May 14, 2013
Tara Thean '13 has written a ballet feature for LIFE.com which includes a statement from Lecturer in Dance and longtime member of the Mark Morris Dance Group Tina Fehlandt.
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May 8, 2013
The Program in Visual Arts at Princeton University will present an exhibition of work in a wide range of media by the Class of 2013 graduating seniors in the program. The exhibition, entitled Senior All-Star Show, will feature recent work by students completed as part of their senior thesis projects and will be on view from May 16 through June 4 in the Lucas Gallery at 185 Nassau Street. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
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May 7, 2013
The Program in Visual Arts will present Avoid Toetal Loss, an exhibition of paintings and drawings that explore time and distortions of time by senior certificate student Laura Preston from Tuesday, May 7 through Friday, May 10 in the Lucas Gallery at 185 Nassau Street. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, May 9 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the gallery. Gallery hours are weekdays from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.
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May 3, 2013
Students in the Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Visual Arts will present new work in a film screening on Friday, May 10 at 7:00 p.m. in the James M. Stewart ?32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. Students from the spring course, entitled Narrative Filmmaking, will present three new short films completed during the past semester. The screening is free and open to the public and is followed by a public reception.
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May 3, 2013
Students in the Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Visual Arts will present new work in a video screening on Thursday, May 16 at 7:00 p.m. in the James M. Stewart ?32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. Students from spring courses in introductory and intermediate digital video production will present new short videos created over the past few months. The screening is free and open to the public and is followed by a public reception.
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May 1, 2013
Lewis Center for the Arts Visual Arts faculty member Deana Lawson and Creative Writing faculty member Colson Whitehead, along with former faculty members David Rosenberg, Gary Schneider and Brenda Shaughnessy, have received 2013 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships. They are among 175 artists, scientists and scholars chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants to receive awards in the 89th annual competition for the United States and Canada.
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May 1, 2013
Casey Brown '14, Sean Drohan '14, and Cara Michell '14 have been selected by Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts faculty as the 2013 recipients of the Alex Adam '07 Award. Established in memory of Alexander Jay Adam '07 and made possible by a generous gift from his family, the award provides support to Princeton undergraduates who will spend a summer pursuing a project that will result in the creation of new artistic work.
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April 30, 2013
Students in the Lewis Center for the Arts spring 2013 Princeton Atelier course, Appropriation: The Politics of Intertextuality in Word and Image, will present new text, readings and art created over the past semester on Wednesday, May 8 at 3:00 p.m. in the Guggenheim Gallery at Whitman College on the Princeton campus. The course was led by author Rick Moody and painter John OConnor. A reception will follow the presentation, both of which are free and open to the public.
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April 26, 2013
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Dance will present a series of showings of new work created and repertory work learned during the past semester on May 2 and 6. All showings will be held in the Patricia and Ward Hagan '48 Dance Studio at 185 Nassau Street. The showings are free and open to the public.
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April 26, 2013
Students in the Lewis Center for the Arts' and Department of Music's spring 2013 Princeton Atelier course, "Sounding Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Alchemy in Music Theater," will present original music theater works works on Friday May 3 at 5:00 p.m. and Saturday, May 4 at 2:00 p.m. at the Black Box Theater at Forbes College on the Princeton campus. The 10 students will perform these new works completed over the past semester under the guidance of composer, guitarist and Princeton Professor of Music Steve Mackey and director and filmmaker Mark DeChiazza. A reception will follow the May 3 performance. The performances and reception are free and open to the public.
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April 24, 2013
The novel May We Be Forgiven, by A.M. Homes, a Lecturer in Creative Writing in Princetons Lewis Center for the Arts, has been shortlisted for the Womens Fiction Prize, previously known as the Orange Prize for Fiction.
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April 23, 2013
Students in the Lewis Center for the Arts' world-renowned Program in Creative Writing will present new work in a series of readings. On May 1 at 5:15 p.m. at Chancellor Green Rotunda on the University campus, students from spring workshops in fiction, poetry, screenwriting, and literary translation will read from their work completed during the past semester. On May 6 at 4:30 p.m. at the Palmer House, 1 Bayard Lane, seniors completing a certificate in the Program will read from their senior thesis work, which they completed over the course of the past academic year. The readings, part of the Program in Creative Writing's Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series at the Lewis Center for the Arts, are free and open to the public. Both events are followed by public receptions.
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April 22, 2013
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Visual Arts presents a screening of a new film by Chris Dodds, a senior in the program, on May 2 at 9:00 p.m., May 3 at 1:00 p.m., and May 9 at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. A reception will be held on May 2 at 9:30 p.m. following the screening. The screening and reception are free and open to the public.
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April 21, 2013
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Visual Arts presents color ed, an exhibition of multi-media works by Ugo Udogwu, a senior in the program, on April 30 through May 4 in the Lucas Gallery at 185 Nassau Street. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, May 2 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Exhibition hours are Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.
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April 17, 2013
The Lewis Center for the Arts will present O Where Are You Going?, an original play written and directed by Program in Theater senior Daniel Rattner, on April 26, 27, 30 and May 1 and 2 at 8:00 p.m. in the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at 185 Nassau Street.
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April 16, 2013
On Monday, April 22, renowned playwright and actor Wallace Shawn will read from his work as part of the Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series of the Program in Creative Writing at the Lewis Center for the Arts. The reading, beginning at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street, is free and open to the public.
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April 15, 2013
Biographer D.T. Max will discuss the lasting relevance of the life, work and philosophy of the late American writer David Foster Wallace in a public conversation with novelist Jeffrey Eugenides on Tuesday, April 23 at 8:00 p.m. in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. Max, Wallace's biographer, will share his extensive knowledge about the late author. The event, co-sponsored by the Lewis Center for the Arts and Forbes College, and presented in collaboration with Labyrinth Books, is free and open to the public.
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April 12, 2013
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Visual Arts presents a screening of a new film by Bodo Buetzler, a senior in the program, on April 25 and 26 at 8:00 p.m. and April 30 at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. A reception will be held on April 25 at 6:00 p.m. just prior to the start of the screening. The screening and reception are free and open to the public.
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April 11, 2013
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Visual Arts presents Shell, an exhibition of multi-media sculptural works by Kathleen Brite, a senior in the program, on April 18 through 28 in Room 301 at 185 Nassau Street. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, April 25 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Exhibition hours are Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.
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April 9, 2013
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Dance presents Reverse the Tide, a performance of original choreography created by Katy Dammers and Stefanie Siller, seniors in the program, on Friday, April 26, at 7:00 p.m. and Saturday, April 27, at 2:00 and 8:00 p.m. in the Patricia and Ward Hagan '48 Dance Studio at 185 Nassau Street. The performances are free and open to the public.
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April 8, 2013
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Creative Writing is offering two courses in screenwriting for the Fall 2013 semester taught by Christina Lazaridi.
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April 5, 2013
Bestselling scholar of Irish history R.F. Foster will present a lecture on "Making a Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1916," on Friday, April 19 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts' James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. Foster's lecture will cap a year-long series of events presented by Princeton University's Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public.
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April 5, 2013
Gregory Doran, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and award-winning actor Sir Antony Sher, partners in the theater and in life, will discuss their past and future collaborations on Shakespearean productions in a conversation to be held on Wednesday, April 17 at 11:00 a.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau St. Presented by the Lewis Center's Performance Central, Gregory Doran in Conversation with Sir Antony Sher: On Looking Forward to Working Together Again, and Looking Back on Their Previous Shakespeare Collaborations is free and open to the public.
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April 3, 2013
Submissions for the 2013 Princeton University Art of Science Competition are now being accepted. The deadline for submissions is 11:59 p.m., Sunday, April 7, 2013. The Art of Science exhibition explores the interplay between science and art and consists of images produced during the course of scientific research that have aesthetic merit. The competition is open to the entire Princeton community, including undergraduates, faculty, research staff, graduate students, and alumni. The theme for the 2013 exhibit is "Connections."
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April 1, 2013
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Theater will present a production of Stephen Sondheim's groundbreaking Broadway musical, Sunday in the Park with George, inspired by Georges Seurat's famous pointillist painting, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte-1884. Performances are on April 12, 13, 18, 19 and 20 at 8:00 p.m. at the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center. The production is directed by senior theater student Julia Bumke and features seniors Holly Linneman in the role of Dot and Brad Wilson as George.
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April 1, 2013
Len Graham and Brian Ó hAirt, two award-winning proponents of Irish traditional arts, will give a performance of "In Two Minds: Songs, Music and Dance from the Irish Tradition," on Friday, April 12, at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts' James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. The performance is part of a series presented by Princeton University's Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public.
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March 29, 2013
The Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Visual Arts presents an exhibition of photographs exploring the display of personal photographs in material culture by Isabel Flower, a senior in the program, on April 16 through 20 in the Lucas Gallery at 185 Nassau Street. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, April 18 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the gallery. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.
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March 28, 2013
Award-winning filmmaker Julie Dash will give the John Sacret Young '69 Lecture in Film on Thursday, March 28 at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart Theater at 185 Nassau Street. In 1991, Dash's film Daughters of the Dust became the first film directed by an African American woman to be theatrically distributed in the United States. The story chronicles two days in the life of the Peazant family, descendants of slaves who reside on sea islands near South Carolina and Georgia. Since its release, Daughters of the Dust has been named one of the most important cinematic achievements of the twentieth century. Dash's lecture on her film career is free and open to the public.
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March 26, 2013
The Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Visual Arts presents two exhibitions of collage and sculpture by Charlotte Krause and Samantha Ritter, seniors in the program, on April 4 through 10 in the Lucas Gallery at 185 Nassau Street. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, April 4 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the gallery. Gallery is open Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.
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March 26, 2013
Palestines first hip-hop crew, Da Arabian MCs (DAM), will perform a concert, screen a documentary about the group, and participate in a discussion about their music on April 1 and 2 on the Princeton University campus. The concert will take place on Monday, April 1 at 8:00 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room of Frist Campus Center, with the screening and discussion following the next day, April 2, at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart 32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. The events are presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts Performance Central, the Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture Fund, and the Princeton Committee on Palestine in collaboration with the the Davis International Center, the Program in Near Eastern Studies, the Persian Society of Princeton, the South Asian Students Association, the Muslim Students Association, and Ellipses. All events are free and open to the public, however tickets are required for the concert.
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March 21, 2013
On Wednesday, April 17, award-winning fiction writer Joseph ONeill and Honickman First Book Prize-winning poet Matthew Dickman will read from their works as part of the Althea Ward Clark W21 Reading Series of the Program in Creative Writing at the Lewis Center for the Arts. Princeton student Lillian Li will also read from her recent fiction work. The reading, beginning at 4:30 p.m. at the Berlind Theatre at the McCarter Theatre Center, is free and open to the public.
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March 21, 2013
Award-winning playwright Joanne Pottlitzer will present a multimedia lecture on Symbols of Resistance: Artists under Pinochet on Wednesday, April 17, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 219 of Aaron Burr Hall on the Princeton University campus. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is presented by Princetons Program in Latin American Studies, Lewis Center for the Arts, and the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
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March 19, 2013
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Visual Arts presents an exhibition of photographs by Eliot Gee and paintings by Megan Karande, both seniors in the program, on March 25 through 31 in the Lucas Gallery at 185 Nassau Street. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, March 28 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the gallery. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.
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March 14, 2013
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Theater will present a workshop production of It Takes a Village, a new musical written by Sandra Fong '13 and Emi Nakamura '13 about a traditional community questioning its beliefs regarding gender roles, sexuality and identity after a father and his son, raised gender-neutral, enter their midst. Performances will take place on March 28, 29, and 30 at 8:00 p.m. in the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at 185 Nassau Street with a reception following the performance on Thursday, March 28. Fong, a senior theater certificate student, is the librettist and director of the production while senior theater certificate student Emi Nakamura provides musical direction and composition. This is a senior thesis project for both Fong and Nakamura, who co-wrote lyrics for the production.
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March 12, 2013
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Performance Central series presents Baby Wants Candy, the Chicago-based musical theater improvisational comedy ensemble, with performances on Tuesday, March 26, and Wednesday, March 27, at 8:00 p.m. at the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton.
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March 11, 2013
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Visual Arts presents "Prosthetic Gods," an exhibition of prints, photography and assemblage by Leana Hirschfeld-Kroen and John O'Neill, seniors in the program, on March 12 through 19 in the Lucas Gallery at 185 Nassau Street. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, March 14 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the gallery. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.
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March 8, 2013
Gut Renovation, a new film by Su Friedrich, faculty member in the Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Visual Arts, has been selected for inclusion at this year's Berlin International Film Festival and will receive a week-long run at the Film Forum in New York from March 6 through 12.
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March 7, 2013
The Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University has announced the selection of four Mary MacKall Gwinn Hodder Fellows for the 2013-14 academic year. F ilmmaker Chinonye Chukwu, poet Katy E. Didden, writer Adam Ross, and choreographer Pam Tanowitz were chosen from a pool of over 1,100 applicants to receive this award, created to provide artists and humanists in the early stages of their career a period of "studious leisure" to undertake significant new work.
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March 1, 2013
On Wednesday, March 13, bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi and National Book Award-winning poet Nikky Finney will read from their works as part of the Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series of the Program in Creative Writing at the Lewis Center for the Arts. Princeton student Richard Gadsden will also read from his recent fiction work. The reading, beginning at 4:30 p.m. at the Berlind Theatre at the McCarter Theatre Center, is free and open to the public.
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March 1, 2013
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Theater will present a production of Marina Carr's 2006 drama, Woman and Scarecrow, in which a dying, contemplative woman reflects upon her life from her death bed and wonders what could have been. Performances are on March 8, 9, 13, 14, and 15 at 8:00 p.m. at the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at 185 Nassau Street. The production is directed by Tim Vasen, the Director of the Program in Theater, and features senior theater certificate students Carolyn Vasko in the role of Woman and CC Kellogg as Scarecrow.
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February 28, 2013
Award-winning playwright Amy Herzog will discuss her training, her creative process, and the cultural and historical aspects of her work at a public conversation with Princeton Prof. Jill Dolan on Tuesday, March 5. In addition to her career, Herzog will talk about her most recent play, the drama The Great God Pan, during the conversation, which will be held at 106 McCormick Hall on the Princeton University Campus. This event, co-sponsored by the Lewis Center, the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the Department of History, is free and open to the public.
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February 22, 2013
Thank you to all students who have submitted an entry in this year's Leonard L. Milberg '53 Secondary School Poetry Prize.
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February 18, 2013
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Theater will present a production of Sarah Ruhl's 2009 play, In the Next Room, or the vibrator play, set in the late Victorian era at the dawn of the electrical age when a new medical device was invented to treat female "hysteria." Performances are on March 8, 9, 13, 14, and 15 at 8:00 p.m. at the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center. The production is directed by senior theater student Sarah Hedgecock and features senior theater student Taylor Mallory in the lead role of Catherine Givings.
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February 16, 2013
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Dance presents the 2013 Spring Dance Festival, a dance concert showcasing more than 50 students performing in repertory by distinguished, internationally renowned choreographers Merce Cunningham, Mark Morris, Karole Armitage, and Zvi Gotheiner, and in new dances by Raja Kelly and Laura Peterson. The Festival will be presented on Friday, February 22, at 8:00 p.m., Saturday, February 23, at 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., and Sunday, February 24, at 1:00 p.m. at the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton.
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February 15, 2013
Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts announces the poets who will be featured in the 2013 Princeton Poetry Festival, a two-day biennial event presented through the Center's Performance Central Series. Poets from around the world will read from their work and hold panel discussions. The Festival will take place March 15 and 16 in Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall on the Princeton campus. Organized by poet and Princeton professor Paul Muldoon, the Festival will open with the New Jersey State Finals of Poetry Out Loud, a national poetry performance competition for high school students.
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February 12, 2013
Princeton University administrators shared updated plans for the design and phased construction of the Arts and Transit Project at a campus meeting Feb. 11.
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February 12, 2013
Want to keep dancing? Took an intro dance course? Still learning? Returning to dance? DAN220 is for you! Taught by Asli Bulbul and Susan Marshal. Classes meet Tuesdays/Thursdays 2:30-4:20pm and Fridays 11am-12:50pm.
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February 7, 2013
Silas Riener, a 2006 Princeton alumnus and a former member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, has returned to campus to work with students in the dance program at the Lewis Center for the Arts on two performance projects that celebrate the mid-20th-century collaboration of dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham and artist Robert Rauschenberg.
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January 31, 2013
On Wednesday, February 13, Booker Prize-winning fiction writer A.S. Byatt and National Book Award finalist and poet Alicia Ostriker will read from their works as part of the Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series of the Program in Creative Writing at the Lewis Center for the Arts. Princeton student Audrey H. Hall will also read from her recent translation work. The reading, beginning at 4:30 p.m. at the Berlind Theatre at the McCarter Theatre Center, is free and open to the public.
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January 30, 2013
The Program in Visual Arts at Princeton University will present an exhibition and screening of recent student work from fall 2012 courses. The exhibition showcases work in a variety of media including sculpture, ceramics, drawing, painting, photography and installation and is on view in the Lucas Gallery through February 8. A reception will be held in conjunction with the exhibition on Tuesday, February 5 from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. A screening of new videos and films will be held in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater on Tuesday, February 5 at 5:00 p.m. The gallery and theater are located at 185 Nassau Street. The exhibition, reception and screening are free and open to the public.
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January 29, 2013
Author John Kelly will present a lecture entitled, "How the Irish Famine Invented the Modern World" on Friday, February 15 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts' James M. Stewart '32 Theater, 185 Nassau Street. The lecture is part of a series presented by Princeton University's Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public.
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January 28, 2013
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Dance and the Princeton University Art Museum present an evening of dance and art inspired by the artistic collaborations between choreographer Merce Cunningham and visual artist Robert Rauschenberg. An exhibition, performance, and panel discussion celebrating the partnership between these two legendary artists will be presented on Thursday, February 14, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Princeton University Art Museum. A reception will follow. The event is free and open to the public.
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January 25, 2013
The Lewis Center for the Arts, now celebrating its fifth anniversary, was founded on the principle that exposure to the arts, and particularly to the experience of making art, is fundamental to understanding ourselves and the world around us. Like other areas of research at Princeton University, the making of art regularly requires students to demonstrate creativity, empathy, critical thinking, the articulation and execution of ideas, team work, and cross-cultural understanding . The center is the umbrella organization for Princeton's courses and certificate programs in the arts, specifically its programs in creative writing, dance, theater, and visual arts. The center also houses the Princeton Atelier, a unique seminar program that brings teams of professional artists to Princeton to work collaboratively with one another and with students to create new work and explore new artistic ground.
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January 23, 2013
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Theater will present a unique new production of William Shakespeares classic play, "The Tempest," performed with actors and marionettes, on February 8, 9, 14, 15, and 16 at 8:00 p.m. at the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at 185 Nassau Street. The production is directed by theater program faculty member Tracy Bersley and is the senior project of theater student Lily Akerman, who will be featured in the production, with marionettes created by senior visual arts student Samantha Ritter.
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January 16, 2013
The Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Visual Arts will present a screening of three new short documentaries created by students on Friday, January 18 from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart 32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. The screening is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.
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January 4, 2013
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Programs in Dance and Visual Arts will present new work created by students that explores the relationships between sculpture and dance. The showing of work, created last fall through courses in both disciplines, will take place on Friday, January 18 at 6:30 p.m. in the Lucas Gallery and other spaces at the Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street. The event is free and open to the public.
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January 3, 2013
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Dance will present Dance Performance Lab 185, performances showcasing new choreography created by ten students in the program, on Friday and Saturday, January 18 and 19 at 8:00 p.m. in the Patricia and Ward Hagan '48 Dance Studio. The event is free and open to the public.
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December 19, 2012
The Regional Planning Board of Princeton approved Princeton University's proposed Arts and Transit neighborhood plan at a meeting Tuesday, Dec. 18, by a vote of 9-1. The approval clears the way for the University to break ground in early 2013.
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December 18, 2012
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Theater will present the gritty psychological crime drama, A Steady Rain, by Keith Huff on January 10, 11, 12 and 13 at 8 p.m. in the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at 185 Nassau Street. A Steady Rain is a senior thesis production directed by faculty member R.N. Sandberg and featuring Adam Stasiw and JT Glaze, certificate students in the Program in Theater.
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December 7, 2012
Of the 39 productions that opened on Broadway in 2008, just three were directed by women. This season that number doubles to six. Off-Broadway, another eight productions will be helmed by women this year a new record. Of course, it goes without saying that gender shouldn't be a factor when...
