Jerry Herman wrote the words and music for some of the most successful and beloved musicals of the 20th century. ...
The Painted Window: J. Kenneth Leap
Mae Kellert2024-06-05T21:10:38-04:00J. Kenneth Leap has created grand public art in stained glass around the world. In his home state of New ...
“Jewel Box” choreographed by Lauren Lovette for the New Jersey Ballet
Mae Kellert2024-06-05T21:08:58-04:00The New Jersey Ballet, celebrating its 65th anniversary, explores new directions with the premiere of Lauren Lovette’s Jewel Box at ...
Bony Ramirez: Cattleya
Mae Kellert2024-06-05T21:05:48-04:00After working construction for years, Bony Ramirez took a bold step during the pandemic by choosing to focus on his ...
The Scarlet Letter On Stage
Mae Kellert2024-05-22T21:42:21-04:00Feminist playwright Kate Hamill makes radical adaptations of classic literature for the stage. Her setting of The Scarlet Letter links ...
Nell Painter: She Just Keeps Talking
Mae Kellert2024-05-22T21:42:03-04:00After an esteemed career as professor of history at Princeton University and writing the New York Times bestselling The History ...
Return to Ellis Island
Mae Kellert2024-05-28T13:52:43-04:00As teenagers in 1974, Phil Buehler and Steve Siegel set out to explore the ruins of Ellis Island and make ...
Gun & Powder
Mae Kellert2024-04-26T11:14:44-04:00In Gun and Powder, playwright Angelica Chéri brings the story of her great-great-aunts, Mary and Martha Clarke, to the Paper ...
Jack Larimore: Maker
Mae Kellert2024-05-11T14:28:39-04:00New Jersey-based maker Jack Larimore explores the complexities of competition one finds in the natural environment with his exhibition entitled ...
Bowser House
Mae Kellert2024-04-25T07:46:06-04:00Residents from sleepy New Jersey suburbs discover they’re living in homes built by a forgotten genius. Conflicted over what to ...
“Miss Witherspoon” by Christopher Durang at the McCarter Theatre
Mae Kellert2024-04-17T16:02:43-04:00Miss Witherspoon by playwright Christopher Durang (1949-2024) premiered in 2005 at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey, with Kristine ...
Rita Dove reads “Geometry”
Mae Kellert2024-04-17T14:23:22-04:00“I prove a theorem and the house expands…” In this 1997 video from the State of the Arts archives, Rita ...
George Antheil: Bad Boy of Music
Mae Kellert2024-04-14T13:59:58-04:00From the 2003 archives of State of the Arts, a profile of composer George Antheil (1900-1959). The Trenton, NJ-born musician ...
Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance
Mae Kellert2024-02-27T12:09:13-05:00A newly digitized version of Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance. Narrated by Emmy Award-winning actor Joe ...
Mark Morris Dance Group
Mae Kellert2024-02-22T09:43:06-05:00In this 2024 State of the Arts feature, we meet the internationally-renowned choreographer Mark Morris at the Mark Morris Dance ...
Reciting Women: Two Muslim Artists
Mae Kellert2024-02-22T18:46:45-05:00Two Muslim women come together for an exhibition of their art at Princeton University Art Museum’s Art@Bainbridge. Khalilah Sabree was ...
The Lost Archive of a NJ Photographer
Mae Kellert2024-02-22T09:33:29-05:00A newly discovered collection of glass-plate negatives focused on Trenton, New Jersey, and shot between 1890 and 1910, reveals a ...
Westphalia at Luna Stage
Mae Kellert2023-12-07T17:13:07-05:00As the experimental theatre scene struggles to recover post-COVID, Luna Stage in West Orange, New Jersey puts on Westphalia, an ...
Steven R. Carty, Basket Weaver
Mae Kellert2023-12-07T17:11:53-05:00Steven R. Carty is a second-generation basket weaver from Mount Holly, New Jersey, on the edge of the Pine Barrens. ...
Judith K. Brodsky: A Force in the Arts
Mae Kellert2023-12-07T13:27:09-05:00We meet the extraordinary artist, scholar, print maker and feminist pioneer, Judith Brodsky. An exhibition she organized in Philadelphia 50 ...