Weekend Arts Roundup: Sondheim, Shakespeare, Song Cycles, and More
Welcome back to The Ink's Weekend Arts Roundup! For '15ers (and newbies to The Ink), the Arts Roundup is an insiders' guide to all arts events that happen in Princeton (both on and off campus) each weekend. We'll give you locations, times, helpful links, ticket prices, event descriptions and hype...everything you need to get out there and take advantage of all the great arts opportunities that Princeton has to offer!Since the semester's still in its early stages, we've got a number of off-campus options to tempt you with this week. Stay tuned for later weeks when a cappella, theater, dance, music groups, and more will take the campus by storm!
- If you think that string music's just for old-timey Princetonians in smoking jackets, Alasdair Frasier will give you a run for your money: he's a virtuosic fiddler who takes Scottish traditional and folk music to a wholly new level of musicality. He's also super-legit, as his multiple NPR visits highlight. Thursday at 8pm in Taplin Hall; admission is free with TigerTickets ($15 for general admission). You can call or order them online at 609-258-9220 or www.princeton.edu/utickets.
- Experience the Bard's best in one fell swoop, complete with snarktastic commentary and a Titus-Andronicus-themed cooking show, at the Princeton Shakespeare Company's one-night-only production of Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged), which they perform to packed audiences each May at Reunions. Saturday at 8p and midnight, Whitman Theater; tickets are free at the door, but bound to sell out!
- Princeton's improbably playing host to one of the season's hottest theater tickets: John Doyle's Ten Cents a Dance, a dark song cycle with a wholly new take on the classic music of Rogers and Hart. Doyle, director of the critically-acclaimed recent Broadway revivals of Sweeney Todd and Company, is one of his generation's great visionaries; the production, co-produced with Williamstown Theatre Festival, is not to be missed. Tues-Thurs at 7:30pm, Saturday at 8p; Berlind Theater, McCarter Theatre Center. Tickets free with a TigerTicket (preloaded on your Prox).
- Though it's technically already sold out (the first-come first-serve free tickets were all gone as of Tuesday night), former New York Times theater critic Frank Rich's public interview with composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim here at McCarter Theater is bound to be a once-in-a-lifetime event for arts lovers. Monday, September 26, at 8pm in Matthews Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center; they'll be giving will call tickets at the door, so it's definitely worth stopping by!