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Doing “Gatsby”: F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Man With the Beautiful Shirts
The Garden Theatre was filled to overflowing for the Friday evening showing of Baz Luhrman’s big, jazzy, flamboyantly picturesque improvisation on The Great Gatsby (see review in this issue). People…
Jay McPhillips Captures Scenes of Princeton In New Exhibition Opening at Jane Saturday
The James McPhillips Museum and Gift Shop Show opens at Jane on Spring Street this Saturday, May 18, with a Meet and Greet with the artist from noon to 4…
Favorite Fairy Tales Frolic With Wild Wit, Whimsy, Magic, and Music In Fiasco Theater’s Spin on Sondheim’s “Into the Woods” at McCarter
Your favorite fairy tales — Cinderella, Little Red Ridinghood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel — they start with wishes, and “I wish” is a repeated refrain in Into the Woods…
The Great Gatsby: DiCaprio Is Gatsby in 3-D Adaptation of Literary Classic
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is an era defining literary masterpiece that captured the decadence, debauchery, and self-destruction of privileged elites living in the lap of luxury at the height…
Deanna Durbin’s Star Shone Brightest in the World’s Darkest Hour
It’s already old news now, as dated as its subject — the obituary notices announcing the death at 91 of Deanna Durbin, the “plucky child movie star” who saved Universal…
Combining Art, Music, and Dance Local Artist Paints With Light, Literally
“If Van Gogh were living today, he’d be painting digitally,” says Princeton resident Eva Flatscher. Instead of the traditional tools of paint, brush, and canvas, Ms. Flatscher uses light, a…
Tokyo String Quartet Bids Farewell to Princeton In Their Final Country-Wide Concert Tour
Very few chamber ensembles thrive for more than forty years, and few music organizations have the luxury of saying good-bye through music to their loyal and steadfast fans. The Tokyo…
Iron Man 3: Downey Back as Bon Vivant Billionaire/Wisecracking Superhero
This film is the seventh movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe series that started with Iron Man 1 in 2008, and followed by The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor,…
Hello Goodbye Alexandria: A Five-Day Whirlwind Tour of Cavafy’s City
In the loose living of my early years the impulses of my poetry were shaped, the boundaries of my art were plotted. —C.F. Cavafy, from “Understanding” (1915) Monday was a…
Ceramicist Hideaki Miyamura in Morven’s May Celebration of Art, Crafts and Garden
If April is Communiversity, May is Morven. Coming on the heels of last weekend’s town-wide festival, this weekend’s “Morven in May: A Celebration of Art, Craft, and Garden” promises a…
