Common calendar, Packet papers, January 29
Common calendar, Packet papers, January 29
Ongoing
Princeton University Concerts (PUC) is expanding its digital offerings for the remainder of the 2020-21 season to replace planned in-person concerts, many of which will be rescheduled to future seasons.
The university’s performing arts series has recast all of its virtual programming to directly address socially relevant topics. This includes: a new podcast series, Breathe in Music, bringing PUC’s popular Live Music Meditation series to a digital format; a new series of conversations with musicians and prominent arts thinkers about the impact of COVID-19 on the performing arts hosted by multidisciplinary artist and WNYC host Helga Davis; the release of new video episodes of mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato’s Sing for Today, in which the opera star responds to current events through the lens of song and conversations; and virtual performances and live Q&As with world-renowned musicians
Coronavirus in N.J.: What’s reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled. (Jan. 27, 2021)
Updated Feb 01, 2021;
A pair of New Jersey-based theater companies will be debuting online productions over the next week spotlighting important women in history:
♦ East Lynne Theater Company will present Stephanie Garrett reading “Lynching, Our National Crime,” a speech Ida B. Wells delivered at the National Negro Conference (forerunner to the NAACP) in New York City in the spring of 1909. The prerecorded performance will premiere 8 p.m. tomorrow, Thursday, Jan. 28, on ELTC’s YouTube channel and be available for viewing through Feb. 28.
Wells’ work began in the early 1890s, and by 1909, she was the most prominent anti-lynching campaigner in the United States. She died in 1931 and received a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for her reporting.
Coronavirus in N.J.: What’s reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled. (Jan. 20, 2021)
Updated Jan 27, 2021;
On Monday, Jan. 23, 1989, surrealist artist Salvador Dali died at the age of 84.
On Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021, the Ridgewood-based First Flight Theatre Company will bring him back to life with a virtual performance of “Salvador,” the Rick Young short play imagining the waning years of the eccentric Spanish artist’s life.
The production will be performed live online 7 p.m. Sunday, then be available for on-demand viewing through 11 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 27. A benefit performance for The Actors Fund, donations start at $10.
The play follows Dali as he sits in the plaza in front of the Teatro-Museo Dalí in Figueres, Spain, greeting guests as they arrive from all over the world to take a look at his collection and reminiscing about his art, life, loves and losses. The cast includes actors from New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles: Circus-S
Coronavirus in N.J.: What’s reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled. (Jan. 13, 2021)
Updated Jan 13, 2021;
♦ The Theater Project is seeking entries for its 19th annual Young Playwrights Competition and, to serve as an incentive of sorts, the Union-based professional theater company will re-stream four of last year’s winning plays online 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, Thursday.
The contest is open to New Jersey high school-aged residents. Deadline to enter the 2021 competition is Jan. 22. Guidelines can be found at thetheaterproject.org. Winners receive cash prizes and will have their work performed by professional actors at a Zoom awards ceremony in the spring.
Coronavirus in N.J.: What’s reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled. (Jan. 6, 2021)
Updated Jan 06, 2021;
Dreams, in a sense, are virtual happenings. This year, so is Dreamcatcher.
The professional repertory theater ensemble based out of the Oakes Center in Summit is in the process of finalizing its new online season, starting with “In With the New,” an online fundraiser gala scheduled for live streaming 7 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 10.
The live event will feature performances and an interactive trivia game.
Admission to the gala is $100, which includes a souvenir stemless wine glass filled with cookies delivered to each attendee’s home. (Additional glasses can be ordered for $10.)