Arts

Local schools, including Glenfield Middle School, MKA and MSU, are finding ways to address arts instruction creatively during COVID. 

Arabella Egan, a 14-year-old freshman at Montclair High School, performed her original song on "The Today Show."

Montclair High School's a cappella group the Passing Notes will perform at the Lamp for Haiti benefit gala on Thursday, Sept. 24.

Oratorio Society of New Jersey will hold an outdoor, in-person, live choral rehearsal on Tuesday, Sept. 15, at 6:30 p.m. Masks required.

Many companies and choreographers will be shown in a "best of" video from Dance on the Lawn on Sunday, Sept. 14.

Montclair Literary Festival offers free online panels and author talks on Sept. 11 and 12, and writing workshops during the week.

Montclair teen Arabella Egan will perform her original song "Take It One Step at a Time" on "The Today Show" on Thursday, Sept. 10.

With the pandemic making summer jobs hard to find, Montclair teens became entrepreneurrs, using their art to earn some money.

A memoir by David Henry Sterry, "Master of Ceremonies," is being turned into a television pilot by Gordon L. Smith of "Better Call Saul."

“Hamilton” composer/playwright and star Lin-Manuel Miranda will introduce the show. Montclair students Emma McElwee, Johanna Keyser, Khari Jenkins, Robert Axelrod, and Veronica Axelrod will appear.