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December 6, 2012
The Princeton University Program in Theater, in partnership with Community House and the Community-Based Learning Initiative, is offering the course "Devising Theater With Youth" this semester as part of a continuing effort to expose students to the broadest possible range of performance theory and practice. The class serves as an example of the Lewis Center for the Arts' commitment to encouraging undergraduates to think critically about the role of the arts in community and civic engagement.
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December 6, 2012
The Program in Dance will present a series of showings of new work created and repertory work learned during the past semester on December 12 through December 14. These events will feature student work from a range of courses within the Program in Dance, guest choreographer work, and faculty choreography, much of which represents works-in-progress, including professional choreographers work that will be featured in the upcoming annual Spring Dance Festival. All showings will be held in the Patricia and Ward Hagan '48 Dance Studio at 185 Nassau Street. The showings are free and open to the public.
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December 3, 2012
Students in the Lewis Center for the Arts' world-renowned Program in Creative Writing will present new work at a reading on December 12 at 5:15 p.m. at Chancellor Green Rotunda on the Princeton University campus. Students from fall workshops in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, screenwriting and literary translation will read from new work completed during the past semester. The reading, part of the Program in Creative Writing's Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series at the Lewis Center for the Arts, is free and open to the public.
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December 3, 2012
Outlining the career of poet Paul Muldoon, Professor Séan Ryder of NUI Galway said it is not easy to find a poet with the confidence and craft to make poetry that is genuinely fresh, a poetry that extends the canon rather than simply replays it. Yet Paul Muldoon is certainly such a poet. In his 11 volumes of poetry over a period of 40 years his has been a striking and compelling voice for readers of poetry not just in Ireland but all over the Englishspeaking world. Muldoons most recent collections of poetry include Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), Horse Latitudes (2006) and Maggot (2010)
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November 29, 2012
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Theater will present a concert version of Cole Porter's classic, "play-within-a-play" musical, Kiss Me, Kate, on Thursday and Friday, December 6 and 7, at 8:30 p.m. and Saturday, December 8, at 2:00 p.m. Performances will be held in the Marie and Edward Matthews 53 Acting Studio at 185 Nassau Street on the Princeton campus. Tickets are $12 general admission, $10 for students and seniors.
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November 28, 2012
Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy will present a lecture entitled, "Grá Agus Bás: Love and Death" on Friday, December 7 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts' James M. Stewart '32 Theater, 185 Nassau Street. The lecture is part of a series presented by Princeton University's Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public.
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November 27, 2012
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Dance will present FLEET, a collaborative senior thesis dance concert showcasing new choreography by certificate students along with repertory by professional guest choreographers and faculty, on Friday, November 30, at 8:00 p.m. and Saturday, December 1, at 2:00 and 8:00 p.m. The students will perform works by internationally acclaimed choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, staged by Jeff Edwards, New York-based choreographer Adam Barruch, and faculty member Rebecca Lazier, in addition to new dances by seniors Alta du Pont, Christina Campodonico, Emily Francis, and Lindsey Rose Augero-Sinclair with excerpts of works-in-progress by seniors AJ Brannum and Lisa Einstein.
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November 27, 2012
The Program in Theatre announces auditions for an upcoming senior thesis production: "In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play." Written by Sarah Ruhl. Directed by Sarah M. Hedgecock '13
Featuring Taylor Mallory '13 as Catherine Givings. *The Auditions* November 28th - December 1st. Signup sheets are posted in the lobbies of the Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau and Theatre Intime.
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November 27, 2012
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Rocco Landesman announced today that the NEA will award 832 grants totaling $23.3 million through its Art Works funding category. Not-for-profit arts organizations in 47 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico will receive funding. The supported projects span 13 artistic disciplines and fields and focus primarily on the creation of work and presentation of both new and existing works for the benefit of American audiences. In addition, the NEA will award Creative Writing Fellowships to 40 outstanding poets for a total of $1 million. This grant announcement is the first of several for fiscal year 2013.
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November 13, 2012
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Performance Central series will present a talk by archeologist Joan Breton Connelly entitled, "Recovering the Ephemeral: Archaeologies of Performance in the Ancient Mediterranean World," on Tuesday, November 20, at 5:00 p.m. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in Frist Campus Center's Film and Performance Theater on the Princeton University campus.
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November 7, 2012
In the chaos that is course selection at Princeton, its difficult to get a good look at all the classes our wonderful University has to offer. From building motorcycles to Integration Topics in the French Middle Ages Renaissance: Censorship, Controversy and Literary Debate in the Middle Ages, Princetons got it all. The following are a few courses that struck me as particularly interesting:
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November 3, 2012
Janine Antoni, a performance artist and renowned maker of highly crafted sculptures, will discuss the intersections of artworks and the human body as part of an interdisciplinary series of lectures entitled "Muscle Memory" at the Lewis Center for the Arts. The lecture will take place on Wednesday, November 14 at 12:30 p.m. in the Lewis Centers Patricia and Ward Hagan '48 Dance Studio, 185 Nassau Street. Cosponsored by the Programs in Dance and Visual Arts, the talk is free and open to the public.
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November 2, 2012
The Program in Visual Arts at Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts will open the studios of junior and senior certificate students on November 20 from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. at the Lewis Center, 185 Nassau Street. Also on view starting November 13 and running through November 21 is an exhibition, Glazed and Confused, presenting new student work in painting and ceramics in the Centers Lucas Gallery. The exhibition and studio visit are free and open to the public.
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November 1, 2012
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy we have extended the Hodder Fellowship deadline to Friday, November 9.
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November 1, 2012
Princeton University's Film Studies Committee and the Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Visual Arts will screen Ute Aurand's recent film, Junge Kiefern (Young Pines), and present a talk by the German filmmaker on Wednesday, November 7 at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. The presentation, the 2012 John Sacret Young '69 Lecture, is free and open to the public.
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October 22, 2012
Irish historian and biographer Judith Hill will present a lecture entitled, "Brickbats and Love: Lady Gregory's Encounter with America on the Abbey Theatre Tour of 1911-12" on Friday, November 9 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts' James M. Stewart '32 Theater, 185 Nassau Street. The lecture is part of a series presented by Princeton University's Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public.
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October 18, 2012
Moya Brennan, a Grammy-Award winning musician, singer, and songwriter, will give a concert at the Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall at Princeton University on November 5 at 5:00 p.m. Brennan is the lead vocalist for the Grammy Award-winning Irish band Clannad, known around the world for its blend of musical styles with traditional Irish music. "Moya Brennan - the Voice of Clannad - with Family and Friends," is co-presented by the Universitys Lewis Center for the Arts Performance Central Series, the Index of Christian Art, and the Fund for Irish Studies, is free and open to the public, however advance ticket reservations are recommended.
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October 17, 2012
Princeton alumni brothers Monte J. Wallace and Neil W. Wallace have contributed $15 million for the first individual building named in the University's planned arts complex.
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October 16, 2012
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Theater in collaboration with the Department of Music will present the world premiere of "Der Bourgeois Bigwig" on November 9, 10, 15, 16 and 17 at 8:00 p.m. at the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center. Der Bourgeois Bigwig is a new adaptation by James Magruder of the Molière comedy Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme written to complement Richard Strauss' well-known orchestral suite and incidental music from 1912. The production is directed by Tim Vasen, Director of the Program in Theater, with the Department of Music's Michael Pratt conducting the Princeton University Orchestra. The project is made possible in part through the university's Arts Initiative program.
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October 11, 2012
Irish art historian Fionna Barber will present a lecture entitled, "Art in Ireland Since 1910," on Friday, October 19 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts' James M. Stewart '32 Theater, 185 Nassau Street. The lecture is part of a series presented by Princeton Universitys Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public.
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October 5, 2012
The Lewis Center for the Arts will present the Visual Arts Fall Lecture Series, featuring faculty members in the Program in Visual Arts at Princeton University. Photographer Sarah Charlesworth will open the series on October 10, followed by sculptor Pam Lins on October 24, painter Josephine Halvorson on November 7, and concluded by filmmaker Su Friedrich on December 5. The lectures will take place in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street at 6:30 p.m. and are free and open to the public.
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September 21, 2012
Irish scholar Pete Shirlow will present a lecture posing the question: "The End of Ulster Loyalism?" on Friday, October 5 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts' James M. Stewart '32 Theater, 185 Nassau Street. The lecture is part of a series presented by Princeton University's Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public.
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September 18, 2012
On Wednesday October 3, renowned poet Laura Kasischke and playwright and actor Wallace Shawn will read from their works as part of the Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series of the Program in Creative Writing at the Lewis Center for the Arts. The reading, beginning at 4:30 p.m. at the Berlind Theatre at the McCarter Theatre Center, is free and open to the public.
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September 14, 2012
French theater will take center stage this fall at Princeton University, launching with a five-day French Theater Festival, Seuls en Scène, from September 25 through 29. The university's French student theater workshop, LAvant-Scène, will present the Molière comedies LEcole des Femmes (School for Wives) in October and Les Femmes savants (The Learned Ladies) in December. In November the Lewis Center's Program in Theater will present a new version by James Magruder of Molière's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, entitled Der Bourgeois Bigwig. Also in November well-known French actor Guillaume Gallienne will be in residence at Princeton.
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September 12, 2012
Three members of the Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Creative Writing faculty, James Richardson, Tracy K. Smith, and Susan Wheeler, will read on Thursday, September 27 at 5:30 p.m. at Labyrinth Bookstore, 122 Nassau Street in Princeton, along with four winners of the 2012 Leonard Milberg '53 Secondary School Poetry Prize. The reading is free and open to the public.
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September 11, 2012
Watch Michael Cadden talk about his new fall course - Performing Australia.
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September 11, 2012
Four writers selected as the Lewis Center for the Arts 2012-13 Hodder Fellows will read on Wednesday, September 19 at 4:30 p.m. in the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center. Poet James Arthur, fiction writer Melinda Moustakis, non-fiction writer Yasmine El Rashidi, and playwright A. Rey Pamatmat will begin their ten-month residencies at the Lewis Center by opening the 2012-13 Althea Ward Clark W21 Reading Series, which is free and open to the public.
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September 10, 2012
Irish scholar Eve Patten will present a lecture entitled, "A Feverish Place: Ireland and the English Literati, 1920-1945," on Friday, September 21 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts' James M. Stewart '32 Theater, 185 Nassau Street. The lecture is part of a series presented by Princeton University's Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public.
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September 7, 2012
The Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University will present A Conversation on Women and the Revolution in Egypt featuring Cairo-based writer Yasmine El Rashidi and historian Margot Badran on Friday, September 14 at 5:00 p.m. in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street in Princeton. The event is part of The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art and Society showcasing women artists of the Middle East and the Middle East diaspora.
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September 4, 2012
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Princeton a $3.3 million challenge grant to support the University's creation of the Fellows in the Creative and Performing Arts program, which will bring innovative early- to mid-career artists to campus. The program is part of an initiative to make the arts central to the Princeton undergraduate experience.
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September 1, 2012
The Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University will present over 100 events during its fifth anniversary season, running September 2012 through May 2013, including theater and dance performances, readings by internationally-known writers, exhibitions, screenings and lectures.
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July 31, 2012
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July 30, 2012
Just up on the University's homepage is a feature story on a summer Global Seminar, "Re-Staging the Greeks," led by Michael Cadden and Tim Vasen, which immersed 15 Princeton undergraduates in experiential learning to explore how Greece's rich culture, history and landscape inspired the ancient playwrights. The students also created and performed their own interpretations of scenes from the plays.
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June 21, 2012
Poet Evie Shockley has been selected as the 2012 recipient of the Theodore H. Holmes '51 and Bernice Holmes National Poetry Prize awarded by the Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University.
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June 1, 2012
Brooke Shields '87 and four other University graduates spoke about their professional experiences in theater and music in a panel on Friday morning as part of the Universitys effort on Reunions weekend to open up new career paths to graduating seniors and young alumni.
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May 22, 2012
Writer Joyce Carol Oates, Princeton University's Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Creative Writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, has been awarded the prestigious 2012 Blue Metropolis Literary Grand Prix Award. Previous recipients have included Carlos Fuentes, Mavis Gallant, Norman Mailer, and Margaret Atwood.
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May 15, 2012
Daisy Radevsky '13, Tanyaradzwa Ashleigh Tawengwa '14, and Ava Geyer '15 have been selected by Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts faculty as the 2012 recipients of the Alex Adam '07 Award. Established in memory of Alexander Jay Adam '07 and made possible by a generous gift from his family, the award provides support to Princeton undergraduates who want to spend a summer pursuing a project that will result in the creation of new artistic work.
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May 14, 2012
The Lewis Center for the Arts will present The Birds, a new adaptation of the ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, directed by Tim Vasen, Acting Director of the Program in Theater. The new script and new music were created by seniors Sea Bass Franco and Clayton Raithel. Performances will be held on May 31, June 1 and 2 at 8:00 p.m. in the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at 185 Nassau St.
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May 10, 2012
The Program in Visual Arts will present an exhibition of work in a wide range of media by the Class of 12 graduating seniors in the program. The exhibition, entitled Senior All-Stars Art Show, will feature recent work by students completed as part of their senior thesis projects and will be on view from May 17 through June 5 in the Lucas Gallery at 185 Nassau Street. An opening reception, where visitors will be able to meet the artists, will be held on May 17 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Both the exhibition and opening reception are free and open to the public.
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May 7, 2012
The Lewis Center for the Arts will present tsok, a senior thesis dance project created by Elizabeth Cooper. Performances will be held on Saturday, May 12 at 5:00 and 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, May 13 at 8 p.m. in the Chancellor Green Rotunda on the University campus. The event is free and open to the public.
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May 7, 2012
Princeton professors Joyce Carol Oates and Elaine Pagels have received the University's Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities.
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April 27, 2012
Students in Princeton University's world-renowned Program in Creative Writing will present new work in a series of readings. On May 2 at 5:15 p.m. at Chancellor Green Rotunda on the campus students from spring workshops in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, screenwriting and literary translation will read from their work. On May 8 at 4:30 p.m. at the Nassau Club at 6 Mercer Street, seniors completing a certificate in the Program will read from their work in poetry, and on May 9 at 4:30 p.m. at the Palmer House at 1 Bayard Lane, graduating fiction writers will read from their work. The readings, part of the Program in Creative Writing's Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series at the Lewis Center for the Arts, are free and open to the public. All three events are followed by public receptions.
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April 26, 2012
President Obama has announced 13 new recipients of Presidential Medal of Freedom, including former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, singer/songwriter Bob Dylan, astronaut John Glenn, former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and writer Toni Morrison.
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April 26, 2012
Wanderland, a new play written and performed by Lewis Center for the Arts' 2010 alumnae and directed by Program in Theater Acting Director Tim Vasen, will be presented on May 3 through 6 at the Hamilton Murray Theater on the Princeton campus. The play, by Veronica Siverd, is premiered on April 25 at the Little Times Square Theatre at Roy Arias Theatre Center in New York before its Princeton run.
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April 25, 2012
The Program in Visual Arts at Princeton University will present a screening of two student film documentaries, "Out of the Mellah" by Oren Samet-Marram and "Re-membering" by Luciana Chamorro on Thursday, May 3 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at the Lewis Center for the Arts, 185 Nassau Street. The screening is free and open to the public and coincides with the next Princeton ArtWalk. Repeat screenings will be held May 12 at 7:00 p.m. and May 13 at 4:00 p.m. in the Class of 1970 Theatre at Whitman College on the University campus.
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April 23, 2012
The Program in Visual Arts at Princeton University will present a multimedia installation by Lex Brown, a senior in the Visual Arts Certificate Program. Entitled "Inside that thing that is and is and isn't," the installation will be on view from May 1 through 12 in the Lucas Gallery at 185 Nassau Street. The artist will present a performance in front of the building as part of the installation on Tuesday, May 1 at 4:30 p.m. An opening reception, where visitors can meet the artist, will be held Thursday, May 3 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., coinciding with the next Princeton ArtWalk. The reception and performance are free and open to the public.
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April 20, 2012
A panel discussion about gender and theatre criticism will be held on April 28 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the Garden Room of Prospect House at Princeton University with a reception following. "Theatre Criticism, Gender, and Blogging" will address gender and race imbalances in contemporary drama criticism, and discuss alternative venues for publishing in-depth writing on current performance and theatre. The panel will stress the continuing importance of arts criticism and commentary in the 21st Century. The discussion, presented by Princeton Universitys Lewis Center for the Arts, is free and open to the public.
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April 19, 2012
Senior Lecturer in Visual Arts Eve Aschheim and Visiting Associate Professor in Creative Writing Timothy Donnelly, both current members of Princeton Universitys Lewis Center for the Arts faculty, have received Fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. They are among 181 artists, scientists and scholars announced on April 12 to receive fellowship awards.
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April 18, 2012
The Lewis Center for the Arts will present, "Roll!", a new play written and directed by Program in Theater senior Jeff Kuperman. Performances will be held on April 27 through 29 and May 1 through 3 at 8:00 p.m. in the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at 185 Nassau Street.
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April 18, 2012
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Visual Arts will present a photographic installation by senior Jun Koh. The installation, entitled "Moan: The Monstrous Sublime," will be on view Mondays through Fridays in the Chancellor Green Rotunda, April 26 through May 9. The exhibition will also be on view the afternoon of Saturday, April 28, during the local Communiversity Festival of the Arts. Some of the photographs can also be viewed in various public places on the Princeton campus. An opening reception, where visitors can meet the artist, will be held Thursday, April 26, from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public.
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April 16, 2012
A platform and a tent in a very public place - near the Dinky station - make up the Princeton Student Colony, which has grown out of a class being team-taught by artist and ecologist Fritz Haeg and architect Daniel Wood, who are both visiting lecturers in the Lewis Center for the Arts and the Princeton Atelier. The site is "colonized" by the nine students who are making decisions about daily living as a group for the duration of the spring semester.
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April 16, 2012
Tracy K. Smith, an assistant professor of creative writing in Princeton University's Lewis Center for Arts, today won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for "Life on Mars," which the prize committee calls "a collection of bold, skillful poems, taking readers into the universe and moving them to an authentic mix of joy and pain."
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April 12, 2012
Jaewon Choi's visual arts senior thesis project explores the boundaries of painting on a very large scale. Meanwhile, her physics thesis project examines the origins of light on the largest scale imaginable.
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April 9, 2012
Tony Award-nominated actress Montego Glover is the final speaker in a series on contemporary musical theater at Princeton's Lewis Center for the Arts. Glover, who originated the role of Felicia Farrell in the current Broadway hit Memphis, will speak about her career on stage on Monday, April 16 at 1:30 p.m. in the Class of 1970 Theatre in Whitman College on the Princeton University campus. The series of talks will lead to a Musical Theater Symposium, "Making Broadway Musicals: Artists and Scholars in Conversation," on Saturday, April 21. The talks and the symposium are free and open to the public.
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April 6, 2012
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Visual Arts will present an exhibition of photographic portraits by senior Alex Knoepflmacher. The exhibition, entitled "Selected Works," will be on view daily in the Guggenheim Gallery of Whitman College, April 9 through 18. An opening reception, where visitors can meet the artist, will be held Thursday, April 12, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public.
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April 4, 2012
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Visual Arts will present an exhibition of photographs and video by senior James Cole. The exhibition, entitled "The Quinoa Quandary: A Deconstruction of a Documentary," will be on view daily in The James S. Hall '34 Memorial Gallery of Butler College, April 9 through 20. An opening reception, where visitors can meet the artist, will be held Thursday, April 12, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public.
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April 3, 2012
Irish theater scholar Patrick Lonergan will present a lecture entitled, "Irish Drama After the Celtic Tiger," on Friday, April 13 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts' James M. Stewart '32 Theater, 185 Nassau Street. The lecture is part of a series presented by Princeton University's Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public.
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April 2, 2012
A symposium on creating Broadway musicals will be held on April 21 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. "Making Broadway Musicals: Artists and Scholars in Conversation" will feature interviews and roundtables with some of the leading artists currently working today. Composers, lyricists, orchestrators, designers, directors, and choreographers will discuss their work on musicals including Jersey Boys, Company, Lysistrata Jones, Urinetown, Sondheim on Sondheim, The Drowsy Chaperone, and In the Heights. The symposium, presented by the Lewis Center's Music Theater Lab, will be held in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street in Princeton and is free and open to the public.
