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Jersey Arts Podcast
The Jersey Arts Podcast presents in-depth, one-on-one conversations with the liveliest and most intriguing personalities in New Jersey’s arts scene. From the casts of hit shows to critically acclaimed film producers; from world-renowned poets to classically trained musicians; from groundbreaking dance visionaries to cutting-edge fine artists, our podcast connects you to what’s happening in your local arts community.
Episodes
Jersey Arts PodcastHealing Voices OnStage: Caregivers Stories
"Healing Voices OnStage: Caregivers Stories" is a theatrical project weaving together stories about the experience of being a caregiver – whether it’s taking…
Jersey Arts PodcastWalking the "Ropes" at Two River Theater
Paul, Prince and Presley’s dad is the greatest tightrope walker of all time. But with a father's fame comes pressure on his sons, who must learn to walk the…
Jersey Arts PodcastNai-Ni Chen Dance Company’s Celebration of the Lunar New Year of the Monkey
February 8th marks the beginning of the Chinese Lunar New Year, and the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company is coming to help us all celebrate. The festivities begin on…
Jersey Arts PodcastA Cape May Christmas
There are many great reasons to visit the seaside resort town of Cape May--named one of America's best small towns for Christmas by Town and Leisure…
Jersey Arts Podcast"Made to Capture" at the Hunterdon Art Museum
Made to Capture is the title of a new photography exhibit at the Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton – it features forward-thinking photography from the last few…
Jersey Arts PodcastA New Production of Ubu Roi at Rider University
In 1896, Albert Jarry shocked Paris with “Ubu Roi,” his absurdist play about a greedy, power-hungry king and his unpleasant wife. More than a hundred years…
Jersey Arts PodcastMusic & Wine Festival at Appel Farm
Appel Farm Arts & Music Center presents its first Music & Wine Festival on Saturday, October 3. The focus is regional, with a variety of music, wine, and…
Jersey Arts PodcastPine Barons Take On the XPoNential Music Festival
This weekend, Pine Barons – the band, not the ecosystem in southern New Jersey – are playing the XPoNential Music Festival on the Camden Waterfront. It’s a…
Jersey Arts PodcastThe Princeton Festival 2015
The month of June means The Princeton Festival, with an eclectic range of performances ranging from a cappella jazz ensembles (West Side 5 and The Tribunes) to…
Jersey Arts PodcastThe 2015 Monclair Film Festival
The 2015 Montclair Film Festival starts tomorrow! It runs from May 1st to May 10th. Contributing producer Christopher Benincasa recently spoke with the…
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Emanation: Art + Process at Wheaton Arts
The creative process itself is the focus of a sprawling contemporary art exhibition opening May 1 at Wheaton Arts. Mark Dion, Judy Pfaff, Donald Lipski and…
Jersey Arts Podcast"And Then Came Tango" at The Growing Stage
The Growing Stage, The Children’s Theatre of New Jersey, will present the world premiere of "And Then Came Tango" on Friday, March 6th. Inspired by a true…
Jersey Arts PodcastNJSO Winter Festival: Sounds of Shakespeare
The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra’s annual Winter Festival kicks off on January 9th and runs through the 25th. This year, the festival is celebrating the…
Jersey Arts PodcastSeuls en Scène – Princeton French Theater Festival
Princeton University’s third French Theater Festival is well underway, and runs through October 11 at venues across the campus. All performances are in French…
Jersey Arts PodcastAmerican Boychoir School Featured in New Dustin Hoffman Movie
Dante Soriano is a fourth year student at the American Boychoir School. He once wanted to be an accountant, but now thinks maybe he'll switch to acting. Dante…
Jersey Arts PodcastHomeward Bound: South Jerseyan Ginger Coyle Comes Home for XPoNential Music Festival
Ginger Coyle and her band will be performing Sunday, July 27 on the JerseyArts.com Marina Stage at the XPoNential Music Festival on the Camden Waterfront. A…
Jersey Arts PodcastNJ350: David Bianculli on Film and Television History in New Jersey
This week marked the 350th birthday of the state of New Jersey. The website officialnj350.com is filled with fun things to do throughout the state to…
Jersey Arts PodcastNJSO Thrills with Acrobats, Free Concerts, Singalongs, and More
The new President and CEO of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra chats with producer Eric Schultz about upcoming concerts and some of the innovative ways the…
Jersey Arts PodcastRaritan River Music Festival -- Past & Present
Guitar duo Michael Newman and Laura Oltman founded Raritan River Music Festival 25 years ago. Since then, every May brings an eclectic mix of classical music…
Jersey Arts PodcastOur Town Now at George Street Playhouse
Thornton Wilder's play "Our Town" is 100 years old. As with any classic, every generation interprets it anew. The George Street Playhouse has involved the…
Jersey Arts PodcastThe Garden State Film Festival Comes To A.C.
