Arts & Entertainment

PorchFest brings music, art and history to Allentown

Allentown’s Main Street will become a showcase for music, art and local history Saturday, Sept. 12, when the Allentown Village Initiative presents the borough’s first PorchFest. The free event will...

Lawrence historian wins $25K national scholarship

While many parents take their children on vacation trips to the beach or the mountains, Julia Ciccone's parents...

Piano Jam opens Richardson’s Steinway to all

For generations, some of the world’s leading pianists have taken a seat at the Steinway grand piano in...

Art Cart delivers a new kind of soul food to town

It’s a hot summer day and brightly dressed Brook Beatty stands on South Broad Street in downtown Trenton. After...

Laura Benanti brings ‘Nobody Cares’ home

Laura Benanti says she is “blessed to be a chameleon.” Her context is unexpected. She is not referring to being...

Hopewell Artist Morris Docktor Goes Beyond Galleries

Morris Docktor is a classically trained portrait artist whose realistic likenesses can be seen in galleries and in public spaces around the region. Schooled...

Finding a Musical Voice with Trenton Youth Orchestra

Editor's note: The Trenton Youth Orchestra comprises Trenton Central High School musicians who rehearse weekly, guided by students from Princeton University. The profile below...

Pegasus Theater Review: ‘God of Carnage’

Yasmina Reza is a master of exposing modern foibles in all of their horror and humor. ...

Cool Women Poets Chill Out With New Book Launch

The Cool Women poetry group will celebrate its new book “Cool Women Volume 7: New and Selected Poems” with a reading and music event...

West Windsor Writer Makes Mystery Novel Debut

A successful middle-aged architect lets himself into a dark New York City apartment, passes through an entry hall faintly scented with a familiar perfume,...

Bristol Riverside Theater Review: ‘A Leg Up’

Ken Kaissar must have catalogued gags and gambits he’d seen in farces and screwball comedies because he included a slew of them in his...
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