10 a.m. to 3 p.m.: Annual Festival of Trees; Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street. Also Thursday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m.
11 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Drumthwacket Open House, 354 Stockton Street. Reservations required; call (609) 683-0057. 7 p.m.: Musical Interludes series with pianist Catherine Sprague, This is Mozart; Princeton Public Library. Free.
7 p.m.: Darla Rich Quartet; Fedora Cafe, Lawrenceville. 8 p.m.: The Value of Names; George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick. Also Thursday at 2 and 8 p.m., Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m.
7 p.m.: Passage Theatre’s Fire Girls; Mill Hill Playhouse, Trenton. Also Friday at 7 p.m., Saturday at 3 and 7 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m.
7:30 p.m.: Regional Planning Board of Princeton; Township Municipal Complex.
7:30 p.m.: A Christmas Carol; McCarter Theatre. Also Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday and Sunday at 1 and 5:30 p.m.
8 p.m.: Princeton University Program in Theater & Dance’s Set and Drift; Matthews Acting Studio, 185 Nassau Street. Also Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.
8 p.m.: Book signing with John Gattuso, author of Talking to God: Portrait of a World at Prayer; Barnes & Noble, MarketFair, Route 1.
8 p.m.: Terra Nova; Hamilton Murray Theater, Murray-Dodge Hall. Also Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.
8 p.m.: College of New Jersey Concert Band and Wind Ensemble; Kendall Hall Main Stage, College of New Jersey, Ewing.
10 a.m. to 8 p.m.: First Annual Military Appreciation Shopping Day; Quaker Bridge Mall, Route 1, Lawrenceville.
7 p.m.: Annual Tree Lighting, Holiday Concert, and Silent Auction; The Lewis School, 53 Bayard Lane.
8 p.m.: Cats; State Theatre, New Brunswick. Also Saturday, at 3 and 8 p.m.
8 p.m.: Hopewell Valley Chorus Winter Concert, Holiday Lights; Pennington Presbyterian Church, Pennington.
8 p.m.: You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Academy Theatre, Bordentown. Also Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m.
8 p.m.: Talk and book signing with Nikki Giovanni, American poet, essayist, and educator; Bart Luedeke Center Theater, Rider University, Lawrenceville. Free.
8 p.m.: Princeton University Orchestra; Richardson Auditorium. Also Saturday at 8:30 p.m.
8 p.m.: Greetings!; Off-Broadstreet Theatre, Hopewell. Also Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
8 p.m.: Princeton University Orchestra; Richardson Auditorium. Also Saturday at 8 p.m.
8:15 p.m.: Folk Music Society concert with Sparky and Rhonda Rucker; Christ Congregation Church.
8 and 10:30 p.m.: Comedians Christine (Chris) Rich and John Kensil; Catch A Rising Star Comedy Club, Hyatt Regency. Also Saturday at 8 and 10:30 p.m.
2 p.m.: American Repertory Ballet’s The Nutcracker; Patriots Theater at the War Memorial, Trenton.
2 and 8 p.m.: It’s a Wonderful Life; Kelsey Theatre, Mercer County Community College. Also Sunday at 2 p.m.
4 p.m.: Princeton Dance and Theater Studio’s The Nutcracker; Montgomery Township High School, Skillman. Also Sunday at noon and 4 p.m.
7 p.m.: Darla Rich Quintet; Hopewell Valley Bistro, Hopewell.
7:30 p.m.: Family Holiday Concert with banjo player Tony Trischka and band; Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton.
8 p.m.: Klez Dispensers and Beyond the Pale; Arts Council of Princeton’s conTEMPORARY Arts Center, Princeton Shopping Center.
11 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Drumthwacket Open House, 354 Stockton Street. Reservations required; call (609) 683-0057.
1:30 and 3 p.m.: Engelchor Consort, Music and the Muse; Princeton University Art Museum.
3 p.m.: Princeton University Glee Club Holiday Concert; Richardson Auditorium.
3 p.m.: New Jersey Opera Theater concert, HolidayFare; Princeton Public Library. Free.
