Name: Fantasy Tavern Cabaret
Start: 2026-10-24T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Saint Joseph School

Saint Joseph School

Escape from the real world for a night of bardic inspiration featuring music from Lord of the Rings and more. Guests are encouraged to wear Ren Faire attire and enjoy beer and appetizers at this 21+ event. Performers include Summit Chorale under Artistic Director Dr. Thomas Juneau and accompanist David Maiullo.

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Fantasy Tavern Cabaret

Escape from the real world for a night of bardic inspiration featuring music from Lord of the Rings and more. Guests are...

Newark Public Library - Main Branch

Join us for an artist talk with Jimena Vega at the Newark Public Library presented with the Price Institute at Rutgers-Newark. Vega will be discussing her work in relation to art, memory, immigration and plants. Jimena Vega was born and raised in Ambato, a community in the Andean mountain of Ecuador. After experiencing a childhood full of traditions interwoven with nature, she immigrated to urban New Jersey as a teenager to reunite with her family. In spite of the initial challenges and bewildering metropolitan cultural shock, Jimena persevered and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture from the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2012. Drawing inspiration from her nature-filled childhood, her migration journey, and the cultural and artistic resilience of immigrant&nbsp; communities in the United States, Jimena began to explore diverse mediums such as illustration, sculpture, and art-making with organic materials. She also began participating in and facilitating women’s circles centered on plants, healing, oral history, and therapeutic art-making. Her art and her workshops have been featured in diverse places, such as Guttenberg Arts, the Queens Museum, Rabbit Hole Farms in Newark, Passaic County Arts Center, St. Peter’s University, and Raíces Cultural Center. Recently, Jimena completed the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, and a residency at Wild Flower Sculpture Park at South Orange, New Jersey. Currently, she is pursuing a MFA in Printmaking at SUNY New Paltz.

Local Event: Art, Memory, Immigration and Plants with artist Jimena Vega

Newark

Art, Memory, Immigration and Plants with artist...

Join us for an artist talk with Jimena Vega at the Newark Public Library presented with the Price Institute at Rutgers-Newark....

Art, Memory, Immigration and Plants with artist Jimena Vega

Burgdorff Cultural Center

Stories can’t hurt you…
MAPLEWOOD, NJ: This Halloween season, interACT Theatre Productions invites audiences beyond the graveyard gates for the East Coast Premiere of The Graveyard Girls, a theatrical horror comedy by Tommy Jamerson, directed by interACT Artistic Director Nicholas J. Clarey.
Featuring original incidental and scene-change music by Edward A. Bean, The Graveyard Girls runs October 9 through 24, 2026 at the Burgdorff Center for the Performing Arts in Maplewood, New Jersey.
Best friends Lauree, Sydney, and Nancie have an annual Halloween tradition: sneaking into an abandoned graveyard and competing to tell the most terrifying story around the campfire. But when Nancie’s love interest joins the festivities, the evening takes an unexpected turn. Stories meant to be make-believe begin to feel disturbingly real.
Blending dark humor, theatrical scares, friendship, and three frightening tales told around the fire, The Graveyard Girls explores what happens when the line between storytelling and reality begins to disappear.
“What drew me to The Graveyard Girls is that it understands why we tell scary stories in the first place,” says Nicholas J. Clarey, director and interACT Artistic Director. “We scare ourselves because it’s fun, because it brings us together, and sometimes because the things that frighten us have something to tell us. This production embraces all of that. It’s funny, it’s creepy, it’s theatrical, and then, when you least expect it, it gets genuinely unsettling.”
The production stars Maki Iman as Lauree, Melissa Mugica as Sydney, May Riekenberg as Nancie, and Michael McBride as Jack, with Jerry Narciso, Nat Gennace, Joe Miceli, Botond Ekler-Szabo, Ruth Rooney, Joel Redmount, Andre Fleming, Addie Kriegel, Arielle Waller, Emily Martin, Christine Melina, Jillana Kucey, Sophia Rounsavill, and Lital Knoll.
The creative team includes Assistant Director Ricky Cortez; Producers Serena Marie Smith, Brittany Reese, and Tommy Jamerson; Stage Manager Tommy Barbara; Assistant Stage Manager Ellie Schuckman; Technical Director Douglas Reese; Fight Director Craig Hill; Intimacy Director Amanda Castro-Conroy; Costumer Leila Tai Brown; Lighting Designer Danny Viola; Sound Designer Alex Post; Props Designer/SFX Props Creator Johanna Hill; Props Director Lisa Tasch; Program Designer Mark Aquilino; Social Media Director Sabrina Santoro; Box Office Manager Dawilla Madsen; and Production Photographer Gabrielle Williams. Clarey also serves as Set Designer.Performance Schedule
Burgdorff Center for the Performing Arts 
10 Durand Road, Maplewood, NJ

