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Next weekend the Tony Awards will be celebrating Broadway, but according to theater critic Michael Bourne, not all of the best shows were nominated.

Step back to the Roaring Twenties for a one-night-only speakeasy featuring casino games, swing dancing, a live band, and more! Take inspiration from the Jazz Age, when the Harlem Renaissance was at its height, and dress in your spiffiest throwback outfits. Drinks and food will be available for purchase.

Enjoy a performance by violinist, Bri Blvck, courtesy of NJPAC.

You won’t need a password to see our newest exhibitions Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill: Photographs by Jerry Dantzic and Jazz Greats: Classic Photographs from the Bank of America Collection.

Before Speakeasy, join Newark Arts' annual meeting featuring the announcement of the ArtStart Grant Awards 2022, starting at 6pm at Express Newark.

Art After Dark is supported in part by: Tito's Handmade Vodka

After opening the SummerStage season in 2021, the renowned jazz ensemble returns with its critically-acclaimed director to this year’s season. Director Wynton Marsalis’s name looms large in the world of jazz, and for good reason— the Grammy-winning trumpeter, composer, and bandleader has helped shepherd the cultural institution of jazz into a new millennium. Under his direction, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performs a vast repertoire: from rare historic compositions to Jazz at Lincoln Center-commissioned works, including compositions and arrangements by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Charles Mingus, and many others. Since the orchestra’s founding in 1988, the group’s performances have been leaving its global audiences inspired and uplifted with the full vigor, vision, and depth of America’s music. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis’s vast, innovative body of original work over the past decade demonstrates the orchestra composers’ and arrangers’ thematic ambitions, distinctive musical personalities, and unprecedented range.

WBGO Journal host Doug Doyle chats with filmmaker and arts advocate Celeste A. Bateman about her new documentary

WNET host and former WBGO reporter Jenna Flanagan has more on the street-renaming ceremony in Newark for Sakia Gunn