Arts & Entertainment

Basement venues give young musicians a place to be heard

On a show night, an ordinary basement in Mercer County can become a concert venue, packed with young music fans standing just a few feet from the bands while...

Leon Rainbow paints Trenton’s story on a larger canvas

Leon Rainbow is an exciting artist to watch. People have been watching him for years as he paints...

Princeton Arts Council seeks market vendors

Artists, food busines ses and vintage dealers have several August deadlines to apply for fall and holiday markets...

Bucks County marks ‘Rent’ 30th anniversary

Bucks County Playhouse will mark the 30th anniversary of Jonathan Larson’s rock musical “Rent” with a new production...

Karly C and Rebel Y’all find their stride

Perhaps in the not-too-distant future, Mercer County folks can say they knew Mike Matisa and Karly C. “when.”...

Wooden Soldier: The Definitive Gustav Stickley

‘The frenzy of Stickley (is reaching) its pinnacle in New Jersey,” says Ulysses Dietz, curator at the Newark Museum and a leading expert on...

Opportunities

Audition Somerset Valley Players has auditions for “The...

A Hot Ticket from the 18th Century, Revisited

Opera at Rutgers’ production of “Flora” treats audiences to an experience in time-travel. And to an experience in space-travel, as well. The re-creation of...

Theater Review: ‘The Good Person of Setzuan’

Bertolt Brecht’s “Good Person of Setzuan,” now playing through Saturday, November 20, in McCarter’s Berlind Theater, doesn’t have an ending. It just stops, torn...

Pat Tanner: Lahiere’s, Remembered

When I heard the news that Lahiere’s, the iconic Princeton restaurant, was closing its doors after 90 years, I was surprised by the depth...

Funny and Funnier: George Street Playhouse’s New Comedy

Sitting in my theater seat, waiting for the curtain to go up, I usually peruse the credits in the theater program. Almost always, I...
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