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Pierrot Productions brings the fiercely eloquent American classic, "Death of a Salesman," to the stage at Mercer County Community College's Kelsey Theatre. Dates and times for this award-winning drama are Fridays, Feb. 24 and March 2 at 8 p.m.; Saturdays, Feb. 25 and March 3 at 8 p.m.; and Sundays, Feb. 26 and March 4 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 Feb. 24.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

PETER PHILLIPS, Director
presented in collaboration with McCarter Theatre

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.

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

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.

In a time before The Bachelor and Match.com, Bruce and Prudence, both desperate to find “the one”, decide to turn to the New York classified ads for a chance at love.  However, Durang’s eccentric love interests collide and clash as each turns to an even more unbalanced psychiatrist.  The tension rises as a love triangle forms and an array of madcap characters are brought to a dinner table in a scene that is sure to keep you on the edge of your seat!  This hysterical play set in 1970s New York is a zany glimpse at two strangers and the dangers o

In a time before The Bachelor and Match.com, Bruce and Prudence, both desperate to find “the one”, decide to turn to the New York classified ads for a chance at love.  However, Durang’s eccentric love interests collide and clash as each turns to an even more unbalanced psychiatrist.  The tension rises as a love triangle forms and an array of madcap characters are brought to a dinner table in a scene that is sure to keep you on the edge of your seat!  This hysterical play set in 1970s New York is a zany glimpse at two strangers and the dangers o

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.

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

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

Hallie Flanagan.  Chances are you’ve never heard of her, but she - or rather the Depression-era Federal Theatre Project she created as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal Works Progress Administration - reached millions across the country. 

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

Thursday, March 17 | 8 pm | Solley Theater | $15/$10
Improv Comedy Troupe "Far and In Between"

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!!

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!!