UNION, NJ — Recent Tony Award-winning star of stage and screen Alex Newell opens Kean Stage’s 2023-2024 season at Enlow Recital Hall in Hillside on Friday, Oct. 6, at 7:30 p.m. Newell will perform an eclectic mix of Broadway, American, pop and R&B standards at this inspiring concert event. Newell brings the party, excitement and […]
UNION, NJ — “HouseBroken,” an exhibition by New York-based interdisciplinary artist Melissa Stern that explores the range of emotions and experiences during the COVID-19 lockdown, is on display at the Galleries at Kean University through Friday, Dec. 8. An opening reception — free and open to the public — was in the Nancy Dryfoos Gallery, […]
UNION, NJ — Kean University invites the public to its third annual Jazz & Roots Music Festival, a free, outdoor celebration of an eclectic variety of music, at Kean’s main campus on Saturday, Sept 23. Third World, one of the world’s preeminent reggae bands, will headline the event, which kicks off at 3:30 p.m. on […]
UNION, NJ — Entrepreneurs, local business owners and employees gathered on Tuesday, Sept. 12, at Kean University’s Liberty Hall Academic Building in Union, to attend the first-ever Union County WORKS Business Summit. The goal of the summit is to cultivate growth of local businesses and further strengthen the bond between the Union County American Job […]
UNION, NJ — The Liberty Hall Museum continues its partnership with Bugge Ballet for a one-of-a-kind event, the Liberty Hall Dance Festival. For the sixth year, guests of all ages will spend an afternoon outside walking through the beautiful museum grounds, enjoying 10 site-specific professional dance performances inspired by moments in history. Liberty Hall Dance […]
UNION — Premiere Stages, at Kean University, is currently staging “Selling Kabul,” a play about the tenacious strength of family and culture to survive a collapsing social order. It is a 100-minute play staged in real time without intermission having its New Jersey premier. The span of time witnessed by the audience is the same […]
UNION, NJ — When Tymere Briggs-Perkins joined the Kean University football team as a freshman, the defensive lineman chose No. 90 for his team jersey, honoring his mother’s birthday on Feb. 9. But three years later, the 2023 graduate changed his jersey number to memorialize both of his parents, who died four months apart during […]
UNION, NJ — The Galleries at Kean University features the top artistic talent in the medium of collage this fall with the National Collage Society: 39th Annual Juried Exhibit at the Liberty Hall Academic Center gallery through Saturday, Sept. 30. An opening reception, free and open to the public, was at LHAC on Kean’s Union […]
UNION, NJ — Premiere Stages, the professional theater company in residence at Kean University, began accepting submissions for the 19th annual Premiere Play Festival on Friday, Sept. 1. This yearly competition for unproduced scripts offers developmental and production opportunities to as many as four playwrights with strong ties to the greater metropolitan area — New […]
UNION, NJ — ‘Selling Kabul’ comes to Premiere Stages’ Bauer Boucher Theatre Center, 1000 Morris, Ave., Union, from Thursday, Sept. 7, through Sunday, Sept. 24. Taroon once served as an interpreter for the U.S. military in Afghanistan. Now it is 2013, and the Americans — and their promises of safety — have begun to withdraw. […]