INTERVIEW: Theresa Caputo brings her spirited show to NJ
Photo: Theresa Caputo has four shows scheduled in New Jersey. Photo courtesy of the artist / Provided by Alan Miller PR with permission.
Theresa Caputo, the star of TV’s Long Island Medium, has been entertaining and engaging people for years. On her TV shows, she offers viewers an insider’s look into her personal life and her career as an in-demand “medium.” She has shared many anecdotes and life lessons in her best-selling books. During her live shows, she makes strong connections to audience members by sharing stories about loved ones and offering her thoughts on the afterlife, souls and the spiritual world.
Now Caputo is making several stops in New Jersey. First up is a Valentine’s Day show at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood, New Jersey, followed by the State Theatre in New Brunswick (Feb. 20) and Ovation Hall in Atlantic City (Feb. 21). She rounds out the Garden State tour with a stop at the Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank (June 5). Plus, there are many dates around the country.
“I always say, it’s like watching Long Island Medium live without the shopping,” Caputo said recently in a phone interview. “I will randomly just stop in front of someone and start saying things that mean absolutely nothing to me, but are life-changing to the person that I’m standing in front of.”
When Caputo makes a stop at an audience member, the guest is usually in shock. Many people who buy a ticket to the show are expecting and hoping for a connection with a deceased loved one, and then when Caputo starts sharing some stories, there’s often a look akin to a deer in headlights. “They can’t believe it’s actually happening to them,” she said. “Sometimes I’ll just be staring right at someone and talking, and they are just looking at me just in awe. They can’t believe it’s happening.”
Caputo is in the business of faith, and whether someone has faith in her abilities comes down to a personal choice. There are those who flood her live shows, seemingly believing in the powers of the medium, while others have called into question whether this reaching out to the “other side” is possible. For her part, Caputo calls her unique ability a “gift,” and it’s a gift she didn’t immediately accept.
“I was struggling with my gift for probably almost a decade, and through a spiritual experience, it was shown to me that when we lose a loved one, we are left sometimes with burdens and guilts, should’ve, could’ve, would’ve, only ifs,” Caputo said. “And we’re kind of left with these negative emotions that don’t give us the ability to heal, and to be honest with you, I don’t think people are expecting to hear what they hear from their loved ones.”
She said that many people are anticipating the messages from loved ones to be filled with faith, hope and healing, but in fact Caputo said the transmissions are quite commonplace. They validate their identity, she said, in order for the audience member to believe in the interaction.
“They have to validate to that person with something completely unique, something that they would never expect their departed loved ones to bring up or talk about, and that’s the thing where it becomes so unbelievable,” she said. “I think a lot of times it just goes through the head, ‘I can’t believe this is happening. What are they going to say?'”
Caputo said this “gift” doesn’t make sense on a surface level, and she can’t quite explain what it is that happens when she receives these “messages.” She fully admitted after so many years of channeling, she is unsure how the process works.
“These things just start happening to me,” Caputo said. “I start sensing and feeling things that mean nothing to me, but are life-changing to the person that I’m speaking to. … Once the soul leaves the physical body, they’re then greeted by other loved ones that went on before them, on the other side, and then for the soul to grow, they do life reviews. They have to go through lived life through other loved ones’ eyes here in the physical world so they can heal. If they need to apologize or feel that that’s part of their soul’s journey on the other side, then they are able to do that through me, through messages.”
For some people, what Caputo and other mediums do is more entertainment than actual spiritual engagement, and the TV-personality-author-performer is OK with that skepticism. In some ways, skepticism is healthy. “I honestly am the first one to say that what I do is crazy,” she said. “How can this happen? How can this be?”
Caputo added: “I also find, believe it or not, the skeptics or people that are kind of unsure, they’re the ones that have the best experience because they are witnessing something that they might not know anything about. … It really doesn’t matter to me if people believe in what I do. That’s not why I do what I do. I want people to believe in themselves. I want them to believe in an afterlife. I want them to believe that that soul bond can never be broken, that the things that they sense and feel are their departed loved ones. … Grief, it changes us, and it’s heavy, and it hits us at times where we least expect it. And our faith carries us, and a lot of times people lose that faith. So I feel the work that I do will give people back their faith, whatever faith means to them, and to remind us that the love that we share with our departed loved one, that love will never leave us. That’s the important thing that I want people to leave all my live shows with, to know that their loved ones are still with them, living life through their eyes — loving, guiding and protecting them.”
By John Soltes / Publisher / John@HollywoodSoapbox.com
Theresa Caputo will appear in four shows in New Jersey over the coming weeks. Click here for more information and tickets.
