Looking for fun in Greater Morristown this weekend?
Morristown High has Something ROTTEN! — and the school is proud of it!
And the fun doesn’t stop there.
One of the high school’s best-known grads, organist extraordinaire John Ginty, will be a special guest star with the Devon Allman Project at the Mayo Performing Arts Center.
The New Jersey Festival Orchestra takes you to the North Pole, in a Drew University concert that includes authentic Arctic birdsong.
And that’s only the tip of the entertainment iceberg.
Scroll down for details. Check our handy calendar for even more activities–and add your own events, too!
THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2022:
Jazz favorite Grover Kemble performs at Rockaway’s Caffe Navona, 147 Route 46, from 6 – 9 pm.
At 7 pm, the Morristown & Township Library presents a virtual discussion of The Babushkas of Chernobyl, a documentary about a group of women who still live in the Exclusion Zone near the former Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Ukraine, site of the 1986 disaster. The film may be streamed from the library’s Kanopy service, or via YouTube. Email here for Zoom access; put Real-to-Reel in subject line.
Morristown’s Mayo Performing Arts Center presents The Fab Four–The Ultimate Tribute, at 7:30 pm. Tickets: $39-$59. Rescheduled from June 2021. Proof of vaccination or recent negative COVID-19 test required for ages 12 and up; masks strongly recommended. At 100 South St., call 973-539-8008.
FRIDAY, MARCH 25:
Grace Church in Madison presents half-hour noontime organ meditations every Friday throughout Lent at 12:15 pm. Today’s annual Helen E.J. Thomas Memorial Concert, presented by Patricia Ruggles and organist Anne Matlack, features Magnificats and more in honor of Annunciation Day. Free. At 4 Main St., 973-377-0106.
Morristown High School presents its spring musical comedy, Something ROTTEN!, at 7 pm, with two more shows on Saturday and a Sunday matinee. Tickets: $8-$15. At 50 Early St. Here’s a video preview about this Renaissance romp:
Video: ‘Welcome to the Renaissance’ from ‘Something ROTTEN!’:
Morristown’s Mayo Performing Arts Center presents The Devon Allman Project Featuring Featuring Jimmy Hall, Larry McCray and the Samantha Fish Band, at 7:30 pm. Tickets: $29-$69. Organ wizard John Ginty, a Morristown High alum, will perform as a special guest. Proof of vaccination or recent negative COVID-19 test required for ages 12 and up; masks strongly recommended. At 100 South St., call 973-539-8008.
The Folk Project’s Troubadour concert series presents a livestream of Korby Lenker at 7:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, MARCH 26:
Volunteers are being sought for the annual Whippany River cleanup, from 8:30 am to noon, near the Bethel AME Church at Spring Street and Bishop Nazery Way in Morristown.
Morristown High School presents its spring musical comedy Something ROTTEN!, at 1 pm and 7 pm. See Friday entry for more details.
What do we make of the many ills in this world? Dr. Miroslav Volf of the Yale Divinity School will take his best shot at 4:30 pm at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Morristown. He is speaking as part of the church’s Spong Lecture Series. Tickets are $10. The church is at 121 South St. Volf also will preach on Sunday at St. Peter’s 8 am and 10:30 am services.
Morristown’s Mayo Performing Arts Center presents Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox: The Grand Reopening Tour, at 8 pm. Tickets: $39-$79. Proof of vaccination or recent negative COVID-19 test required for ages 12 and up; masks strongly recommended. At 100 South St., call 973-539-8008.
Looking for a road trip? Dick Boak, whose book inspired a recent Morris Museum exhibit about a world famous ukulele, is hosting Boak Bash 2 at the State Theatre in Easton, PA, at 7:30 pm. Featuring Steve Miller, Marty Stuart, Rosanne Cash, Laurence Juber, and more. Tickets: $86-$159. Proceeds benefit the theater and the instrument collection of the Moravian Historical Society. At 453 Northhampton St., 1-800-999-7828.
Video preview: ‘Boak Bash 2’
SUNDAY, MARCH 27:
The Morris Winter Farmers Market concludes its ninth season, from 9:30 pm to 1 pm at Convent Station in Morris Township. Presented by Grow It Green Morristown.
Morristown High School presents its spring musical comedy Something ROTTEN!, at 1 pm. See Friday entry for more details.
Morristown’s Mayo Performing Arts Center presents New Jersey Ballet: Hansel & Gretel, at 3 pm. Tickets: $15-$25. Proof of vaccination or recent negative COVID-19 test required for ages 12 and up; masks strongly recommended. At 100 South St., call 973-539-8008.
The jazz sextet Amani presents its Spring is Here concert at 2 pm at the Watchung Arts Center. Tickets: $25. Bandleader Marty Eigen says he is donating his proceeds to Ukrainian relief. Masks, proof of vaccination required. At 18 Stirling Road, Watchung.
The New Jersey Festival Orchestra presents Voices from the Arctic, with masterworks from Rautavaara, Sibelius, and Tchaikovsky–and recorded Arctic birdsong!–at 3 pm in the Concert Hall at Drew University in Madison. Tickets: $25-$79. At 36 Madison Ave., 908-232-9400. Read more about it.
Opera at Florham presents Love, Death and Redemption, at 3 pm at The Mansion of Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison. Tickets: $10-$25. Featuring music by Puccini, Verdi and Catalani and similarly-themed Broadway selections by Sondheim, Webber and Bernstein. Masks required. At 285 Madison Ave., 973-443-8620.
The Friends of Willow Hall present Celtic harpist Patricia Turse in concert at 3 pm at Willow Hall in Morristown. Tickets: $25. At 330 Speedwell Ave.
