July 2018 Princeton Summer Theater
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July 2018 Ev ent Guide Princeton University's TigerChallege program has Theater once again partnered with the Municipality of Princeton to take on a challenging issue facing the community. YouthCampus Music The Municipality is currently working in collaboration Art with Sustainable Princeton to develop a new 2019 Science Climate Action Plan for the Princeton community. While the plan is still being developed, an Quick Links approach has already been formulated about how the Community and Regional report and its recommendations will be shared. Affairs Lewis Center for the Arts A student team from TigerChallenge, a co-curricular Princeton Art Museum Princeton Athletics design thinking program, worked through the past Princeton Bike Share year with local officials and the leadership from Princeton University Sustainable Princeton to develop a simple but innovative Princeton University approach to releasing the plan elements. Their approach, Library Princeton University dubbed "The Inchworm", will be implemented upon Bulletin completion of the Climate Action Plan report. Public Events Calendar University Chapel To learn more about this town-gown collaboration and University Ticketing the communications plan developed by the TigerChallenge team check out this short video. Follow Us On Facebook Kristin Appelget Erin Metro Office of Community and Regional Affairs Princeton Summer Theater Princeton Summer Theater opens its 49th season with Tick, Tick...Boom! From the genius mind behind Rent, Tick, Tick...Boom! tells the autobiographical story of a composer searching for his big break. Fueled by Jonathan Larson's brilliant rock and pop score, this intimate show pulls back the curtain on the man whose breakthrough would change American musical theater forever in an inspiring appeal to follow your dreams. Tickets required. July 1, 5, 6, 7, 8; times vary; Hamilton Murray Theater. The season continues with Uncommon Women and Others. Wendy Wasserstein's watershed debut play follows a group of graduates from Mount Holyoke College at the dawn of second-wave feminism as they make new friendships, fall in and out of love, and imagine a brighter future for themselves. This comedy tackles what it means to dare to be an Uncommon Woman in a world that constantly tells women to accept less. Tickets required. July 12-15 and July 18-22; times vary; Hamilton Murray Theater. YouthCampus Princeton Summer Theater presents its annual children's show, Greetings From Mars! For Mars Peculiarity Rover, life on Mars consists of cataloguing rocks and transmitting back to an Earth that feels further and further away all the time - but everything changes the day a star falls and an alien star-catcher comes chasing after it. This romp through the solar system is a playful exploration of scientific discovery, dogs in space, and how friendships can transform even a lonely red planet. Tickets required. Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays; July 6-18; 11 am; Hamilton Murray Theater. The Office of Community and Regional Affairs sends email notices about k-12 programming through its YouthCampus mailing list. To join the mailing list email [email protected]. Like us on Facebook! Music Princeton University holds its annual Summer Annual Carillon Concert Series. The concerts take place on Sundays at 1 pm. The Carillon is a musical instrument of 23 or more bells that when sounded produce music. Carillon bells are hung stationary with only the clapper moving against the lip of the bell. It is manually played from a console with both fists and feet activating batons and pedals attached to the clappers through mechanical linkage. There is no electronic assistance to ring the bells. Concerts are held rain or shine. Sundays; July 1- September 2; 1 pm: Graduate School, 88 College Road West. Carillon Concerts at the Graduate College start Princeton University Summer Chamber Concerts on July 1. presents Omer Quartet. The program features works by Haydn, Yiwn, and Bartok. Tickets are free, reservations are required. Monday, July 2; 7:30 pm: Alexander Hall, Richardson Auditorium. Poulenc Trio takes the stage for a Summer Chamber Concert. The trio features oboist James Austin Smith, pianist Irina Kaplan, and bassoonist Bryan Young. Tickets are free, reservations are required. Sunday, July 8; 3 pm; Alexander Hall, Richardson Auditorium. The Summer Chamber Concert series concludes with Daedalus String Quartet. The program includes works by Beethoven and Brahms. Tickets are free, reservations are required. Wednesday, July 25; 7:30 pm; Alexander Hall, Richardson Auditorium. Art Princeton University Art Museum Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking. Between 1984 and 1999, the American artist Frank Stella executed four ambitious print series, each of which was named after a literary work that had a distinctive narrative structure: the Passover song Had Gadya, a compilation of Italian folktales, the epic novel Moby-Dick, and the illustrated encyclopedia Dictionary of Imaginary Places. Through these four bodies of work, Stella evolved printmaking projects of unprecedented scale and complexity that both transformed the artist's visual language-as well as his working process in all media-and represent a technical and expressive milestone in printmaking. Featuring forty-one prints from these four major series alongside their literary catalysts, Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking will be the first exhibition to focus exclusively on the vital role that world literature played in his powerful exploration of the print medium. Through September 23. Picturing Protest. Through October 14. Special Events Discover the Art Museum's premier collections spanning antiquity to contemporary in a Highlights Tour, offered free of charge. Tours meet at the entrance to the Museum. July 1, 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, 28 and 29; 2 pm; Art Museum. The Art Museum's Summer Film Series continues with Clueless. The '90s classic offers a witty update of Jane Austen's 1815 novel Emma, reimagining Austen's insightful take on social manipulation in nineteenth-century Britain through the machinations of a group of teenagers at a Beverly Hills high school. In the event of rain, films will be shown at 8 p.m. in 101 McCormick Hall. Thursday, July 19; sundown; Brown/Dod Quad. Art for Families Take an Artful Adventure around the world and through the ages. This series of self-guided tours and activities is available for families at all times. Pick up your Passport to Adventure at the Museum information desk and choose from our many Artful Adventures activity guides. Once you complete your adventure, visit the information desk to collect a sticker for your passport. Science Princeton Plasma Physics Labratory offers free public tours led by an engineer or physicist on the first and third Friday of most months at 10 a.m., at 100 Stellarator Road, Princeton, New Jersey. This month's tours are July 6 and 20. You must pre-register at to attend; click here to register. Visitors with a plasma ball and other plasma demonstrations in PPPL's Science Education Laboratory. Im ages Art Frank Stella, Juam, State I, 1997 . Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, U.S.A. Tyler Graphics Ltd. 197 4-2001 Collection, given in honor of Frank Stella, 2003.44.27 3. © 2017 Frank Stella / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New Y ork Science Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications Princeton University Office of Community and Regional Affairs 4 Mercer Street Princeton, New Jersey 08540 (609) 258-3204 email: [email protected] www.princeton.edu/community .