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April 2, 2012
Poet Mary Ruefle and novelist Jane Smiley will read from their works in McCosh Hall 50 on the Princeton campus on Wednesday, April 11 at 4:30 p.m. Cara Liuzzi, a senior thesis student, will also read from her poetry. The reading, part of the Program in Creative Writing's Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series at the Lewis Center for the Arts, is free and open to the public.
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March 30, 2012
The Lewis Center for the Arts will present the musical "Pippin," a senior thesis theater project featuring senior Adam Hyndman and directed by Program in Theater faculty member Tracy Bersley. Performances will be held on April 13, 14, 19, 20 and 21 at 8:00 p.m. in the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton.
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March 29, 2012
It's not every day that Princeton undergraduates write operas, and it's even rarer that they get to have their works performed full-scale at the Berlind Theatre. But this weekend, the Lewis Center for the Arts and Department of Music present "Off Court," an original one-act opera written and composed by James Chu '13 and librettist Lily Akerman '13.
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March 27, 2012
The Program in Visual Arts at Princeton University will present "Imprint" a show of photographs by Kaitlin Henderson a senior in the Visual Arts Certificate Program. The exhibition will be on view weekdays in the Lucas Gallery at the Lewis Center for the Arts, 185 Nassau Street, on April 4 through 11. An opening reception, where visitors will be able to meet the artist, will be held Thursday, April 5, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public.
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March 19, 2012
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Visual Arts will present a multi-media installation by senior Maria Cury. The exhibition, entitled Selections from The Museum of Contemporary Culture, will be on view daily in The James S. Hall '34 Memorial Gallery of Butler College, March 28 through April 6. An opening reception, where visitors can meet the artist, will be held Wednesday, March 28, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public.
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March 14, 2012
Poet James Tate and novelist Zadie Smith will read from their works in McCosh Hall 50 on the Princeton University campus on Wednesday, March 28 at 4:30 p.m. Jenna Devine, a thesis student of Joyce Carol Oates, will also read from her fiction. The reading, part of the Program in Creative Writings Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series at the Lewis Center for the Arts, is free and open to the public.
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March 13, 2012
More than a dozen ordinary-looking white-collar types walk into the theater, chatting with one another in quiet voices. For a second, they seem as if they were part of the audience. But theyre actually the actors, and after much mingling, they sit down in rows of chairs on the stage, and an initiation begins.
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March 13, 2012
The Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University has announced selection of the Mary MacKall Gwinn Hodder Fellows for the 2012-13 academic year. Poet James Arthur, fiction writer Melinda Moustakis, non-fiction writer Yasmine El Rashidi, and playwright A. Rey Pamatmat are recipients of the award created to provide artists in the early stages of their career time to undertake significant new work.
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March 2, 2012
The Program in Visual Arts at Princeton University will present, Medium Rare, an exhibition of paintings by Joanne Chong and Dao Mi, seniors in the Visual Arts Certificate Program. The exhibition will be on view weekdays in the Lucas Gallery at the Lewis Center for the Arts, 185 Nassau Street, on March 12 through 16. An opening reception, where visitors will be able to meet the artists, will be held Thursday, March 15, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public.
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March 1, 2012
The Lewis Center for the Arts will present WOYZECK, a new adaptation of the Georg Büchner classic play. One of the most performed and influential in the German theater repertory, this new rendering has been adapted and directed by Princeton senior Cara Tucker. Performances will be held on March 9, 10, 14, 15 and 16 at 8:00 p.m. in the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton.
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February 24, 2012
Four diverse dance artists will conduct master classes in the Patricia and Ward Hagan '48 Dance Studio at the Lewis Center for the Arts, 185 Nassau Street: Tuesday, February 28 at 4:30 p.m. Mustafa Kaplan and Filiz Sizanli of the dance company Taldans from Istanbul, Turkey; Friday, March 2 at 10:00 a.m. Ron K. Brown, founder of the dance company Evidence; and on Tuesday, March 6 at 4:30 p.m. Kyle Abraham, choreographer and dancer with a number of companies. The classes, in which Princeton dance students will participate, are free and open to the public to observe.
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February 22, 2012
The Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts presents The Princeton One-Act Opera Project, an evening of three original one-act operas on Friday and Saturday, March 30 and 31 at 8:00 p.m. in the Roger S. Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton. The unique new works, each redefining what opera might be, are by composer Anthony Davis with playwright Allan Havis, composer and librettist and Princeton University Professor Barbara White with choreographer Kate Weare, and Princeton undergraduates James Chu '13 (composer) and Lily Akerman '13 (librettist). The disparate operas are unified by the vision of director Mark DeChiazza with Princeton's Michael Pratt conducting. Sopranos Susan Narucki and Sarah Davis will be featured, and the casts include a range of professional singers and musicians and undergraduate student performers. Both performances will be preceded by a conversation with the artists, moderated by Atelier Director and Princeton Professor of Theater, Stacy Wolf, from 7:15-7:45 p.m. in the Berlind Theatre.
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February 21, 2012
The Program in Visual Arts at Princeton University will present an exhibition of oil paintings by Genevieve Irwin, a senior in the Visual Arts Certificate Program. An opening reception with the artist will be held March 1 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., coinciding with the spring Princeton ArtWalk. The reception is free and open to the public. The Lucas Gallery is open to the public Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Admission is free.
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February 21, 2012
Irish Scholar Angela Bourke will present a lecture entitled, "Stories for a New Ireland: Patrick Pearse's Short Fiction," on Friday, March 9 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts James M. Stewart '32 Theater, 185 Nassau Street. The lecture is part of a series presented by Princeton University's Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public.
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February 20, 2012
Writer Joyce Carol Oates, Princeton University's Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Creative Writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, has been inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the state and beyond. Oates is among 11 inductees recently announced by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
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February 18, 2012
The Lewis Center for the Arts is proud to present the 2012 Spring Dance Festival, a dance concert showcasing more than 50 students from the Program in Dance performing distinguished repertory works of internationally renowned choreographers and the premiere of four dances created by faculty and guest artists. The Festival will be presented on Friday, February 24 at 8:00 p.m., Saturday, February 25 at 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, February 26 at 1:00 p.m. at the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton.
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February 14, 2012
Hugo Hamilton is the best-selling author of The Speckled People (2003), a memoir of growing up in Dublin during the 1950s and '60s with a fervent, Irish, nationalist father and a German mother who came to Ireland in the aftermath of World War II. The lecture takes place on Friday, February 24 at 4:30 PM in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater, Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street and is free and open to the public.
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February 13, 2012
The Program in Visual Arts at Princeton University will present an exhibition of paintings by Jaewon Choi, a senior in the Visual Arts Certificate Program. The exhibition will be on view weekdays in the Lucas Gallery at the Lewis Center for the Arts, 185 Nassau Street, February 23 through 28; an opening reception, where visitors can meet the artist, will be held February 23 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public.
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February 12, 2012
Eugene Onegin, the overweening antihero who spurns the infatuated Tatiana in the 1833 Pushkin novel in verse that bears his name, only to be spurned himself in the end, loomed large in musical precincts of the Princeton University campus over the weekend.
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February 8, 2012
Jill Dolan, Annan Professor in English, Professor of Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts, and Director of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University has received the prestigious George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for her blog, "The Feminist Spectator".
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February 6, 2012
Glenn Edgerton, Artistic Director of acclaimed Hubbard Street Dance Chicago will present a repertory and ballet master class on Friday, February 10 at 4:30 to 6:20 p.m. in the Patricia Ward Hagan '48 Dance Studio at the Lewis Center for the Arts, 185 Nassau Street. The class in which Princeton dance students will participate is free and open to the public to observe. Edgerton's class opens a series of dance master classes to be held through March.
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February 2, 2012
As Princeton University officials prepare to submit plans for the proposed Arts and Transit project to the Regional Planning Board of Princeton for site plan approval, they have selected an architect to design the new Dinky station building and Wawa and to renovate the existing station buildings for use as a restaurant and café.
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February 1, 2012
Claremont Graduate University (CGU) is pleased to announce that Timothy Donnelly of Brooklyn, New York, has won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his book The Cloud Corporation (Wave, Picador). The award, given annually to a mid-career poet, is one of the largest monetary poetry prizes in the United States.
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January 31, 2012
The Program in Visual Arts at Princeton University announces a series of campus-wide exhibitions of ambitious student work running through early June. Venues will include the Lucas Gallery and the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at the Lewis Center for the Arts, 185 Nassau Street; The Guggenheim Gallery of Whitman College; and the James S. Hall '34 Memorial Gallery of Butler College. Each exhibition is accompanied by a reception where visitors can meet the artists.
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January 30, 2012
(Princeton, NJ) Soprano Judith Kellock, pianist Janice Weber and theater critic Fintan O'Toole will present a chamber music performance of Ross Lee Finney's setting of poems by James Joyce on Friday, February 10 at 4:30 PM at the Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall on the Princeton University campus. The performance is part of a series presented by Princeton's Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public.
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January 23, 2012
Winnie Holzman, dramatist, screenwriter, actress, and librettist for the hit Broadway musical Wicked, will speak about her career at Princeton Universitys Lewis Center for the Arts on February 9 at 1:30 p.m. at Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall. This conversation is the first of a series of talks with prominent artists currently working in the musical theater field. The talks will lead to a Musical Theater Symposium, "Making Broadway Musicals: Artists and Scholars in Conversation," on April 21, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau St. The series of talks and the symposium are free and open to the public.
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January 22, 2012
A contempt-filled word: Bafu means traitor in Shona, the indigenous language in the African land that would become Zimbabwe, and The Convert is about betrayal. This world premiere at Princeton's McCarter Theatre, written by Danai Gurira and directed by Emily Mann, boasts a cast that is beyond outstanding. The performances are so riveting that the play's three hours fly by.
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January 20, 2012
Poet James Richardson and novelist/essayist Jonathan Franzen will read from their works in the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton on Wednesday, February 8 at 4:30 p.m. Princeton student Nina Bahadur will also read from her work. The reading, part of the Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series of the Program in Creative Writing at the Lewis Center for the Arts, is free and open to the public.
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January 16, 2012
From February 9-18, Princeton University will be the site of three major events centered on the banned dramatization of Alexander Pushkin's literary masterpiece Eugene Onegin. The "Onegin Project" will include two productions of the Prokofiev/Krzhizhanovsky adaptation banned by the Stalinist regime in 1936 beginning with a world premiere musical and balletic dramatization featuring the Princeton Symphony Orchestra in Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall on February 9, 2012 at 8 p.m. and continuing with the world premiere of the theatrical production with performance of the full script and music presented by the Program in Theater at the Lewis Center for the Arts from February 10 to 18, 2012. The two productions are presented under the auspices of an international conference, "After the End of Music History," in honor of the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin.
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January 11, 2012
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Programs in Dance and Visual Arts will present new work produced by students last fall through courses in both disciplines that explores the relationships between sculpture and dance. The showing of work will take place on Friday, January 13 at 4:30 p.m. in the Lucas Gallery at Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street. The event is free and open to the public.
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January 5, 2012
The Lewis Center for the Arts will present Elephant's Graveyard by award-winning playwright George Brant, a senior thesis production directed by Christopher Ghaffari '12. Performances will be held on January 11 through 14 at 8:00 p.m. in the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at 185 Nassau Street at Princeton University.
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January 3, 2012
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Princeton Atelier in collaboration with the Department of Music will present Moved by Music, a performance that explores how sound may be illuminated by the movement of the musician's body. The concert will take place on Wednesday, January 11 at 8:00 p.m. in Taplin Auditorium of Princeton University's Fine Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
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December 11, 2011
In its final week of repertory in America, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, dancing six works in three programs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music from Wednesday to Saturday, kept hitting high after high. The highs kept extending our sense both of these dancers, an exceptionally attractive, diverse and skilled group, and of Cunningham himself.
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December 9, 2011
A symposium that will examine a range of currently relevant issues within the context of the interdisciplinary field of performance studies, and include a re-enactment of the legendary 1968 performance of "Dionysus in 69", will be held on December 9 and 10 at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. The symposium, "Performance Studies: Memories and Futures," will feature keynote speaker Richard Schechner from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and present panel discussions on critical race studies, dance, performance ethnography, popular culture, queer identity, reception studies, and visual culture. The symposium will begin on Friday, December 9 at 3:30 p.m. and conclude Saturday, December 10 at 5:30 p.m. and will be held in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at the Lewis Center, 185 Nassau Street in Princeton. The symposium is free and open to the public, however prior registration is required.
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December 7, 2011
The University can now move forward with its plans to build its long-planned Arts and Transit Neighborhood. On Tuesday evening the Borough Council approved a zoning ordinance granting the University the right to build its $300 million developments, ending a contentious six-year process.
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December 5, 2011
Petite Heather Watts, a giant in ballet circles, weaves between the 18 Princeton University students working at the barre in a first-floor dance studio looking out on busy Nassau Street.
As the former star of the New York City Ballet leads the class in a series of warm-up exercises, she asks them to think of the dances they're learning - masterpieces from George Balanchine including "Agon" and "Western Symphony" - as they work.
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November 30, 2011
The Lewis Center for the Arts will present Hamlet, William Shakespeare's tragic tale of revenge, ambition and majesty on December 2 and 3 at 8:15 p.m., December 4 at 2:00 p.m., December 7 through 9 at 8:00 p.m. and December 10 at 1:00 p.m. in the Roger S. Berlind Rehearsal Room at McCarter Theatre Center. Hamlet is a senior thesis production directed by Julia Keimach '12, a certificate student in the Program in Theater. All performances are free and open to the public.
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November 29, 2011
Janine Antoni, a renowned performance artist, will discuss the intersections of visual art and movement as part of a semester-long interdisciplinary series of lectures entitled "Muscle Memory" at the Lewis Center for the Arts. The lecture will take place on Tuesday, December 6 at 7:30 p.m. in the Lewis Centerâs Patricia and Ward Hagan '48 Dance Studio, 185 Nassau Street in Princeton. Cosponsored by the Programs in Dance and Visual Arts, the talk is free and open to the public.
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November 22, 2011
Alex Gansa, Co-Creator and Executive Producer of Showtime's current hit series "Homeland", will speak about his career as a television writer at the James M. Stewart '32 Theater of Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts on December 6th at 4:30 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
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November 18, 2011
(Princeton, NJ) As part of the Lewis Center for the Arts' Performance Central series, Princeton University's Program in Dance will present Heather Watts and Damian Woetzel, former stars of the New York City Ballet on Monday, December 5 for "Genius UpClose: George Balanchine." Watts, a Visiting Lecturer at the university, and Woetzel will discuss the origin and evolution of works by the renowned ballet choreographer including Apollo*, Agon*, Prodigal Son*, and Jewels* among other works. Excerpts of these ballets will be performed rehearsal-style by leading dancers from the New York City Ballet. The lecture/performance will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the Roger S. Berlind Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton. The event is free and open to the public.
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November 17, 2011
The Program in Visual Arts at Princeton Universityâs Lewis Center for the Arts invites everyone to attend an evening of open studios featuring work by junior and senior certificate students on November 22 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center, 185 Nassau Street in Princeton. Coinciding with the open studios is a reception at 4:30 p.m. marking the opening of a new exhibition, "Color and Mud," presenting student works in painting and ceramics in the Center's Lucas Gallery. The exhibition, reception and studio visit are free and open to the public.
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November 11, 2011
Poet Rae Armantrout and novelist/screenwriter John Irving will read from their works in McCosh Hall 50 at Princeton University on Wednesday, November 30 at 4:30 p.m. Student John Shakespear will also read from his work. The reading, part of the Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series of the Program in Creative Writing at the Lewis Center for the Arts, is free and open to the public.
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November 10, 2011
The Lewis Center for the Arts is proud to present "GROOVE", a dance concert showcasing choreography and performance by six senior certificate students in Princeton's Program in Dance. The students will perform work by internationally acclaimed choreographer Bill T. Jones, as well as their own original works and a solo choreographed by Susan Marshall, Director of the Program in Dance at the Lewis Center. GROOVE will premiere at the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center on Friday, December 2 at 8:00 p.m. and Saturday, December 3 at 2:00 and 8:00 p.m.
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November 8, 2011
The Program in Theater presents Fuente Ovejuna: A Disloyal Adaptation by Cusi Cram inspired by Lope de Vega's play and directed by Suzanne Agins. Performances will be held on Friday and Saturday, November 11-12 and Thursday to Saturday, November 17-19. All performances are at 8 PM in the Berlind Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center.
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November 4, 2011
Poetry scholar Matthew Campbell will present a lecture entitled, "The Ruptured Ear - English Poem, Irish Accent," on Friday, November 18 at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts' James M. Stewart '32 Theater, 185 Nassau Street. The lecture is part of a series presented by Princeton University's Fund for Irish Studies. The event is free and open to the public.
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October 31, 2011
The Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Visual Arts announced the reopening of the Lucas Gallery on October 25 following an extensive renovation. The Gallery, located at 185 Nassau Street in Princeton, is one of several venues and programs that make up the Lewis Center. Coinciding with the reopening of the Gallery is an exhibition of new work by over 30 students currently enrolled in drawing courses. The Gallery and the drawing show will be featured on the inaugural Princeton ArtWalk being held throughout the town on November 3 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
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October 21, 2011
(Princeton, NJ) The Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Theater presents Fuente Ovejuna: A Disloyal Adaptation by Cusi Cram, inspired by Lope de Vegaâs play, and directed by faculty member Suzanne Agins with original music composed by Princeton senior Clayton Raithel. Performances will be held on Friday and Saturday, November 11 and 12 and Thursday through Saturday, November 17, 18 and 19. All performances are at 8:00 p.m. in the Berlind Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center. The play will be performed in English.
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October 10, 2011
Michael Cadden, Acting Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, announced the appointment of Steve Runk as the Center's new Director of Communications.
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October 10, 2011
Stephen Mitchell, noted poet, translator and scholar, will read from and discuss his new translation of the Greek epic "The Iliad" on Wednesday, October 12, 4:30 p.m. in at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. The event is free and open to the public and will be held in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street in Princeton.
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October 7, 2011
Poet Rita Dove and novelist James Salter will read from their works at the Berlind Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton, on Wednesday, October 19 at 4:30 p.m The reading, part of the Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series of the Program in Creative Writing of the Lewis Center for the Arts, is free and open to the public.
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October 4, 2011
Increasing the local community's access to cultural attractions is one of the objectives of Princeton University's proposal for a newly zoned Arts and Transit neighborhood. Just how much access the local community will have was among the topics under discussion at Borough Council's meeting last week.
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September 27, 2011
Chang-rae Lee, a Princeton professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, has been selected to receive the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in fiction for his novel "The Surrendered." Lee will receive the award, which celebrates the power of literature to promote peace, nonviolent conflict resolution, and global understanding and is accompanied by a $10,000 prize, at a ceremony on Nov. 13, 2011.
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September 26, 2011
All of the four candidates for the Princeton Township Committee this fall support the University's proposed Arts and Transit Neighborhood, as they explained in last night's debate. All but one of the candidates supports municipal consolidation.
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September 13, 2011
Princeton's internationally renowned Program in Creative Writing, a part of the University's Lewis Center for the Arts, will open its fall reading series on Wednesday, September 28 with readings by Hodder Fellows Anthony Carelli and Danai Gurira. In addition, Julia Rose, a senior thesis student of Joyce Carol Oates in the Program in Creative Writing will read briefly from her work. The readings begin at 4:30 p.m. in the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center; note the change from the longstanding location at 185 Nassau Street. The event is free and open to the public. All are welcome.
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July 26, 2011
The Lewis Center for the Arts sponsored a total of 124 individual events during the 2010-2011 academic year. Many of these events spanned multiple days, for the equivalent of 390 days of art programming from mid-September to mid-May. All of these events were open to the public and most were free. Here is a video that highlights the 2010-2011 season of events.
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July 21, 2011
Alumna Chenxin Jiang '09 has been awarded the 2011 Susan Sontag Prize for her translation proposal: "Destino Coatto" prose vignettes by Goliarda Sapienza.
Chenxin Jiang was born in Singapore and grew up in Hong Kong. She is a graduate of Princeton University, where she studied comparative literature with a focus on German and Italian. Chenxin spent two years in Duino, Italy, at the United World College of the Adriatic. She began to work on translating in a creative writing seminar taught by C. K. Williams; Prof. Williams eventually supported her proposal to translate Goliarda Sapienza for this prize.
In London, where Chenxin presently lives and works, she has led workshops on translating Chinese poetry for the Poetry Translation Centre. Her translations have appeared in Poetry London and World Literature Today.
Jiang will receive a $3000 grant toward the completion of her work.
