WEEKEND GUIDE: WHAT’S HAPPENING JAN. 19-21?
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COMING SOON
After Midnight
Paper Mill Playhouse
Millburn, NJ
January 31-February 25
This electrifying musical revue transports you to the Cotton Club of the Harlem Renaissance, an unparalleled time in New York City when jazz and swing were king. After Midnight intertwines the poetry of Langston Hughes with songs from big-band legends Duke Ellington, Jimmy McHugh, Harold Arlen, Dorothy Fields, and more. The exhilarating score features such hits as “I Can’t Give You Anything but Love,” “Stormy Weather,” “On the Sunny Side of the Street,” and “It Don’t Mean a Thing.”
mOVIES
ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
Sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist.
SOPAC
JANUARY 20
MEAN GIRLS
New student Cady Heron (Angourie Rice) is welcomed into the top of the social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called “The Plastics."
AMC: ESSEX GREEN
JANUARY 19-21
THE BEEKEEPER
One man's brutal campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as 'Beekeepers'.
AMC ESSEX GREEN
JANUARY 19-21
AMERICAN FICTION
A novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
CLAIRIDGE
JANUARY 19-21
POOR THINGS
Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents.
CLAIRIDGE
JANUARY 19-21
FREUD'S LAST SESSION
From legendary director John Woo and the producer of John Wick comes this gritty revenge tale of a tormented father (Joel Kinnaman) who witnesses his young son die when caught in a gang’s crossfire on Christmas Eve.
CLAIRIDGE
JANUARY 19-21
EVENTS + PERFORMANCES
The Brit Pack
The Brit Pack is playing a selection of beloved British Classic Rock songs by bands like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Queen, David Bowie, Elton John, The Who, Oasis, and Radiohead.
SOPAC
JANUARY 19
Cinderella
The State Ballet Theatre of Ukraine returns to NJPAC with Cinderella, one of the most beloved fairy tales of all time. This full-scale ballet follows Cinderella’s story as she seeks her handsome Prince Charming.
NJPAC
JANUARY 21
New Jersey Symphony
Still "Darker America"
Rob Kapilow "We Came to America"
Bernstein "Three Dances Episodes from On the Town"
Bernstein "Symphonic Dances from West Side Story"
NJPAC
JANUARY 20
Art SHOWS
Layered Lenses
Nette Forné Thomas
AKWAABA GALLERY
Newark, NJ
Closes: February 10, 2024
Layered Lenses
Allan Gorman
VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF NEW JERSEY
Summit, NJ
Closes: March 16, 2023
electronic product prototyping
Artful Living: The Painters of Maker + Muse
The Iris Gallery
SOPAC
Closes: January 21, 2024
Healthcare 3D illustrations
Joel Meyerwitz
MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM
Closes: October 13, 2024
Orbiting Block
Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale
MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM
Closes: January 7, 2024