This has been a banner year for Lorraine Hansberry appreciation. First came the sharp, poignant Broadway revival of one of Hansberry’s rarely produced works, “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window” with stellar performances from Oscar Isaac, Rachel Brosnahan, and Tony recipient Miriam Silverman. Then lucky Philadelphians were treated to an even rarer piece, “Les Blancs,” […]
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 February 11 at 4 p.m. featuring two Pennsylvania-based poets. The readings take place at the Princeton Makes store in the Princeton Shopping Center followed by a limited open mic for the […]
HomeFront invites members of the community to participate in various volunteer opportunities and educational forums during its seventh annual Week of Hope from February 12 to 17. For more information call Gina at 609-854-6373 or email GinaD@homefrontnj.org. Registration for all events is required via SignUpGenius. Events take place at HomeFront’s headquarters, 1880 Princeton Avenue, Lawrenceville, […]
The tale of one New Jersey’s most legendary train accidents makes two stops at Bordentown’s Old City Hall in the form of a new theatrical storytelling presentation developed through the Bordentown Historical Society. The third installment of the “Harrowing History” series, the presentation led by BHS member Kristi Kantorski arrives 123 years after the train […]
Audition Villagers Theater has announced auditions for “Guard Bitches,” a new play by Molly Kate Babos granted a full production as the winner of the 2023 Mike Sockol New Works Series. Open auditions will be held on Friday, February 23, from 7 to 10 p.m. and Saturday, February 24, from 4 to 10 p.m., at […]
Although one can depend on Charles Busch plays for arch lines, grand gestures, offbeat characters, and sumptuous speeches, his latest, “Ibsen’s Ghost,” having its world premiere at New Brunswick’s George Street Playhouse before heading to New York for an off-Broadway run, never gains the comic or literary traction to create interest, insight, or laughs. Busch […]
Carlos Cortez straddles two worlds. His family is from Zináparo, a small rural village in Michoácan, Mexico, where few people have ever heard of Princeton University. He’s a senior at Princeton University, where few people have ever heard of Zináparo. But Carlos had an idea to bring these two worlds together. Last year, with the […]
“The George Nakashima Woodworkers: Process Book” is Mira Nakashima’s new book that gives a new look into the art of her father, 20th century New Hope, Pennsylvania-based woodmaker and innovator George Nakashima. Featuring original sketches, the philosophy behind the elder Nakashima’s masterpieces, and family history, the artfully crafted book explores the father and daughter’s “devotion […]
Sometimes all the news that matters is the news that brightens up a day, and no news reporter does it better than the cartoonists who know how to encapsulate a thousand sly words of wit into a single image. Some past communication with Trenton Free Public Library Trentonian archivist Laura Poll brought up the thought […]
Pick a crisis, any crisis will do. There are many to choose from, currently. So much bad news is brewing — and our exposure to it seems ever more constant — that it seems difficult to escape and even breathe sometimes, let alone feel a sense of peace. Here is where deliberate quietude and reflection […]