Eric Rosen’s production of “Anastasia” at New Hope’s Bucks County Playhouse is entertainingly engaging throughout, but it shines in crucial dramatic moments when characters have something monumentally serious to discuss or need to reach a difficult personal decision. For these sequences, such as when the dowager empress of Imperial Russia, a Romanov, mother of the […]
Princeton Makes, a Princeton-based artist cooperative, and Ragged Sky Press, a local publisher focused on poetry, hosts a Second Sunday Poetry Reading on Sunday, December 8, at 4 p.m. The reading takes place at the Princeton Makes store in the Princeton Shopping Center. The December reading features music-themed poetry by Winifred Hughes and Lynn Levin. […]
“Rhythms of the Land,” an exhibit by artist Susan Hoenig, is on view at the Hutchins Galleries at the Lawrenceville School from Thursday, December 5, through Saturday, January 25, 2025. A free opening reception takes place Friday, December 6, at 6:30 p.m. The following artist’s statement accompanies the exhibit ‘The land upon which we gather […]
Visitors to Small World Coffee will get to see another side of their baristas in December, as they host a takeover of the monthly art show. Through Tuesday, January 7, every piece of art on the walls at both the Nassau and Witherspoon cafés is from a current or former employee of Small World. An […]
Two art shows — at the geographic extremes of U.S. 1’s readership area — offers readers and art lovers the chance to view some unique works that may just be that one-of-a-kind gift they’ve been searching for. The Cranbury Public Library hosts a solo exhibit by artist Donna Senopoulos from through Sunday, December 29. Titled […]
Hamilton finally has a brewery that it can call its own, although one must travel almost to the easternmost portion of the township to reach it. Bent Iron Brewing Company opened late this summer on Extonville Road, where the opposite side of the street is in Upper Freehold Township. Not that anyone has had any […]
It’s been almost four years since New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells designated Ayat, a Palestinian restaurant in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, a “Critics Pick.” What exactly is Palestinian cuisine? While a precise answer is elusive, Wells’ take at the time on the menu at Ayat offers a good starting point. In his review, he […]
This winter at Grounds For Sculpture, you can experience the union of art and nature by heading indoors. Petah Coyne’s Untitled #1383 (Sisters – Two Trees) is currently on view in the sculpture garden’s Museum Building through March 2, 2025. The large-scale sculpture is on loan from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), […]
The unsolved murder of The College of New Jersey student Sigrid Stevenson, which occurred nearly 50 years ago, was featured in a recent episode of a television show on Netflix that highlights the case and its impact on the college. The killing is the subject of Unsolved Mysteries Volume 4, Episode 4 “Murder Center Stage.” […]
Art Against Racism and West Windsor Arts Council, both 501(c)(3) organizations, invite artists to submit artwork for “Manifesting Beloved Community 2025” a juried exhibition of work exploring the interrelationship of community health and efforts to create an antiracist society. “Manifesting Beloved Community” invites artists to visualize what it means to create and live in a […]