Arts

Back on February 26th, American Repertory Ballet held the world premiere of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the State Theater New Jersey in New Brunswick. American Repertory Ballet Artistic Director, Douglas Martin, created a brand new choreography for this performance, set to Mendelssohn’s First Symphony for the first act and Mendelssohn’s traditional score for A Midsummer Night’s Dream for […]

The Monmouth Museum is currently holding its 36th Annual Juried Art Exhibition. Each year the museum releases a prospectus with the requirements for submission. The Monmouth Museum now takes digital submissions and received more than four hundred works from around the country this year. The jury panel selected approximately eighty works to include in this […]

John Kani, one of the co-authors of Sizwe Banzi is Dead, has brought the play from Johannesburg’s famed Market Theatre to Princeton. Sizwe Banzi is Dead is a classic protest play from the apartheid era in South Africa. Kani co-wrote the play with Athol Fugard and Winston Ntshona in the early 1970s. After putting on […]

The McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey, has put on an annual performance of A Christmas Carol since 1980. For some people it isn’t the holidays without  trip to Princeton to see A Christmas Carol. Many families have made a holiday tradition of coming to McCarter to see the Charles Dickens classic. And from seeing […]

Library Acts of Culture–Opera Philadelphia On Monday, March 24, Andrew Bogard and Elena Perroni surprised library patrons with a short performance of an scene of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Bogard and Perroni, both students at the Curtis Institute of Music, have also performed with Opera Philadelphia. The duo performed the excerpt from Don Giovanni at three […]

Library Acts of Culture–Kùlú Mèlé African Dance and Drum Ensemble It was another typical Tuesday at the Lucien E. Blackwell West Regional Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia, when members of Kùlú Mèlé African Dance and Drum Ensemble broke into a performance of Fula Fare, a celebratory dance of the Fulani people in Guinea, West Africa. Also, […]