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July 18, 2011
Ensemble Dance will perform choreography by Artistic Director Pilar Castro Kiltz '10 with original music compositions by Musical Artistic Director Max Mamon '10. A collaborative process created the work and all the artists involved in Ensemble Dance are an integral part of the process as creators and interpreters of the work.
Ensemble Dance Choreography Showing - two performances only.
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 7:30pm and 9pm
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July 5, 2011
"Life on Mars," Tracy K. Smith's third book, explores the cosmos through words. The Princeton creative writing professor and poet reflects on the relationship between our lives and the universe at her Brooklyn home.
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June 15, 2011
Susan Marshall's dancers feel the earth and sky press against them. Whatever medium the choreographer plants them in â whether as fine as a cloud of smoke, or as gritty as sand â it clings to them. So sensitive they even seem to feel the touch of light and shadow, the dancers wriggle, turn and haul themselves along. Apparently gifted with radar, they detect the outline of solid objects in the dark.
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June 15, 2011
The Arts Council of Princeton is most grateful to the organizations who have graciously surveyed recent events for the Americans for the Artsâ latest national economic impact study. The Arts Council of Princeton, Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra, Richardson Auditorium, McCarter Theater, the Princeton Public Library, the Princeton University Art Museum, Westminster Choir College, Princeton Symphony Orchestra, and Lewis Center for the Arts, have completed close to 400 surveys.
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June 14, 2011
To celebrate her company's 25 years, the choreographer Susan Marshall has taken over two spaces at the Baryshnikov Arts Center to show, essentially, two sides of her artistic self. But on Thursday evening, watching "Frame Dances," a gallery-friendly piece performed at the Howard Gilman Performance Space, back-to-back with "Adamantine," a proscenium work for the Jerome Robbins Theater, was to see remnants of the same fabric. The material is respectable and deliberate, yet it's stretched a little thin.
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June 13, 2011
The Tony Awards season confirms what anyone concerned about the status of women in theater has long come to expect: plays by women are excluded from the nominations once again. When will power brokers and critics realize that until work by women is produced and recognized, Americans will continue to hear only one side of the stories of our lives?
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June 10, 2011
Susan Marshall & Company celebrates its 25th Anniversary with a special two-in-one evening, featuring performances of Adamantine (N.Y. Premiere) and Frame Dances.
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June 8, 2011
American writer Joyce Carol Oates says she's been touched by the reaction to her harrowing grief memoir "A Widow's Story."
"The response has been very personal and often emotional," says the prolific author, who is set to sit down for a chat with Canadian novelist Jane Urquhart at the Luminato arts festival next week.
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June 7, 2011
Each year, the Lewis Center for the Arts gives its students the opportunity to spend the summer pursuing a project in the creative and performing arts. Students submit applications for course, travel and research related costs related to their studies. Award winners and amounts are determined by a committee of Lewis Center faculty members.
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June 6, 2011
Covering a square block of a wall in Trenton with "Blue No. 4" paint, as simple as it may sound, was the moment when 15 Princeton students saw an ambitious public art project come alive.
"People passing by on the street would stop and say, 'Keep it up!' and 'It looks great!'" said Kate O'Dea, a member of the class of 2013, describing the reaction to the students' work at the Home Rubber Company. "It was inspiring and uplifting -- and totally different from any other class."
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June 5, 2011
In Nicholson Baker's novel The Anthologist (2009), the eponymous hero attends a poetry festival in Switzerland. Suddenly word flew through the room like wildfireâPaul Muldoon was here! Paul Muldoon! Paul Muldoon! He was besieged. Muldoon is a fabled beastâor a rara avis, as his teacher Jerry Hicks termed him when introducing his charge to Seamus Heaney. Later the schoolboy sent his poems to the older poet, asking what he was doing wrong; the reply came "Nothing," or so the story goes.
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June 1, 2011
Theatre for One is a portable performing arts space for one performer and one audience member, that turns public events into private acts, making each performance a singularly intimate exchange.
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May 17, 2011
In those last scenes of Kubrick's 2001
When Dave is whisked into the center of space,
Which unfurls in an aurora of orgasmic light
Before opening wide, like a jungle orchid
For a love-struck bee, then goes liquid,
Paint-in-water, and then gauze wafting out and off,
Before, finally, the night tide, luminescent
And vague, swirls in, and on and on....
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May 11, 2011
VIce President and Secretary Robert Durkee responds to a question raised at the May 10, 2011, Princeton Borough Council meeting on whether the University would consider developing the Arts and Transit Neighborhood without relocating the Dinky terminus
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May 9, 2011
MICROSCOPE Gallery is honored to present the gallery debut of independent filmmaker Su Friedrich. With works spanning 37 years, re:working offers a first look at the hidden
influences and art of Friedrich's filmmaking. Su Friedrich will also present a screening program of her films and a curated night of works by filmmakers that inspired her on May 21st and June 2 respectively.
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May 5, 2011
In a speech Wednesday night at the beginning of a three-day conference here, Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman urged universities to work "in the service of the imagination" and to "make our campuses artistic crucibles."
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May 4, 2011
Over the next year, senior Lisa Tom will combine her two academic passions at Princeton -- anthropology and creative writing -- by transforming fieldwork into fiction.
Tom spent last summer in Guatemala City interviewing patients at a medical clinic as her fieldwork for her anthropology major. The experience became the inspiration for her creative thesis, a novel about an epidemiologist working at a Guatemalan HIV/AIDS clinic. Next year, as the 2011 winner of Princeton's Martin Dale Fellowship, she will immerse herself in a community closer to home -- Chinese Americans living in her native Baltimore -- to write a collection of short stories or a novel about that immigrant community.
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May 3, 2011
As any senior staring down the last chapter of his or her thesis knows, the ultimate inspiration is the deadline. For the students in novelist Susan Choi's creative writing class, a deadline looms at the end of every weekday night.
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April 22, 2011
Eight members of the University faculty were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academy announced Tuesday. A total of 212 new members were inducted this year.
Members of the Academy, which is one of the most prestigious honorary societies in the nation, are selected based on their accomplishments as leaders in academia, business, public affairs, the humanities and the arts.
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April 21, 2011
Poet Cathy Park Hong and novelist Jhumpa Lahiri will read at the Lewis Center for the Arts on Wednesday, April 27. Senior Abigail Bowman will read a translation. The readings begin at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at the Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street, Princeton. The readings are free and open to the public.
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April 14, 2011
A poetry class at Princeton usually starts with a small group of students sitting around a table, talking about rhythm and images and language.
If the professor is Brenda Shaughnessy, she may offer one of her quirky rules: You may only use the word "soul" in a poem once in your lifetime, and never the word "shards." Susan Wheeler has asked students to write a poem in which they approach their subject from the point of view of an inanimate object. And Paul Muldoon likes to give these instructions at the end of a class: "Don't come back here please without a poem that's going to change my life."
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April 12, 2011
To celebrate poetry's vital place in our culture, Princeton Universityâs Lewis Center for the Arts is honored to present the biennial Princeton Poetry Festival. Poets from around the world will read and share their work during the two-day event on April 29 and 30 at Richardson Auditorium. Advance tickets are available through University Ticketing.
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April 6, 2011
April 6, 2011 â Poets & Writers, Inc. announced today that James Richardson is the fifth winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize. The $50,000 prize is given annually to honor an American poet of exceptional talent who deserves wider recognition. The award is designed to provide what all poets need: time and the encouragement to write.
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April 6, 2011
Princeton University's Program in Dance presents Dusk to Dusk, a senior thesis production featuring choreography by Alexis DeWan Branagan and Eva Marie Wash. Performances run April 14-16 at 8:00 p.m. in the Patricia and Ward Hagan â48 Dance Studio at the Lewis Center for the Arts, 185 Nassau Street. This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome.
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March 26, 2011
(Princeton, NJ) Poet Major Jackson and novelist Norman Rush will read at the Lewis Center for the Arts on Wednesday, April 6. The readings begin at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at the Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street, Princeton. The readings are free and open to the public.
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March 25, 2011
(Princeton, NJ) The Lewis Center for the Arts Performance Central program presents the New Jersey premiere of "The Select (The Sun Also Rises)", Elevator Repair Service's adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel. Two performances only at the Berlind Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center on Friday, April 15 at 7 PM and Saturday, April 16 at 2 PM. Running time is three hours, 25 minutes with one pause and one intermission. Tickets are $10 for students and senior citizens; $15 for general admission and on sale now at the Berlind Box Office at 609.258.2787 and University Ticketing at 609.258.9220.
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March 24, 2011
The Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Theater and the Department of Music present Strange Faces, an original musical production by senior Andrea Grody about families dealing with Asperger's syndrome. Performances will be held on Friday and Saturday, April 1-2 and Thursday through Saturday, April 7-9 in the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at the Lewis Center for the Arts, 185 Nassau Street.
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March 23, 2011
(Trenton, NJ) â The Trenton Mural Arts Project (TMAP) will unveil the design for its first mural on several buildings owned by the Home Rubber Company on Route 129 on Monday, March 28. The design unveiling follows a series of community conversations held throughout the city to introduce the project and garner ideas for the mural from city residents. Residents who attended these conversations were asked what central themes about the past, present and future of Trenton should be reflected in the mural. Artist Philip Adams will explain his vision and unveil his design, which was inspired by the themes and ideas exchanged during these conversations. TMAP is a volunteer-based organization working to establish a vibrant mural arts program in Trenton. The project is being led by Artworks and the Trenton Downtown Association (TDA), with the assistance of Princeton University and the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program (MAP).
Monday, March 28, 2011 at 5:30 p.m. at Artworks, 19 Everett Alley, Trenton, NJ
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March 21, 2011
Beginning this fall, enrollment in creative writing workshops in poetry, translation and screenwriting will no longer require applications for courses at the 201 level and below.
Fiction courses will still be assigned through an application process.
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March 18, 2011
The Lewis Center for the Arts will present John Guare's The House of Blue Leaves, a senior thesis production directed by Tracy Bersley featuring Brad Baron '11 and Olivia Stoker '11. Performances will be held on March 25-26 and 31, and April 1-2 at the Berlind Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center.
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March 18, 2011
Mean girls will be mean girls. And under pressure, in the cloistered atmosphere of the gothically moody girls' school drama "Cracks," meanness can be lethal. The many echoes that crowd through the film - the flashy directorial debut of Jordan Scott (daughter of Ridley) - include "Lord of the Flies," "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," "Heavenly Creatures" and "The Children's Hour."
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March 17, 2011
Princeton University's Program in Dance and the Department of Music will co-sponsor "A Conversation with Mark Morris and Simon Morrison" on Wednesday, March 30 at 5:00 p.m. in McCosh Hall, room 50. This event, part of the Masters of Dance series at the Lewis Center for the Arts, is presented in conjunction with an 8:00 p.m. performance of the Mark Morris Dance Group at the Matthews Theater, McCarter Theatre Center.
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March 11, 2011
Novelist Chang-rae Lee evinces equal parts erudition and honesty when talking about the writing comes into being. It's a necessarily mysterious process, full of twists and turns, both derived from his intentions, but somehow beyond them too. A professor in Princeton University's Creative Writing Department, Lee urges his students to read widely, challenging them to deconstruct a piece of good fiction to find out what it is that moves them.
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March 10, 2011
Toshiko Takaezu, who served on the faculty of Princeton's Program in Visual Arts from 1968 until her retirement in 1992, died on March 9 in Hawaii. She was 88.
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March 2, 2011
Princeton University professors Stanley Katz, a well-known scholar of American legal history and educational institutions, and Joyce Carol Oates, one of the country's most influential authors of fiction and essays, have been awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama.
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March 1, 2011
Philip Roth and Joyce Carol Oates are among the 2010 winners of the National Humanities Medal, and Harper Lee, Meryl Streep, James Taylor and Quincy Jones are among the winners of the National Medal of Arts, the White House announced on Tuesday.
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February 19, 2011
The director is Jordan Scott, and Ridley and Tony Scott are the executive producers on the film. Rosalie Swedlin, Christine Vachan, Julie Payne, Kwesi Dickson and Andrew Lowe are also producers. The film adaptation, loosely based on Sheila Kohler's 1999 novel, is done by Ben Court & Caroline Ip and Jordan Scott. The actress is Eva Green who plays Miss G.
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February 18, 2011
Each year, the Lewis Center for the Arts gives its students the opportunity to spend the summer pursuing a project in the creative and performing arts. Students submit applications for course, travel and research related costs related to their studies. Award winners and amounts are determined by a committee of Lewis Center faculty members.
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February 18, 2011
The future location of the University's dance community remains uncertain following the recent abandonment of the University's proposed Arts and Transit Neighborhood.
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February 18, 2011
AND now for something completely different. Caryl Churchillâs 1994 play The Skriker is alternately a narrative and a free-floating performance piece. Staged by students in Princeton's Program in Theater, this production is the senior project of director Molly Silberberg, who has thrust upon her cast and crew some very challenging material. They pull it off with brilliance in what is a continuously fascinating hour and a half of theater.
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February 14, 2011
In the culmination of months of rehearsal -- highlighted by a unique opportunity to engage with an internationally celebrated choreographer -- more than 50 Princeton students from a range of academic departments will perform this month in the 2011 Spring Dance Festival presented by the University's Lewis Center for the Arts.
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February 12, 2011
Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts presents the 2011 Spring Dance Festival on February 18 through February 20 at the Berlind Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton. This year's dance festival marks the first time Princeton students will perform the work of the distinguished 2010 Kennedy Center Honors Recipient, the internationally acclaimed director and choreographer Bill T. Jones.
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February 12, 2011
Our literary luminaries gathered at Princetown to reflect on the past, the future and to launch a celebration of Irish culture, writes Frieda Klotz.
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February 11, 2011
(Princeton, NJ) Princeton University's Program in Theater presents "The Skriker" on February 11-12 and 17-19. All performances will be held at 8:00 p.m. in the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at the Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street.
Caryl Churchill, one of Britain's foremost contemporary playwrights, has created a magical, malevolent, and mad world in her daring theatrical work "The Skriker". Based in English folklore, "The Skriker" takes childhood stories and manipulates them, placing control within the hands of a frightening, shape-shifting creature on the lookout for love and revenge. "The Skriker" pursues two teenagers, Lily and Josie, bringing them into a world where the rules are made to be broken and where wishes are too good to be true.
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February 11, 2011
See the "Links" section of Joyce Carol Oates' faculty bio for recent reviews of her latest work.
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January 22, 2011
SOME aspiring singer/songwriters trying to jump-start their careers send demos to record label executives. Anthony D'Amato followed a more original script: As a student at Princeton University, he slipped a hand-burned CD of his music under the office door of the poet Paul Muldoon, who teaches at the university.
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January 20, 2011
The handwritten correspondence of the early 19th-century writer Maria Edgeworth, often considered the "Irish Jane Austen," is among the many extraordinary literary treasures in a collection of prose by Irish writers recently donated to Princeton University by 1953 alumnus Leonard Milberg.
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January 17, 2011
Princeton University's Program in Dance is honored to welcome the internationally acclaimed director and choreographer of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and 2010 Kennedy Center Honors recipient Bill T. Jones to the Lewis Center for the Arts on Tuesday, January 18, 2011. Jones will discuss the origin and evolution of Continuous Replay (1978), a seminal dance work that will be performed by Princeton students in February 2011. The lecture and screening will be from 3:00 â 4:15 p.m. in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at the Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street. The event is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.
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January 13, 2011
PEN New England & the JFK Library cordially invite you to "Lyrics As Literature." A special conversation with Paul Muldoon and Paul Simon moderated by Bill Flanagan.
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January 12, 2011
(Princeton, NJ) Princeton University now has one of the greatest collections of Irish literature, in all its forms, in the world thanks to the generosity of New York collector Leonard L. Milberg. Milberg recently donated the Irish prose collection that contains over 1,700 books, manuscripts, portraits, audio visual materials and other items that illustrate the richness and vitality of Irish writing from 1798 to the present. The Irish prose collection follows two similar collections of Irish poetry and Irish theater previously donated by Milberg to the University.
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January 4, 2011
Princeton University's Program in Dance is honored to welcome the internationally acclaimed director and choreographer of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and 2010 Kennedy Center Honors recipient Bill T. Jones to the Lewis Center for the Arts on Tuesday, January 18, 2011. Jones will discuss the origin and evolution of "Continuous Replay" (1978), a seminal dance work that will be performed by Princeton students in February 2011. The lecture and screening will be from 3:00 - 4:15 p.m. in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at the Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street. The event is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.
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January 3, 2011
Kelsey Halliday Johnson is an MFA Candidate in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, she received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University in Art and Archaeology where she concentrated in fine art photography and European cultural studies. She is the first MFA recipient of the Lugo Land Residency in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania. Past residents have included such esteemed photographers as Tim Davis, Graciela Iturbide and Guido Guidi.
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December 22, 2010
(Princeton, NJ) The Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Theater presents "A Broad Abroad", a senior thesis production written and featuring Olivia Stoker and directed by R.N. Sandberg. Performances will be held at the Whitman Class of 1970 Theater at Princeton University on January 7 - 9 at 8:00 p.m. with an additional 10:30 p.m. performance on Saturday, January 8, 2011.
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December 22, 2010
(Princeton, NJ) The Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Theater presents the "Wakefield Mystery Plays", a senior thesis production directed by Phoenix Gonzalez '11. In this production, "The Second Shepherd's Play" and "Buffeting", two mystery plays written by one of the most famous playwrights of the time, come to life both inside and outside the Princeton University Chapel. Performances will be held on Friday, January 7 at 8:00 p.m. and Saturday, January 8 at 3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
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December 17, 2010
At a 2008 open house, the University depicted its proposed Arts and Transit Neighborhood, part of the 10-year campus development plan, as a way to connect campus to the surrounding community. But disputes with area authorities, particularly over the location of the Dinky, have interfered with the project.
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December 9, 2010
Following the success of last fall's sold-out hit "My Fair Lady," the Program in Theater has kicked off this season's group of senior thesis productions with two musicals, October's "[title of show]" and now "Floyd Collins," which opened last weekend in the Matthews Acting Studio at 185 Nassau Street and runs through Saturday.
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December 8, 2010
As a writer and producer, David E. Kelley '79 has developed a distinctive brand of television that often straddles the line between comedy and drama. Heâs won the Emmys for best comedy series and best drama series in the same year (Ally McBeal and The Practice, in 1999), and his newest show, Harry's Law, is set to debut in January. On Nov. 17, Kelley returned to campus to share his thoughts about writing and entertainment in a public conversation with Broadway producer Jordan Roth '97 at the James M. Stewart '32 Theater.
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December 8, 2010
The Bauhaus artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's observation that "the new typography is a simultaneous experience of vision and communication" is aptly quoted in the exhibit "New Student Work: Photography, Sculpture, Graphic Design" in the Lucas Gallery at Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts, 185 Nassau Street. This eye-catching, thought-provoking show which is free and open to the public has, unfortunately, a short run; it opened on December 1 and closes on December 9.
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December 7, 2010
Students walking through the Rockefeller College common room Monday night were greeted with an unfamiliar scene: A flash mob of roughly 40 students, accompanied by live rhythmic drumming and recorded music, swirled and swarmed around the room for 20 minutes. Moving around the room, the studentsâ motion mimicked waves of movement characteristic of flocks of birds and schools of fish.
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December 6, 2010
In "Baby Universe: A Puppet Odyssey," Earth is a beat-up old floozy who wistfully recalls her more verdant, hydrated days: "So much life. I was pretty then." Mostly, however, she's just tired and jaded: "I don't care about my people. I've been trying to kill them for years."
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November 30, 2010
The Lewis Center for the Arts is proud to present "GO", a creative thesis production showcasing choreography and performance by the eight certificate students in Princeton's Program in Dance. While completion of modern technique and composition classes and performance in the Spring Dance Festival are among the requirements for receiving a certificate in dance, the creative thesis is an optional endeavor. Of the eight senior certificate students collaborating to produce "GO", five have chosen to present original choreography. âÂÂGoâÂÂ? will premiere at the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center on Friday, December 3 at 8:00 p.m. and Saturday, December 4 at 2:00 and 8:00 p.m.
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November 23, 2010
The Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Theater presents a senior thesis production of Tina Landau and Adam Guettel's Floyd Collins, a musical based on the true story of a man, who became a media sensation after he was trapped in a Kentucky cave in 1925. Performances will be held on December 3-4 and December 9-11 at the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at the Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street.
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November 21, 2010
The barren, brick walls of the Home Rubber Co., adjacent to the tracks of the Cass Street train station, will soon be transformed.
