Just Spreading Joy, That Is Me
Many musicians, it is true, find interviews to be as pleasurable as doing their taxes. But for Staples, it’s quite the opposite. “I enjoy...
Bringing the Playwright Onstage
Celebrating its 20th year, Passage Theater in Trenton is playing its part in the revitalization of the city, as well as providing a theater...
Review: ‘Red Light Winter’
There was so much pre-opening talk about the amount of nudity and the graphic depiction of sexual acts in Adam Rapp’s latest play “Red...
Russia’s Age of Elegance Comes Alive at Princeton
In the first few pages of the catalog for the new exhibit at the Princeton University Art Museum, “Mir Iskusstva: Russia’s Age of Elegance,”...
Here’s What It Takes to Become an Irish Tenor
Like most children, Anthony Kearns didn’t take music that seriously. At the same time, it was an intimate part of his family life, something...
Bringing Back Louis Armstrong
Although he’s made a living in the last seven years performing a Louis Armstrong tribute show, composer, arranger, bandleader, educator, and trumpeter Marcus Belgrave...