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Pton alum (and Broadway veteran), Annie Torsiglieri, performs "A" TRAIN, her award-winning solo show about her family's journey in the world of autism. This hilarious and life-affirming musical comedy runs from April 13th-28th.
Calling all Reunions Families! Join us for a very special story time in the Cotsen Children’s Library in Firestone! Author and illustrator Laura Ann Trimble Elbogen ’07S07 will be reading her book, Latte’s Broadway Boogie Woogie, followed by a creative hands-on craft!
This year marks the 10th Anniversary of the event, and of the affinity group Princeton Arts Alumni, both of which were founded by alumna Pilar Castro-Kiltz ‘10 in 2014.
Soul is returning to the stage as Pearl Street Warehouse hosts a comeback of live R&B music featuring three independent artists from the DMV! Jarreau Williams and Kemi Adegoroye will be co-producing the “Summer SOULstice” show on July 11th adding multi-award winning songstress Cecily to the bill.
Three women, Smita, Giulia and Sarah, are from different parts of the world and have never met, but are bound by something intimate and unique.
Anas, a former rapper, is employed in a cultural centre. Encouraged by their new teacher, the students will try to free themselves from the weight of traditions to live their passion and express themselves through hip hop culture.
After his father faces financial struggles, twelve-year-old MAX is forced to shut down the pawn shop he operates from his garage and move to a small country town. When Max discovers the world of small-scale farming, the young entrepreneur rallies the help of his cousin CHARLES, along with local youtuber ALICE, to start an egg farming business in Charles's old decaying barn.
The 2024 Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival
Free and open to the public, this year our festival will be from April 19 to April 21, here on campus!
Lesley Schisgall Currier directs an adaptation of "Julius Caesar" created at Solano State Prison in 2022. Men in a prison watch a TV show about Julius Caesar that shows scenes from Shakespeare's play; meanwhile, the action in the prison mirrors the story of the play with an overly ambitious Shotcaller taken down by his enemies and friends.
Join us at the upcoming 2024 Tiger Entrepreneurs Conference on April 18th and 19th on campus at Princeton University. Engage with brilliant innovators and entrepreneurs from the Princeton community, including faculty and alumni founders and investors, on topics including artificial intelligence, biotechnology, quantum engineering, arts & humanities, climate tech, and blockchain.
Engage with brilliant innovators and entrepreneurs from the Princeton community, including faculty and alumni founders and investors, on topics including artificial intelligence, biotechnology, quantum engineering, arts & humanities, climate tech, and blockchain.
A gay couple's marriage is thrown into crisis when one of them impulsively begins a passionate affair with a young woman.
The writer’s notebook: invention and discovery
Learn strategies for transforming raw materials into first drafts in this workshop with Catherine Barnett, author of Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space and Human Hours.
A Princeton alumnus (class of 1980), Richard Brody began writing for The New Yorker in 1999 and has contributed articles about the directors Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and Wes Anderson.
Rama, a literature professor and novelist, travels from Paris to Saint-Omer to observe the trial of Laurence Coly and write about the case. Coly is a student and Senegalese immigrant accused of leaving her 15-month-old daughter on a beach to be swept away by the tide in Berck.
In this lovely comedy-drama, Toni (Camille Cottin, Call My Agent) is raising her \ve children alone. A full-time job. She also sings at bars and had a hit single 20 years ago. Today, as her two eldest prepare to go to college, Toni wonders: what will she do when all of her offspring have left home? (© Distrib Film US)
Alaria Chamber Ensemble 40th Anniversary Season Concert Program:
STEVEN CHRISTOPHER SACCO(*91s90) Piano Trio No. 3, "Alaria" (World Premiere)
A Senegalese woman is eager to \nd a better life abroad. She takes a job as a governess for a French family, but \nds her duties reduced to those of a maid after the family moves from Dakar to the south of France. In her new country, the woman is constantly made aware of her race and mistreated by her employers.
Young Nicolas lives a childhood full of joy and learning in between camaraderie, arguments, fights, punishments, pranks and games.
The New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra welcomes Georgia Mills to conduct Mozart’s dramatic Piano Concerto No. 20, featuring pianist Jonathan Mamora, and Beethoven’s ever-popular Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”).
Three women, Smita, Giulia and Sarah, are from different parts of the world and have never met, but are bound by something intimate and unique.
Join us for a reading of new play Affecting Expression at The Sheen Center with Kitchen Sink Theatre on February 24th at 7pm!
The Princeton French Film Festival is on its way to its Second Edition!
Jeff Kuperman '12 co-choreographs The Outsiders on Broadway. The musical is based on S.E. Hinton's book and Francis Ford Coppola's film.
For All Your Life is a performance event, film, and social experiment that investigates the value of Black life and Black death; scrutinizing the mechanism of life insurance through the prism of the underwriting process.
Q&A with Carin Berkowitz (Director of New Jersey Council for Humanities), Robert Townsend (Director for Humanities, Arts, Culture at American Academy of Arts & Science), and (TBC) Joy Connoly (President of American Council of Learned Societies)
In this unforgettable international bestseller, three women from very different circumstances around the world find their lives intertwined by a single object and discover what connects us—across cultures, across backgrounds, and across borders.
Join us for Jersey City’s only Comedy Variety Show! Improv, stand up, sketch, characters- we’ve gota bit of everything! Featuring the best comedians in JC (...and a few from across the river)!
Hosted by Dominique Salerno ('10).
The Moth champion, David Rodwin’92, premieres his 9th solo show at New York’s Wild Project. It’s a hilarious story about getting hired to write a musical about the history of Miami. To be staged on a boat.
Elisabeth Quatrano moved to Princeton in 2021 after completing a MFA in ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She's delighted and grateful to be featured in the Taplin Gallery at the Arts Council of Princeton in March.
