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See the show the SF Chronicle calls one of "22 San Francisco things everyone must do!” 50 weekends a year, the critically-acclaimed San Francisco Neo-Futurists present The Infinite Wrench, an attempt to perform 30 bite-sized plays in a frantic race against the clock, in an order determined by you, the audience.
STILL, by Lia Romeo '03, plays off-Broadway in a limited run starting Jan. 28. The play stars Melissa Gilbert (Little House on the Prairie) and Mark Moses (Mad Men) and is directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt.
The Kravets Wehby Gallery is pleased to announce Anna Berghuis' debut solo exhibition, Dancing With A Former Self. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, February 1, 6-8PM.
P&T Knitwear is please to present a stellar multi-author reading to celebrate the official paperback release of Rachel Lyon's newest novel, Fruit of the Dead (Scribner), featuring Essie Chambers (Swift River, Simon & Schuster), Crystal Hana Kim (The Stone Home, William Morrow), Nayantara Roy (The Magnificent Ruins, Algonquin), and Lena Valencia (Mystery Lights, Tin House).
As part of the Black History Month, you're invited to the free screening of "Ni Chaînes Ni Maîtres" (English: "No Chains No Masters") by Franco-Beninese filmmaker Simon Moutaïrou (2024) who will be in attendance for a Q&A to talk about his movie a few days before its national release in the USA and a few weeks before the Cesar Ceremony.
Porter Square Books is excited to welcome author Rachel Lyon to celebrate the paperback release of her novel, Fruit of the Dead. Author Margot Livesey will join Lyon in conversation.
From dawn to dusk, the Renaissance to the Roaring '20s, or 11:01 to 11:30, each lab writing team will create an original 10-minute musical that jumps through time on a journey of dramatic discovery.
Professor Anne Anlin Cheng’s (Class of 1985) 2019 monograph Ornamentalism serves as an impetus for a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY. March-May 2025.
Singer-songwriter Howard Blohm '75 DBA Freddy Blohm will be appearing at the Arts Council of Princeton's monthly musical event, Saturday January 25, 7-10 pm, 102 Witherspoon Street.
FOR ALL YOUR LIFE returns! Leslie Cuyjet’s performance, which she conceptualized during her Hodder Fellowship, debuted at The Chocolate Factory with a sold-out run in April, and returns to the stage in January 2025 at CPR, co-presented by New York Live Arts' Live Artery festival.
Sweet Fury by Sash Bischoff, a January Indie Next Pick, will be published in North America by Simon & Schuster on January 7, 2025, and will subsequently be published in sixteen international territories around the world. Sweet Fury is a literary thriller; and as readers will find out, Princeton plays a very important part in its plot...
In Winter’s Night is the winter choral program from NYC-based adult treble ensemble Amuse Singers, taking place on December 14, 2024 at 7 PM at St. Ignatius of Antioch at 552 West End Ave, NYC.
Please join Amuse Singers on Dec 14 at 7 PM in NYC for our winter choral program evoking light and warmth amidst the darkness of year's end, and the joyful hope of the year to come.
Roll up, roll up, fashion revolutionaries and sustainable style enthusiasts! Absolute Rubbish, Meow Wolf’s first and only in-house “trashion show,” returns to The Perplexiplex December 10th, 2024 in Denver, CO with “Naughty or Nice!” Meow Wolf Costume designer Kate Major has brought together 23 local artists including Kalliopi Monoyios '00 and challenged them to create wearable avant garde pieces using recycled, upcycled and reclaimed materials.
Dalton Chorale teams up with the Riverside Brass Quintet for a holiday concert featuring repertory by Daniel Pinkham, Cecilia McDowall, Giovanni Gabrielli, Michael Praetorius, Sid Robinovitch, and Johann Sebastian Bach!
Irish Playwright Brian Friel's masterpiece: a haunting drama of faith and redemption. Starring Victor Slezak, Elisabeth S. Rodgers, and Michael Daly.
Inspired by the viral trend that is “girl dinner,” (“not a snack, not a meal, it’s whatever you feel!”), “Girl Dinner, the show” is a female comedy-ish variety show featuring song and stand up (and, of course delusion)!
Victorian Ladies is a comedy micro-series created by Jessica Taylor '10 and Becca Schall that follows four paper dolls -- Abigail, Beatrice, Caroline, and Daphne -- as they navigate friendship, courtship and fashion in Victorian-era New York City.
