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...

Opportunities

The Arts Maurer Productions has auditions for "It’s...

Casey & the Broken Hearts

Editor’s Note: U.S. 1 has begun its search for the band to perform at the second annual U.S. 1 Breakdown Party, Friday, October 6,...

Music with the Unpredictability of the Ocean

Tim Conley comes by the name "Ocean Exposition" for his band legitimately. The guitarist, originally from Yardley and still a resident, spent most of...

Review: ‘Cherry Orchard’

You will see the importance of the orchard and how it symbolizes and consumes a way of life in Bonnie J. Monte’s excellent staging...

Opera Review: ‘Cosi Fan Tutte’

My German friend is still enchanted with a performance of Mozart’s “Cosi fan Tutte” that he saw last year in the 18th century Schwetzingen...

Opera Review: ‘Gianni Schicchi ’ and ‘Buoso’s Ghost’

In its double bill, “Gianni Schicchi” and “Buoso’s Ghost” New Jersey Opera Theater provides an exemplary recipe for opera-entertainment: Take a one-act opera by...
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