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Princeton Symphony Orchestra and Princeton University collaborate for the first-ever performance of the 1936 dramatization of Pushkin's masterpiece Eugene Onegin, with incidental music by Prokofiev. Eugene Onegin will premiere on Feb. 9 at 8 pm in Richardson Auditorium on the Princeton University campus. Tickets are $25, and available at (609) 497-0020 or online at princetonsymphony.org.

This documentary features restored footage from more than 100 hours of film shot during author Ken Kesey’s fabled 1964 road trip across America with a renegade group of counterculture truth-seekers in the legendary Magic Bus. Along with Kesey, who wrote “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” the Merry Pranksters on the LSD-fueled road trip to the New York World’s Fair included Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” and the painter and driver of the psychedelic Magic Bus.

Popular Princeton University English professor and Dickens expert Jeff Nunokawa, commemorates the bicentennial of the birth of the Victorian-era writer whose works transcends his time, language and culture.

Stop by the Updike Farmstead, tour the photography exhibit, Picturing Princeton, and decorate a picture frame for your favorite picture of 2011! There will be all sorts of fun decorations to dazzle and personalize your homemade frame. $5/person (ages 3 or older), $8/for 2, $10/for 3, $15/for 4 and FREE for HSP Members. For more information, call 609.921.6748 x100, or e-mail jeanette@princetonhistory.org. This program will be held at the Updike Farmstead, 354 Quaker Road, Princeton.

Princeton University professor of music and Russian music expert Simon Morrison and Princeton University professor of Slavic languages and literature Caryl Emerson discuss their successful efforts to track down and resurrect the 1936 dramatization of Pushkin’s masterpiece “Eugene Onegin,” a work that was censored and barred from performance by Soviet officials as part of Stalin’s campaign of repression. The work will be given its world premiere on Feb.

Join actor Scott Shepherd and director John Collins of the Elevator Repair Service for an insider’s look at the upcoming McCarter Theatre production of “Gatz,” the acclaimed eight-hour enactment of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” This classic of American literature is delivered word for word, brought to life by the staff of a mysterious small business in a shabby office.

Princeton Writers’ Block performs short comedies by Shel Silverstein, Christopher Durang, David Ives and Lily Tomlin.

The Althea Ward Clark Reading Series presents poet Rae Armantrout and novelist John Irving on Nov. 30 at 4:30 pm in McCosh 50 on the Princeton University campus. Rae Armantrout, 2010 Pulitzer Prize winner for Versed and John Irving, National Book Award winner for The World According to Garp will read selections from their work. For more information, please call (609) 258-1500 or visit princeton.edu/arts.

On November 17th at 7:15PM, the Stuart 8th Grade cast of the musical, Seussical Jr., will delight young and old as our favorite Dr. Seuss characters come to life, including Horton the Elephant, The Cat in the Hat, Gertrude McFuzz, lazy Mayzie and a little boy with a big imagination--Jojo. "Oh, the Thinks You Can Think" captures the show's spirit of imagination, as the colorful characters transport us from the Jungle of Nool to the Circus McGurkus to the invisible world of the Whos.

Princeton alumnus Jonathan Safran Foer, the best-selling author of "Everything is Illuminated" and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," will participate in a public discussion with novelist and Princeton faculty member Joyce Carol Oates at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10, McCosh Hall, Room 50. Their conversation, titled "Writing Life," will address writing as a profession as well as autobiographical elements and questions of Jewish identity in Foer's work.

Coleman Barks, renowned poet and leading translator of the works of Sufi mystic poet Rumi, will walk the Scott and Hella McVay Poetry Trail at Greenway Meadows Park on Friday, October 28, beginning at 4pm. Joining Barks will be Lisa Starr, twice named Poet Laureate of Rhode Island.

The walk will be followed by a reading from the new The Big Red Book at 5p.m.; at 6 p.m., there will be a celebratory reception and book signing.

There will be a Pumpkin Carving Demonstration from 12-2pm. We'll also have arts and crafts and games and music all day! Hope you can make it! Updike Farmstead, 354 Quaker Raod, Princeton.

As Joyce Carol Oates, contributing editor of this volume of brand-new stories by a remarkable set of writers, of whom we are thrilled to have several gathered at the store to celebrate the publication of New Jersey Noir, writes: New Jersey seems to be a place like few others where "corruption isn't aberrant but rather a way of (political) life." Please join us for readings from this book, all of which are set in New Jersey.
 

This 1999 psychological thriller directed by Anthony Minghella, adapted from the 1955 Patricia Highsmith novel of the same name, stars Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow.  Make an evening of it by having dinner at Mediterra at 5:30 p.m., where a three-course themed menu will be offered at $30 plus tax and tip.  Call 609-252-9680 to reserve.

Gene Wilder and young Peter Ostrum star in this story of four grossly gluttonous girls and boys who win the opportunity to tour an eccentric recluse's magical candy factory and the chance to win a lifetime supply of chocolate, in this adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic.
Part of the Monday Movie Mania Series

MEET ME AT THE FARMSTEAD: Our public Saturdays will feature tours of the farmhouse and property, live music by local groups; presentations by artisans, naturalists and farmers; historic games, scavenger hunts for children; and a variety of unique crafts for all ages. Cost: $5/person (ages 3 and older); $8 for 2 people; $10 for group of 3; $15 for group of 4. FREE for HSP members. Location: The Updike Farmstead, 354 Quaker Road.

Just one day after the release of her latest novel, “Then Came You,” the best-selling author returns to the library by popular demand. Weiner, a Princeton University graduate, is the author of such novels as “In Her Shoes,” “Fly Away Home” and “Good in Bed.” Her new book is about four women, bound by obligation and opportunity, who struggle to become a family. Community Room

Youth Stages will engage young children with songs, finger plays, recitations and acting out popular nursery rhymes. You’ll consider Mother Goose nursery rhymes in a whole new light. Community Room

Princeton Public Library salutes the Harry Potter phenomenon July 7-14 with a special series of events that includes a publicreading and screenings of all the Harry Potter films,  eading up to the July 15 theatrical release of the next and final film in the series, part two of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.”

Princeton Public Library salutes the Harry Potter phenomenon July 7-14 with a special series of events that includes a publicreading and screenings of all the Harry Potter films,  eading up to the July 15 theatrical release of the next and final film in the series, part two of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.”

Princeton Public Library salutes the Harry Potter phenomenon July 7-14 with a special series of events that includes a publicreading and screenings of all the Harry Potter films,  eading up to the July 15 theatrical release of the next and final film in the series, part two of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.”

Princeton Public Library salutes the Harry Potter phenomenon July 7-14 with a special series of events that includes a publicreading and screenings of all the Harry Potter films,  eading up to the July 15 theatrical release of the next and final film in the series, part two of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.”

Princeton Public Library salutes the Harry Potter phenomenon July 7-14 with a special series of events that includes a publicreading and screenings of all the Harry Potter films,  eading up to the July 15 theatrical release of the next and final film in the series, part two of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.”

Princeton Public Library salutes the Harry Potter phenomenon July 7-14 with a special series of events that includes a publicreading and screenings of all the Harry Potter films,  eading up to the July 15 theatrical release of the next and final film in the series, part two of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.”

Princeton Public Library salutes the Harry Potter phenomenon July 7-14 with a special series of events that includes a publicreading and screenings of all the Harry Potter films,  eading up to the July 15 theatrical release of the next and final film in the series, part two of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.”