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Vol. LXII, No. 14
 
Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Calendar

Wednesday, April 2

12:30 p.m.: Noontime Recital Series with pianist Kathleen Milly, violinist Robert Ellis, and cellist Peggy Skemer; Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church. Free.

4:30 p.m.: Talk by Newt Gingrich on “Real Change: Bringing Health and Healthcare into the World that Works”; Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, Princeton University.

5:30 p.m.: Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce Annual Hall of Fame Reception and Dinner; Hyatt Regency Princeton.

7:30 p.m.: Argonautika; McCarter Theatre. Also Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 3 and 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m.

Thursday, April 3

7:30 p.m.: Talk, book signing by Food Network stars Jamie and Bobby Deen; Barnes & Noble, MarketFair, Route 1.

8 p.m.: Hip-hop/rock band Chattahoochee Payload; Small World Coffee, 14 Witherspoon Street.

Friday, April 4

Noon: Talk by Harvard University Prof. Samantha Power on “War Crimes and Genocide Today: What Can One Person Do?”; Bowl 016, Robertson Hall, Princeton University.

8 p.m.: Princeton University Program in Theater & Dance production of Orange Woman, A Ballad for a Moor; Berlind Theatre. Also Saturday at 8 p.m.

8 p.m.: Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita; State Theatre, New Brunswick. Also Saturday at 3 and 8 p.m.

8 p.m.: Singin’ in the Rain; Kelsey Theatre, Mercer County Community College. Also Saturday at 8 p.m.

8 p.m.: Cyrano de Bergerac; Heritage Center, 635 North Delmorr Avenue, Morrisville, Pa. Also Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 6 p.m.

8 p.m.: Disney’s High School Musical; Bucks County Playhouse, New Hope, Pa. Also Saturday at 4 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m.

8 p.m.: Six one-act plays by New Jersey playwrights; Passage Theatre, Trenton. Also Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m.

8 p.m.: Early music ensembles Artek and Piffaro; All Saints’ Church, 16 All Saints’ Road.

8 and 10:30 p.m.: Tom Whitely and Eric Deskin; Catch A Rising Star Comedy Club, Hyatt Regency.

Saturday, April 5

3:30 p.m.: BRAVO Winds Trio; Princeton Public Library. Free.

6:30 p.m.: Karen Zumbrunn Trio; Hopewell Valley Bistro & Inn, Hopewell.

8 p.m.: StepCrew dancers; Mount-Burke Theater, Peddie School, Hightstown.

8 p.m.: New Jersey Symphony Orchestra concert of works by Hungarian Composers; Patriots Theatre at the War Memorial, Trenton.

8 p.m.: Stephen Vincent Benet’s John Brown’s Body; Gambrell Room, Scheide Hall, Princeton Theological Seminary. Also Sunday at 3 p.m.

8 and 10:30 p.m.: Tom Whitely and college contest winner Doug Hankins; Catch A Rising Star Comedy Club, Hyatt Regency.

8:30 p.m.: Hip-hop/reggae band Universal Rebel; Small World Coffee, 14 Witherspoon Street.

Sunday, April 6

3 p.m.: New School for Music Study faculty recital with pianists Rebecca Pennington and Aline Schmidt; Jacobs Music, Lawrenceville.

3 p.m.: Kaleidoscope Chamber Series of Westminster Conservatory program of French Baroque music; Gill Memorial Chapel, Rider University.

3:30 p.m.: “Spring into Song” concert with Hopewell Valley Chorus and five other vocal ensembles; Unitarian Universalist Church of Washington Crossing, 268 Washington Crossing Road, Titusville. Free.

6 p.m.: Talk, “Mario Lanza: The Man Who Chose Hollywood Over Opera,” moderated by Sandy Steiglitz; Dorothea’s House.

Tuesday, April 8

4:30 p.m.: Talk by Antoinette Sayeh, Liberian Minister of Finance, “From Foreign Student to Technocrat to Minister: Changing Perspectives on Development”; Bowl 016, Robertson Hall, Princeton University.

5:30 p.m.: Township Housing Board; Township Municipal Complex.

Wednesday, April 9

4:30 p.m.: Panel discussion, “Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s and What That Means in 2008”; Bowl 016, Robertson Hall, Princeton University.

4:30 p.m.: Readings by fiction writers Gary Shteyngart and Rick Moody; Stewart Theater, 185 Nassau Street. Free.

7:30 p.m.: American Boychoir; St. Ann’s Catholic Church, Lawrenceville.

7:30 p.m.: Anything Goes; Princeton High School Auditorium. Also Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.

Thursday, April 10

4:30 p.m.: Talk by Princeton Prof. Daniel Kurtzer, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and Egypt, “Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: U.S. Diplomacy in the Middle East”; Bowl 016, Robertson Hall, Princeton University.

7 p.m.: Multilingual Poetry Night, area poets reading in eight languages; Princeton Public Library.

7 p.m.: New Jersey Orators Prose and Poetry Presentation; Barnes & Noble, MarketFair, Route 1.

8 p.m.: Princeton University Program in Theater & Dance production of Orange Woman, A Ballad for a Moor; Berlind Theatre. Also Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.

8 p.m.: Shaun Ruymen; Small World Coffee, 14 Witherspoon Street.

Friday, April 11

7:30 p.m.: England’s Winchester College Chapel boys’ choir; Trinity Church. 8 p.m.: Dance Improv, Live; All Saints’ Church.

8 p.m.: Jazz Friday Series with jazz singers Theo Bleckmann, Peter Eldridge, Lauren Kinhan, and Kate McGarry; Mount-Burke Theater, Peddie School, Hightstown.

8 p.m.: Disney’s High School Musical; Bucks County Playhouse, New Hope, Pa. Also Saturday at 4 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m.

8 p.m.: Cyrano de Bergerac; Heritage Center, 635 North Delmorr Avenue, Morrisville, Pa. Also Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 6 p.m.

8 p.m.: At First Sight; Off-Broadstreet Theatre, Hopewell. Also Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 2:30 p.m.

8 and 10:30 p.m.: Wali Collins and Steve Lazarus; Catch a Rising Star Comedy Club, Princeton Hyatt Regency. Also Saturday at 8 and 10:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 12

1 p.m.: Talk, book signing by Sen. Arlen Specter, author of Never Give In: Battling Cancer in the Senate; Barnes & Noble, MarketFair, Route 1.

2 p.m.: Boheme Opera’s West Side Story; Patriots Theater at the War Memorial, Trenton. Also Sunday at 3 p.m.

3 to 6 p.m.: Annual ESL International Day; YWCA Princeton Bramwell House, 59 Paul Robeson Place.

6:30 p.m.: Dick Braytenbah Trio with Tony Mennella; Hopewell Valley Bistro & Inn, Hopewell.

7:30 p.m.: Opera New Jersey “Spring Encore Opera” performance; PHS Senior Living Center, Stonebridge in Montgomery. Free.

7:30 p.m.: Jimmy Bosch Orchestra; Crossroads Theatre, New Brunswick.

8 p.m.: Exclusive New Jersey engagement of One Night of Queen with Gary Mullen and The Works; State Theatre, New Brunswick.

8 p.m.: The Princeton Singers; Johnson Education Center at D&R Greenway Land Trust, 1 Preservation Place.

8:30 p.m.: Rock singer Sarah Donner; Small World Coffee, 14 Witherspoon Street.

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