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...

Five Points Trenton: Where History & Art Are Entwined in Time

Patriots Week in Trenton is the annual December 26 through 31 reenactment of the Trenton Revolutionary War winter battles that gave the Americans their...

Organizations Giving the Gift of Holiday Attractions

Looking for some family holiday-time togetherness, places to join friends or take visitors, or just wanting to get out of the house? ...

Liberian Gowns Shine Light on History, Hope, and Holiday

Trenton streets brighten up on Sunday mornings when Americans of Liberian heritage emerge from churches and the sunlight illuminates their colorful gowns — but...

Off the Presses: ‘Emily Mann: Rebel Artist of the American Theater’

Emily Mann — the artistic director of McCarter Theater from 1990 to 2020 and the writer of more than a dozen stage works —...

Chee Bravo’s Silkscreens Are Music for the Eyes

Look closely at Chee Bravo’s latest silkscreen of the Candlelight Lounge in Trenton, and you’ll see the artist herself sitting behind the drummer. ...

George Street Review: ‘It’s Only a Play’

The irony of Terrence McNally’s winking poison-pen valentine to the theater, “It’s Only a Play,” and its production at New Brunswick’s George Street Playhouse,...
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