Tonight, the Garden State Film Festival celebrates its 12th year by moving the party from Asbury Park to Atlantic City. For four days, film lovers can take in…
Jersey Arts PodcastNorman Rockwell at the Newark Museum
The exhibit American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell, created by the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, has arrived at the Newark…
Jersey Arts PodcastAs You Like It
Everyone knows, or has at least heard, this famous line: “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” It’s from Shakespeare’s romantic…
Jersey Arts PodcastMontclair Art Musem at 100
On January 15, the Cake Boss will unveil a new creation in honor of the 100th birthday of the Montclair Art Museum. The Wednesday evening event--free and open…
Jersey Arts PodcastDanceVision’s "The Snow Queen"
This weekend, December 14-15, DanceVision brings its adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s "The Snow Queen" to the Kendall Main Stage Theater at The College…
Jersey Arts PodcastWhite Christmas At Surflight
Superstorm Sandy struck last year, and “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas” at Surflight Theatre was postponed. This year, the show goes on. It opens November 30…
Jersey Arts PodcastFull Circle 2013: Reflections
This Saturday, November 2, the Matheny Medical and Educational Center in Peapack, a special hospital for children and adults with medically complex…
Jersey Arts PodcastSomething Wicked This Way Comes
"Something Wicked This Way Comes" is one night only at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey on October 28. The evening of chilling and spooky tales by a…
Jersey Arts PodcastPaper Mill Give Us a Glimpse of New Musical "Honeymoon In Vegas"
This week, we take you to the press preview of Paper Mill Playhouse’s world-premiere production of “Honeymoon in Vegas” – a new musical based on the movie of…
Jersey Arts Podcast"Proof" Open New Season at the McCarter
"Proof" is a father/daughter drama, a love story, and a mystery. Who wrote the groundbreaking mathematical proof discovered after an eccentric professor's…
Jersey Arts PodcastBroadwalk Empire
Producer Eric Schultz talks with "Boardwalk Empire" author, historian and attorney Nelson Johnson. The Hammonton, NJ native published his history of Atlantic…
Jersey Arts PodcastAaron & The Spell
Aaron & The Spell are the opening act at this year’s XPoNential Music Festival – kicking things off at Wiggins Park along the Camden Waterfront next Friday…
Jersey Arts PodcastAn Evening With Groucho
The New York Times calls Frank Ferrante “the greatest living interpreter of Groucho Marx’s material.” From 1986-87, Ferrante starred in the off-Broadway hit…
Jersey Arts PodcastGlassWeekend 2013
This weekend is GlassWeekend at WheatonArts & Cultural Center in Millville. The Creative Glass Center of America at WheatonArts is opening its doors to the…
Jersey Arts PodcastColin Hay at Appel Farm Arts And Music Festival
He first grabbed the world's attention as the lead vocalist for "Men at Work," the Australian band that was a worldwide hit in the early 1980s. The band broke…
Jersey Arts Podcast"Venus In Fur" Heats Up George Street Playhouse
"Venus In Fur" - a play about a play that’s based on an 1870 classic erotic novel by Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch - opens this week at George…
Jersey Arts PodcastChristine Ebersole, Actress/Singer and Maplewood Mom
Two-time Tony winner Christine Ebersole (Grey Gardens, 42nd Street) “is in a class by herself,” says The New York Times. Her career spans from Broadway to…
Jersey Arts PodcastNew Jersey Film Festival 2013
Continuing to spotlight home-grown filmmakers with "Jersey Fresh" programFor over three decades, the New Jersey Film Festival has been a film laboratory of…
Jersey Arts PodcastAmerican Repertory Ballet to perform Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring"
Podcast producer Eric Schultz talks with American Repertory Ballet's artistic director Douglas Martin. Martin has choreographed a new, soon-to-debut version of…
Jersey Arts PodcastChuck Cooper Stars in "Two Trains Running" at Two River Theater
August Wilson wrote a ten-play cycle set in a black Pittsburgh neighborhood, one for each decade of the 20th century. Last year, Two River Theater in Red Bank…
