen Kaplan’s Tracy Jones, directed by Alex Tobey, names carry weight. A name […]
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Five Questions for Tracy Jones Playwright Stephen Kaplan
We posed five burning questions to Stephen Kaplan, writer of the new play Tracy Jones. The production will be Art House’s inaugural effort in its new black box theater Dowtown and was developed in Art House’s INKubator program. As described by Art House, Tracy Jones is “a touching comedy of individual connection in an increasingly busy world. […]
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Greenville Arts Crossroads Perform Thursday, Host Kids on Sunday
Greenville Arts Crossroads, a group of artists, poets and community activists, will be celebrating their first anniversary and the Jersey City Art & Studio Tour (now a part of Jersey City Art Week) on October 12th at Three Thirds Cafe on Claremont Avenue. GAC was founded by Elizabeth Deegan, Rescue Poetix, Melida Rodas, and Monica […]
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Five Questions for Romeo & Juliet’s Director, Sean Hagerty
Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet is playing at Nimbus Arts Center through October 22nd. For information on showtimes and tickets, go here AM: Why stage Romeo & Juliet now, in 2023? Is there anything about the zeitgeist that makes it relevant? Hagerty: In this production we really focus on the inter-generational divides. The young vs the […]
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Rogue Waves: Live Music for Rocktober
Even among the good-guy rockers who star in the history of Garden State music, Brian Fallon is particularly ingratiating. His narrators are earnest, tough, hopeful; they’ve got one eye on the past, but they don’t tend to put their nostalgia ahead of the obligations of the present. On vigorously strummed, rootsy solo albums like Local […]
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A Jazz Age Romeo & Juliet Comes to Nimbus this Month
Jersey City’s classical theatre, The Curtain, has announced that they will bring an all-new production of William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet to Nimbus Arts Center. Performances begin Thursday, September 28th and run through Sunday, October 22nd. Tickets are priced at $25 and are available for purchase at TheCurtain.org. Set at the dawn of the Jazz […]
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Rogue Waves September: The Live Music Scene in Jersey City
For live music fans, August is a time of scarcity. September, on the other hand, is all about options. All month long, you’ll have your pick of interesting shows. I’ve put our star next to seven of them, but I could have discussed many others, too: veteran bachata singer Felix D’Oleo at The Factory on Saturday […]
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Film “The Greatest Beer Run Ever” Returns to Van Vorst Park Wednesday
In the space of one year, Jersey City has provided a setting for all three productions, representing the city’s emergence as a convenient — and apparently affordable — urban movie backdrop.