Karen Zacarías has a busy mind. Perhaps too busy, or too filled with ideas and conceits to slow down and make her thoughts more bite-sized. Or more clearly parallel. Zacarías’ play, “Legacy of Light,” at Princeton’s McCarter Theatre through April 6, is an ambitious piece that swirls between centuries, the 18th and 21st anyhow, eddies […]
Painter and illustrator Mary Lundquist is the featured presenter for the “Inside the Artist’s Studio” series at Princeton Makes in the Princeton Shopping Center on Saturday, March 29, at 6:30 p.m. Lundquist, the illustrator of nine picture books, including as author of “Cat & Bunny” and “The Little Forest Keepers,” discusses her life as an […]
Rajiv Joseph’s new play, “King James,” at New Brunswick’s George Street Playhouse through Sunday, April 6, holds so many aces, from excellent acting to sporadically stirring scenes, from sharp insights to a quick-flowing script, it’s painful to say it never coalesces into a full and finished work. The near miss is sort of like the […]
Giuseppe Verdi is the perfect composer for Boheme Opera NJ. “Il Trovatore” might be the perfect Verdi opera for the company. That’s because music is Boheme’s primary focus. Acting in Boheme’s “Il Trovatore” was basic. Alison Bolshoi pulled out some stops as the emotional Azucena, and John Sun Park displayed passion and heartbreak as Manrico, […]
The Trenton Free Public Library and Trenton Artists Workshop Association announce an exhibition spotlighting The Original Trenton Coffeehouse, a downtown Trenton cultural project that help launch several important Trenton cultural organizations and activities. The exhibition opens Saturday, March 22, and continues through June 21. It includes original posters, photos, newspaper articles, and artwork created about […]
Because of Albert Einstein’s longtime association with Princeton, Pi Day (with the first three digits of the mathematical constant, 3.14, translated as March 14) is usually a pretty big deal around here. The Einstein look-alike contest, the Pi Day tours, the pie-throwing, pi memorization and recitation, and of course the fooderies offering deals on pie. […]
John Hart Farms on Titus Mill Road in Pennington is a true working farm. There are cows, chickens, horses, pigs, and fields of crops in season. The property, which John Hart purchased in 1986, includes buildings that date back to the early 18th century. One of them, which has beams that have been dated by […]
“Spirit of the Highlands” is a gratifying new adaptation of the landmark 1832 ballet “La Sylphide.” With its introduction of virtuosic toe-dancing that evoked an illusion of weightlessness (by Marie Taglioni, creator of the title role), its shifting of ballet narratives from classical mythology- to fantasy-based storylines, and its centering of a mortal’s pursuit of […]
Sorting, smoothing, and putting some punch into a spider web of plot lines is the work cut out for book writer Willy Holtzman and the two surviving composers of “Hard Road to Heaven,” a world premiere musical with oodles of potential at New Hope’s Bucks County Playhouse through Sunday, March 23. Assets abound and what […]
There will be much clinking of crystal glasses on stage at Richardson Auditorium the weekend of March 8 and 9. Yes, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra is still celebrating conductor/music director Rossen Milanov’s 60th birthday, all season, in fact. But this is particularly musical clinking: it’s part of the orchestration for the first movement of “Re(new)al,” […]