Members of the Trenton Mural Arts Project, a volunteer-based organization, held a press conference yesterday to introduce the major partners in the production of what is hoped to be the first of many murals in the city.
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November 19, 2010
This spring, a group of Princeton students will use paint to learn how art can bring about social change. To lay the foundation for this work, another group of students will fan out across Trenton to engage communities with a message about art and transformation.
Their work is the realization of a multidisciplinary social justice project that has been two years in the making.
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November 17, 2010
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November 12, 2010
(Princeton, NJ) The Lewis Center for the Arts and the Program in Latin American Studies present "Roger Casement, The Congo, Ireland and Latin America: A Conversation between Mario Vargas Llosa and Paul Muldoon." The event will be held on Monday, November 22, 2010 at 4:30 PM in 50 McCosh Hall, Princeton University. The event is free and open to the public. No photographs will be allowed.
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November 3, 2010
The Lewis Center for the Arts Performance Central presents Emmy Award-winning screenwriter David E. Kelley in conversation with Broadway producer Jordan Roth. Kelley will talk about his life and work. The event will be held on Wednesday, November 17, 2010 at 5:00 PM in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at the Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street, Princeton. The event is free and open to the public. No photographs will be allowed.
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October 29, 2010
Five days after the Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize in Literature, he walked into a Princeton classroom where 25 students awaited their weekly seminar on the magical realism of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.
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October 28, 2010
(Princeton, NJ) The Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Theater presents The Good Person of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht, adapted by Tony Kushner and directed by Mark Nelson with original live music by Princeton graduate student Gilad Cohen. Performances will be held on Friday and Saturday, November 12-13 and Thursday to Saturday, November 18, 19 and 20. All performances are at 8 p.m. in the Berlind Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center.
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October 13, 2010
Books by Lewis Center for the Arts faculty, student and Hodder Fellow are on the list of finalists for the 2010 National Book Awards. By the Numbers (Copper Canyon Press) by James Richardson, Professor of Creative Writing, Ignatz (Four Way Books) by alum Monica Youn '93, a former student of Professor Richardson, and The Eternal City (Princeton University Press) by former Lewis Center Hodder Fellow Kathleen Graber are among the five poetry finalists. All of the poetry finalists are first-time nominees for the Award. By the Numbers is James Richardson's seventh book of poetry, in addition to his two criitical works. The Eternal City by Kathleen Graber and Igantz by attorney and Princeton alum Monica Youn '93 are second collections.
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October 13, 2010
In his writing and his life, poet laureate W.S. Merwin '48 refuses to compromise. In 1976, the poet W.S. Merwin '48 bought a 20-acre patch of dirt, weeds, and ferns in Maui and decided to turn it into a palm Âforest. It was "exactly that simple," says his wife, Paula, though even she can see how others might think it was absurd. Merwin had moved to...
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October 12, 2010
Moya Brennan, internationally acclaimed singer and voice of the Irish group Clannad, will present a speech and performance with Cormac de Barra, Clannad's harpist, and scholar Edel Bhreathnach, from the University College Dublin, at Princeton University at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 11, in McCormick Hall, Room 106. The event, part of an event sponsored by The Index of Christian Art and The Fund for Irish Studies, is free and open to the public.
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October 11, 2010
What is "free time"? Joe Scanlan, director of the Program in Visual Arts at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton, found himself pondering this question during the recent recession, when discussion about free time was particularly prevalent.
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October 7, 2010
Acclaimed Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, who is spending this semester as the 2010 Distinguished Visitor in Princeton University's Program in Latin American Studies, has been awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature. He also is a visiting lecturer in Princeton's Program in Creative Writing and the Lewis Center for the Arts.
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October 6, 2010
Acclaimed Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa will spend this semester introducing Princeton students to his philosophy of writing, offering an intimate opportunity to gain insights into the thinking of an internationally celebrated author.
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October 4, 2010
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September 22, 2010
The inaugural award goes to Susan Choi, author of the books The Foreign Student, American Woman, and A Person of Interest.
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September 16, 2010
The Northern Ireland-born poets Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon published their first books in 1966 and 1971, and ever since, their verse has been compared and contrasted, often in facile ways, as if they were Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
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September 14, 2010
The poet Paul Muldoon cupped his hands around his mouth and set his eyes on the ground. He let out a big coyote howl as he walked up the path to Robert Frost's summer cabin, now his. He wanted to let the bears know he was coming. The cabin is buried behind trees and made of dull brown wood, fading to gray. On the porch, Mr. Muldoon ...
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September 14, 2010
Performance Opportunities are available with Guest Artists and Choreographers Deganit Shemy, Graham Lustig and Leah Cox.
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September 11, 2010
The Program in Theater announces the Fall Show - "The Good Person of Setzuan." We are looking for 12 versatile, spirited performers of all types and ethnicities. Especially looking for actor-singers and actor- musicians, since much of the play will be underscored by live music and song. If you have any questions about the project or the auditions, please email Mark Nelson at msnelson@princeton.edu.
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September 9, 2010
(Princeton, NJ) Princeton's internationally renowned Program in Creative Writing, a part of the University's Lewis Center for the Arts, will open its reading series on Wednesday, October 6 with readings by Hodder Fellows Cynthia Cruz, EM Lewis and ZZ Packer. The readings begin at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at the Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street. All readings are free and open to the public.
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July 25, 2010
A few days ago, I unfurrowed my brow and abandoned my desk. I bought a $3 copy of "Leaves of Grass" and headed outdoors...
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July 23, 2010
Pulitzer-prize winner Paul Muldoon will relaunch the prestigious Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets at this event featuring Kathleen Graber reading from her new collection of verse, "The Eternal City." Tuesday, Aug. 17, 7:30 p.m.
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July 21, 2010
Since the poet and critic Anne Carson and the dancer-choreographer Rashaun Mitchell are each exceptional artists, their occasional collaborations - which began in 2004 - would be historically remarkable even if they were artistically barren. But "Bracko" and "Nox," the two main works in which they have come together, are events where different kinds of poetry become layered upon one another with extraordinary eloquence. Words, dance, translation, cultural commentary, lighting, music - all add discrete but overlapping zones of beauty, meaning, drama.
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July 20, 2010
The Highland Park Public Library announced the poets that will read at the Fall Friends of the Library Poetry Night Series and they include Internationally distinguished poet and scholar Paul Muldoon, Alicia Ostriker and BJ Ward.. Each reading will be followed by an open reading. The library is located at 31 North Fifth Avenue and for more information about the series go to the website at www.hpplnj.org or call 732-572-2750.
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July 12, 2010
There is something "gnarly, with lots of prickles" growing in the three-acre garden surrounding Joyce Carol Oates's sequestered home in the New Jersey countryside. "Is it a weed? Or some rare species perhaps," she muses, asking if I'll step out into the soupy summer heat and give her my opinion on this vexed question. At that moment, though, a torrential rainstorm saturates the lavish flowerbed and the rolling lawn beyond the vast picture windows. "Such a pity," sighs Oates, "I so wanted your opinion on this strange, thorny thing which I've only just discovered out there."
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July 7, 2010
This year, Princeton seniors earned 68 certificates from the Lewis Center for the Arts â in creative writing, dance, theater, and visual arts â and completed dozens of creative thesis projects. PAW spoke with a handful of these artistic graduates.
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July 1, 2010
Just a few days after the death of their company's namesake choreographer, dancers from the Merce Cunningham Dance Company gave a memorable performance as part of the 2009 River to River Festival, which drew more than 3,000 people to Battery Park City in Manhattan. Now, almost a year later, five choreographers will pay their respects to Cunningham in a program titled "We Give Ourselves Away at Every Moment: An EVENT for Merce," on the Esplanade Plaza at Battery Park City on July 26 at 6 p.m.
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July 1, 2010
A writer who stopped using punctuation in the 1960s and spent much of the last 30 years secluded in Hawaii will become the nation's next chief poet.
The Library of Congress is announcing Thursday that William S. Merwin will become the 17th U.S. poet laureate this fall. He succeeds Kay Ryan, who has held the post since 2008.
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June 30, 2010
Tracy K. Smith, poet and assistant professor in creative writing at the Lewis Center for the Arts, was one of six international artists selected for the Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative. The Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative is an international philanthropic program that seeks out rising artists from around the world and brings them together with great masters for a year of individual mentoring and creative collaboration. Smith, the only artist selected from the United States, was chosen by mentor Hans Magnus Enzensberger, a provocative essayist also regarded as Germany's most important contemporary poet.
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June 8, 2010
Oren Samet-Marram '12 took the first prize award in the College/Independent Category of the 36th Annual New Jersey Young Film and Videomakers Festival for his film "A Cautionary Tale." Jeffrey Kuperman '12 and Jacqueline ("Jack") Thornton '13 each received a Juryâs Citation â Honorable Mention in the College/Independent Category for "Blind Date" and "Sides" respectively. All students were in the spring Intermediate Film and Video Production course taught by Su Friedrich, Professor of Visual Arts at the Lewis Center for the Arts. Samet-Marram is also pursuing a Certificate in Visual Arts. The Award Ceremony and Screening will take place on Thursday, June 10, 2010 from 3:00 â 6:00 PM at New Jersey City University.
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June 1, 2010
Four Princeton faculty members received President's Awards for Distinguished Teaching at Commencement ceremonies Tuesday, June 1.
They are: Erhan Cinlar, the Norman J. Sollenberger Professor in Engineering and professor of operations research and financial engineering; Arcadio Diaz-Quinones, the Emory L. Ford Professor of Spanish; P. Adams Sitney, professor of visual arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts; and Jeffrey Stout, professor of religion.
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May 23, 2010
The poet, who has a fresh book of poetry out as well as a book on Walt Whitman, ponders life, darkness, 9/11 and Monet.
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May 18, 2010
The exhibition Nudes, consists of 30 life-size portraits of nude men and women that Schneider has photographed using an unusual technique. All the figures lie in the same position, seemingly imposed, while Schneider moves flashlight beams slowly across the bodies, accentuating their characteristics with light and shadows. The exhibition is a part of Reykjavik Arts Festival 2010.
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May 17, 2010
Princeton University's fourth "Art of Science" exhibition -- featuring beautiful or otherwise interesting images created during the course of scientific research -- is now viewable online: http://www.princeton.edu/artofscience/
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May 13, 2010
This exhibition, which consists of a video installation in the Theater Galleries and short-film programs in the theaters, examines Deren's legacy through both her own work and that of a trio of women directors upon whom she had an indelible influence: Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer, and Su Friedrich.
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April 29, 2010
When Julie Dickerson's 93-year-old grandfather had to leave his ailing wife in a hospital room several months ago, he seemed to handle the difficult decision well, except for one problem: the bleakness of his wife's new surroundings.
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April 29, 2010
Senior Emily Silk's thesis sprung from a 19th-century short story that is a staple of high school and college English courses. Her project ended up taking an out-of-this-world turn.
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April 26, 2010
Princeton Professor Chang-rae Lee -- regarded as one of the most talented novelists of his generation -- painstakingly composes every sentence of his works, revising each one 10 or 20 times, not moving on until he is satisfied.
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April 24, 2010
The Maclean House Lecture Series was created in 2004. The success of the Alumni Association's Russian Winterfest and Great Authors on Great Authors lecture series in 2003 and 2004 inspired us to add a themed lecture series to our annual program. We are working to develop topics of interest to a broad, non-specialist audience, and to feature a dynamic mixture of junior and senior faculty.
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April 23, 2010
(Princeton, NJ) Princeton University senior Sydney Schiff, one of the mainstays of the Princeton dance community over the past four years, will present a senior creative thesis performance titled Context Preconstructed. The program will feature Schiff's epic choreographic collaboration with composer Vince di Mura and Schiff performing a solo commissioned by New York City based choreographer Lindsey Dietz Marchant. Context Preconstructed opens Thursday, May 6 at 8:00 p.m. in the Patricia and Ward Hagan '48 Dance Studio at the Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street. Additional performances will be held on May 7 at 8:00 p.m. and May 8 at 2:00 and 8:00 p.m. All performances are free and open to the public.
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Eve Aschheim at Galleri Magnus Aklundh until May 29
April 23, 2010
Eve Aschheim, Paintings and Drawings, on exhibit at Galleri Magnus Aklundh, Lund, Sweden from April 23 - May 29, 2010.
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April 16, 2010
Daniel Heyman, artist and Lecturer in Visual Arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts has been awarded a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Heyman is among 180 artists, scientists and scholars chosen from a more than 3,000 applicants from the United States and Canada this year.
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April 14, 2010
When Pilar Castro Kiltz '10 needed career advice, standard campus resources like the Office of Career Services could offer her little help. Castro Kiltz is part of a growing segment of University students who intend to pursue the performing arts professionally.
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April 12, 2010
In a collaboration melding art with science, climate researchers and other members of the Princeton University community have joined forces with The Civilians, an acclaimed investigative theater company, to help create a work-in-progress about global climate change that will be unveiled on campus Saturday, April 17.
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April 10, 2010
Edmund White, author and Professor of Creative Writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, has been awarded the Premio Letterario Internazionale Mondello, one of Italyâs most prestigious international literary prizes. White won the award for Best Foreign Author for his biography, Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel.
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April 5, 2010
"An Evening of Enchantment," featuring world premieres of three dance pieces made possible by the collaboration of students and faculty members from Princeton University's Department of Music and Lewis Center for the Arts, will be presented Thursday through Saturday, April 8-10, in the Berlind Theatre at the McCarter Theatre Center.
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April 1, 2010
Creative writing faculty will head to the area adjacent to the proposed site of the arts and transit neighborhood on the western edge of the campus in July, when they are scheduled to move into New South.
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March 30, 2010
Performance Central presents a conversation with actress Kerry Washington. Washington has been seen in films such as Ray, Lift, The Last King of Scotland, The Dead Girl, She Hate Me, Fantastic Four, Mr. and Mrs. Smith and on Broadway in David Mamet's new play Race. This event takes place on Monday, April 5 at 4:30 PM in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street and is free and open to the public.
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March 29, 2010
(Princeton, NJ) Princeton's Program in Creative Writing continues its 70th Anniversary Reading Series on Wednesday, April 7th with readings by Jeffrey Eugenides and Mona Simpson. The readings will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart Theater '32 located in the Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street. The event is free and open to the public. A reception and book signing will be held after the readings.
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March 27, 2010
Fritz Haeg, artist, designer, radical gardener and author of Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, and Will Allen, a contributor to the book's second edition and MacArthur fellowship winning founder and CEO of Milwaukee-based Growing Power, will discuss their innovative gardening methods and community collaborations at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 7, in the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at the Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street. They will discuss the possibilities of growing food in the most unlikely places - on the streets where we live and in the middle of our cities. There will be a book signing and reception immediately following the event.
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March 19, 2010
Award-winning playwright, rapper, actor and educator Will Power and DJ Reborn will perform an evening of Hip Hop Theater at the Lewis Center for the Arts on Wednesday, March 31 at 7:30 p.m. in the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at 185 Nassau Street. The one-time only event is presented by the Lewis Center's Performance Central program and is free and open to the public but tickets are required.
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March 18, 2010
The Lewis Center's Performance Central program presents a one-time only performance by the legendary Repertory Dance Theater on Thursday, April 1 at 8:00 p.m. in the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center. Led by Executive/Artistic Director Linda C. Smith, Utah's Repertory Dance Theater is internationally known for their historical and classical repertory in modern dance. They will be performing a range of 20th-century masterpieces including excerpts from Isadora Duncan's Valse Brilliante, Doris Humphrey's Soaring, Daniel Nagrin's Strange Hero, Jose Limon's There Is A Time, Anna Sokolow's Lyric Suite and Shapiro & Smith's Dance for Two Army Blankets.
For tickets please call University Ticketing at 609.258.9220 or the Berlind Box Office at 609.258.2787.
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March 12, 2010
Author and Princeton professor Joyce Carol Oates has been awarded the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle.
The prize, which recognizes the winner's dedication to book culture, was presented to Oates at a ceremony held in New York City on March 11.
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March 11, 2010
For the past four years, Daniel Heyman, has traveled to Jordan and Turkey to meet with former Iraqi detainees, paint their portraits, and record their testimony. His exhibition will feature a selection of his portraits of survivors of torture at Abu Grahib prison as well as portraits of African American men from the Philadelphia area who have endured extreme poverty and repeated incarceration.
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March 10, 2010
Horrifying things have happened to the three main characters in Chang-rae Lee's searing new novel, "The Surrendered" â things, much like the decision forced upon the heroine of William Styron's "Sophie's Choice," that will burn their souls and forever warp the course of their lives.
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March 9, 2010
I-20 is pleased to present the fourth exhibition of Louis Cameron. For this show, Cameron will exhibit a suite of thirteen acrylic paintings entitled The African-American Flag Project. These paintings depict flags that were created to symbolically represent the African-American experience. Works from this series will also be presented by the artist as a solo project at the Armory Show, with three different flags shown on each day of the fair.
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March 1, 2010
In a Manchester, England, lodging house in 1846, a young woman is caring for her father after an operation. As he sleeps, her pencil furiously scratches against a page. The young woman is Charlotte Brontë, and she is writing her masterpiece, "Jane Eyre."
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February 26, 2010
Princeton University's Program in Theater presents Anna Deavere Smith's Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities. Performances are March 4 - 7 at 8:00 p.m. and March 6 at 2:00 and 8:00 p.m. in the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at the Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street. Tickets are $10 for the public and $8 for students. For advance tickets, please call University Ticketing 609.258.9220. Seating is limited.
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February 25, 2010
The Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Theater will present ALICE: A New Play by Veronica Siverd, a leading figure in the Princeton theatrical community over the past four years. Performances of ALICE are Friday and Saturday March 5-6 and Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, March 9-11, 2010 at the Berlind Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center.
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February 25, 2010
Long before the Lewis Center for the Arts provided the creative and performing arts at Princeton with a new vitality, students had an opportunity to pursue their "interest and proficiency in various forms of literary art" under the guidance of writers. Beginning with poet laureate of the United States Allen Tate in 1939, our students have worked closely with some of the finest writers in the world, including...
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February 24, 2010
The celebrated writer returns to the town of her birth to revisit the places that haunt her memory and her extraordinary fiction.
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February 24, 2010
One image in particular has stood out. As a boy of 12, his father was among the throngs of North Korean refugees heading south to meet up with American forces sent in 1950 to protect Korea from the communists. To escape, his father's family boarded boxcars, and when there was no more room inside, Lee's father and an 8-year-old brother rode on top. But one night...
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February 23, 2010
Dawn Clements is one of 55 artists chosen to participate in the 2010 Whitney Biennial, an annual show that is generally regarded as one of the leading art exhibitions in the art world, often setting or leading trends in contemporary art.
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February 23, 2010
As Princeton University moves forward with a number of substantial construction projects in the coming months, it is emphasizing a neighborhood initiative that will create a more pedestrian-oriented, community-based campus.
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February 15, 2010
More than 50 students from a range of academic departments will perform in Princeton's annual Spring Dance Festival Friday through Sunday, Feb. 19-21, at the Berlind Theatre.
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February 9, 2010
Joe Scanlan, Director of the Program in Visual Arts, has been awarded a prestigious grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, one of the largest single sources of unrestricted monetary awards to artists.
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February 8, 2010
Najla Said's "Palestine," a one-woman Off Broadway show that began previews on Saturday, is a coming-of-age story about Ms. Saidâs journey to become an Arab-American on her own terms.
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February 4, 2010
Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts presents the 2010 Spring Dance Festival on February 19 through February 21 at the Berlind Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton. This yearâs dance festival marks internationally renowned choreographer Susan Marshall's first season at Princeton as director of the recently established independent Program in Dance.
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February 2, 2010
The first image in the new play "Neighbors," which opens at the Public Theater on Feb. 16, is a family of five "hooting, hollering, joking" as they carry boxes into their new home, according to the stage directions. What makes this unlike a usual move-in day is that the family, the Crows, is made up of black actors in blackface.
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February 1, 2010
The Rose Gardener was written by Sara-Ashley Bischoff at Princeton University under the guidance of playwrights Chuck Mee and Marina Carr.
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January 28, 2010
New South, the location of administrative offices over the past 40 years, will be renovated in 2010 to also become the home of some academic functions associated with the Lewis Center for the Arts.
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January 19, 2010
(Princeton, NJ) Princeton University's Program in Theater presents Other People's Houses (and the Stuff Inside), a senior creative thesis production written and directed by Shawn Fennell, opening Friday, February 5 at 8:00 p.m. in the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at the Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street.
