For more NJ ARTS PROGRAMS • 800.THE.ARTS, www.JerseyArts.com/Festivals, NJJazzList.com, www.njthatrealliance.org, njArtsTix.org (discount tickets)
Through June 30 • New Jersey’s Natural Wonders juried art exhibit at The Gallery. Show runs through June 30. South Brunswick Municipal Building, 540 Ridge Road, Monmouth Junction.
Movie Nights, all 6:30—8:45, May 21, Her, June 25, The Grand Budapest Hotel; Feature Film, 2—4:45pm, May 1, The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug, June 29, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit; Poetry Series, Sundays 2-4pm; May 4, poets Charles H. Johnson and Laine Sutton; International Film Festival: May 11, 2pm, The Flowers of War, repeated May 14, 6:30pm, June 15, 2pm, Instructions Not Included, repeated June 18, 6:30pm; Live Concert Performances, 2—4pm: May 18, Jo Wymer, Acoustic Guitar, June 22, RB Express; May 11, 1:30—4:30pm, Native American Flute Circle; South Brunswick Public Library, 110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction, www.sbpl.info .
May 1, 8pm, Piotr Anderszewski, piano; Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University, www.princetonuniversityconcerts.org/concerts
May 2 • 8pm, Wendy Zoffer Jazz Group at The Jazz Café, $6, Herb Eckert Auditorium in the Senior Center, 540 Ridge Road, Monmouth Junction, www.sbarts.org/jazz-café
May 2, 8pm, Brahms First Symphony, Richardson Auditorium, Princeton; June 8, 3pm, Cirque de la Symphonie, State Theatre, New Brunswick; New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, www.njsymphony.org, 800.255.3476.
May 3, 7pm, City Ballet’s Dracula; The Richard P. Marasco Center for the Performing Arts, 1629 Perrineville Road, Monroe Township, www.monroetownshipculturalarts.com
May 3 • 3—5pm, Opening Reception, MASS assembly, works by Willie Cole, Andy Epstein, Donna Payton and Valerie Young, exhibit on display until June 7; May 4, 10:30am—3:30pm, Paint Out Princeton at Morven, free, pre-registration required; May 4, 3pm, Joey Alexander solo piano recital, $5; May 9 & 10, 7:30pm, Opera MODO presents The Abduction from the Seraglio, $25/$25 students; May 10, 3—5pm, Closing Reception, Paint Out Princeton, free; May 16, 8pm,South Bites concert featuring The Juke Joint Jonny Trio, $10/$8 members; Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, www.artscouncilofprinceton.org, 609.924.8777.
Through May 3, young galaxy exhibit of work by advanced students for The College of New Jersey; through May 3, Paper Sculpture Wonders—A solo exhibition by Kathy Tsao; through May 3, Mercer Co. Boys & Girls Club Art Exhibit; May 10, 6—8pm, Opening Reception, Earth Air Fire Water – works by Alan Goldstein, exhibit runs through June 7; June 21-22, 3pm to 3pm, Art All Night 2014, Select exhibit at Artworks, June 28—July 26, reception June 28, 6-8pm; June 7—28, The Men I Have Known—Works by Juliet Martin, reception June 28, 6—8pm; Artworks, 19 Everett Alley, Stockton Street, Trenton. www.artworkstrenton.org
May 4, 4—6pm, Opening reception, WW33, show runs through June 13; May 10, Frozen River, both $8/$7 members, at the door; May 17, 8pm, Get Jazzed: An Evening with American Jazz Drummer Winard Harper, $20/$18 members; May 18, 6pm, Abstraction in Mind: An Artist Talk with Andrew Werth, free; June 7, 8pm, Sufiana: Divine Love, $20/members $18; June 28, 7pm, And the Best Goes On…The Blawenburg Band (at the Nassau Park Pavilion), free; West Windsor Arts Center, 952 Alexander Road, Princeton Junction, www.westwindsorartscenter.org, 609.716.1931.
Through May 4, HAIR; May 10, 8pm & May 11, 2pm, MDE—Something for Everyone; May 17, 2 & 4pm, The Emperor’s New Clothes; May 16—May 25, The Great American Trailer Park Musical; May 30—June 1, Shrek, The Musical; June 13—22, Much Ado About Nothing; The Kelsey Theatre at MCCC, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, www.kelseytheatre.net
Through May 4, The Figaro Plays: The Barber of Seville; through May 3, The Figaro Plays: The Marriage of Figaro; May 7, 7:30, The Aspen Santa Fe Ballet; May 9, 8pm, Simon Shaheen; May 10, 8pm, Bill Charlap; May 12, 7:30pm, Pinchas Zukerman & Yefim Bronfman; May 15, 7:30pm, Moscow Virtuosi; May 17, 8pm, Straight No Chaser a cappella; June 4, 7:30pm, David Sedaris; June 7, 8pm, A Cappella Vocal Jazz; June 8, 4:30pm, Jazz: Martin Wind Quartet; June 14, 8pm, Concordia Chamber Players; June 15, 2pm & 6pm, Puppet Theatre: Goldilocks; 3pm, Piano Competition Finals; June 20, 8pm, Ola Fresca; June 21, 8pm, Evan Wong; June 22, 3pm & June 27, 8pm, Porgy and Bess; June 28, 7:30pm, Choral Concert; McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place, Princeton, www.mccarter.org, 609.258.2787.
Through May 4, South Pacific; May 3, 10am, Are You My Mother?; May 10, 10am, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe; May 28—June 29, Grease; Papermill Playhouse, 22 Brookside Drive, Millburn, 973.376.4343, www.papermill.org.
May 7 • 6pm, Insights: Gallery Talks: Explore art of the divine in Egypt, ancient Greece and Russia, May 11, 2pm, Nineteenth century European Art, June 4, 6pm, Repression and Response, Russian and Soviet Nonconformist Art; current exhibitions: through July 31, “Never such innocence again”, Picturing the Great War in French Prints and Drawings, through July 31, Stars: Contemporary Prints by Derriere L’Etoile Studio, through October 19, Odessa’s Second Avant-Garde: City and Myth; admission $6/members free, museum hours 10am—4:30pm, Tuesdays through Fridays, noon to 5pm Saturdays and Sundays, 10am to 9pm first Wednesdays, Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu.
Through May 11 • Into the Woods; June 6—22, Wedding Secrets; Somerset Valley Playhouse, 689 Amwell Road, Hillsborough, www.svptheatre.org.
May 16 • 6:30—6:30pm, Awards Reception, 2014 Annual Associates and New Member Exhibition, exhibit runs May 5—31, Middletown Arts Center, 36 Church Street, Middletown, www.middletownarts.org; June 7—August 9, 2014 Signature Members Show, D&R Greenway, 1 Preservation Place, Princeton, www.drgreenway.org; Garden State Watercolor Society, www.gswcs.com.
June 7 • 10am–4pm, East Brunswick Municipal Complex, Ryder’s Lane. Outdoor juried show of fine art and fine handmade crafts.
Through June 30, 2014 • Got Work? New Deal/WPA in New Jersey, Cornelius Low House, Middlesex County Museum, 1225 River Road, Piscataway, 732.745.4177. Public, group and school tours welcome. www.co.middlesex.nj.us. Sponsored by Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission.
Teachers with students will receive a “Workshop in a Box” with all components to take back to the classroom for use year after year. To schedule a class visit and reserve your box, call 732.545.4489.