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Now through November 1, two Tigers share the stage at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, Stephen Sondheim's masterwork about friendship, ambition and the compromises that shape a life.
A new pottery store, Makers, will open October in Montclair, NJ.
Caitlin Durkin '25 performs in an all female production of "Macbeth" done in 60 minutes.
Now through November 1, two Tigers share the stage at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia in MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, Stephen Sondheim's masterwork about friendship, ambition and the compromises that shape a life.
It is summer, 1960. Paris. Richard Wright, author of the novel Native Son and the autobiography Black Boy shares his experience as a Black man in America.
Join Olivia Stoker '11 for the NYC premiere of her award-winning short film, Nonna's Nude, co-produced and edited by Brooks Yang '11. Sunday Oct 11th, 1pm at the SOHO International Film Festival.
"Silks," a painting by Laura Wheeler Waring, an African American artist whose portraits of Black Americans are in the MET and Brooklyn Museum, is being exhibited for the first time in 116 years at the Arts Council of Princeton in the Echoes in Our Bones exhibition.
Join the Association of Latino Princeton Alumni for our book talk with Hector Gonzalez '78 and Princeton Professor Ada Ferrer on her book Keeper of My Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter
Singer-songwriters Freddy Blohm '75 and Eric Lubell '75 will both be appearing as part of the Cafe Improv show.
On September 25, I will give a presentation Young Hall, Salve University, as part of its Circle of Scholars program - based on my book FORGOTTEN FOUNDERS about women and POC in the American Revolution.
Robert David Grant '08 stars as Carter Smith in John Proctor is the Villain at Northern Stage Theater through Oct 11th.
The Emily Dickinson Museum's annual Tell It Slant Poetry Festival is returning September 21-27, 2026!
My award winning French language romantic drama short film, "Penguins in Paris...a love story?", has been selected for the Simi Film Fest near Los Angeles.
Seuls en Scène brings celebrated French actors and directors, as well as promising early-career artists, to Princeton University and the local community to present their work, introducing American audiences to dynamic and engaging French productions.
Moderated by Karl Kusserow, Senior Curator of American Art at the Princeton University Art Museum, this panel discussion will feature several curatorial projects in the Re-Visioning America program.
Let’s Escape the Ordinary invites us to step outside the mundane and the ordinary through the artistic portal into landscapes and spaces of dreams, possibilities and the extraordinary.
Marisol Rosa-Shapiro / Marisol Soledad '07 is an inaugural recipient of the Benson Drive Productions Edinburgh Fringe Artist Residency.
Busboys and Poets Books presents Author Next Door: Booklovers and Book Lovers, a romance panel featuring Dr. Punita Rice, Varun Gauri, Shanti Edwards, and Nikki Payne.
Written and performed by Savannah Hankinson, A Queer Little Murder is a riotous interactive comedy that combines the thrills of a classic whodunnit with a distinctly queer twist.
Caitlin Durkin '25 is performing in "A Doll's House Part 2" at The Long Beach Playhouse until August 15!
I have five wall sculptures in Persistence of Matter: Transforming Discarded Materials into Art that Inspires and Provokes, a juried group show at the Cornell Art Museum at Old School Square in Delray Beach, running through September 27, 2026.
BURY YOUR GAYS is a new musical comedy by Sam Melton ‘23 and directed by Eliyana Abraham ‘23. The show follows a gay-straight alliance as they encounter cosmic horrors in their high school's basement.
The 41st Annual Woodstock Folk Festival will be held on Sunday, July 19 from Noon to 6 pm on the historic Square in Woodstock, IL, about 50 miles northwest of Chicago.
"A Doll's House Part 2" at Long Beach Playhouse runs July 18-August 15. Shows are Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm.
New genre-bending theater! OBJECT PERMANENCE, a half-silent play based on true events created and directed by Nico Krell '18.
Sandy York '92 is appearing as Trinculo/Iris in "The Tempest" with Quantum Theatre at the Carrie Blast Furnace in Pittsburgh, PA, directed by Karla Boos.
Cartography of Memory is a participatory movement workshop exploring how memory, identity, home, and belonging live in the body.
Affecting Expression is a new play that unearths queer history with humor, heart, and theatricality.
Fun for the whole family! With charm, wit and heart, You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown explores life through the eyes of Charlie Brown and his friends in the Peanuts gang.
At this special New York preview, audiences will get an early look at two original new musicals heading to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer: TRUNK SONGS (book, lyrics & music by Maria DiFabbio) and MUSIC & MURDER BY… (book & lyrics by Jessica Welsh '14, music by Wikus van der Hoven, directed by Emma Canalese).
Indie rock outfit, Blanker, has just released its eighth album, The Picture Isn't Crooked, The Floor Is, a genre-hopping mix of off-kilter anthems and tongue-in-cheek satire.