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January 13, 2010
A formidable collection of works by Andy Warhol is the centerpiece of "Consumed," an exhibition about art, money, and consumption at the Arts Council of Princeton. Its opening last Saturday saw a frenzy of activity, with artists and patrons gathering to engage with the material.
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January 7, 2010
CONSUMED: An Exhibition about Art, Money and Consumption, January 9, 2010 â February 27, 2010. Opening Reception: Saturday, January 9, 2010
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January 6, 2010
As Princeton University evolves in the next decade, the arts are likely to play a highly visible role. The new Lewis Center for the Arts, headed by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, will anchor a major redevelopment of the area near McCarter Theater and the Dinky train station.
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January 5, 2010
LONDON (AP) -- Irish writer Colm Toibin was named novelist of the year Monday in Britain's lucrative Costa Book Awards for his emigrant saga "Brooklyn."
The judges praised Toibin's "poised, quiet and incrementally shattering" story about a young Irishwoman in the 1950s caught between a new life in New York and the pull of her homeland.
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January 5, 2010
Join us for a reading from this beautifully imagined tale of the Bronte sisters and the writing of Jane Eyre.
The year is 1846. In a cold parsonage on the gloomy Yorkshire moors, a family seems cursed with disaster. A mother and two children dead. A father sick, without fortune, and hardened by the loss of his two most beloved family members. A son destroyed by alcohol and opiates. And three strong, intelligent young women, reduced to poverty and spinsterhood, with nothing to save them from their fate. Nothing, that is, except their remarkable literary talent.
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December 23, 2009
The Princeton Atelier will present staged readings of new work by New Paradise Laboratories in collaboration with The Riot Group on January 8 and 9 at the Frist Theater at the Frist Campus Center on the University campus. The events are free and open to the public.
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December 21, 2009
(Princeton, NJ) The Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Theater presents a senior thesis production of Zach & Willie, a night of long-form improv featuring Zach Zimmerman '10 and Willie Myers '11. Performances will be held on Thursday, January 7 at 8:00 p.m. and Friday and Saturday January 8 and 9 at 8:00 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. in the Whitman Class of 1970 Theater at Princeton University. The event is open to the public and tickets are $5.00.
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December 9, 2009
One day last spring Paul Muldoon was struck by the realization that every story in the "Arts, Briefly" column of The New York Times reflected the difficult financial situation facing arts organizations â from a museum making program cuts to an orchestra canceling concerts. Muldoon, a poet and professor who is chairman of the Lewis Center for the Arts, read those headlines to open the center's Nov. 14 symposium "The Arts and the Economic Crisis," a gathering of arts advocates, artistic directors of various organizations, scholars, and artists.
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December 9, 2009
This spring, the Program in Visual Arts will lose seven of the 14 instructors currently teaching fall courses following the hiring of Joseph Scanlan, who is due to begin as the program's director in February.
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December 5, 2009
(Princeton, NJ) -- Susan Marshall has been named the first director of the Program in Dance and Joe Scanlan has been selected as the new director of the Program in Visual Arts in the University's Lewis Center for the Arts.
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December 4, 2009
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer entertained a standing-room-only crowd by reading aloud from many of his cartoon panels - complete with imitations of the accents of various political figures - during a discussion of his life and work at the James Stewart Film Theater Dec. 2.
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December 4, 2009
SkowheganTALKS, a lecture series organized by the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, features conversations between some of the most influential visual artists working today.
This month SkowheganTALKS presents a conversation between Fred Tomaselli and John O'Connor.
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December 4, 2009
The last thing I ever wanted was to
write again about grief did you think I
would your grief this time not mine oh good
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December 3, 2009
Around 8 a.m. on a weekday morning last spring, when most students were still fast asleep or groggily pounding their snooze buttons, a line had already begun to form inside 185 Nassau St. Some students in the line had been holding their spot for over an hour, armed with textbooks and laptops and ready for the long haul.
These undergraduates weren't waiting for tickets to a concert or a boat trip, but to sign up for their preferred sections of creative writing courses in poetry and fiction.
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December 1, 2009
The Program in Theater of the Lewis Center for the Arts presents a senior thesis production of Steven Dietz's God's Country, based on the true story of the white supremacist group known as The Order, whose members were held responsible for the 1984 murder of Denver-based Jewish radio talk show host Alan Berg. Performances will be held on December 11 - 13 and December 15 - 17 at the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at the Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street.
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November 23, 2009
Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoonist, playwright, children's book author, illustrator and teacher will discuss his work at the Lewis Center for the Arts on Wednesday, December 2 at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. The event is presented by the Lewis Center's Performance Central program and is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.
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November 20, 2009
The Lewis Center for the Arts is excited to present "Intent," a creative thesis production comprising choreography and performance by the ten certificate students in Princeton's Program in Dance. Concluding an intensive program of modern technique and composition courses as well as performance in the annual Spring Dance Festival, the creative thesis is a culminating statement - and an optional endeavor. This fond farewell concert will be performed at the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center on Friday, December 4 at 8:00 p.m. and Saturday, December 5 at 2:00 and 8:00 p.m.
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November 18, 2009
FIFTY-ODD years after its smash debut on Broadway, My Fair Lady shows no signs of flagging. It's a perennial favorite among regional theaters, where it retains a capacity to charm and delight audiences, regardless of their acquaintance with its Shavian underpinnings. We need not know how much George Bernard Shaw really believed that proper elocution was the key to success. The indelible characters and the immortal tunes are sufficient for full satisfaction.
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November 16, 2009
Participants in "The Arts and the Economic Crisis" symposium Nov. 14 were asked to consider a sobering statistic -- that the $59 billion the federal government spent on elementary and secondary education is only marginally greater than the $50 billion that commercial firms spent in 2008 on junk mail.
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November 13, 2009
UPDATE: Due to a last-minute change in schedule, Rocco Landesman no longer can attend. Marjorie Garber, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English and of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University, where she is also chair of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, will now join the morning panel.
This symposium will feature panels and discussions with artists, representatives from national arts organizations and advocacy groups, and scholars.
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November 10, 2009
(Princeton, NJ) Princeton's Program in Creative Writing continues its 70th Anniversary Reading Series on Wednesday, November 18th with readings by Robert Stone and C.K. Williams. The readings will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart Theater '32 located in the Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street. The event is free and open to the public. A reception and book signing will be held after the readings.
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November 2, 2009
The Program in Theater of the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University presents its Fall Show, Lerner and Loewe's musical classic My Fair Lady, in the Berlind Theatre November 13-14 and 19-21. Based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion, My Fair Lady is directed by faculty member Suzanne Agins '97 and stars Laura Hankin '10 in a production which is also serving as her senior creative thesis.
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October 13, 2009
After thirty-six years of teaching at Princeton University, photographer Emmet Gowin retires at the end of 2010. To mark the occasion, to honor Gowin's generosity as a teacher and perpetual student, and to celebrate his artistic legacy, the Princeton University Art Museum will present Emmet Gowin: A Collective Portrait, on view October 24, 2009, through February 21, 2010.
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October 8, 2009
Princeton University senior Becca Foresman, one of the mainstays of the Princeton theatrical community over the past four years, stars in a senior creative thesis production of Samuel Beckett's classic Happy Days, opening Friday, October 23 at 8:00 p.m. in the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at the Lewis Center at 185 Nassau Street. Directed by Program faculty member Tim Vasen, Happy Day features Foresman as Winnie, an eternal optimist who, though buried up to her waist in sand and rubble, faces her harsh existence with an enduring cheerfulness and endless chatter. Handbag at her side and husband Willie (Zack Wieder '10) nearby, she never allows a day to pass without looking her best and hoping for better.
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October 7, 2009
Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts and McCarter Theatre Center will co-host a reading of The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, An Epilogue, on Monday, October 12 at 8pm in the James M. Stewart '32 Theatre at the Lewis Center for the Arts, 185 Nassau St., Princeton. Staged by Michael Cadden, Director of Program in Theater at Princeton University and Mara Isaacs, Producing Director at McCarter Theatre, the reading will feature a cast of Princeton University students. This special event is free and open to the public.
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September 30, 2009
Princeton's internationally renowned Program in Creative Writing, now a part of the University's Lewis Center for the Arts, will celebrate the 70th Anniversary of creative writing at Princeton this year with a special reading series featuring distinguished writers from its current and emeritus faculty, alumni, fellows and students.
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September 25, 2009
Award-winning composer/singer David Hykes is one of the pioneers in the sacred sounds revival of harmonic chant. Winner of three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, Hykes founded The Harmonic Choir in 1975, the western world's oldest and pre-eminent overtone ensemble.
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September 1, 2009
Women artists continue to be excluded from positions of power and visibility in the American theatre industry. Recent research, including a provocative study by Princeton alumni Emily Sands, indicates that plays by women are less frequently produced now than they were at the turn of the 20th century. More women have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in recent years, including Suzan-Lori Parks (Top Dog/Underdog) Paula Vogel (How I Learned to Drive) and this year...
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August 29, 2009
A collaboration between two longtime members of the Princeton community has produced a chamber opera based on a true story of love and courtship featuring singing, poetry and dance.
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August 27, 2009
(Princeton, NJ) Princeton's Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Creative Writing will open its Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series on Wednesday, September 23 with readings by poets Simon Armitage and Tony Hoagland. The readings will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart Theater '32 located in the Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street. The event is free and open to the public. A reception and book signing will be held after the readings.
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July 20, 2009
The Lewis Center for the Arts has tapped two internationally renowned artists to lead Princeton's dance and visual arts programs. Susan Marshall, a leading choreographer and 2000 winner of a MacArthur "genius" fellowship, will become the first director of the dance program, which next fall will become distinct from the theater program. Joe Scanlan, a sculptor and installation artist who was an associate professor at the Yale University School of Art, is the new head of the visual arts program.
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July 19, 2009
Poet W.S. Merwin joins Bill Moyers for a wide-ranging conversation about language, his writing process, the natural world, and the insights gleaned from a much-lauded career of more than 50 years.
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July 16, 2009
A world premiere production of Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev's "Music for Athletes," recently restored by Princeton music scholar Simon Morrison, will be staged at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 17, in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall.
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June 26, 2009
In his first solo show in New York, Carlos Jiménez Cahua's new series, 'Lima', focuses on his native Peru and the young towns springing up in and around the vast, almost endless desert landscape.
Born in 1986 in Lima, Peru, Mr. Jiménez Cahua has studied Visual Arts at Princeton University and is the recipient of the Lucas Award in Visual Arts.
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June 24, 2009
When more than 160 playwrights and producers, most of them female, filed into a Midtown Manhattan theater Monday night, they expected to hear some concrete evidence that women who are authors have a tougher time getting their work staged than men.
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June 23, 2009
Thank you to all students who have submitted an entry in this year's Ten Minute Play contest for the best ten-minute play written by a high school junior.
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June 19, 2009
IN THE NOVELS of Jodi Picoult, terrible things happen to children of middle-class parentage: they become terminally ill, or are maimed, gunned down, killed in accidents, molested, abducted, bullied, traumatized, stirred to violence. The assault on any individual family is typically mounted from angles multiple and unforeseen.
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June 18, 2009
Paul Muldoon was a guest of Steven Colbert on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report Thursday, June 18, 2009. Listen to Paul's comments on his experiences as a poet and how poetry helps each of us to make sense of our life and the lives of our neighbors.
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June 12, 2009
Following a presentation by Princeton University on its proposed arts and transit neighborhood along Alexander Road south of McCarter Theatre, Princeton Township Committee members questioned whether the retail side of the project might siphon business from downtown Princeton. The committee did not touch on the issue of moving the Dinky station 460 feet farther away from Nassau Street, an aspect of the university's proposal which has generated opposition within the borough.
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June 11, 2009
University Vice President and Secretary Bob Durkee made the case for the University's proposed "arts and transit district" at a Township Committee work session Monday evening.
The presentation was essentially a reprise (about 25 slides and a dozen other images) of the one Mr. Durkee gave to Borough Council last month, and reiterated many of the points discussed at the numerous open houses and community meetings that have been held over the past three years: the hope of the University is to create an arts hub that would include an experimental media studio and performance hall; reduced peak hour traffic flow at Alexander Road and University Place; a relocated, upscale Dinky station; and the development of a neighborhood "that is a model of sustainability."
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June 11, 2009
"Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love" opens in NYC on June 12th at The Paris Theater, IFC Center, and BAM Rose Cinemas. It opens in Los Angeles on July 3 at the Laemmle Sunset Theater. And then, many other cities. For more information about the film and how you can see it, please visit our website at www.ibringwhatilove.com you can also watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj6cIBtxZIo
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June 10, 2009
The 2nd Athens Biennale 2009 HEAVEN is conceived as a multifaceted contemporary art festival that extends along the coastline of Athens, on the beaches of Palaio Faliro and Kallithea, from the Faliron Olympic Complex to Flisvos and Batis.
The organization aims to meet with even greater success than the 1st Biennale in 2007, which was visited by more than 50,000 people.
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June 2, 2009
With today's Princeton graduates stepping out of FitzRandolph Gates and into the nation's economic downturn, President Shirley M. Tilghman implored them to use their education to solve some of the world's most challenging problems.
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June 1, 2009
The 2009 Senior Awards were presented at Class Day on Monday, June 1, 2009.
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May 28, 2009
The "Spring 2009 Student Group Show" up at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University features a variety of projects in media ranging from photography to painting to sculpture displayed on three floors of the building.
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May 26, 2009
(Princeton, NJ) On Thursday May 21, 2009, from 5-7 pm, the Arts Council of Princeton celebrates the opening of the new exhibition Selections From Lewis Center Visual Arts Faculty. The exhibition features instructors from Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts including: Ann Agee, Kip Deeds, Su Friedrich, John O'Connor, Gary Schneider, and James Seawright. The exhibition will be on display in the Peg and Frank Taplin Gallery from May 14 through July 3, 2009. The Taplin Gallery is located in the Paul Robeson Center for the Arts at 102 Witherspoon Street, Princeton.
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May 25, 2009
The 2009 Underclassmen Awards were presented at the Lewis Center Picnic on May 21, 2009.
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May 21, 2009
Sarah Arvio is a highly original American poet. This book includes the whole of her second collection Sono and selections from her first book Visits from the Seventh, with an audio CD of her reading all of Sono.
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May 18, 2009
The summer after his freshman year at Princeton, Christopher Simpson returned home to South Kingstown, R.I., where he had lined up a part-time job at a hotel. But when he learned that a local art center was going to sit vacant all summer, he gathered some high school friends and, in a moment of impetuosity, said to them, "Let's do a play!"
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May 7, 2009
In his first public speaking appearance since his wife Natasha Richardson's tragic death, Liam Neeson quoted poet Paul Muldoon to describe how art helps heal the heart.
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May 5, 2009
Seven outstanding leaders of the American theatre were invested into the prestigious College of Fellows of the American Theatre during ceremonies at Washington's John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on April 19. Membership in the College is one of the highest honors theatre professionals and educators can confer on their peers.
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May 4, 2009
On Saturday, May 16, the Princeton Laptop Orchestra will present a program of all new works, in collaboration with renowned sound art duo Matmos, the Brooklyn-based ensemble So Percussion and shakuhachi master Riley Lee.
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April 27, 2009
Holger Staude, an economics major from Frankfurt, Germany, will be the valedictorian for Princeton's class of 2009, and Stephen Hammer, a classics major from Carrollton, Texas, will be the Latin salutatorian.
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April 22, 2009
Senior Sam Zetumer likes to work in opposing realms.
He is a math major who is earning a certificate in theater and dance. He scribbles math equations on the chalkboard while waiting for rehearsals to begin. He currently is completing two senior theses: one on set theory, and one on clowning.
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April 17, 2009
POETRY is not everyone's daily bread, but even those who would be hard pressed to name three great living poets understand its power, says Paul Muldoon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and professor of creative writing at Princeton University.
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March 30, 2009
Beginning April 2, Princeton University's Program in Theater and Dance presents a senior thesis production of both parts of Tony Kushner's celebrated theatrical epic, Angels in America, directed by Sara-Ashley Bischoff '09 and featuring Lovell Holder '09 in the role of Prior Walter and Jordan Kisner '09 as Harper Pitt. Millennium Approaches (Part One) and Perestroika (Part Two), the two halves of the famously massive play, will perform in rotating repertory at the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at 185 Nassau Street to combine for a six-hour theatrical experience.
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March 30, 2009
To celebrate poetry's vital place in our culture, Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts Performance Central program is honored to present the inaugural Princeton Poetry Festival. Poets from around the world will read and share their work during the two-day event on April 27 - 28 at Richardson Auditorium. The event is free but pre-registration is required.
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March 30, 2009
The Princeton University Orchestra, under the direction of Michael Pratt, will present its final performances of the season in Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall on Friday April 24 and Saturday April 25 at 8:00 p.m. The concerts are this year's Stuart B. Mindlin Memorial, named after a Princeton resident who was a member of the Orchestra's percussion section for many years, and whose name is also on the Orchestraâs endowment fund. These concerts mark the 20th Anniversary of the Mindlin Concerts.
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March 29, 2009
(Princeton, NJ) The Lewis Center for the Arts Performance Central program will present the internationally renowned experimental dance company Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group on Saturday, April 4 at 8:00 p.m. the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center.
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March 28, 2009
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March 27, 2009
The Lewis Center for the Arts faculty has selected Ellen Adams '10 as the recipient of the Mary Quaintance '84 Fund for the Creative Arts Award.
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March 26, 2009
On April 1st, the Lewis Center for the Arts, Program in Creative Writing Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series will present a reading by the former United States Poet Laureate and acclaimed essayist Robert Pinsky. Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Paul Muldoon, chair of the Lewis Center and the Howard G.B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities; professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts; director of the Princeton Atelier; and chair of the Fund for Irish Studies, will introduce Pinsky. The reading will take place at 4:30 p.m. in James M. Stewart '32 Theater located at 185 Nassau Street.
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March 23, 2009
Sydney Schiff '10, Talia Nussbaum '10 and Dominique Salerno '10 have been selected by the Lewis Center for the Arts faculty to be the recipients of the Alex Adam '07 Award. The award, established in memory of Alexander Jay Adam '07 and made possible by a generous gift from his family, provides $7000. in support to each of three undergraduates who want to spend a summer pursuing a project that will result in the creation of an original work of art.
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March 20, 2009
(Princeton, NJ) The Lewis Center for the Arts is proud to present Pleiades, a dance concert featuring choreography and performance by seven senior certificate students in the Program in Theater and Dance. The concert will also feature the company repertoire of the New York based dance company Terrain, accompanied by music by the internationally acclaimed Brentano String Quartet. Pleiades will be performed at 8 p.m. at the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center on Friday and Saturday, March 27 - 28.
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March 18, 2009
The first edition of the BBVA Foundation's Frontiers of Knowledge Prize in the Arts, sponsored by the Spanish bank BBVA, has been awarded to American architect Steven Holl. The 400,000 euro prize (roughly US $500,000), whose announcement surprised even Holl, is a another sign of the apparent good health of the Spanish banking system, following the BBVA's recent announcement of a new headquarters building by Herzog and De Meuron.
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March 17, 2009
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon from Northern Ireland was expected to attend the gala and Maggie McCarthy, a traditional Irish dancer and musician from Cork, and vocal group Celtic Thunder were also invited.
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March 9, 2009
When creative writing professor Susanna Moore begins a writing class, she usually starts with this assignment: Write about yourself.
"Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin," said Moore, who spent 20 years teaching at various institutions before coming to Princeton in 2007. "The point always is to be writing something â it leads to more writing."
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March 7, 2009
This singing competition is too venerable to be called "Metropolitan Idol," but the consequences for young careers are just as great as with "American Idol": On Sunday, four winners of the National Council Auditions, sponsored by the Metropolitan Opera, were announced after the final performance round with the Met orchestra.
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March 6, 2009
Four composers will each receive a $7500 Academy Award in Music, which honors outstanding artistic achievement and acknowledges the composer who has arrived at his or her own voice. Each will receive an additional $7500 toward the recording of one work. The winners are David Gompper, David Lang, Andrew Waggoner, and Barbara White.
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March 4, 2009
Poet Brenda Shaughnessy will read from her work at 8 p.m. March 5, in Duncker Hall, Room 201, Hurst Lounge for the Writing Program Reading Series.
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February 26, 2009
As undergraduates, Jill Dolan and Stacy Wolf, who recently joined the faculty of the Lewis Center for the Arts, both loved theater. They performed in college productions and sang with a cappella groups. But what each of them ultimately wanted to do was turn the study of theater on its head.
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February 25, 2009
Joyce Carol Oates talks about the stage adaptation of her novella, "Zombie."
