Arts & Entertainment

EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ - Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet will be presented outdoors by the School of the Arts on the East Brunswick Campus of the Middlesex County Vocational and Technical Schools.

In a collaboration between the theater arts, arts technology and dance programs of the School of the Arts, the Bard’s classic romantic tragedy will be performed in a courtyard ...

SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NJ - A single-owner collection of action figures and Super Heroes accumulated over a 20-year period will be sold online Thursday, May 12 by Bodnar's Auction.

Bidding opens at 11 a.m. at  www.bodnarsauction.com

Joe Bodnar, owner of central New Jersey's largest auction house visited the consignor's home just before Christmas last year; he recalls ...

PLAINFIELD, NJ - In 1977, George Lucas’ Star Wars hit theaters.  This May 4th, celebrate forty years of fandom on Star Wars Day.

The history of this day dates to an ad placed in the London Evening News in 1979 congratulating Margaret Thatcher as she took office as UK Prime Minister.  The ad proclaimed, "May the Fourth Be With You, Maggie."  It was a ...

EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ - The East Brunswick Arts Coalition, the East Brunswick Museum, and the East Brunswick Historical Society invites residents to put on their dancing shoes for an afternoon of music, drinks, food and fun on Saturday, June 11, 2022 from 11:30 am to 4;30 pm at the Alice Appleby DeVoe Library at 166 Main Street.

Enjoy live jazz, dancing flappers, signature 1920's ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – City Center – New Brunswick’s hub of fine food, shopping and the arts – is preparing a fun week full of fiestas, furry friends and furlongs.

The Kentucky Derby watch party will make you feel like you’re at Churchill Downs for The Run for the Roses on Saturday, May 7.

Three TV trucks will be stationed at Harvest Moon Brewery & ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ - Third Floor - a band so named because the four members assembled their guitars and drums on the third floor of the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center to rehearse - were rocking the crowd on the College Avenue lawn.

Students swayed, a woman waved and two kids who taken a front row seat were nodding their heads to the music.

It seemed fitting that the band closed ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ –  Facebook recently reminded Abby Merrill about her first Rutgers Day, stirring memories of the afternoon her heart melted at the sight of baby pigs and other animals on Cook Campus.

Little did the communications major – or any of the other 100,000 people who attended the event in 2019 - know that would be the last Rutgers Day for a while.

That this ...

SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NJ - Mark Conover had an obsession with New Jersey milk bottles, cataloging and researching the history of each bottle and the dairy farms that were once prevalent in the Garden State,

He passed away in February, 2021, leaving behind a collection of 4,500 milk bottles and related items displayed on custom-built shelves in the basement of his Long Branch home, arranged ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Come for the effervescence, the comedy and the get-up-and-dance music.

Leave with a little lesson about life.

That’s what Sandie Lee hopes audience members experience when “Hairspray” comes to State Theatre New Jersey on Friday, April 29, at 8 p.m.; Saturday, April 30 at 2 and 8 p.m., and Sunday, May 1 at 2 p.m.

Lee plays Motormouth Maybelle in ...