Content about Performing arts

February 1, 2012

Music, poetry, and comedy. Learn more and register at Café Improv's website www.cafeimprov.com. $2 general admission, $1 ACP members.

January 23, 2012

One of Spain's greatest Flamenco artists, Soledad Barrio, will perform with Noche Flamenca in McCarter Theatre Center at 91 University Place in Princeton on Jan. 28 at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $15-$54. For more information and to purchase tickets, please call (609) 258-2787 or visit mccarter.org.

January 12, 2012

West Windsor, NJ – Maurer Productions OnStage brings classic laughs to the stage with the Neil Simon comedy “Laughter on the 23rd Floor” at Mercer County Community College’s Kelsey Theatre. Dates and times for this hilarious salute to the comedy writers of television’s golden age are: Fridays, Jan. 27 and Feb. 3 at 8 p.m.; Saturdays, Jan. 28 and Feb. 4 at 8 p.m.; and Sundays, Jan. 29 and Feb. 5 at 2 p.m. Kelsey Theatre is located on Mercer’s West Windsor campus, 1200 Old Trenton Road. A reception with the cast and crew follows the opening night performance on Jan. 27.

January 4, 2012

Music, poetry, and comedy. Learn more and register at Café Improv’s website at www.cafeimprov.com.

December 5, 2011

Dance Improv, Live, a lightly structured evening of movement for self-expression to live music, on Dec. 9

November 30, 2011

Music, poetry, and comedy. Learn more and register at Café Improv’s website at www.cafeimprov.com.
(Special Day & Time)

November 15, 2011

Fuente Ovejuna: A Disloyal Adaptation by Cusi Cram, a play about a real town in Spain whose people banded together to overthrow the cruel overlord will be performed on Nov. 17, 18 and 19 at 8 pm in the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center at 91 University Place in Princeton. Tickets are $10-$15, and are available at (609) 258-9220, (609)258-2787 or princeton.edu/arts.

November 2, 2011

Music, poetry, and comedy. Learn more and register at Café Improv’s website at www.cafeimprov.com.

October 4, 2011

The Program in Creative Writing Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series will present readings by poet Rita Dove and novelist James Salter on Oct. 19 at 4:30 pm in the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center. In addition, Katherine Chen, a senior thesis student in the Program in Creative Writing, will read briefly from her work. For more information, please call (609) 258-1500; princeton.edu/arts.

September 28, 2011

Music, poetry, and comedy. Learn more and register at Café Improv’s website at www.cafeimprov.com.

September 15, 2011

 Stephen Sondheim, composer and lyricist, and Frank Rich, former NY Times drama critic and columnist, writer for New York magazine

September 15, 2011

PETER PHILLIPS, Director
presented in collaboration with McCarter Theatre

August 22, 2011

McCarter Theatre will kick off its season with a community-wide Block Party on August 24 from 5 to 9 pm at 91 University Place in Princeton. Dancing under the stars with members of Fred Astaire Dance Studio to live music of the Philadelphia Jazz Orchestra, featuring the finest high school and college jazz musicians in the Greater Philadelphia and New Jersey regions will accompany activities for kids like spin art, face painting and JaZams fun. For more information, please call (609) 258-2787 or visit mccarter.org.

August 19, 2011

Tim Shields, Managing Director, McCarter Theatre, will present "The Arts in Today's Society: How Steve Jobs Got It Right; and What Does He Have to Do With it Anyway?" 10:00 AM

July 27, 2011

Princeton Ballet School (PBS), the official school of American Repertory Ballet (ARB), will present An Evening of Dance on July 29 at 6:30pm in McCarter Theatre Center at 91 University Place in Princeton. The performance celebrates the 30th Anniversary of the PBS international Summer Intensive program and will include student choreography orchestrated by Katie Glasner and new choreography by Mary Barton and Janell Byrne. The performance will also feature an excerpt from the classical ballet, Don Quixote as restaged by Maria Youskevitch and work by ARB Director Douglas Martin.

June 23, 2011

Saturday, June 25 | 7 pm | Solley Theater | $2
Café Improv
Music, poetry, and comedy. Learn more and register at Café Improv’s website at www.cafeimprov.com.

June 23, 2011

Music, poetry, and comedy. Learn more and register at Café Improv’s website at www.cafeimprov.com.

April 26, 2011

Music, poetry, and comedy. Learn more and register at Café Improv’s website at www.cafeimprov.com.

March 25, 2011

Music, poetry, and comedy. Learn more and register at Café Improv’s website at www.cafeimprov.com

February 23, 2011

Winner of five Tony Awards, The Drowsy Chaperone is a magical, rollicking musical-comedy masterpiece. The show begins as a die-hard musical theater fan plays the cast album of the 1928 chestnut The Drowsy Chaperone in his dingy apartment. Instantly the show magically bursts into life onstage. We are rocketed into the glamorous world of a celebrity bride on her hilarious wedding day. You will fall in love with Broadway all over again with the side-splitting romp The Drowsy Chaperone!!

February 23, 2011

Winner of five Tony Awards, The Drowsy Chaperone is a magical, rollicking musical-comedy masterpiece. The show begins as a die-hard musical theater fan plays the cast album of the 1928 chestnut The Drowsy Chaperone in his dingy apartment. Instantly the show magically bursts into life onstage. We are rocketed into the glamorous world of a celebrity bride on her hilarious wedding day. You will fall in love with Broadway all over again with the side-splitting romp The Drowsy Chaperone!!

January 20, 2011

The Arts Council of Princeton and Stone Soup Circus are pleased to jointly present “Circle of Sawdust” by Rob Mermin, founder of Circus Smirkus. Rob will entertain with stories from touring Europe as a circus performer, and show the ways in which circus has been presented by Hollywood through the years. Tickets are $15/$10 members, students and seniors. To purchase tickets, visit www.artscouncilofprinceton.org.

December 17, 2010

Music, poetry, and comedy. Please register to perform. Learn more at Cafe Improv's website.

November 22, 2010

Music, poetry, and comedy. Please register to perform. Learn more at Cafe Improv's website.

September 22, 2010