Singer-songwriter stuff. With Larry Baskind '76 on bass, if he doesn't change his mind, and sharing the stage with Erik Frandsen, who's funnier than Freddy, and plays guitar better than Freddy and...oops I should just stop here. Hope to see ya!
A licensed architect, Andrew is founding principal of NO ARCHITECTURE, a practice that creates harmony between nature and architecture.
Betty Crocker has helped shape America’s homes, kitchens, and recipes for over a century. Surprising to many, she was not a real person!
A symphonic portrait inspired by the civic engagement of young Americans, narrated in their own words.
You're invited to the free screening of "Marinette" (2023) - probably the best woman soccer player - by French director Virginie Verrier who will be in attendance for a Q&A afterward. In French with English subtitles.
The nonprofit Theatre Artist Workshop presents AND THEN THERE WERE NONE as a fundraiser for two performances in New Canaan, CT November 2 and 3rd. Granville Burgess, '69, is playing a lead role, Sir Lawrence Wargrave.
Sarah Anne Sillers ‘13 joins the cast of Olney Theatre Center’s production of Disney’s FROZEN, the stage musical based on the hit animated film. Sarah Anne will perform as Queen Iduna/Ensemble, and at select performances as Elsa.
Howard Blohm '75 DBA Freddy Blohm will be appearing as part of the Singer/Songwriter Conclave from 7-9 pm on October 23, 2024 at Silvana, 300 West 116th St, NYC
Sandy York '92 will be performing in "The Fox on the Fairway," a farce by Ken Ludwig, at The Riverside Theatre in Vero Beach, FL, Oct 22-Nov 10.
This event is part of Arts At Work: Feeding the Arts, a series that brings together small groups of students with creative alumni for intimate and informal career discussions. It is presented by the Center for Career Development and the Lewis Center for the Arts.
An original comedy play featuring wild, untold TRUE stories at tech startups, collected from startup lawyers over the past 7 years. Written by Sarah Feingold (Etsy's first lawyer), directed by Jianing Zhao '20, co-produced by Changshuo Liu '19, Shenhan Zhu 19, Jiaxin Guan 23 and others. Limited engagement Oct 17-27 at Room52, an intimate midtown theater with a bar.
A one hour's traffic of the stage with the Bard as performed by his Maine admirer!
Drag the witch! Rip off your bonnets and sneak into the woods of Puritan New England, where bible thumpers and booty bumpers rendezvous in secret gothic gaiety.
Katy Pinke '10 has released 'Oranges,' the first single from her upcoming sophomore album, and is about to go on a tour with dates supporting Delicate Steve. Go see her on tour in NYC, Philly, or DC!
Please join us for the NYC premiere of Affecting Expression—a new play by Eliana Cohen-Orth '21, directed by Eliyana Abraham '23 and produced by Kate Semmens '22—at The Tank October 7th–13th!
Nature Eternal: Landscape Photography by Robin Resch
Fall 2024, Songbird Capital, 14 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ
A new book of personal essays from scholar Anne A. Cheng.
Kirkus Reviews: "Tenderly written essays form a beautifully intimate memoir.”
Freddy Blohm's performance at Cafe Improv Princeton on January 25 will be replaying "live" starting at 6pm each Tuesday and Saturday during February at Central New Jersey Network: cnjn (dot) org. He appears right AFTER the ballroom dancers, since he forgot to wear his blue suede shoes.
The Discipline of Inspiration, by Carey Wallace '96, is a book about the transcendent experiences we have around art—both creating and confronting it—the sense we get that we’re touching something beyond this world, and the possibility that those experiences aren’t just a mirage: they’re real encounters with God.
Gordon Square Review is a publication of Literary Cleveland, a nonprofit organization working to nurture a vibrant literary arts community in Northeast Ohio.
Al aka “Mifflin” Lowe’s picture book, DAD. THE MAN. THE MYTH THE LEGEND, was just published in Turkish, (cover seen here), in addition to Polish, Portuguese, French, Spanish, Italian and English.
Multidisciplinary artist and singer-songwriter Katy Pinke is releasing her sophomore full-length album 'Strange Behavior' on the Brooklyn-based label Glamour Gowns on February 21st, 2025.
Alissa Hsu Lynch '90 recently launched her new podcast, The Leadership Dance, which explores the art of leadership through conversations with visionary leaders who are breaking barriers in the arts and business worlds.
The Lewis Center’s long-time producer for Theater and Dance, Darryl Waskow, retired after 31 years at Princeton on December 4. His retirement was recognized with a celebratory reception on December 3 in, very appropriately, the Drapkin Studio at the Lewis Arts complex.
