Community Calendar

Princeton Ballet School (PBS) is now enrolling for Fall 2025! With locations in Princeton, Cranbury, and New Brunswick, PBS offers children's dance, pre-professional training, and adult classes in ballet, contemporary, flamenco, tap, and more. Classes are available for all ages and levels, including drop-in Open Enrollment options, and features live music in every studio. Everyone is welcome!

PBS also offers its award winning DANCE POWER program in partnership with the New Brunswick Public Schools, Dance for Parkinson's, Audrey's Class for younger dancers with differing abilities, and performance opportunities, such as the option to participate in American Repertory Ballet’s celebrated annual production of The Nutcracker.

Join us for Night Four of the 27th annual MATA Festival! The centerpiece for Night Four is George Lewis’s String Quartet 1.5 "Experiments in Living” from 2016; Lewis's first string quartet. He says of the work, “I take ‘Experiments in Living,’ a phrase from John Stuart Mill, to express my notion of recombinant assemblage, associative sonic discourses that appear and recur in ever new forms and guises, suffused with the power of noise. . . I’m looking for listeners to experience the volatility of memory, resistance, and hope." Night Four includes seven works by 2025 MATA Festival Early-Career composers, all exploring what lies beyond our perception – from a sextet encapsulating vivid dreams during the pandemic to a work exploring the reciprocity of presence and absence – performed by FLUX Quartet, Ensemble LPR led by conductor Tito Muñoz, soprano Majel Connery, pianists Erika Dohi, Paul Kerekes, and Han Chen, and baritone Oshay LeGare.

From June 11-14, 2025, MATA presents its 27th annual festival, featuring four concerts across four nights exploring the concept of INTERGALACTIC INFINITY: Music Between Spaces. Founded in 1996 by Philip Glass, Eleonor Sandresky, and Lisa Bielawa, MATA serves as an incubator for adventurous emerging artists experimenting with composition, multi-media, performance art, and every imaginable sound in between. Its annual MATA Festival has become one of the most sought-after opportunities for young and emerging composers.

Curated by Executive Director Pauline Kim Harris, the 2025 Festival features works by 18 composers in the early stages of their professional careers, selected by Harris and a panel of eight esteemed composers and artists – Titilayo Ayangade, Tom Chiu, Felix Fan, John Glover, Conrad Harris, Max Mandel, Paula Matthusen, and Kal Sugatski – from a free, global call resulting in over 300 submissions.

Saturday, June 14 at 7pm - Dancers from the American Repertory Ballet perform stunning pas de deux to beautiful music played by the Princeton Symphony Orchestra led by Rossen Milanov. The program includes selections from beloved ballets Swan Lake, Don Quixote, and more. Festival Performance Pavilion at Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton, NJ. Tickets: start at $25 (children 5-17 accompanied by an adult receive a 50% discount); Digital programs, wheelchair accessible. Additional accommodations or services can be arranged with two weeks’ notice—contact mgodbole@princetonsymphony.org; For tickets: princetonsymphony.org/festival or 609-497-0020.

Princeton Ballet School (PBS) is now enrolling for Fall 2025! With locations in Princeton, Cranbury, and New Brunswick, PBS offers children's dance, pre-professional training, and adult classes in ballet, contemporary, flamenco, tap, and more. Classes are available for all ages and levels, including drop-in Open Enrollment options, and features live music in every studio. Everyone is welcome!

PBS also offers its award winning DANCE POWER program in partnership with the New Brunswick Public Schools, Dance for Parkinson's, Audrey's Class for younger dancers with differing abilities, and performance opportunities, such as the option to participate in American Repertory Ballet’s celebrated annual production of The Nutcracker.