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February 24, 2009
(Princeton, NJ) Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts, Program in Creative Writing, will open the spring Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series on Wednesday, February 25 with readings by Nicholson Baker and Karen Russell. The readings will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater, located at the Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street.
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February 24, 2009
Tennessee Williams' landmark play, A Streetcar Named Desire, will be presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Theatre and Dance as a creative senior thesis production by Princeton University senior Shannon Lee Clair, under the direction of Tracy Bersley, who helmed the ProgramâÂÂs acclaimed production of ShakespeareâÂÂs The Winter's Tale in 2007.
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February 22, 2009
(Princeton, NJ) The Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Theater and Dance and the Department of Music will co-sponsor A Conversation with Mark Morris and Simon Morrison on Tuesday, February 24 at 5:00 p.m. in 50 McCosh Hall. This event is presented in conjunction with an 8:00 p.m. performance of the Mark Morris Dance Group at the Matthews Theater at McCarter Theatre Centre.
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February 20, 2009
Of Other Spaces explores how space affects human behavior and experience.
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February 19, 2009
Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Theater and Dance presents Spring into Dance, the 2009 Spring Dance Festival. This year's concert features students performing works form the company repertory of Zvi Gotheiner and Takehiro Ueyama and premieres by Rebecca Lazier, Cherylyn Lavagnino and Edisa Weeks, alongside seven dances choreographed by advanced Princeton University students.
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February 18, 2009
With original puppets, masks, and music, Fabrik chronicles the life of the real Moritz Rabinowitz. A Polish Jew who immigrated to Norway to escape the pogroms, Rabinowitz became a businessman who used his position to raise awareness about anti-Semitism, resulting in the unwanted attention of the Nazis. Full of artistry and sensitivity, Fabrik has been performed to great acclaim around the world.
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February 11, 2009
Pace/MacGill Gallery is pleased to present "Emmet Gowin: Photographs." The exhibition commemorates the reprinting of Gowin's first monograph, Emmet Gowin: Photographs (Alfred A. Knopf, 1976), by exhibiting over 40 gelatin silver prints reproduced in the book. The photographs on view represent the
first body of work in Gowin's long, varied, and distinguished career.
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February 10, 2009
IN this staging of Shakespeare's play, Princeton University student Jackie Bello presents her senior creative thesis production for the Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Theater and Dance. The play has fascinated her since she first saw it as a child.
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February 9, 2009
Brenda Shaughnessy's, recent book of poetry, Human Dark with Sugar (Copper Canyon Press, 2008) named a finalist for this year's National Book Critics Circle Award. The winner will be announced on March 12, 2009.
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January 31, 2009
The Program in Visual Arts will present Work from the Fall Semester, a group show featuring ceramics, drawings, paintings, photography and sculpture. The Opening Reception will be held on Tuesday, February 3 from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. in the Lucas Gallery at the Lewis Center for the Arts at 185 Nassau Street.
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January 30, 2009
Rebecca Lazier's new "Terminal," performed by her company, Terrain, at the Joyce SoHo on Thursday night, isn't so much a place as a state of mind.
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January 29, 2009
Princeton University senior Jackie Bello presents Othello, Shakespeare's play of love undone by unfounded jealousy, her senior creative thesis production for the Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Theater and Dance. Othello, featuring Kelvin Dinkins as Othello and Laura Hankin as Desdemona, will open on Friday, February 6th at 8:00 p.m. in the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio.
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January 27, 2009
Six photographers who, by working on assignment for publications such as the New Yorker, Esquire, and the New York Times Magazine, bring their distinctive "take" on contemporary portraiture to a broad audience.
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January 13, 2009
New Amsterdam Records, launched in January 2008 with a showcase at Joe's Pub, returns
on Friday, January 30 to celebrate its first anniversary and the release of two new CDs:
Gravity and Air by composer/guitarist Andrew McKenna Lee, and Unpacking the Trailer by avant-folk quartet QQQ.
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January 5, 2009
The artists included in the show are Paul Gabrielli, Paul Lee, Erik Moskowitz and Amanda Trager, Steve Keister, Jill Levine, Sarah McDougald Kohn, Xi Le, Craig Hein, Mark Magill, and Julie Ryan. The show also includes work from the Flying Saucer Project, a collaborative enterprise with Steve Keister and Rachel Bleiweiss-Sande.
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December 23, 2008
Princeton University students will present "The Return of Ulysses," Claudio Monteverdi's opera about desire, greed and marital fidelity, with a 20th-century twist at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Jan. 9-10, in Richardson Auditorium of Alexander Hall.
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December 22, 2008
(Princeton, NJ) Princeton University student Lauren Whitehead '09 presents her senior creative thesis production for the Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Theater and Dance, The Beat is Sweet: Memory of a Broken Dream, at the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio on January 9 through January 11. Featuring theater, music and dance, The Beat is Sweet stages an imagined encounter between Langston Hughes, the famed Harlem Renaissance poet, and Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca.
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December 12, 2008
The National Poetry Series is pleased to announce that Lawrence Venuti has been awarded the 2008 Robert Fagles Translation Prize. Mr. Venuti's project, Edward Hopper, is a translation of Catalan poet Ernest Farres, and will be published in 2009 by Graywolf Press. Acclaimed poet Richard Howard served as judge for this year's award.
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December 11, 2008
Eve Aschheim, senior lecturer in visual arts at the Lewis Center for the Arts, has been awarded a prestigious grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Aschheim is one of 25 contemporary artists to receive the $25,000 award, which is granted annually to acknowledge painters and sculptors nationwide creating work of exceptional quality.
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December 8, 2008
An event featuring the collaborative work created by students in their Princeton Atelier course with an actor/magician and theater artists is set for Wednesday, Dec. 10.
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December 4, 2008
"Flammentangel Kabarett," a senior thesis production that explores the atmosphere of creativity and freedom, decadence and fear that characterized Weimar Germany in the 1930s, will be presented Friday through Monday, Dec. 5-8, in the Matthews Acting Studio at 185 Nassau St.
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December 3, 2008
When most professors head to the library or a laboratory to conduct research, instructors in the University's dance program catch the train to New York and take to the stage to direct, choreograph or perform.
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November 26, 2008
The Program in Theater and Dance of the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University announces a senior thesis production of a new play, Flammentangel Kabarett, devised by Sarah Outhwaite '09 and Jon Feyer '09. Set in Berlin in 1933, the show explores the atmosphere of creativity and freedom, decadence and fear that characterized Weimar Germany. Flammentangel Kabarett will be performed at the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at 185 Nassau Street on December 5-8th.
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November 25, 2008
L'Atelier, the French Theater Workshop, of the Department of French and Italian has been renamed L'Avant-Scene, the French Theater Workshop at Princeton.
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November 24, 2008
The Young Vic also saw American playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney take the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright for The Brothers Size and In the Red and Brown Water that both received their British premieres there; the playwright is also about to be represented in London by the Royal Court premiere of his play Wig Out!
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November 23, 2008
Princeton senior Stephen Hammer and two 2008 graduates, Scott Moore and Timothy Nunan, have been awarded Rhodes Scholarships for graduate study at the University of Oxford.
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November 22, 2008
While you were dying is a challenging exhibit by Jocelyn Lee currently on view at the USM Area Gallery, Woodbury Campus Center, Portland. This photographic installation of prints about the recent death of Lee's mother includes images of family and friends in her mother's home, portraits of her mother, her mother's garden, and the wider landscape Lee traveled through to get to her.
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November 20, 2008
The New Museum (reopened December 2007) still feels new in its vanguard boxy Bowery reincarnation-the lobby all steel and concrete and plate glass-crowded with industrially-clad European tourists and waifish art students. This ground-floor space is employed to intentionally discordant effect to introduce...
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November 19, 2008
When Tina Fehlandt e-mailed renowned choreographer Mark Morris, with whom she had danced for 20 years, about a piece of his she could perform at Princeton's bi-annual faculty dance concert, he suggested Peccadillos...
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November 18, 2008
a documentary film about the Vogels and their collection.
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November 17, 2008
At McCarter's Berlind Theatre, two ancient Greek plays explore a bloody story tying family values to international politics. In "Iphigenia at Aulis" by Euripides, Iphigenia is sacrificed by her father for the cause of war; in "Agamemnon" by Aeschylus, his life is taken in turn. Susan Wallner talks to Princeton University director Tim Vasen about the production and its relevance to today's headlines.
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November 11, 2008
In his new exhibition "Hunting for Pheasants," Christian Tomaszewski (*1971, Gdansk/Poland)ÃÂ presents 40 unique posters commemoratingÃÂ victims of assassinationÃÂÃÂ as well as a single-channel video of appropriated video footage.
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November 10, 2008
Troy: After and Before, the annual Fall Show sponsored by the Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Theater and Dance, will be performed at the Berlind Theatre November 14-15 and November 20-22. This monumental event will be comprised of two very different takes on the Trojan War: Aeschylus' Agamemnon, as translated by the late Robert Fagles, an honored member of the Princeton University community, and Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis, as translated by Lucas Barron, a Comparative Literature major in the Class of 2009.
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November 8, 2008
The Lewis Center for the Arts' Program in Theater and Dance presents Now Dance, a repertory concert that includes dance choreographed and/or performed by faculty and guests including Ze'eva Cohen, Tina Fehlandt, Zvi Gotheiner, Dyane Harvey, Patricia Hoffbauer, Mark Morris, Yvonne Rainer, Rebecca Lazier and her New York dance company Terrain. The event will be held at the Patricia and Ward Hagan '48 Dance Studio at 185 Nassau Street on Friday and Saturday, November 21-22.
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November 7, 2008
The short list of nominees for this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards has now been announced.
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November 7, 2008
Although the Society harbors one of the earliest assembled public collections of drawings in the United States, the aesthetic richness and historical value of these assets are surprisingly little known. Attempting to share this vast trove with the public, the exhibition and its catalogue will feature highlights from the N-YHS collectionâover 190 watercolors and drawings out of approximately 8,000 works, including rare sketchbooks and albums.
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November 7, 2008
Shakespeare's genius continues to astound, as much for the resonance of his themes as the brilliance and beauty of his words. These works are also an inexhaustible source of inspiration for contemporary writers. The RSC is bringing writers back into the rehearsal room to develop works with companies of actors as Shakespeare did. New works from some of the most exciting new playwrights across the world are currently under commission. The RSC's writer in residence for 2006-2008 was American Adriano Shaplin and from 2008-2010 will be another young American, Tarrell Alvin McCraney.
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November 5, 2008
Executive Director of Rhizome and Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art will lecture on
"New Media Art: History & Current Directions"
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October 30, 2008
John O'Connor's exhibit "All of a Sudden" will be at Martin Asbek Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark from November 7, 2008 to December 6, 2008.
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October 27, 2008
Cellist Thomas Kraines will be giving a recital at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 in Fine Hall's Taplin Auditorium off Washington Road. It is free and open to the public.
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October 13, 2008
Tinyvices (Aperture), is an eclectic new series of monographs featuring five of the most promising photographers featured on the wildly popular website tinyvices.com, an online photography gallery founded by independent curator and photographer Tim Barber.
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October 9, 2008
September 21, 2008 - December 14, 2008
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October 9, 2008
Pierogi is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by John O'Connor.
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October 7, 2008
Amezidi, a new translation of the work by Kenyan novelist, poet and playwright Said Ahmed Mohamed, will open this weekend at the Lewis Center for the Arts. Translated and directed by Christopher J. Simpson '09, the tragicomic two-hander will be...
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September 25, 2008
Harris Lieberman is pleased to announce the first exhibition of Tommy White's sculptures. Initially conceived of as three-dimensional tools for rendering form and space in his paintings, the sculptures have become an important and distinct part of his work in the past several years.
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September 24, 2008
On the occasion of the artist's new exhibit, Flannel Tongue, which will be on view at Pierogi 2000 from Sept. 6 to Oct. 6, 2008, the painter Eve Aschheim talked with John O'Connor in his apartment/studio in Queens about his life and work.
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September 17, 2008
A major entry to the Princeton campus and community is being redesigned as a 21st-century portal with the door lodged firmly open.
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September 16, 2008
Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts, Program in Creative Writing, announces the fall Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series. The popular series...
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September 15, 2008
The Lewis Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the expansion of its faculty with two of the most highly regarded leaders in the field of theater and performance studies.
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September 10, 2008
WHEN renowned poet, essayist, visual artist and playwright Breyten Breytenbach was imprisoned for high treason in South Africa in 1975, the guards confiscated his pens and paper daily. Without the previous...
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September 9, 2008
An open house on the University's proposed arts and transit neighborhood is set for 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 17, at the Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, 102 Witherspoon St. in Princeton.
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August 3, 2008
AFTER 35 years immersed in the world of computer music, the composer Paul Lansky talks with wonder about the enormous capacities of primitive objects carved from trees or stamped from metal sheets: violins, cellos, trumpets, pianos.
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July 16, 2008
The second edition of Creative Colleges: A Guide for Student Actors, Artists, Dancers, Musicians and Writers has named the Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Creative Writing as one of the top 200 programs in...
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June 26, 2008
William Inge's "Bus Stop," which had its world premiere in Princeton in the 1950s, will return to town June 26-July 6 as part of Princeton Summer Theater's 40th anniversary season.
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June 18, 2008
WE all wear masks. We may be completely different people outside of work than when on the clock â someone our office colleagues might not recognize.
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May 19, 2008
A sprawling exhibition of artwork by students in the Program in Visual Arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts will be on view from May 19 through June 4 at 185 Nassau St.
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May 14, 2008
The University may not begin building the new Arts Neighborhood for two years, but the $101 million gift of Peter B. Lewis '55 is already allowing the academic program at the Lewis Center for the Arts to grow.
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May 13, 2008
Two Princeton faculty members and one alumnus are among the eight new members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. They were selected for reaching the "highest level of artistic achievement."
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May 8, 2008
(Princeton, NJ) Christopher Durang's madcap 1987 comedy Laughing Wild brings to a close the 2007-2008 season of Princeton UniversityâÂÂs Program in Theater and Dance of the Lewis Center for the Arts. The show will run Friday - Saturday, May 23 - 24, 2008 and Friday - Sunday, May 30 - June 1, 2008. All performances are at 8:00 p.m. in the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at the Lewis Center for the Arts, 185 Nassau Street, Princeton.
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May 5, 2008
Princeton NJ â An African drumbeat filled the Hagan Dance Studio. "Reach up! Reach up!" instructor Dyane Harvey announced. Twenty-two students arrayed in rows before the mirrors stretched their arms to the ceiling to warm up.
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May 3, 2008
Paul Muldoon, the Howard G.B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities, and Daniel Rodgers, the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, have received Princeton's Behrman Award for distinguished achievement in the humanities. They were honored at a May 3 dinner.
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April 29, 2008
The Lewis Center for the Arts Performance Central presents "Scenario for a Non-Existing, But Possible Instrumental Actor," a one-man performance of a theatrical score written by Bocuslaw Shaeffer and featuring German actor and director Andre Erlen. The show will take place on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. at the Marie and Edward Matthews '53 Acting Studio at the Lewis Center for the Arts, 185 Nassau Street, Princeton.
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April 24, 2008
The 17 seniors in the Princeton University Orchestra will conclude their tenure with the group by tackling one of the most difficult pieces they've ever played in concerts at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 25-26, in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall.
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April 23, 2008
Choosing his own path, David Carpenter â08 hopes to bring greater luster to the humble viola
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April 21, 2008
Two professional directors from Philadelphia, a scenographer from New York, an ensemble of seasoned performers and a group of Princeton students are joining forces to bring a new work to the stage Friday and Saturday, April 25-26, at the Lewis Center for the Arts.
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April 17, 2008
Kelsey Johnson '08 decided during her junior year that her experience in the visual arts program would not be complete without a summer in Iceland. So, with the help of Lewis Center funding, Princeton sent Johnson backpacking around volcanoes.
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April 17, 2008
The connection between music and mathematics has fascinated scholars for centuries.
More than 2000 years ago Pythagoras reportedly discovered that pleasing musical intervals could be described using simple ratios.
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April 15, 2008
The Lewis Center for the Art's Princeton Atelier presents "WIND-UP", a dance theater performance showcasing the collaborative work of David Brick and Dan Rothenberg, co-directors of Headlong Dance Theater and Pig Iron Theatre Company and award-winning scenographer Mimi Lien.
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April 14, 2008
Among the first graduating class of the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts are four gutsy senior certificate students in the Program in Theater and Dance. They are among the few Princeton undergraduates who take on a second thesis that involves choreographing, performing and producing an evening of dance. Jessica Baylan, Jillian Olsen, Hans Rinderknecht and Francine Saunders will present "Dance Quanta" on Friday and Saturday, April 18th and 19th at 8 p.m.
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April 9, 2008
One oversees a vast collection of ancient coins. Another studies the end of the world according to the Old Testament. Another is documenting through photography and writing the violent strife among German immigrants in Brazil. The other three include an economist, a painter and a scholar of poetry.
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April 8, 2008
While the 1,976 students recently admitted to the Class of 2012 may be getting ready to bask in the summer sun and celebrate the completion of their last academic application for the next few years, they may be surprised to learn that selectivity doesn't end at the Admission Office. In fact, it may be lurking in one of the last places students would look: 185 Nassau St.
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April 4, 2008
Two years ago, in a class called "Beginning Studies in Acting," Roger Q. Mason found himself intrigued by lecturer Tim Vasen's description of a group of women who gathered at performances of William Shakespeare's plays.
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April 1, 2008
Samuel Zetumer '09 and Halcyon Person '10 have been selected by the Lewis Center for the Arts faculty to be the first recipients of the newly created Alex Adam '07 Award. The award, established in memory of Alexander Jay Adam '07 and made possible by a generous gift from his family, provides support to undergraduates who want to spend a summer pursuing a project that will result in the creation of an original work of art.
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March 31, 2008
Like many of her students, Tracy K. Smith started writing poetry in earnest as an undergraduate. Now a fast-rising star in American poetry, she is leading intensive workshops at Princeton - knowing from her own experience how important it is to inspire students as they develop as writers.
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March 17, 2008
For two days in March, Princeton University graduate students will play host to an international group of scholars and practitioners who are gathering to explore the roles of narrative and mediation in art practices that engage sound as a material. The symposium will consist of three panel discussions as well as an exhibition of audio-works for portable music players made expressly for the geography, architecture, and social spaces of the Princeton University campus.
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March 17, 2008
President Shirley M. Tilghman completed her weeklong trip to Asia with a visit to Hong Kong Thursday through Sunday, March 13-16, that featured a conference with prominent alumni from the region who are influential in shaping commerce and finance around the world as well as a campaign kickoff event.
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March 11, 2008
Any student of the classics would, one supposes, recall the tale of Orpheus and his bride Eurydice. There have been at least three operas, a ballet or two and numerous plays on the subject, but most dwell on Orpheus and his great loss and his subsequent visit to the underworld to reclaim his loved one. It's the stuff of classic legends.
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March 7, 2008
Young choreographers from three Ivy League colleges - Barnard, Harvard and Princeton - will show their work.
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March 6, 2008
Princeton senior Sarah Vander Ploeg -- a Woodrow Wilson School major who also is an accomplished lyric soprano and violist -- is one of 37 American college students awarded 2008 Marshall Scholarships.
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February 28, 2008
Now that "independent" films often cost nearly as much, feel nearly as slick, and grab nearly as many headlines as their mainstream cousins, it can take a little looking to find a movie that reflects one artist's sensibility - or explores the medium in creative ways. A good place to start looking is with the Black Maria Film Festival, a grab bag of some of the best short films released last year.
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February 25, 2008
A $4 million gift from Anthony H.P. Lee, a member of the class of 1979, will enhance the study and performance of jazz at Princeton, significantly expanding the University's ability to support performances and develop innovative research and teaching in this uniquely American and broadly influential art form.
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February 25, 2008
Senior Carlos Jimenez Cahua can be found most evenings at the digital photography lab at 185 Nassau St., scanning his pictures into the computer, editing them in Photoshop and printing them out as 8-by-10 images. Jimenez Cahua's passion for photography has taken him to Lima, Peru, on a Princeton fellowship to photograph landscapes and cityscapes, and to Florence, Italy, where he spent a semester studying at the Studio Art Centers International. He has done all of this while majoring in chemistry.
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February 21, 2008
PRINCETON, N.J. -- The Princeton Laptop Orchestra is one of 17 winners of the Digital Media and Learning Competition, which awards funds to projects that use digital media in an innovative way for formal and informal learning.
