Princeton Symphony Orchestra All performances take place at Richardson Auditorium on Princeton University’s campus. Tickets are $35 and up. 609-497-0020 or www.princetonsymphony.org. The Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) has announced a 2024-’25 season that is a celebration of both classical music and the 60th birthday of music director Rossen Milanov with a lineup that highlights numerous […]
Artworks Trenton 19 Everett Alley and South Stockton Street, Trenton. www.artworkstrenton.org. Artworks Trenton and its artistic director, Addison Vincent, are the curators behind “Trenton Makes 2.0,” currently on view at Capital Health, Hopewell. An opening reception takes place Tuesday, October 1, from 5 to 6 p.m. The exhibit showcases the works of established and up-and-coming […]
State Theate 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick. 732-246-7469 or www.stnj.org. El Gran Combo, Puerto Rico’s most successful musical group, has shared the flavor and culture of Puerto Rico with the world since the ’60s. With more than 70 albums, this salsa orchestra has an important space in the Puerto Rican and Antillean songbook. $39 to […]
American Repertory Ballet At the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, 11 Livingston Avenue New Brunswick. www arballet.org American Repertory Ballet’s season opens with WONDERMENT, a mixed bill of four unique and exciting dance works: Antony Tudor’s “Little Improvisations,” Lar Lubovitch’s “Something About Night,” the Swan Lake “Black Swan Pas de Deux and Coda,” and the […]
What started as a casual remark to friends about “Empire Records’” potential to become a great musical turned into a dream opportunity for Zoe Sarnak when her agent offered her the chance to write the score and lyrics. Sarnak immediately said yes: This wasn’t just another project, but a personal journey to reimagine a film […]
It started with noodling around on a violin. New Zealand-born composer Gemma Peacocke didn’t know as a kid that spending hours creating new musical pieces could one day be a career. Now years later, her orchestra piece “Manta” will be debuted at the Princeton Symphony Orchestra’s season-opening concert. The orchestra performs Peacocke’s “Manta,” along with […]
“Here and Now,” a solo exhibit of new paintings by Bucks County-based artist Robert Beck, opens Saturday, September 14, at the Morpeth Contemporary in Hopewell. Two opening receptions are scheduled: Friday, September 13, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, September 14, from 1 to 3 p.m. The show remains on view through Sunday, October […]
Princeton Makes, a Princeton-based artist cooperative, and Ragged Sky Press, a local publisher focused on poetry, host a Second Sunday Poetry Reading on Sunday, September 15, at 4 p.m. The readings take place at the Princeton Makes store in the Princeton Shopping Center. The September reading features Annie Cao and Lois Marie Harrod. Their readings […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed adding the Historic Potteries site in Trento to the National Priorities List of Superfund sites, known as the NPL. Adding the site to the NPL would equip the EPA with the necessary tools to address significant lead contamination affecting residential areas, public spaces, and parks in the East […]
The National Park Service has awarded a grant totaling $7,533,460.50 for the replacement of the deteriorated Washington Crossing State Park Visitor Center in Hopewell Township. According to a press release from the office of Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman, whose district includes Hopewell, the new state-of-the-art visitors center will be completed near the site of General […]