Ann Tashi Slater talked about her book, Traveling in Bardo: The Art of Living in an Impermanent World, on the Totally Booked with Zibby podcast: https://tinyurl.com/yc25r6xm
If museum objects could talk, what would they say? Season 2 of Getty's family podcast If Objects Could Talk brings life to ten more incredible creations.
J "My Anecdotal Life" is a first-person narrative podcast miniseries that invites listeners into the world of Granville Wyche Burgess through his family stories, personal history, misadventures, struggles, and triumphs.
Joe is playing the Stage Manager in Thornton Wilder's classic play (which premiered at McCarter Theater on January 22, 1938) at City Theater (a former opera house) in Biddeford, Maine.
Half Chance is a new daily trivia made by Tyler Maxey (*23).
Notre Dame is looking to fill a position for an assistant professor of the practice in Musical Theatre writing.
“Richardson is an unsung genius, America's great living aphorist and a poet of profound compassion, wisdom, and humility.”—Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR
We have two roles we are looking to fill: ticketing staff in the office and potentially at concerts and patron guides working at concerts.
Voices in Print joins a robust group of exhibitions and programs throughout Princeton under the umbrella Re-Visioning America.
Echoes in Our Bones will explore how themes of identity, history, and cultural resilience have endured and transformed across generations.
Organized by the William Trent House Museum and Art Against Racism, this exhibition presents the work of artists and poets of different racial backgrounds, nationalities, and gender and gender expression.
Debut novel from Nelson Cheng '00. Blending the imaginative and speculative with life-or-death suspense, The Mattress Factory is a deeply human novel about regret, second chances, and discovering what makes a life worth fighting for. Jan 2027 | available for pre-order now!
Ayse Papatya Bucak's short story "The Writer Writes from Prison," originally published in "Copper Nickel," has been selected for inclusion in the 2026 Best American Short Stories, on sale October 21.
Novelist and critic Amanda Dennis documents the transformations experienced during the first three months of her daughter’s life, moving between raw postpartum notes and meditations on her encounter with these notes two years later.
Named a "Best Novel of 2025" by Marie Claire and selected as an Editor's Pick by Entertainment Weekly, People, Audible, and Goodreads, "The Book of Luke" by Lovell Holder is officially available in paperback on September 29.
Princeton University Library celebrates the art and evolution of Japanese publishing with a new exhibition “The Art of Japanese Publishing: A Selection of Japanese Illustrated Books from the Marquand Library Collection 1660-1960,” curated by Nicole Fabricand-Person, Japanese Art Specialist, Marquand Library of Art & Archaeology and Holly Hatheway, Director, Marquand Library of Art & Archaeology.
The Princeton Alumni Weekly Book Club has chosen Mathey Girls: A Novel, by Melody Chu ‘01, as its current read.
Avery Danae Williams '26, a recent graduate of Princeton University, recently launched her Substack newsletter, Swerve Unknown.
Ann Tashi Slater talked with Katie Kitamura about uncertainty, midlife, and the beauty of boredom. This is the latest in Ann’s interview series about bardo and the art of living in an impermanent world.
This summer, Getty launched its first video podcast—OMMM: Our Museum Mindfulness Meditation. Part art history, part mindfulness meditation, each episode focuses on one work of art and uses it as an inspiration for meditation and reflection.
Alan Fletcher '78 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in the category of cultural leadership.
Armed with a History PhD from Oxford, Dr. Jake A. Robertson '15 is channeling his skills as a historian & storyteller into a brand new family history service: Ancestory!
Art Against Racism, a Princeton-based nonprofit organization, and the William Trent House Museum are partnering in “Freedoms Reframed: Art on the Edges of the Constitution,” a project examining fundamental human rights and social freedoms that extend beyond those explicitly enumerated in the U.S. Constitution but are significant to contemporary American life.
The Speculative Fiction Writers Group is a monthly virtual critique group for Princeton Arts Alumni members working on new projects across fantasy, science fiction, magical realism, and horror.
The Chelsea Music Festival welcomes director, writer, and composer Bill Barclay (former Director of Music at London’s Shakespeare’s Globe), to present his theatrical concert Copland & Twain adapted for chamber orchestra.
Ann Tashi Slater recently joined several podcasts to talk about moving forward in the face of life’s inevitable changes, endings, and beginnings—a question she explores in her new book, Traveling in Bardo: The Art of Living in an Impermanent World (Balance/Hachette).
WEST FEST, the annual arts & advocacy community event produced by West Oakland Matters, will take place July 26th, 2026 and has put out its Calls for Artworks from painters, printmakers, photographers, videographers and filmmakers.
Ann Tashi Slater talked with best-selling author Lauren Groff about letting go of ambition, living between regret and repair, and how swimming can set your mind free (Tricycle).
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