The 29th installment of the juried New Jersey Film Festival is set for showings Fridays through Sundays from May 31 through June 9. This year’s festival uses a hybrid format that couples in-person screenings at Rutgers University in New Brunswick with video on demand. In addition to the lineup of feature, documentary, animated, experimental, and […]
In an interview conducted last month, playwright Winnie Holzman said that her play, “Choice,” at Princeton’s McCarter Theatre through June 2, was conceived by a desire to write about abortion but with an original take. She succeeded. Though any current play that makes abortion a central element can’t help but be somewhat political, Holzman cannily […]
Shortest is often the sweetest for sketch comedy. Even on the main purveyor of the genre, NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” wit suffers frequently for lack of brevity. More frankly put, even the best ideas prove difficult to sustain. Writers or performers hit on a comic thought, whether a different angle of examining a situation, a […]
The talents of 27 Mercer County artists are on display through July 22 at the Gallery at Mercer County Community College (MCCC) in “Mercer County Artists Exhibition 2024,” a juried exhibition open to visual artists who live, work, or attend school in Mercer County. The MCCC Gallery is located on the second floor of the […]
Bucks County Community College is celebrating opening of “The Roosevelt Project: Photographs by Fran Orlando” at Hicks Art Center Gallery at the college’s Newtown, Pennsylvania, campus with a reception on Wednesday, May 22, from 4 to 7 p.m. The exhibition features more than 40 portraits from Orlando’s project photographing the residents of the small New […]
As construction continues on the Princeton University Art Museum’s new facility, the university has announced six new acquisitions that will be incorporated into the new museum’s architecture and surroundings. Four are works commissioned to adorn spaces in and around the new museum: An installation by Chicago-based American artist Nick Cave will welcome visitors to the […]
Dancing better than ever, American Repertory Ballet brought its amusing, hour-long “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” to New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, May 10 through 12. Based on the eponymous Shakespearean comedy, and choreographed by company artistic director Ethan Stiefel, the guaranteed-to-please-everyone ballet employs an array of classical, vernacular, and clowning movements to tell its tale […]
Six large cartons of clothing buttons had special meaning to long-time West Windsor resident Aron Arias. His father, Larry (Leb) Arias, a Holocaust survivor, had collected them over many years of working in the garment industry. Some of the buttons from the Arias Collection will be featured at the New Jersey State Button Society show […]
Princeton Makes, a Princeton-based artist cooperative, and Ragged Sky Press, a local publisher focused on poetry, host their monthly Second Sunday Poetry Reading on May 12 at 4 p.m. featuring two regionally based poets. The readings take place at the Princeton Makes store in the Princeton Shopping Center followed by a limited open mic for […]
New Jersey’s official tall ship, oyster schooner A.J. Meerwald, is coming to South Riverwalk Park in Trenton, on Saturday, May 11. The historic wooden, traditionally-rigged tall ship will offer two public sails departing from South Riverwalk Park. The two-hour trips are a way to experience the Delaware River and spend time with family and friends. […]