
Straight No Chaser has shows coming up in Englewood, New Brunswick and Atlantic City.
Here is a roundup of other major arts events taking place around New Jersey, through July 10.
MUSIC
• The a cappella group Straight No Chaser — whose summer tour last year was titled Straight No Chaser Summer: The ’90s — is following it up this year with Straight No Chaser Summer: The ’90s, Part 2, and promising to perform their versions of hits from that decade such as Lisa Loeb’s “Stay (I Missed You),” The Backstreet Boys’ “Everybody,” The Cranberries’ “Linger” and Santana’s “Maria Maria.”
The tour will begin at BergenPAC in Englewood, July 8 at 7 p.m., with later tour stops include The State Theatre in New Brunswick, July 16 at 7:30 p.m.; and Harrah’s Resort in Atlantic City, Aug. 9 at 8 p.m.
• The Spinners — whose major ’70s hits include “I’ll Be Around,” “Could It Be I’m Falling in Love,” “Then Came You” (featuring Dionne Warwick) and “Could It Be I’m Falling in love” — will perform at a free Freedom Festival being presented by Camden County at Wiggins Park in Camden, July 4. Matt Cappy & Friends will open the show at 6 p.m., followed by The Spinners at 8 p.m., with fireworks to begin at 9:30 p.m. (NOTE: The current version of The Spinners does not include any members from the group’s heyday.)

FRISSON WINDS
• The New York-based group Frisson Winds — featuring just the wind players from the larger Frisson chamber ensemble — will play music by Mozart, Gershwin, Scott Joplin and others in the outdoor Back Deck series at The Morris Museum in Morris Township, July 10 at 7:30 p.m.
• Graham Nash — whose recent tours have had titles such as An Intimate Evening of Songs and Stories, and Sixty Years of Songs and Stories — will bring his current More Evenings of Songs and Stories tour to The Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank, July 8 at 7:30 p.m. The former Crosby, Stills, Nash (& Young) and Hollies member is being joined on this tour by Todd Caldwell (keyboards, vocals), Adam Minkoff (bass, drums, guitars, vocals) and Zach Djanikian (guitars, mandolin, drums, vocals). His latest solo album, Now, came out in 2023.
Nash said of these musicians in a 2023 NJArts.net interview, “Quite frankly they are much younger than me and they are kicking my behind every single night. I have to bring my A game every night. It’s thrilling for me. It’s very different music than I’ve ever done before.”
• For a long time, Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes presented a Fourth of July Weekend concert in Asbury Park, every year. That is obviously no longer possible, now that Southside has retired from touring. But longtime Jukes guitarist Glenn Alexander and his Shadowland band will perform with The Asbury Jukes horn section, July 5 at 8:30 p.m. at The Wonder Bar in Asbury Park.
“We’ll be doing old & new Shadowland songs as well as some Jukes favorites along with plenty of great classic rock,” says Alexander.

THOMAS BRUNOT
THE TOOMAI STRING QUINTET
• The Toomai String Quintet will present a very diverse program — featuring works by Bach, Mozart and Duke Ellington, as well as Latin and Cuban music, and bluegrass — July 10 at 7 p.m. at the Summer Concerts on the Hudson series of free, outdoor shows presented by Hudson Riverfront Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Harbor Park in Weehawken. It is recommended that those attending bring lawn chairs or blankets.
The quintet features violinists Emilie-Anne Gendron and Rubén Rengel; violist George Meyer; cellist Hamilton Berry; and bassist Andrew Roitstein, They will be joined on some numbers by mandolinist Dennis Lichtman.
• New Jersey Symphony, conducted by Gregory D. McDaniel, will present a free, 75-minute “Season Preview Concert” — featuring music that will be part of its upcoming 2025-26 season — July 9 at 7 p.m. at The Victoria Theater at NJPAC in Newark. The program will include an excerpt from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, along with Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture; Fauré’s Pavane; Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave); Bartok’s Romanian Folk Dances; and Sibelius’ Finlandia.
• Dominic Chianese, 94, the actor and singer who has appeared in “The Godfather Part II,” “Dog Day Afternoon” and “All the President’s Men” and other movies, and who played mobster Corrado “Junior” Soprano in “The Sopranos,” will sing traditional Italian songs in “An Italian Evening With Dominic Chianese,” taking place at The Barrymore Film Center in Fort Lee, July 8 at 6:30 p.m.
Biagio, Dave Kopec and Dave Tarzian will also perform, and Jeff Marchetti will moderate a question-and-answer session with Chianese.

BRIAN B. CROWE
From left, Ty Lane, Kayla Ryan Walsh and Patrick Toon will co-star in “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again].”
• The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey will present “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again]” — a new version of the unique and enduringly popular comedy — at its F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre at Drew University in Madison, July 9-13, 15-20 and 22-27. The three-actor play touches on all of The Bard’s plays, at least briefly, in a madcap frenzy.
Two children’s tickets are available with the purchase of each adult ticket.
• The Plays-in-the-Park series at The Stephen J. Capestro Theater at Roosevelt Park in Edison, which launched last month with “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” continues, July 9-12 and 14-19 at 8 p.m., with “Rent.”
• Songs written by Jimmy Buffett — including “Margaritaville,” “Cheeseburger in Paradise,” “Son of a Son of a Sailor,” “Why Don’t We Get Drunk” and “Come Monday” — can be heard in the jukebox musical “Escape to Margaritaville,” which will be presented by Centenary Stage Company at The Sitnik Theatre at Lackland Performing Arts Center in Hackettstown, July 10-13 and 16-20. The musical, which has been presented on Broadway and elsewhere since 2017, is about a fun-loving musician who falls in love; Buffett, who died in 2023, wrote a new song for it, “Three Chords,” in addition to allowing his older songs to be used.
• The Holmdel Theatre Company will present a reading Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet,” with some new twists, July 7 at 7 p.m.
According to the company’s website, “For more than a decade, director Juice Jackson had this idea — ‘what if Romeo and Juliet was a queer love story? What if instead of just their families hating each other, there was something else about their love that made them have to hide it for fear of retribution?’
“We invite you now to put yourself in the mindset of the year 1969. Tension between the LGBTQ community and those who oppress them is at an all-time high and we find ourselves in a little bar in Greenwich Village called Stonewall Inn. Imagine if you will that the events unfolding in front of your eyes are happening under that context.”
REVIEWS
“Nanette Carter: A Question of Balance” at Montclair Art Museum. (Through July 6)
“Andrea Chung: The Ocean Doesn’t Recognize Tears” at Project for Empty Space, Newark. (Through Aug. 17)
“Pulp: The Fluid and The Concrete” at Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton. Paper-making works. (Through Aug. 31)
“Indigenous Identities: Here, Now & Always” at Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick. (Through Dec. 21)
“Morven Revealed: Untold Stories From New Jersey’s Most Historic Home” at Morven Museum & Garden, Princeton. (Through March 1)
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