Jersey Arts Podcast"Weiwei-Isms," A new Book Of Sayings From The Chinese Artist
Ai Weiwei disappeared for 81 days in April 2011 while trying to board a plane from Beijing to Hong Kong, and has not been able to leave China since. Yet his…
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The Masterwork Chorus Performs Handel’s Messiah
This holiday season, Andrew Megill, one of the leading choral conductors of his generation, will conduct the 100-voice Masterwork Chorus, with orchestra and…
Jersey Arts PodcastA Wind in the Willows Christmas
Two River Theater presents an original production for the holidays – A Wind in the Willows Christmas. This new musical follows the adventures of the story’s…
Jersey Arts PodcastPoe Times Two At Cape May Stage
The Black Cat and The Cask of Amontillado , for a double bill of short one-man plays. Poe, Times Two runs through November 16th. Bodine received a 2012 NYIT…
Jersey Arts PodcastA Conversation with Poet Emari DiGiorgio
Emari DiGiorgio’s poems range from the political to the personal. She’s a featured poet at this year’s Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival in Newark (Oct…
Jersey Arts PodcastVanya And Sonia And Masha And Spike
The McCarter Theatre has a hit on its hands with, of all things, a comic take on the melancholy Russian plays of Chekhov. "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike"…
Jersey Arts PodcastSeward Johnson, Sculptor & Founder of Grounds For Sculpture
Seward Johnson is an artist known for his whimsy, and his popular appeal – and for founding Grounds for Sculpture 20 years ago. The park is now 42 acres of art…
Jersey Arts PodcastBill Scheible, Ocean City Pops
Ocean City Pops concerts at the historic Ocean City Music Pier, built in 1929, are a much loved summer tradition at the the Jersey Shore. Producer Eric Schultz…
Jersey Arts PodcastJohn Wesley Harding's The Cabinet Of Wonders
The musician John Wesley Harding is also the novelist Wesley Stace. As host of the new NPR variety show "The Cabinet of Wonders," he calls on his friends from…
Jersey Arts PodcastFather Michael Doyle On Haiku Poet Nick Virgilio
Christopher Benincasa talks to Father Michael Doyle, of Camden's Sacred Heart Church, about the up-and-coming Waterfront South neighborhood - and the legacy of…
Jersey Arts PodcastAmerican Boy Choir
The American Boy Choir, celebrating its 75th anniversary, has performed at the Oscars, with pop diva Beyoncé and with major orchestras around the world…
Jersey Arts PodcastJohn Guare, Playwright
Susan Wallner talks to one of the luminaries of the English speaking theater world, playwright John Guare. He’s won Tonys, Obies, and NY Drama Critics Circle…
Jersey Arts PodcastEran Egozy & Gary Marcus
Christopher Benincasa speaks with Eran Egozy and Gary Marcus at The Music, Mind & Invention Workshop at The College of New Jersey. Egozy is co-founder of…
Jersey Arts PodcastWinnie Holzman
Chris interviews veteran television writer Winnie Holzman - creator of the series My So-called Life, and librettist for the hit Broadway musical Wicked…
Jersey Arts PodcastFluxus At Rutgers
Christopher Benincasa talks with curator Donna Gustafson about fifty years of Fluxus at Rutgers University. Fluxus was a radical and experimental art movement…
Jersey Arts PodcastPodcast Interview: "The Convert" at McCarter Theatre Center
Young playwright Danai Gurira first made waves with “Eclipsed,” her play about 5 young Liberian women during that country’s civil war. She is now writing a…
Jersey Arts PodcastDave Devries, Comic Artist and Monster Engine Creator
Producer Eric Schultz visits comic artist, painter, illustrator and author Daves Devries at his Budd Lake, NJ home. In 1998, Devries asked the question, what…
Jersey Arts PodcastBakersfield Mist
Inspired by a true story, an unemployed bartender living in a trailer park buys a painting at a thrift store for three dollars – and then comes to believe that…
Jersey Arts PodcastMary Badham, Scout in "To Kill A Mockingbird"
Harper Lee's 1960 novel To Kill A Mockingbird was an instant classic that was made into a great movie. Mary Badham played the role of "Scout" when she was 10…
Jersey Arts PodcastAtlantic City Ballets Dracula
The Atlantic City Ballet is performing Dracula just in time for Halloween. Producer Eric Schultz recently chatted with AC Ballet's founding director Phyllis…