In this body of work Quatrano explores memory, language, and loss, while challenging the sculptural limits and precious nature of porcelain.
A chosen family of three fabulous dandies who live in the backroom of a donut shop are facing eviction by its mean manager.
Katy Pinke ‘10 is announcing the release of her debut, self-titled album, out on the indie label Glamour Gowns. The album release show will be at the Center for Performance Research on May 7th.
Are you struggling to find a way to tap into your ‘Creative Flow?’
Call me crazy for writing a whole book around the initial five-to-fifteen-minute window of dropping into Creative Flow, but that’s exactly what this book is about!
A recent photo series, inspired by shooting a client's 15 year old collection of fortune cookie fortunes. I love photographing things people collect and this collection of fortunes quickly had me making my own... and custom fortunes as well.
Announcing the Chelsea Music Festival's 15th Season, June 21-29, 2024! "Connecting the Dots" traces how music and art allows us to touch what seems intangible, repair what seems broken, and reimagine our interconnectedness with one another.
"All's Fair - Vol. I" is the first of two sister EPs set for release in 2024 by Blanker, the solo project of guitarist/vocalist John Norwood (Triangle Club, Prince Jazz Ensemble).
As the American theater business finds itself crunched between rising costs and shifting consumer habits, international has become an increasingly important piece of the theatermaking puzzle—but no one’s really writing regularly about this stuff.
In her latest interview about bardo and the art of living, Ann Tashi Slater ’84 talked with Amitava Kumar about the power of our personal and collective stories, how he has come to terms with his father’s death, and art as a site of both mourning and hope.
Marisol Soledad '07 (Rosa-Shapiro) has been selected as a semi-finalist for the Terrence McNally Award, administered by Philadelphia Theatre Company and the Terrence McNally Foundation.
Alumnus produces new comic TV pilot Helen and Harold: Wrong Turn
My Mother's Tongues, a children's book about a young Indian American girl who discovers the power of multilingualism, was published by Candlewick Press on February 13, 2024.
Rachel Lyon ('05)'s sophomore novel FRUIT OF THE DEAD comes out on March 5.
Ann Tashi Slater ’84 talked with author Lorrie Moore about humor, grief, and how to live—and die—in a world of impermanence. Moore is one of America’s most acclaimed writers, described by Alison Lurie as “the nearest thing we have to Chekhov.”
Art Exhibit "Confetti" at the Oarsman Gallery, Larchmont Library.
Sharing the music video for Home for the Moment, a new single by acclaimed musician Julien Chang '16. Julien's forthcoming EP (also titled Home for the Moment) will come out on March 1st.
I'm a writer/director/producer/often-but-not-always journalist ... on February 27th, I moved to Israel in order to witness, explore and write about what life is like here during the country’s war against Hamas.
Katy Pinke (‘10) has released “Endarkenment,” the third single off of her upcoming debut album.
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of Trenton Arts at Princeton, we are convening four thought leaders for a wide-ranging conversation about the state of arts education: Anne Fitzgibbon *98, founder and executive director of the Harmony Program; Baffour Osei, manager of Princeton's robotics lab; Anna Yu Wang, assistant professor of music at Princeton; and Elizabeth Zwierzynski, acting supervisor of visual and performing arts and partnerships for the Trenton Public Schools.
Princeton University alumni are invited to attend the 2024 SCRIPT TO SCREEN Winterscreen Seminar on Zoom! Get an insider's look at Hollywood careers from your fellow Tigers working in the Entertainment industry.
“Grief doesn’t narrow you down, it expands you,” author and Princeton professor Yiyun Li told Ann Tashi Slater '84, in On Grief, Willpower, and Finding Happiness, the latest in Ann’s interview series about bardo and the art of living.
Before the Freeze is an short psychological thriller with experimental elements about the dangerous of escapism.
Just wanted to let you know that my debut novel is now available for pre-order at: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/736369/spring-on-the-peninsula-by-ery-shin/.
Amy Madden has released an album of original songs on Belpid Records, Sweden. Called Harlem Demos, it is available for download or streaming on all platforms, or as a cd for purchase.
Rah Rah Arts Magazine, which is Princeton’s only student-run, Visual Arts publication, is seeking submissions again for our spring issue.
After years playing her music live for years, singer-songwriter and artist Katy Pinke is finally putting out recorded versions of her songs. Her first single, “Bloom,” is out now on all digital streaming platforms.
Ann Tashi Slater’s "Light and Shadow” is Story of the Week in Narrative Magazine. In this memoir, Ann explores her quest to understand the dissolution of her parents’ marriage and the disintegration of her family. She writes about “memories and ghosts, the power of the imagination and the spirit, the things we don’t know or cannot know.”
Ann Tashi Slater '84 spoke with David James Duncan--author of the best-selling novels THE RIVER WHY and THE BROTHERS K--about his new novel, SUN HOUSE, and how he has made his way forward during bardo periods of struggle and impermanence.
New Muses Project (founded by Gloria Yin '18) is pleased to announce a call for candidates to be considered for our initial Board of Directors!
In the midst of hair and makeup, Kristen Hansen (‘19) and Audrey Wooster (‘13), discovered they were both Tigers! Of course it surfaced when talking about one of their favorite films, Across the Universe. They are filming a short film titled Early June, which examines the delicacy of misogyny in the entertainment industry.
Rachel Lyon's sophomore novel FRUIT OF THE DEAD will come out in early March, 2024. From the publisher: "An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, about addiction and sex, family and independence, and who holds the power in a modern underworld."
The tenth book by Peter Benjaminson, '77, "The Life and Times of Betty Boop: The 100-Year History of An Animated Icon," will be released by Rowman & Littlefield publishers on Nov. 15.
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