The Arts This Weekend: Paul McCartney & Wings in HD, Plays at Crossroads

Theatre's are a bit light this weekend, as the spring season ends and the summer entertainment has yet to kick in. Still, there is a NJ Symphony Orchestra concert this weekend and a Paul McCartney/Wings show on HD at the State Theatre. In live theatre, the Crossroads Theatre's production of two one-act plays wraps up this weekend.

Friday, May 17
Paul McCartney & Wings ROCKSHOW in HD
State Theatre
8 pm 
Tickets: $12, students $7 (call box office for student tix)
732-246-7469

See ROCKSHOW on our big 46' HD screen featuring rock band Wings, for the first time ever, complete with exclusive interview footage with Paul McCartney!

ROCKSHOW is a 1980 concert film by Wings, filmed during their 1976 North American tour. It features 30 songs from four concerts of the tour: New York, May 25; Seattle, June 10; Los Angeles, June 22; and Los Angeles, June 23. This was part of the Wings Over the World Tour that also spawned the triple live album Wings Over America.The film also includes an interview with Paul McCartney, exclusive to theatrical screenings. 

Friday, May 17 - Sunday, May 19
The Talk and White Lilies, two one-act plays
Crossroads Theatre
8 pm Friday; 3 pm & 8 pm, Saturday; 3 pm Sunday
Tickets: $50
732-545-8100

Marshall Jones, III, the Crossroads Theatre's producing artistic director, presents the world premieres of two one-act plays as its Season Finale: the powerful drama White Lilies, by best-selling novelist Walter Mosley,and the adult comedy The Talk, by France-Luce Benson.

Sunday, May 19
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra - TCHAIKOVSKY 5
State Theatre
3 pm 
Tickets: 1-800-255-3476

Program includes: WAGNER Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; MACKEY Stumble to Grace Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (East Coast Premiere); TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5.

A brilliant new concerto from American composer Steven Mackey is the centerpiece between two symphonic giants. The Prelude from Die Meistersinger presents Wagner at his most regal and grand. Tchaikovsky’s Fifth traces a winding path from tragedy to triumph.

Classical Conversation begins at 2 pm (free to ticketholders). Steven Mackey’s Stumble to Grace is part of the New Jersey Roots Project.