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...

Queer Eye for the Straight Kitchen

Ted Allen is mostly the straight man – in the comedic sense – on the television reality show "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy."...

Making the Tiger Disappear

‘What sets improvisation apart from all other comedy is that there is magic being created before your very eyes. The jokes are being pulled...

Deconstructing the Man Behind Once Upon a Time

For many baby boomers, the name Hans Christian Andersen is indelibly linked with an image of a very smiling, very blond Danny Kaye, in...

Opportunities

Stars in the Park, Kelsey Theater, Old Trenton Road, West Windsor. Auditions for "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" are Saturday, November 19, noon to...

You Can Go Home Again

In 1992 New Jersey composer George Perle, then 75, produced his second piano concerto, a commission for Michael Boriskin. Boriskin premiered it in multiple...

Where Dance and Opera Meet

Opera and ballet have been bedfellows since the beginning. Kings, princes, and dukes commissioned the early works, and royal theaters were home to opera...
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