4 p.m.: Las Vegas magician Simon Winthrop; State Theater, New Brunswick.
4 p.m.: Eastern Wind Symphony; The College of New Jersey Concert Hall, TCNJ, Ewing.
5 p.m.: Princeton Country Dancers’ Winter Cotillion Dance; Trinity Cathedral, 801 West State Street, Trenton.
Recycling Pickup
7:30 p.m.: Book signing with Gennady Spirin, author/illustrator of The Night Before Christmas; Barnes & Noble, MarketFair, Route 1.
8 p.m.: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir; Richardson Auditorium.
8 p.m.: The Value of Names; George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick. Also Wednesday at 8 p.m., Thursday at 2 and 8 p.m., Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m.
8 p.m.: Composers’ Ensemble at Princeton, works of graduate student composers; Taplin Auditorium. Free. 8 p.m.: Mercer County Community College Chorus; Kelsey Theatre, Mercer County Community College.
10 a.m. to 3 p.m.: Annual Festival of Trees; Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street. Also Thursday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m.
11 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Drumthwacket Open House, 354 Stockton Street. Reservations required; call (609) 683-0057.
4:30 p.m.: James Madison Program Lecture, The Midterm Elections of 2006 and the Future of American Politics, by Claremont McKenna College Prof. of Government Andrew Busch; Friend Center 006, Princeton University. Free.
7:30 p.m.: Township Zoning Board of Adjustment; Township Municipal Complex.
7:30 p.m.: A Christmas Carol; McCarter Theatre. Also Thursday and Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday and Sunday at 1 and 5:30 p.m.
8 p.m.: Mercer County Community College Jazz Band; Kelsey Theatre, Mercer County Community College.
8 p.m.: Student recital featuring works of Purcell, Bellini, Schubert, Rodrigo, and Guettel; Taplin Auditorium. Free.
Thursday, December 14
7:30 p.m.: Regional Planning Board of Princeton; Township Municipal Complex.
7:30 to 9 p.m.: Talk, “Post Election Reckoning,” with Christine Todd Whitman; Mary Jacobs Memorial Library, Rocky Hill.
7:30 p.m.: Arts Council’s staged reading of Charles Evered play Adopt a Sailor; conTEMPORARY Arts Center, Princeton Shopping Center.
7 p.m.: ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas; Kelsey Theatre, Mercer County Community College. Also Saturday at 11 a.m., 2 p.m. and 4 p.m., Sunday at 2 and 4 p.m.
7 p.m.: Princeton High School Studio Band’s Community Swing Dance; Princeton High School Cafeteria.
8 p.m.: Princeton Pro Musica, Handel’s Messiah; Richardson Auditorium. Also Saturday at 8 p.m.
8 p.m.: Voices Chorale concert, Festival of Candles and Carols; Pennington Presbyterian Church, Pennington.
8 p.m.: You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Academy Theatre, Bordentown. Also Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m.
8 p.m.: Greetings!; Off-Broadstreet Theatre, Hopewell. Also Saturday at 8 p.m.
8 and 10:30 p.m.: Comedians Joseph Anthony and Anthony Spinner; Catch A Rising Star Comedy Club, Hyatt Regency. Also Saturday at 8 and 10:30 p.m.
1 and 8 p.m.: American Repertory Ballet’s The Nutcracker; State Theatre, New Brunswick. Also Sunday at 1 and 4:30 p.m.
2 p.m.: Book signing with Anne Margaret Lewis, author of Has Anyone Seen Christmas?; Barnes & Noble, MarketFair, Route 1.
4 p.m.: Princeton Symphony Orchestra Annual Family Holiday Concert, with Princeton High School Choir; Richardson Auditorium.
7 p.m.: Tony Mennella and Dick Braytenbah Trio; Hopewell Valley Bistro, Hopewell.
7:30 p.m.: A Holiday Romance with cabaret singer Karen Mason; McCarter Theatre.
7:30 p.m.: New Jersey Opera Theater concert, HolidayFare; Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton.
8 p.m.: American Boychoir; Princeton University Chapel.