Friday, October 9: 7:30 PM 
Saturday, October 10: 7:30 PM 
Sunday, October 11: 3:00 PM
Friday, October 16: 7:30 PM 
Saturday, October 17: 7:30 PM 
Sunday, October 18: 3:00 PM
Friday, October 23: 7:30 PM 
Saturday, October 24: 7:30 PM
Understudy Performances
Saturday, October 17: 2:00 PM 
Saturday, October 24: 2:00 PM
These special performances feature members of the production’s understudy company stepping into their assigned roles.
Tickets and additional information are available at interactproductions.org.
About interACT Theatre Productions
Founded in 2009, interACT Theatre Productions is a nonprofit community theatre company serving South Orange, Maplewood, and the surrounding New Jersey community. interACT is dedicated to creating inclusive and accessible theatrical experiences while bringing together artists of diverse backgrounds and experience levels to create ambitious, engaging live theatre.

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Stories can’t hurt you…
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interACT Theatre Productions Presents the East Coast Premiere of The Graveyard Girls

Brookdale Park, 473 Watchung Ave, Bloomfield, NJ, 07003

The Annual UNCF New Jersey Walk/Run for Education is a dynamic, community-centered fundraising event that unites individuals, families, and organizations around a powerful shared mission: expanding access&nbsp; to&nbsp; higher education.
Participants are encouraged to build teams and recruit family members, friends, colleagues, neighbors, and corporate partners to take part in this inspiring, non-competitive 5K Walk/Run. Together, we can amplify our impact and create meaningful opportunities for students.Register Here: <a href="https://give.uncf.org/site/TR?pg=entry&amp;fr_id=3261&amp;_gl=1*1fgpwkf*_up*MQ..*_ga*NzY2MTY1NjQ3LjE3OTA4Nzk0MjY.*_ga_4EQ7FFDCQX*czE3OTA4Nzk0MjYkbzEkZzAkdDE3OTA4Nzk0MjYkajYwJGwwJGgw*_ga_9VN5ZRFM4K*czE3OTA4Nzk0MjYkbzEkZzAkdDE3OTA4Nzk0MjYkajYwJGwwJGgw*_ga_D9GC6SJYYQ*czE3OTA4Nzk0MjYkbzEkZzAkdDE3OTA4Nzk0MjYkajYwJGwwJGgw" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">2026 New Jersey Walk - UNCF</a>

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UNCF New Jersey Walk for Education 

The Annual UNCF New Jersey Walk/Run for Education is a dynamic, community-centered fundraising event that unites individuals,...

