Kushner's 'Angels in America' takes on weighty issues
The year is 1985. Americans are discovering Madonna, Michael Jackson, crack cocaine, computers and cell phones.
The year is 1985. Americans are discovering Madonna, Michael Jackson, crack cocaine, computers and cell phones.
Fairy tales collide ? and fracture beautifully ? in PUP's production of "Into the Woods" by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, which opens this Thursday.The Tony award-winning show brings together five famous fairy tales surrounding the new story of a Baker (Rob Walsh, TCNJ) and his Wife (Amy Coenan '07), trying to reverse the curse put on the Baker's family by an angry Witch (Danielle Ivory '05) that has left them childless.
Girls on message boards across the Internet are declaring "Dewey Fever." And it's spreading; recent posts on the Warner Brothers website announced obsession from the likes of DeweyBar01 and Smitten.
Billy Joel, Elton John, Bruce Hornsby and Ben Folds are also known as the greatest piano rockers of the past half-century.
Tonight at 7:30, award-winning playwright Tony Kushner will be giving a 15 to 20-minute reading from one of his works at Richardson Auditorium.
It was all of 8:30 on a Thursday morning, and the vast majority of the Princeton campus still slumbered, catching those last minutes of precious sleep before calculus.
Michael Douglas attacks his opponent with his eyes, confident and unrelenting.Kevin Kline gracefully moves to the podium and clears his throat.Martin Sheen banters with his crew, but furrows his brow in the Situation Room.There is certainly no shortage of people who can act presidential.
While most Princetonians relax over Fall Break, Peter Westergaard, an emeritus music professor, will oversee the premiere of "Moby Dick: Scenes from an Imaginary Opera."He began working on the opera, his fifth, in 2001, the year he retired.
Beyond the 'Wa, beyond the U2, beyond even the dining halls and eating clubs, there are many food options around Princeton that have become staples of the surrounding community.
The 185 Nassau building is to the dancer, poet and painter what a sequestered study space in Firestone is to the economics student feverishly working on his problem set.
Thirty years after the Vietnam War, Robert McNamara, the U.S. Secretary of Defense during the better part of the '60s, wrote in his memoirs, "Although we sought to do the right thing?and believed we were doing the right thing?in my judgment, hindsight proves us wrong." McNamara, his initial decisions and his final regrets are only some of the ghosts that haunt the characters in Steven Dietz' play "Last of the Boys," playing at the Berlind Theatre through Oct.
My only experience with competitive Frisbee involved a game at the end of high school in which my science research class combated the math research kids for the coveted title of champion.
I have uncovered a reason to go to Hamilton, N.J.The incentive is the awe-inspiring and expansive collection of sculptures that resides in the eclectic "sculpture garden," the Grounds for Sculpture.
This Thursday, prolific American playwright Neil Simon's "Rumors" goes up for its second and last weekend at Theatre Intime.
The name Timothy Williams '07 may not sound familiar today, but by next year millions will be tuning into his life on an upcoming reality series.
Homesick for mom's cooking? The three-week-old Indian restaurant Mehek, which replaced Sally Lunn's Tearoom, will make you feel right at home.Located at 164 Nassau Street (a few doors down from CVS), Mehek already draws crowds from all over Princeton.
Today, left-handedness is understood by means of an accumulation of trivia or fun facts, which include: 1.
Before Wednesday, Sept. 22, my definition of ballroom dancing constituted solely the twists and twirls I had watched Belle and the Beast execute to "Tale as Old as Time" and the trendy moves of Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in "Dirty Dancing."When I stepped into Broadway Ballroom ? located at 4-6 Hulfish Street until Sept.
Jane Austen was not known for her dancing, but she knew bad dancing when she saw it. In "Pride and Prejudice," she writes, "Mr. Collins, awkward and solemn, apologising instead of attending, and often moving wrong without being aware of it, gave her all the shame and misery which a disagreeable partner for a couple of dances can give." I was all too aware of my own wrong movements when I first attempted English country dancing.
Amid torrential rain, the 2004 exhibition of junior independent work in The Program in Visual Arts opened at 185 Nassau Street.