Community Calendar

When everyday life doesn’t inspire us, we can turn to other art forms to move us. Learn how to build a friendship between verse and art by using the energy of music, paintings, films and more to create exciting ekphrastic poems. This encouraging workshop will help you collect inspirations and engage with structures, themes and motifs of other artists. Led by Cynthia Arrieu-King.

Blood Orange is an original experimental horror play about grief, girlhood, and starting new religions.

The play tells the story of Faye, a teenage girl who — feeling abandoned by God and her mother in the wake of her father’s violent death — turns to a nightmarish roadkill creature for salvation. Faye then draws her awkward friend, Eden, into a strange religion filled with prayer, blood, and budding love.

The play delves into grief as an ugly, intricate, and biting experience, examining the complexities of modern teenage girlhood and sexuality and asking vital yet often overlooked questions: How do young women navigate a culture that hypersexualizes them while demonizing their desires? What happens when the hunt for pleasure intertwines with pain?

In advance of his appearance on our stage for a rare public conversation (Wednesday, October 8, 2025 at 7:30PM), we invite you to delve into the world of legendary choreographer Mark Morris through a communal reading of his memoir, Out Loud. Presented in partnership with the Princeton Public Library, this hybrid book group offers the opportunity to explore Morris’s artistic journey, from his unconventional childhood in Seattle to the founding of the groundbreaking Mark Morris Dance Group, and the triumphs and tribulations that followed. Tina Fehlandt, an original member of the Mark Morris Dance Group who continues to set Morris’ work on dance companies around the country and is on the dance faculty at Princeton University, will join the conversation.

Blood Orange is an original experimental horror play about grief, girlhood, and starting new religions.

The play tells the story of Faye, a teenage girl who — feeling abandoned by God and her mother in the wake of her father’s violent death — turns to a nightmarish roadkill creature for salvation. Faye then draws her awkward friend, Eden, into a strange religion filled with prayer, blood, and budding love.

The play delves into grief as an ugly, intricate, and biting experience, examining the complexities of modern teenage girlhood and sexuality and asking vital yet often overlooked questions: How do young women navigate a culture that hypersexualizes them while demonizing their desires? What happens when the hunt for pleasure intertwines with pain?

Blood Orange is an original experimental horror play about grief, girlhood, and starting new religions.

The play tells the story of Faye, a teenage girl who — feeling abandoned by God and her mother in the wake of her father’s violent death — turns to a nightmarish roadkill creature for salvation. Faye then draws her awkward friend, Eden, into a strange religion filled with prayer, blood, and budding love.

The play delves into grief as an ugly, intricate, and biting experience, examining the complexities of modern teenage girlhood and sexuality and asking vital yet often overlooked questions: How do young women navigate a culture that hypersexualizes them while demonizing their desires? What happens when the hunt for pleasure intertwines with pain?

Il viaggio a Reims
Company Premiere
Music by Gioachino Rossini
Libretto by Luigi Balocchi
Performed in Italian with English supertitles

Exactly 200 years ago, Rossini dared to celebrate the coronation of Charles X with this ebullient satire of class, manners, and the timeless misery of long-distance travel. In his long-awaited American debut, Olivier Award-winning director Damiano Michieletto transforms this showpiece into a theatrical work of art, setting the story in a present-day gallery on the cusp of opening a major exhibition. The production’s rich narrative and visual palette shade Rossini’s joyful musical canvas, blurring the line between life and art. Jack Mulroney Music Director Corrado Rovaris leads a sparkling ensemble cast featuring the luminous soprano Brenda Rae.

All tickets are Pick Your Price, starting at $11. Any amount above $11 helps support other operagoers and the work we present on stage. In addition, $10 rush tickets will be available before the performance.

For more information, visit https://www.operaphila.org/whats-on/2526-season/il-viaggio-a-reims/.

Plunge into this stunning all-singing, all-dancing, dynamic stage show! When the citizens of Bikini Bottom discover that a volcano will soon erupt and destroy their humble home, SpongeBob and his friends must come together to save the fate of their undersea world. With lives hanging in the balance and all hope lost, a most unexpected hero rises up. The power of optimism really can save the world! Based on the popular TV series.

Fri. Sept. 19 & 26, 2025 at 8pm
Sat. Sept. 20 & 27 at 8pm

Matinee performances:

Sat. Sept. 27 at 2pm

Sun. Sept. 21 & 28 at 2pm

Garrison Keillor Tonight is an evening of stand-up, storytelling, audience song, and poetry. One man, one microphone. There are sung sonnets, limericks and musical jokes, and the thread that runs through it is the beauty of growing old. Despite the inconvenience, old age brings the contentment of LESS IS MORE. Your mistakes and big ambitions are behind you, nothing left to prove, and small things give you great pleasure because that’s what’s left.

“I was unhappy in college because it was a requirement for an intellectual, but then I went into show business and discovered that people won’t pay to be made unhappy, their kids will do it for free.”

There is the News from Lake Wobegon, a town booming with new entrepreneurs, makers of artisanal firewood and gourmet meatloaf, breeders of composting worms, and dogs trained to do childcare. But some things endure, such as the formation of the Living Flag on Main Street, citizens in tight formation wearing red, white or blue caps, and Mr. Keillor among them, standing close to old neighbors, Myrtle Krebsbach (“Truckstop”) and Julie Christensen (“Bruno, The Fishing Dog”) and Clint Bunsen. And an a cappella sing-along with the audience singing from memory an odd medley of patriotic songs, pop standards, hymns, and ending with the national anthem.

Blood Orange is an original experimental horror play about grief, girlhood, and starting new religions.

The play tells the story of Faye, a teenage girl who — feeling abandoned by God and her mother in the wake of her father’s violent death — turns to a nightmarish roadkill creature for salvation. Faye then draws her awkward friend, Eden, into a strange religion filled with prayer, blood, and budding love.

The play delves into grief as an ugly, intricate, and biting experience, examining the complexities of modern teenage girlhood and sexuality and asking vital yet often overlooked questions: How do young women navigate a culture that hypersexualizes them while demonizing their desires? What happens when the hunt for pleasure intertwines with pain?

Drummer Joe Rizzolo leads a quartet for the fall season opener at FlemingtonDIY> Fun room, cool vibe, all ages