Fill your plate over a seven-day foodie’s paradise with Experience Princeton’s upcoming “Restaurant Week” from Saturday, March 2, to Friday, March 8, where local eateries serve up prix fixe menus and limited-time promotions to showcase Princeton’s culinary chops. The 2024 “Experience Princeton Restaurant Week” offers these discounted meals and deals, as well as the option […]
Bordentown writers Roberta Clipper and D. Ryan Lafferty will be featured readers in the Bordentown FP Poetry Project set for Sunday, March 3, 2 p.m., Old City Hall, 11 Crosswicks Street, Bordentown, New Jersey. Clipper is a nationally published poet and short story writer and a retired Rider University writing instructor. Lafferty is the author […]
“Flux,” the debut novel by 2013 Princeton High School alumnus Jinwoo Chong, covers a lot of ground. It tells the interwoven story of Bo, an eight-year-old grappling with the death of his mother in a freak accident; Brandon, a 28-year-old laid off from his job at an artsy magazine after a corporate takeover; and Blue, […]
Calls for Art The West Windsor Arts Council invites artists to participate in GR8 Works, a fundraising art show to fund programs including exhibitions and the artist in residence program. Participate in “GR8 Works” by creating an original 8×8 inch artwork to raise funds to support a diverse and accessible art program focusing on community. […]
Seasons are in full swing at the area’s regional and community theaters. Here are the productions coming soon to a theater near you. McCarter Theater 91 University Place, Princeton. www.mccarter.org In “Dreamgirls,” a 1960s Motown girl group catches their big break in an amateur competition and rises from obscurity to superstardom. But will their friendship […]
Princeton University Concerts Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University. concerts.princeton.edu The trio of Alexander Melnikov, piano; Isabelle Faust, violin; and Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello make their second PUC appearance with a program of Robert Schumann, Elliott Carter, and Johannes Brahms. $25 to $40. February 15. The Richardson Chamber Players, the university’s resident ensemble, presents mixed chamber works by […]
McCarter Theater 91 University Place, Princeton. www.mccarter.org Hubbard Street Dance Chicago has a 45-year history of engaging with top choreographers with an ever-evolving repertory of contemporary dance. The company makes a return trip to McCarter with new artistic director Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell with a program that pays homage to the company’s journey and its founder, Lou […]
“Ghetto Gods in Divineland” is an ambitious play that imagines a future Trenton where conflict and unusual native vegetation might generate dramatic and lasting change. The conflict comes in the form of a protest in response to a municipal public works plan that, as one leading character, Ameen (Davon Cochran) says, puts places and projects […]
The Sourland Conservancy has announced its final “Talk of the Sourlands” of the season, “The African American’s Deep Connection to Land: Stewardship and Conflict” featuring Donnetta Johnson, the executive director of the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum in Skillman, described as “Central New Jersey’s first dedicated Black history museum.” Informed by her work with SSAAM, […]
With Trenton Arts at Princeton, founder Lou Chen has tapped into a rhythm that unites Trenton and Princeton in harmony. When he launched the Trenton Youth Orchestra in partnership with Trenton Central High School while still a student at Princeton University in spring 2017, cultivating a small group of Trenton violinists and Princeton volunteers who […]