Weekend Arts Roundup: Movin' Out to McCarter

Welcome back to the Ink's Weekly Arts Roundup! For those of you who haven't read it before, the Arts Roundup highlights a specific arts event in the Princeton area each Thursday, and also lists locations, dates, times, and ticket prices for other events that will occur throughout the weekend.While this weekend is a fairly quiet one in terms of campus events, largely thanks to tonight's final round of a cappella callbacks, McCarter Theatre offers a host of amazing performances for students and townies alike.  Originally built for Triangle back in the '30s, the space is now privately owned--though it does still sport the Triangle logo on the end of each row of seats, which is pretty darn cool.  In addition to the Matthews Theater, Triangle's original space, McCarter has expanded to include the smaller Berlind Theater, which it co-owns with the University.Up in the Berlind at McCarter this weekend is Aurelia's Oratorio, a play that's literally about if the world were turned upside down.  McCarter's Artistic Director Emily Mann describes it as, "a piece of moving poetry, dreamlike in its fluidity."  In a world that defies gravity, the show "promotes wonder and astonishment, and asks its audience to let themselves go on a journey and open themselves up to a unique theatrical experience."  According to sophomore Claire Greene, who saw the show for the second time on Wednesday with Stacy Wolf and Jill Dolan's popular Performance Studies class, "the play's definitely the most wonderful and whimsical piece of theater I've ever seen, especially here at Princeton." The Berlind Theatre, September 10-October 17th; 70 minutes with no intermission.  Sunday-Thursday @7:30pm, Friday-Saturday at 8pm, with matinees on weekends.  For tickets, click here.

Also at McCarter this week: David Sedaris returns to Matthews Theatre on Tuesday, September 28, for his eighth annual fall show. Get tickets while they last, this one sells out quickly!  Or, if the likes of Triangle or Hasty Pudding are more your thing, check out the Cambridge Footlights in Matthews on Wednesday, September 29.  If you like Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, the Monty Python boys, Emma Thompson, or just about anyone British with a sense of humor, they all got their start in the Footlights.