Apply to be a PA2 Arts Mentor for the Spring or Summer 2025 cohort, in which Princeton Arts Alumni (PA2) will create pairs of students and alums to facilitate relationship building, learning, career guidance, and artistic growth for those interested in working in the arts as creators, managers, administrators, educators, entrepreneurs, and scholars.
What can we do when the world as we know it ends? Ann Tashi Slater talked about this with author Cheryl Strayed, who hiked 1100 miles from the Mojave Desert to Washington State in search of answers after the death of her mother.
Helen Wong from Class of 2015 has become a host from Deeplearning.AI (one of the AI organizations founded by Andrew Ng to strengthen the AI communities across different industries) She has starting interviewing AI founders from LastMile.
Nora Gross '08 recently published her book, Brothers in Grief: The Hidden Toll of Gun Violence on Black Boys and Their Schools (University of Chicago Press, 2024).
Hello! I’m Isabel Connolly and I am very excited to be serving as the Undergraduate Student Arts Alumni Representative and to be launching the second cohort of Princeton Arts Alumni Mentors. The pilot program in 2022 was a great success and we hope to improve upon it and connect more students with amazing alumni such as yourself.
Author of international bestseller Beasts of a Little Land (winner of the Yasnaya Polyana Award), Juhea Kim's new novel City of Night Birds is out now.
Exciting news to share with fellow alumni!
"I’ve realized there’s no reason to be surprised by change," Malcolm Gladwell says. "In fact, we should be suspicious of its absence, not surprised by its presence."
Make an individual gift or become a Ujamaa Corporate Sponsor of DIW’s 2024 production of Spirit of Kwanzaa to ensure this year’s “For the Culture” theme thrives as a community beacon.
A rotting old manor House, recently vacated after the death of its owner. A pair of young women, returning to the House where they spent two very different childhoods. And you: the Ghost.
Nathan Phan ‘19, a Vietnamese American singer-songwriter, recently released his debut album Type A, based on his award-winning one-man senior thesis show. It is available on all streaming platforms under his artist name ASAMAI.
Art Against Racism and West Windsor Arts Council, (both 501(c)(3) organizations), invite artists to submit artwork for “Manifesting Beloved Community” a juried exhibition of work exploring the interrelationship of community health and efforts to create an antiracist society that share in the responsibilities to create a healthy planet for the good of humanity.
Malcolm, a product of an independent major through the Visual Arts Program at 185 Nassau, and of arts management and funding at the NEA and New York's biggest state and city-level arts agencies, has joined the Boards of Directors at Oakland Art Murmur and at the East Bay Photo Collective (EBPCO) in California where he has resumed being a full-time artist.
"Unstoppable: A Queer Dancical”, featuring Eric Stinehart ’20 in the lead role of “Keith”, was recently nominated for three 2024 Gregory Awards, including "Outstanding Ensemble - Dance/Movement".
Season 3 of Getty's Recording Artists podcast launched Oct. 8. Host Ahmed Best examines the groundbreaking art-science organization Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) using archival audio from the Getty Research Institute.
MIRROR ME, Lisa Williamson Rosenberg, '89's second novel, to be released on December 1.
“The way life is shot through with loss and gain is the painful beauty of being alive,” says Dominican-American author Julia Alvarez, one of America’s most celebrated Latina authors.
Created by former Princeton Arts student Tyler Maxey (*23), Princeton Alumni Weekly now has logic, number, and word games you can play for free at paw.princeton.edu/games.
A recording of the song cycle "Paradoxides," by John Sichel '81 is now available for streaming and download on CD Baby, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Spotify etc. The performers are Hans Tashjian, bass-baritone and Anna Keiserman, piano. The recording was made at NV Factory, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, in June 2024.
Marisol Rosa-Shapiro '07 will perform in Philadelphia Theatre Company's season opener, LA EGOISTA, running October 4 - October 20.
I hope that you are doing well! My name is Ovi Banerjee ‘25 and I am the Business Manager for Princeton's Premier Low-Voice R&B and Soul Acapella Group, Old NasSoul. Our group's rep includes classics like "Let's Stay Together" by Al Green and "Isn't She Lovely" by Stevie Wonder, but also new hits like "Location" by Khalid and "Pink + White" by Frank Ocean.
Ann Tashi Slater ’84 talked with leading American Buddhist Sylvia Boorstein about coming to terms with loss and not missing your life.
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