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.”...

Review: ‘Tartuffe at McCarter’

When director Daniel Fish deconstructed “Hamlet” for the McCarter a few seasons back, he gave us a staging that included a scene with the...

A Kennedy’s Voice of Reason

The resonances between Kathleen Kennedy Townsend’s life experiences and my own surprise me, given our noteworthy differences — her Catholic versus my Jewish upbringing,...

Opportunities

Theater Chang/Ferrara Productions has auditions for “Elegies: A...

It’s All in the Training, This Pianist Proves

Marion Zarzeczna teaches piano in three different places, with different formats in each location. Mondays and Fridays she instructs non-pianists at Philadelphia’s elite Curtis...

Crafting the Comedy of Neil Simon

The greatest sign of achievement always seemed to me to be finding one’s name as the answer to a clue in the New York...

Review: ‘The Fantasticks’

As one of the few theatergoers of my generation who had never seen “The Fantasticks,” I probably brought a totally different perspective to the...
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