“The Tempest” Outdoors | 07/01/09 The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey’s popular outdoor offering this summer is “The Tempest.” From June 24-August 2, Shakespeare’s magical play is being staged in a stone amphitheater based on the Dionysus Theater in Greece. As artistic director Bonnie Monte tells Susan Wallner, it’s a perfect play and a perfect setting for the whole family – and picnics are encouraged.
New Jersey International Film Festival | 05/27/09 Christopher Benincasa talks with New Jersey International Film Festival curator Al Nigrin and four of the festival’s featured filmmakers – Paul Marcus (Sounds Good To Me), Beth Toni Kruvant (Heart of Stone), and Neil and Lee Selden (Final Gifts) – all from New Jersey. This summer’s festival runs from June 5th through the 21st. The full schedule can be found at njfilmfest.com.
Paul Muldoon and Susan Wheeler | 05/11/09 Christopher Benincasa talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon and poet/author Susan Wheeler about the inaugural Princeton Poetry Festival, which was presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts in April of 2009 at Princeton University. The festival featured world-renowned poets John Ashbery, Seamus Heaney, Galway Kinnell, Gerald Stern, and many others.
Playwright Tarell McCraney | 04/20/09 Susan Wallner talks to playwright Tarell McCraney. The 28 year old is playwright in residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company, and he’s opening a trilogy, “The Brother/Sister Plays,” at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton. The plays deal with kinship, love, heartache and coming-of-age. The first of “The Brother/Sister Plays” opens on April 24th and runs through June.
New Jersey Ballet | 04/03/09 The New Jersey Ballet 50th anniversary features a season of works choreographed by some of the greatest names in dance. Producer Eric Schultz speaks with the company’s founding director, Carolyn Clarke, and Paul Hilliard McRae, New Jersey Ballet’s Assistant Artistic Director. There will be an NJ Ballet Gala Performance at NJPAC on April 18th. www.njballet.org
Bruce Cole on “Picturing America”| 03/16/09 Over 76,000 schools, public libraries, and Head Start centers nationwide have received “Picturing America,”- high quality reproductions of significant artworks ranging from an 1865 photograph of Abraham Lincoln to “American Landscape,” Charles Sheeler’s 1930 painting of a Ford Motor Company plant. Susan Wallner talks to the former NEH chair Bruce Cole. For more info visit picturingamerica.neh.gov.
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