Theater to Go

No other musical has so successfully woven music, dance, poignancy, and laughter into such a truly unforgettable show. As Tevye, a poor dairyman, tries to hold onto his religion, his Russian-Jewish traditions, and his five daughters while eluding the difficult future that looms ever nearer, he learns that life is "as shaky as a fiddler on the roof." Join Theater to Go to dream with "Matchmaker, Matchmaker;" laugh out loud with "If I Were a Rich Man," and tear up with "Sunrise, Sunset" and "Anatevka." This is a story that will last forever in your heart. Let's celebrate life together. L'Chaim! $26/$24

Fri. Jun. 6 & 13, 2025 at 8pm

Sat. June 7 at 8 pm                                                      

Sat. June 14 at 2pm                                                                                                            

Sun. June 8 & 15 at 2pm

Sunday, June 15 at 2:15pm – Free Pre-Performance Talk "Exploring Tosca" – Join Westminster Choir College's Margaret Cusack and Stage Director Eve Summer for an in-depth look at the Princeton Festival's production of Tosca. Q&A immediately following. Presented by Princeton Symphony Orchestra's BRAVO! Education Program. Stockton Education Center at Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton, NJ. Free and open to the public. For information call 609-497-0020 or visit princetonsymphony.org/festival. Assistive listening devices available; Additional accommodations or services can be arranged with two weeks’ notice—contact mgodbole@princetonsymphony.org.

Dates, times, artists, and programs subject to change.
Photo: Caste Sant'Angelo, Rome, Italy by Giuseppe Milo, Creative Commons 2.0

New York Chamber Ensemble presents “The Pinnacle of Chamber Music: Schubert’s Quintet in C Major” – The New York Chamber Ensemble, featuring Artistic Director Eliot Bailen, cello, and Susan Rotholz, flute, and guests. 4 p.m. The Episcopal Church of the Advent, 612 Franklin St.

Antonin Dvorak: Terzetto

Franz Schubert: Quintet in C Major with two cellos

Friday, June 13 at 7pm; Sunday, June 15 at 4pm; & Tuesday, June 17 at 7pm – Enjoy the Princeton Festival’s fully staged production of Puccini’s passionate opera, Tosca. Soprano Toni Marie Palmertree stars as Tosca with Victor Starsky portraying Cavaradossi and Luis Ledesma as Scarpia with stage direction by Eve Summer, scenic design by Ryan McGettigan, and score performed by the Princeton Symphony Orchestra conducted by music director Rossen Milanov. Festival Performance Pavilion at Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton, NJ. Tickets: start at $45 (children 5-17 accompanied by an adult receive a 50% discount); Digital programs, wheelchair accessible. Additional accommodations or services can be arranged with two weeks’ notice—contact mgodbole@princetonsymphony.org; For tickets: princetonsymphony.org/festival or 609-497-0020.

Princeton Ballet School (PBS) is now enrolling for Fall 2025! With locations in Princeton, Cranbury, and New Brunswick, PBS offers children's dance, pre-professional training, and adult classes in ballet, contemporary, flamenco, tap, and more. Classes are available for all ages and levels, including drop-in Open Enrollment options, and features live music in every studio. Everyone is welcome!

PBS also offers its award winning DANCE POWER program in partnership with the New Brunswick Public Schools, Dance for Parkinson's, Audrey's Class for younger dancers with differing abilities, and performance opportunities, such as the option to participate in American Repertory Ballet’s celebrated annual production of The Nutcracker.

Princeton Ballet School (PBS) is now enrolling for Fall 2025! With locations in Princeton, Cranbury, and New Brunswick, PBS offers children's dance, pre-professional training, and adult classes in ballet, contemporary, flamenco, tap, and more. Classes are available for all ages and levels, including drop-in Open Enrollment options, and features live music in every studio. Everyone is welcome!

PBS also offers its award winning DANCE POWER program in partnership with the New Brunswick Public Schools, Dance for Parkinson's, Audrey's Class for younger dancers with differing abilities, and performance opportunities, such as the option to participate in American Repertory Ballet’s celebrated annual production of The Nutcracker.