Stories can’t hurt you…
MAPLEWOOD, NJ: This Halloween season, interACT Theatre Productions invites audiences beyond the graveyard gates for the East Coast Premiere of The Graveyard Girls, a theatrical horror comedy by Tommy Jamerson, directed by interACT Artistic Director Nicholas J. Clarey.
Featuring original incidental and scene-change music by Edward A. Bean, The Graveyard Girls runs October 9 through 24, 2026 at the Burgdorff Center for the Performing Arts in Maplewood, New Jersey.
Best friends Lauree, Sydney, and Nancie have an annual Halloween tradition: sneaking into an abandoned graveyard and competing to tell the most terrifying story around the campfire. But when Nancie’s love interest joins the festivities, the evening takes an unexpected turn. Stories meant to be make-believe begin to feel disturbingly real.
Blending dark humor, theatrical scares, friendship, and three frightening tales told around the fire, The Graveyard Girls explores what happens when the line between storytelling and reality begins to disappear.
“What drew me to The Graveyard Girls is that it understands why we tell scary stories in the first place,” says Nicholas J. Clarey, director and interACT Artistic Director. “We scare ourselves because it’s fun, because it brings us together, and sometimes because the things that frighten us have something to tell us. This production embraces all of that. It’s funny, it’s creepy, it’s theatrical, and then, when you least expect it, it gets genuinely unsettling.”
The production stars Maki Iman as Lauree, Melissa Mugica as Sydney, May Riekenberg as Nancie, and Michael McBride as Jack, with Jerry Narciso, Nat Gennace, Joe Miceli, Botond Ekler-Szabo, Ruth Rooney, Joel Redmount, Andre Fleming, Addie Kriegel, Arielle Waller, Emily Martin, Christine Melina, Jillana Kucey, Sophia Rounsavill, and Lital Knoll.
The creative team includes Assistant Director Ricky Cortez; Producers Serena Marie Smith, Brittany Reese, and Tommy Jamerson; Stage Manager Tommy Barbara; Assistant Stage Manager Ellie Schuckman; Technical Director Douglas Reese; Fight Director Craig Hill; Intimacy Director Amanda Castro-Conroy; Costumer Leila Tai Brown; Lighting Designer Danny Viola; Sound Designer Alex Post; Props Designer/SFX Props Creator Johanna Hill; Props Director Lisa Tasch; Program Designer Mark Aquilino; Social Media Director Sabrina Santoro; Box Office Manager Dawilla Madsen; and Production Photographer Gabrielle Williams. Clarey also serves as Set Designer.
Performance Schedule
Burgdorff Center for the Performing Arts 
10 Durand Road, Maplewood, NJ
Friday, October 9: 7:30 PM 
Saturday, October 10: 7:30 PM 
Sunday, October 11: 3:00 PM
Friday, October 16: 7:30 PM 
Saturday, October 17: 7:30 PM 
Sunday, October 18: 3:00 PM
Friday, October 23: 7:30 PM 
Saturday, October 24: 7:30 PM
Understudy Performances
Saturday, October 17: 2:00 PM 
Saturday, October 24: 2:00 PM
These special performances feature members of the production’s understudy company stepping into their assigned roles.
Tickets and additional information are available at interactproductions.org.
About interACT Theatre Productions
Founded in 2009, interACT Theatre Productions is a nonprofit community theatre company serving South Orange, Maplewood, and the surrounding New Jersey community. interACT is dedicated to creating inclusive and accessible theatrical experiences while bringing together artists of diverse backgrounds and experience levels to create ambitious, engaging live theatre.

The Woodland

Join Durand-Hedden for The People’s House? The Reality of Personal Taste in the White House, a talk with Ulysses Grant Dietz. Dietz will survey how the interiors at the White House have changed from the 1817 rebuilding after the 1814 burning, to the sixty-six years since the Kennedy renovations of 1960. Historical images will underscore the reality that no administration has ever left the White House alone, all making changes to represent their vision of home, and how the president and his family would be represented in the world. 
Dietz worked with the Newark Museum for 37 years, much of that time as Curator of Decorative Arts. He is the author of books on Victorian furniture, art pottery, studio ceramics, jewelry, and the White House. He is the great-great-grandson of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant.
Doors will open at 1:30 pm on Sunday, October 11, and the talk will begin at 2 pm at The Woodland Parlor, 60 Woodland Road in Maplewood. Pre-registration is requested and available at <a href="https://www.durandhedden.org/dhh-events/peoples-house?utm_source=patch&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=peoples_house_oct2026&amp;utm_content=paid-calendar_listing" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">DurandHedden.org</a>. The talk will be followed by a reception with light refreshments at Durand Hedden House, 523 Ridgewood Road, Maplewood.
Durand-Hedden House &amp; Garden Members should choose Member tickets, with additional event-specific donations always welcome. The event is free for all, but non-members are asked to consider making a donation when getting tickets to support the House, grounds, and our programming. Information on Membership is available on our website. Membership starts at just $25 a year.
Parking for Durand-Hedden House is available on nearby streets.
About Durand-Hedden House and Garden 
The Durand-Hedden House and Garden Association is Maplewood’s historic house museum, dedicated to creating engaging and informative educational programs and materials about the local history of Maplewood and surrounding communities, natural history, and other related topics. The House, at 523 Ridgewood Road, Maplewood, is open once a month between September and June. For more information, visit our website at durandhedden.org. To arrange group tours, write to info@durandhedden.org. You can also find us on Facebook and Twitter.

