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...

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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,”...
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