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...

Crossroads Theatre Review: ‘Sugarbelly’

Guy Davis, writer and sole performer of “Sugarbelly and Other Stories My Father Told Me,” at New Brunswick’s Crossroads Theatre through Sunday, June 26,...

Shake Off the Pandemic Blues with These Off-Beat Outings

Those looking to shake off the pandemic blues and shake up the summer with a trip off the beaten track, look no further. We’ve...

Princeton Festival Opera Review: ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’

Composer Derrick Wang is far fairer than the heavenly emissary he depicts in his lusciously funny, divinely witty, and refreshingly impartial 2015 opera, “Scalia/Ginsburg,”...

Crossroads Theatre Review: ‘Freedom Rider’

Ricardo Khan and four other writers had dramatic fodder galore to work with as they composed “Freedom Rider,” which is currently having its world...

At 200, Olmsted Still a Fixture of the NJ Landscape

The National Association for Olmsted Parks is putting the word out that it is celebrating the 200th birthday of its namesake, preeminent American landscape...

Going for Gold at the Philadelphia Flower Show

Mercer County Community College (MCCC) is once again going for gold at the Philadelphia Flower Show. Having racked up six medals — two golds...
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