Weekend Arts Roundup: Intime, Improv, Music and More
It's a huge week for arts events: with three plays, big choral concerts, great bands at Terrace, and more, there's something for everyone. Celebrate the countdown to spring break (only two weeks to go! we're in the home stretch!) with one of these gems:- It's a banner weekend for student-run theater on campus, with two shows opening tonight: Amy Gobel's Much Ado About Nothing with the Princeton Shakespeare Company and Francesca Furchgott's Carousel with the Princeton University Players. Both play this Thursday-Saturday at 8pm (with a 2pm matinee on Saturday for Much Ado), and both will continue performances next weekend; tickets are $8, student events eligible. Much Ado is in the Whitman Theatre, while Carousel is in Frist (the theater's up on the third floor). Also up this weekend: Sarah Hedgecock's Recent Tragic Events has its final four performances in Theatre Intime, tickets $8.
- Terrace has a really great lineup this weekend, with performances by Shigeto and Junk Culture on Thursday and Javelin, a Pitchfork favorite, on Saturday. Get in early to snag a good spot! Performances usually start at about midnight.
- For an awesome, and unusual, vocal event, check out Chapel Choir's performance with jazz quartet and strings of Ike Sturm's Jazz Mass this Friday at 8pm in the Chapel. Admission is free.
- Fuzzy Dice's annual improv show is an ideal way to blow off steam this Friday after a long week: 11pm in Theatre Intime, tickets at the door.
- It's senior recital season over in the Music department, and if you missed Meghan Todt's excellent violin recital last Saturday of if you just can't get enough of solo violin pieces), check out Megan McPhee at 8pm in Taplin Auditorium this Saturday. She'll be performing pieces by Beethoven, Brahms and Sarasate. Free.
- There's choral music galore this weekend: if you can't hit up Chapel Choir on Friday night, definitely try the Glee Club concert at 2pm on Sunday in Richardson Auditorium. They have a really innovative lineup of pieces, all written by Estonian composers (there's something you don't see every day, event on Princeton's campus!). Student tickets $5.
[Ed. note: An earlier version of this post stated Terrace shows begin around 10PM; since that pretty much almost never happens, it's been corrected to midnight.]