Daryl Hall will perform in Atlantic City, Nov. 23.
Here is a roundup of arts events taking place around New Jersey, through Nov. 27.
MUSIC
• Both members of Hall & Oates — Daryl Hall and John Oates — have said in interviews this year that they believe their partnership to be permanently over. But both are continuing to perform on their own. Hall visited The PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, this summer, on a double bill with Elvis Costello. And he will return to New Jersey on another great double bill — with Howard Jones — on Nov. 23, for a 7:30 p.m. show at The Event Center at Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa in Atlantic City.
• Singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams will perform at The McCarter Theatre Center at Princeton University, Nov. 22 at 7:30 p.m.; and The Ocean City Music Pier, Nov. 23 at 8 p.m. The McCarter event is billed as a “Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets” show with “stories, songs and visuals.” Williams published a memoir, “Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You,” last year. For more about it, check out this recent NJArts.net interview.
• As one of the shows of the ongoing TD James Moody Jazz Festival, The Christian McBride Big Band will perform with singers Philip Bailey (of Earth, Wind & Fire), Dianne Reeves and Lisa Fischer, at Prudential Hall at NJPAC in Newark, Nov. 23 at 8 p.m. Bassist and composer McBride said in a recent NJArts.net interview that Bailey, Reeves and Fischer will be three of the 12 guest vocalists on an upcoming Christian McBride Big Band album.
THEATER
JOHN PIELMEIER
• Playwright John Pielmeier, best known for “Agnes of God,” will star in “Courage,” his own one-man play about J.M. Barrie — the creator of Peter Pan, Neverland and all the other characters in who live there — at the Kutz Theatre at The Sitnik Performing Arts Center in Hackettstown, Nov. 21 at 7 p.m., Nov. 22-23 at 8 p.m. and Nov. 24 at 2 p.m. The shows are part of the Centenary Stage Company‘s Fringe Festival.
• The Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn will present “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas,” with previews beginning Nov. 27, the official opening night on Dec. 1, and the last show on Dec. 29. The musical, based on the classic 1954 film, debuted in 2000 and ran on Broadway in 2008 and 2009. In addition to the title song, its Berlin-written numbers include “Blue Skies,” “Happy Holiday,” “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm,” “How Deep Is the Ocean?” and “I Love a Piano.”
• “The Gift of the Magi,” Marisa Smith’s modern adaptation of the 1905 O. Henry story, will open at Cape May Stage on Nov. 21 and run through Dec. 29. According to the theater’s website, “O. Henry wrote about disadvantaged young people living in New York City. In this version, Lucy and Robby are a young married couple living in the city who love each other very much though they have different ideas of what to spend money on, for this Christmas. Robby would like to go cross country on his motorcycle and Lucy wants to save for the down payment on a house. When a baby comes into the picture, everything changes.”
RENNIE HARRIS
DANCE
• Approximately 50 Princeton University students will perform works by choreographers such as Rennie Harris, Raja Feather Kelly, Rebecca Lazier, Matthew Neenan, Stephen Petronio and Yue Yin at The Princeton Dance Festival, taking place Nov. 22 at 8 p.m., Nov. 23 at 2 and 8 p.m. and Nov. 24 at 2 p.m. at The Berlind Theater at The McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton.
• Fall Dance Plus, presented by Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts at The New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, will include works by Omar Román De Jesús, Ricky Evans, Earl Mosley, Rutgers faculty member and Melanie George and Pam Tanowitz, plus a restaging of José Límón’s “A Choreographic Offering.” Shows will take place Nov. 21-23 at 7:30 p.m., as well as Nov. 23 at 2 p.m.
FAMILY
• The PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel will open this year’s edition of its annual outdoor, drive-through, holiday season-themed “Magic of Lights” display on Nov. 22, and it will run through Jan. 4.
FILM
• The Williams Center in Rutherford will present “Cinema Under the Stars” — combining short films about astronomy and space exploration with discussion by astrologer and astrophysicist Eric Eubanks — Nov. 23 at 7 p.m.
The cover of Cher’s new memoir.
OTHER
• Cher has published her “Cher: The Memoir, Part 1” — the first in a two-part series — and will talk about it at BergenPAC in Englewood, Nov. 22 at 7 p.m. Tickets include an unsigned copy of the book.
BergenPAC is advertising the event as “An Evening With Cher: The Memoir.”
According to publicity material, Cher’s book “follows her extraordinary beginnings through childhood to meeting and marrying Sonny Bono — and reveals the highly complicated relationship that made them world-famous, but eventually drove them apart.
“Cher: The Memoir reveals the daughter, the sister, the wife, the lover, the mother, and the superstar.
“It is a life too immense for only one book.”
• Steve-O of the “Jackass” stunt comedy group will bring his Super Dummy Tour to The Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank, Nov. 25 at 7:30 p.m. Steve-O has said on social media: “I’ve made a lot of bad decisions, and few were worse than the ones I made for my new ‘Super Dummy!’ tour. What’s so fun about this new multimedia show is that you don’t just hear the ridiculous stories of my latest, dumbest, unbelievably naughty exploits … you see them happen for yourself … completely uncensored.”
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REVIEWS
“Your Name Means Dream” at New Jersey Repertory Company, Long Branch. (Through Nov. 24)
“2024 New Jersey Arts Annual: Exploring Our Connections” at Montclair Art Museum. (Through Jan. 5)
“Under a Southern Star: Identity and Environment in Australian Photography,” presented by Princeton University Art Museum at Art on Hulfish. (Through Jan. 5)
“Kimberly Camp – Cross River: A Parallel Universe” at Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton. (Through Jan. 12)
“New Sculpture/New Jersey” at Morris Museum, Morris Township. (Through Feb. 2)
“Morven Revealed: Untold Stories From New Jersey’s Most Historic Home” at Morven Museum & Garden, Princeton. (Through March 2)
“Bony Ramirez: Cattleya” at Newark Museum of Art. (Through March 9)
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