The contest, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, awarded $238,000 to the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk for short) to support a mobile musical laboratory that students will use to explore new ways of making music with laptops and local area networks.
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February 13, 2008
The Program in Visual Arts is presenting "Student Art: Work From the Fall 2007 Semester," a group show featuring ceramics, sculpture, painting, drawing and photography, through Friday, Feb. 15, in the Lucas Gallery, 185 Nassau St.
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February 8, 2008
Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts, Program in Theater and Dance, presents the 2008 Spring Dance Festival, featuring dances by Mark Morris and Susan Marshall, performed alongside choreography by Ze'eva Cohen, the Head of Dance at Princeton, Faculty Member Edisa Weeks and guest choreographer Marianela Boan, a prominent artist of Cuban origin.
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February 5, 2008
Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts, Program in Creative Writing, announces the spring Althea Ward Clark W '21 Reading Series. The popular series, which has featured such esteemed writers as Richard Ford, Anne Beattie, Jhumpa Lahiri, Dave Eggers and Charles Wright, will continue its tradition of bringing a dazzling and diverse array of established and emerging novelists, short story writers, memoirists and poets to Princeton.
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February 3, 2008
The Lewis Center for the Arts will present a lecture and talk back with Fiona Shaw, CBE, on Monday, February 4th at 4:30 p.m. in the Berlind Theatre. The event is free and open to the public.
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January 30, 2008
The video 'From Heart to Heart: Beethoven's Plea for Peace' featuring Maestro Gilbert Levine's performance of the complete Beethoven Missa Solemnis (with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & London Philharmonic Choir both specially flown to Cologne for this concert) will occur Tuesday, February 26th. The free 8:00 p.m. screening will be in the Frank E. Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall. The international quartet of soloists is the Polish soprano Bozena Harasimowicz, the Finnish mezzo Monica Groop, the great, late and dearly missed, American tenor Jerry Hadley, and German basso Franz-Josef Selig.
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January 26, 2008
Princeton University's Quartet-in-residence, the Brentano String Quartet, will perform on Thursday, February 21st , at 8 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium on campus. Sponsored by the Department of Music, the ensemble's program will be Claudio Monteverdi: Four Madrigals from Book VI; Gabriela Lena Frank: Quijotadas; Elliott Carter: Quintet for Piano and String Quartet; and W. A. Mozart: Quartet in B-flat Major, K589.
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January 25, 2008
Tracy K. Smith's second collection of poetry, DUENDE, has been named a finalist in the poetry category of the first annual Essence Literary Awards.The other finalists are Acolytes by Nikki Giovanni and Totem by Gregory Pardlo. The winner will be selected by a panel of publishing experts and announced at an awards ceremony in New York City on February 7, 2008.
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January 20, 2008
Paul Muldoon is a busy man.
The humanities professor at Princeton University is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author of 10 volumes of verse. He's also a rhythm guitarist in a rock band, a songwriter, an amateur actor and poetry editor for the New Yorker.
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January 17, 2008
Steven Holl Architects, an award-winning firm with extensive experience in the arts, has been selected to design the initial academic buildings for Princeton University's new arts and transit neighborhood.
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January 17, 2008
Members of the University community now can get a look at highlights of the final version of the Campus Plan. The comprehensive strategy to guide development through 2016 and beyond was produced over the last two years following thorough analysis of the 380-acre campus by a team of experts and significant involvement by stakeholders.
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January 16, 2008
The Alex Adam '07 Award, made possible by a generous gift from his family, will provide support to undergraduates who want to spend a summer pursuing a project that will result in the creation of an original work of art.
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January 11, 2008
The Princeton University Department of Music will present a production of Mozart's renowned opera, "The Marriage of Figaro," at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13, in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall.
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January 2, 2008
"The Collotype and the Artist's Book," a visually stunning artist's book exhibition showcasing the collaborative work of guest artists and students in the Princeton Atelier, will open on...
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December 31, 2007
HE WASN'T LIKE the other
Danville boys, Edith recalls.
He looked sharp that night
in 1961,clad entirely in black
for the dance at the Y; later,
she learned that he listened
to...
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December 18, 2007
Senior Julia Brav '08 has been selected to the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) Sisters in Jazz Collegiate All-Star Quintet. The group will perform at the IAJE 35th Annual Conference in Toronto, Canada from January 9-13, 2008 for one of the world's largest jazz gatherings, with more than 7000 educators, musicians, and industry representatives from over 35 countries expected to attend. Julia is...
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December 17, 2007
Eight Princeton undergraduates are spending the fall semester examining the plays of theater legend Edward Albee with a guest lecturer who is uniquely qualified to provide insights into the award-winning writer: Albee himself.
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December 13, 2007
Princeton University and the Royal College of Music in London have initiated a unique collaboration that will offer Princeton students the opportunity to spend the fall of their junior year at the Royal College of Music and the chance to return to London after graduation to complete a performance-oriented master's degree in one to two...
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December 10, 2007
The afternoon began with each student revealing a distinctive physical trait: a birthmark on an arm, a bald spot caused by a childhood accident, a chicken pox scar. A few hours later, the class moved into the Wilson College dance studio, where the students and the professor took turns striding across the floor as if walking a catwalk.
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December 10, 2007
PARIS, Dec. 10 - Among the American cultural phenomena that the French have taken to their collective heart (le jazz hot, le film noir, etc.), surely nothing is more surprising than the success of the choreographer Merce Cunningham over several...
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December 6, 2007
In some classrooms around campus, students are analyzing Euripedes' Greek tragedy "Bacchae" from a literary perspective. In Robert Brill's "Theatrical Design" class, 10 students are physically translating it to the stage.
The theater course pushes the boundaries of...
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December 2, 2007
Political theater will be the topic for a panel discussion and theatrical performance scheduled for Saturday, December 8th at Princeton University. The event, which is co-sponsored by the University's Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Theater and Dance, and McCarter Theatre Center, will begin at 3:30 p.m. with a reading of Joshua Casteel's Returns, based on his own experiences as an Abu Ghraib interrogator.
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November 29, 2007
A student production of "Death and the Maiden," a play by Ariel Dorfman about Chile's transition to democracy, will be presented at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 7-8, and Thursday through Saturday, Dec. 13-15, in the Matthews Acting Studio...
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November 9, 2007
Princeton University on Thursday, Nov. 8, named its new arts center the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts in recognition of the $101 million gift Lewis pledged last year to support the University's major arts initiative.
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October 30, 2007
"A sad tale's best for winter; I have one of sprites and goblins." So says the boy Mamillius in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, the annual Fall Show of Princeton University's Program in Theater and Dance, a division of the University's Center for the Creative and Performing Arts. The Winter's Tale shows Shakespeare, in the final stage of his theatrical career, stretching the boundaries of both tragedy and comedy to create a play unique in its form and lacerating in its exploration of the havoc that the sprites and goblins of a jealous imagination can wreak.
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September 18, 2007
In another sign of Princeton University's expanding commitment to the arts, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jeffrey Eugenides has been named professor of creative writing in the University Center for the Creative and Performing Arts.
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September 10, 2007
The music of Michael Friedman, an incoming Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, will be featured in Gone Missing: the Concert Version on Sunday, September 23 at 8:00 p.m. at the University Center for Creative & Performing Arts.
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August 20, 2007
d'Aprile-Smith has more than 20 years of experience in public relations, outreach, community development and research for a variety of arts and cultural institutions and nonprofit organizations. Since 2004, she has worked for the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, serving for the last two years as director of external affairs. She implemented a communications plan for the council that demonstrated the public value of the arts.
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May 21, 2007
From the hum of a massive incinerator in Harrisburg, Pa., to the tonal distinctions of Chinese languages, Daniel Hawkins has found musical inspiration in atypical places. Now the Princeton senior plans to spend the next year traversing America's highways, taking his search for muses onto the open road.
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May 7, 2007
A few weeks ago Dmitri Tymoczko, the departmental representative in music, sent out an e-mail that listed the name of every senior in the department and the type of thesis each student was pursuing. Some students were listed under musicology, and some under composition. Scott Elmegreen was listed under "other."
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April 30, 2007
For John McPhee, the most significant element of putting together one of his famed New Yorker magazine articles is figuring out the structure.
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April 23, 2007
The University has unveiled a revised plan for the Alexander Street/University Place neighborhood that features a realigned intersection and an improved design that supports both the arts and the transit goals for the area.
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April 16, 2007
International scholars and performers dedicated to honoring the life and works of Baroque composer George Frideric Handel will gather at the University for the American Handel Festival and Meeting on Thursday through Saturday, April 19-21. This is the first time the American Handel Society will hold its biennial festival at Princeton.
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April 6, 2007
After months of inspired collaborations between Princeton scholars, students and artists, the curtain will rise on the University's world premiere production of "Boris Godunov" Thursday through Saturday, April 12-14, at the Berlind Theatre.
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March 26, 2007
For poet Susan Wheeler, the key to teaching writing is presenting students with all the possible ways to express themselves.
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March 26, 2007
An aged woodcut map showing the boundaries of 16th-century Russia will be featured alongside innovative stage models and lavish costume designs in a special exhibition opening Sunday, April 1, to document Princeton's efforts to mount a world-premiere production of "Boris Godunov."
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March 14, 2007
A documentary film that tells the behind-the-scenes story of a senior thesis performance by Anthony Roth Costanzo, a 2004 Princeton graduate, has won a 2007 director's choice award at the Black Maria Film and Video Festival.
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March 2, 2007
Gabe Hudson, a 2006-07 Hodder Fellow in the Council of the Humanities and lecturer in the Program in Creative Writing, has been named to Granta's "Best of Young American Novelists" list.
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February 19, 2007
The University's 2007 Spring Dance Festival on Feb. 23-25 will feature advanced student performers in new work by New York-based guest choreographers James Martin and Christopher Williams, dances by three faculty members and pieces by student choreographers.
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February 12, 2007
Hans Rinderknecht refuses to be pigeonholed. A physics major with an interest in cosmology, the Princeton junior also is fascinated with the study of dance, theater, music and languages. And he's found a way to combine these divergent pursuits into an extraordinary educational experience.
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February 5, 2007
At their Jan. 21 meeting, the University's trustees adopted a 2007-08 operating budget that holds tuition at its current level but raises undergraduate room and board rates for an overall fee increase of 4.2 percent.
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January 8, 2007
The University will commemorate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. with its annual King Day celebration at 1 p.m. Monday, Jan. 15, in Richardson Auditorium of Alexander Hall. This year's event, which is free and open to the public, will focus on the music of human rights movements.
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December 11, 2006
Anthony D.J. Branker, director of Princeton's jazz program, spent the fall 2005 semester helping the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre develop its jazz studies curriculum. For Branker, a 1980 Princeton graduate, the challenge hearkened back to his own return to campus in 1989.
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December 6, 2006
Professional companies from New York, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh will perform recently choreographed work by the University's dance faculty in concerts at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 8-9.
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December 1, 2006
"I'm here under false pretenses," actress Meryl Streep told a packed crowd at Princeton University on Nov. 30. "My achievement, if you can call it that, is that I've basically pretended to be extraordinary people my entire life, and now I'm being mistaken for one."
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November 22, 2006
George Washington loomed above them. Drawn from life by the American artist Charles Wilson Peale in 1784, he was withstanding scrutiny from a group of 14 freshmen and their professor, Rachael DeLue.
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November 20, 2006
Graduate students in the School of Architecture will see their work in a new seminar come to life on the Berlind Theatre stage this spring.
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October 9, 2006
Distinguished Irish actors, theater directors and other luminaries well known for their award-winning roles on stage and screen will gather at the University Oct. 13-15 for discussions, readings and performances highlighting the "Players & Painted Stage" symposium.
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September 14, 2006
When Eve Aschheim enters a classroom at the beginning of the semester, she wants to get her students thinking about the relationship of ideas to paper. They may be accustomed to putting their thoughts on paper in the form of an essay or a poem. She wants them to express those thoughts not with words, but with the tip of a pencil or a paintbrush.
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August 29, 2006
An aged manuscript of a classic Irish play, long thought lost even by the renowned playwright who wrote it, has made its way to Princeton University as the gem of a momentous collection of Irish theater donated by 1953 alumnus Leonard L. Milberg.
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June 5, 2006
Chris Douthitt, 2006 valedictorian, composes impressive record of achievement.
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May 22, 2006
The University's second annual 'Art of Science' exhibition, highlighted by three winning student entries, is now on display in the hallway of the Friend Center's main floor.
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May 12, 2006
The New York Times Book Review has named "Beloved," a 1987 novel by Princeton Professor Toni Morrison, the best work of American fiction published in the past quarter century.
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May 8, 2006
Although it was the mid-1990s when Mimi Chubb's family moved from Brooklyn to California's Orange County, the pioneer spirit of the Old West was still alive and well.
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April 24, 2006
In 1975, legendary trumpeter Miles Davis famously declared, 'Jazz is dead.' For Princeton senior Megan Summers, a budding jazz historian, Davis' pronouncement helped inspire her thesis research into the development of jazz education in America.
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April 17, 2006
As an artist and a student of art history, senior Temitayo (Tayo) Ogunbiyi is drawn to works that challenge conventional notions of categorizing people by appearance, gender, nationality or other easily accessible characteristics.
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April 6, 2006
Award-winning playwright Edward Albee has been named the first recipient of the Princeton University/McCarter Theatre Playwriting Fellowship.
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April 3, 2006
In his latest work, professor of creative writing Edmund White transports us to his childhood in Illinois in the 1950s - and to a world in which being gay was commonly viewed as something reproachful.
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March 9, 2006
Some 1,200 scholars from across the nation and abroad will gather on campus Thursday through Sunday, March 23-26, for the annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association.
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March 2, 2006
Paul Muldoon, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and a Princeton faculty member since 1990, has been selected as the founding chair of the new University Center for the Creative and Performing Arts.
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February 20, 2006
A legendary French ballet by Vaslav Nijinsky - the choreography of which was lost for decades - will be performed by Princeton students Friday through Sunday, Feb. 24-26, at the Berlind Theatre.
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January 21, 2006
Peter B. Lewis, a 1955 graduate and trustee of Princeton University, will contribute $101 million to support a major new initiative to enhance the role of the creative and performing arts in the life of the University and its community. The gift was announced by President Shirley M. Tilghman following Jan. 20 meetings of the University's Board of Trustees.
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December 12, 2005
Scholars of great literature often are intrigued by questions that lie outside the pages of the text. For English professor Diana Fuss, one question that consumed her was: Where did my favorite writers write?
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November 21, 2005
Jeffrey Miller, a Princeton senior who aspires to become a novelist and English professor, has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford in England.
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November 7, 2005
Pass by the basement rehearsal space in Woolworth on a Thursday afternoon and you may hear electronic raindrops, a fast-forward reading of Dr. Seuss or a deep moaning that seems to emanate from the bottom of the ocean. You may even hear something you recognize as music, like a rockabilly jazz melody.
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May 30, 2005
It would have been much quicker to copy and paste their names into a Word document and run off a page on a laser printer. But an important part of this class involved learning about the creative process.
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May 16, 2005
At a "town hall" meeting on campus last spring, President Tilghman listed among her top priorities the expansion of academic programs in the creative and performing arts. This spring, she has charged a task force with developing alternatives for achieving this objective.
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May 16, 2005
An exhibition of images that bridge the sciences and the arts is on view at the Friend Center through early June.
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May 2, 2005
Professor C.K. Williams has been awarded the 2005 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, one of the highest honors given to American poets.
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April 25, 2005
At a table covered with sculpture of various shapes, colors and materials, four undergraduate students made final modifications to their artistic creations.
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April 14, 2005
Students in Princeton's Atelier program, which brings guest artists to campus to collaborate with students and faculty, will direct and perform "The Antient Concert," an original chamber opera written by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon and composer Daron Hagen.
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April 11, 2005
Senior Margaret Meyer is a professional-level opera singer who chose to major in comparative literature - a field in which she could combine her musical affinities, her aptitude for languages and her interest in literature.
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April 4, 2005
Final rehearsals are under way for "Le Pas d'Acier" ("The Steel Step"), one of the great lost ballets of the 20th century, which will be performed at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, April 7-9, at the Berlind Theatre.
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March 5, 2005
Honoring a legendary Russian director's unfulfilled vision for a classic tale of power and intrigue, an army of Princeton scholars and artists is working this semester to mount a world premiere production of "Boris Godunov."
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February 21, 2005
Scholars from Princeton University and other institutions are painstakingly re-creating the choreography, costumes and elaborate mechanical set of one of the great lost ballets of the 20th century, "Le Pas d'Acier" or "The Steel Step" by legendary Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev. They will bring the ballet to life exactly the way Prokofiev intended it in three performances at the University in April.
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October 11, 2004
A fellow at a research institute in Princeton receives a cream-colored envelope in her mailbox. Inside is a ticket for a concert of chamber music at the University's Richardson Auditorium. There is no note and no explanation for this gift.
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May 17, 2004
When senior Kathleen Bader thought seriously about her most advantageous career move after graduation, she came up with a surprising answer: spending a year alone in a desert.
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May 17, 2004
John Cooper, Stuart Professor of Philosophy, and James Seawright, professor of the Council of the Humanities and visual arts, have been honored with Princeton's Behrman Award for distinguished achievement in the humanities.
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April 26, 2004
Su Friedrich's evocative and experimental films challenge audiences to think in a different way about topics ranging from sexual identity to American health care.
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April 19, 2004
Anthony Roth Costanzo began singing professionally at the age of 11 -- he has appeared on Broadway and at Carnegie Hall -- but the performance he will give on May 5 in Richardson Auditorium could be described as the role of a lifetime.
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April 19, 2004
Khalil Sullivan has revived an old theatrical form in his senior thesis, a "multi-media minstrel dramedy" titled "Playing in the Dark" that will be performed at the Berlind Theatre this month.
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February 16, 2004
The Program in Theater and Dance will present its inaugural dance performance, "Spring Dance Festival 2004," in the new Roger S. Berlind Theatre at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 20-21. It will be the first time in the 35-year history of formal dance instruction at Princeton that students will perform in a space especially designed for theater and dance. The University shares the facility, which opened last fall, with McCarter Theatre.
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December 8, 2003
Willow Sainsbury, a Princeton senior from Auckland, New Zealand, has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, which will fund two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England.
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November 3, 2003
Toni Morrison says there are two ripe features that aggrandize humans: love and language. So it is no wonder that her eighth novel, "Love," speaks to the human condition in search of its own voice.
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September 15, 2003
The McCarter Theatre Center dedicated its new Roger S. Berlind Theatre, a 360-seat performance space, on Sept. 8.
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April 23, 2003
Theodore Weiss, an award-winning poet, editor, literary critic and emeritus professor at Princeton, died April 15 at age 86 after a battle with Parkinson's disease. A celebration of his life and work will be held at a later date.
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April 14, 2003
Paul Muldoon, the Howard Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities at Princeton, has won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for his latest collection, "Moy Sand and Gravel." The award was announced April 7.
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March 3, 2003
Seniors Daniel Hantman and Christopher Wendell received the University's Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, and graduate students Sarah-Jane Murray and Joshua Plotkin were recognized as co-winners of the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship at Alumni Day ceremonies Feb. 22. These are the highest honors Princeton awards to students.
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September 10, 1997
Last spring, two novel events took place on the Princeton campus. On the fifth of May, 29 students assembled on the stage of Taplin Auditorium, then one by one stepped forward to sing unaccompanied, their mouths shaping the rounded, majestical notes of African-American congregational songs.
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November 30, -001
The Princeton Poetry Festival has sold out. Anyone can join the wait line prior to the start of the event. All un-claimed tickets will be made available to patrons in the wait line. Please know there are no guaranteed seats.
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November 30, -001
The Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Visual Arts presents two exhibitions of collage and sculpture by Charlotte Krause and Samantha Ritter, seniors in the program, on April 4 through 10 in the Lucas Gallery at 185 Nassau Street. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, April 4 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the gallery. Gallery is open Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.
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November 30, -001
Award-winning filmmaker Julie Dash will give the John Sacret Young '69 Lecture in Film on Thursday, March 28 at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart Theater at 185 Nassau Street. In 1991, Dash's film Daughters of the Dust became the first film directed by an African American woman to be theatrically distributed in the United States. The story chronicles two days in the life of the Peazant family, descendants of slaves who reside on sea islands near South Carolina and Georgia. Since its release, Daughters of the Dust has been named one of the most important cinematic achievements of the twentieth century. Dash's lecture on her film career is free and open to the public.
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