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Join Durand-Hedden for The People’s House? The Reality of Personal Taste in the White House, a talk with Ulysses Grant Dietz....

The People’s House? The Reality of Personal Taste in the White House

Stories can’t hurt you…
MAPLEWOOD, NJ: This Halloween season, interACT Theatre Productions invites audiences beyond the graveyard gates for the East Coast Premiere of The Graveyard Girls, a theatrical horror comedy by Tommy Jamerson, directed by interACT Artistic Director Nicholas J. Clarey.
Featuring original incidental and scene-change music by Edward A. Bean, The Graveyard Girls runs October 9 through 24, 2026 at the Burgdorff Center for the Performing Arts in Maplewood, New Jersey.
Best friends Lauree, Sydney, and Nancie have an annual Halloween tradition: sneaking into an abandoned graveyard and competing to tell the most terrifying story around the campfire. But when Nancie’s love interest joins the festivities, the evening takes an unexpected turn. Stories meant to be make-believe begin to feel disturbingly real.
Blending dark humor, theatrical scares, friendship, and three frightening tales told around the fire, The Graveyard Girls explores what happens when the line between storytelling and reality begins to disappear.
“What drew me to The Graveyard Girls is that it understands why we tell scary stories in the first place,” says Nicholas J. Clarey, director and interACT Artistic Director. “We scare ourselves because it’s fun, because it brings us together, and sometimes because the things that frighten us have something to tell us. This production embraces all of that. It’s funny, it’s creepy, it’s theatrical, and then, when you least expect it, it gets genuinely unsettling.”
The production stars Maki Iman as Lauree, Melissa Mugica as Sydney, May Riekenberg as Nancie, and Michael McBride as Jack, with Jerry Narciso, Nat Gennace, Joe Miceli, Botond Ekler-Szabo, Ruth Rooney, Joel Redmount, Andre Fleming, Addie Kriegel, Arielle Waller, Emily Martin, Christine Melina, Jillana Kucey, Sophia Rounsavill, and Lital Knoll.
The creative team includes Assistant Director Ricky Cortez; Producers Serena Marie Smith, Brittany Reese, and Tommy Jamerson; Stage Manager Tommy Barbara; Assistant Stage Manager Ellie Schuckman; Technical Director Douglas Reese; Fight Director Craig Hill; Intimacy Director Amanda Castro-Conroy; Costumer Leila Tai Brown; Lighting Designer Danny Viola; Sound Designer Alex Post; Props Designer/SFX Props Creator Johanna Hill; Props Director Lisa Tasch; Program Designer Mark Aquilino; Social Media Director Sabrina Santoro; Box Office Manager Dawilla Madsen; and Production Photographer Gabrielle Williams. Clarey also serves as Set Designer.
Performance Schedule
Burgdorff Center for the Performing Arts 10 Durand Road, Maplewood, NJ
Friday, October 9: 7:30 PM Saturday, October 10: 7:30 PM Sunday, October 11: 3:00 PM
Friday, October 16: 7:30 PM Saturday, October 17: 7:30 PM Sunday, October 18: 3:00 PM
Friday, October 23: 7:30 PM Saturday, October 24: 7:30 PM
Understudy Performances
Saturday, October 17: 2:00 PM Saturday, October 24: 2:00 PM
These special performances feature members of the production’s understudy company stepping into their assigned roles.
Tickets and additional information are available at interactproductions.org.
About interACT Theatre Productions
Founded in 2009, interACT Theatre Productions is a nonprofit community theatre company serving South Orange, Maplewood, and the surrounding New Jersey community. interACT is dedicated to creating inclusive and accessible theatrical experiences while bringing together artists of diverse backgrounds and experience levels to create ambitious, engaging live theatre.
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