“Miss Witherspoon” by Christopher Durang at the McCarter Theatre
Miss Witherspoon by playwright Christopher Durang (1949-2024) premiered in 2005 at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey, with Kristine ...
Rita Dove reads “Geometry”
“I prove a theorem and the house expands…” In this 1997 video from the State of the Arts archives, Rita ...
George Antheil: Bad Boy of Music
From the 2003 archives of State of the Arts, a profile of composer George Antheil (1900-1959). The Trenton, NJ-born musician ...
Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance
A newly digitized version of Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance. Narrated by Emmy Award-winning actor Joe ...
Mark Morris Dance Group
In this 2024 State of the Arts feature, we meet the internationally-renowned choreographer Mark Morris at the Mark Morris Dance ...
Reciting Women: Two Muslim Artists
Two Muslim women come together for an exhibition of their art at Princeton University Art Museum’s Art@Bainbridge. Khalilah Sabree was ...
The Lost Archive of a NJ Photographer
A newly discovered collection of glass-plate negatives focused on Trenton, New Jersey, and shot between 1890 and 1910, reveals a ...
Westphalia at Luna Stage
As the experimental theatre scene struggles to recover post-COVID, Luna Stage in West Orange, New Jersey puts on Westphalia, an ...
Steven R. Carty, Basket Weaver
Steven R. Carty is a second-generation basket weaver from Mount Holly, New Jersey, on the edge of the Pine Barrens. ...
Judith K. Brodsky: A Force in the Arts
We meet the extraordinary artist, scholar, print maker and feminist pioneer, Judith Brodsky. An exhibition she organized in Philadelphia 50 ...
Feminism in the Arts
This is an excerpt of a 1988 State of the Arts, special about feminism in the arts that aired on ...
The Trenton Circus Squad
The Trenton Circus Squad features jugglers, unicyclists, aerialists, and clowns—a mix of inner-city youth and kids from the surrounding suburbs ...
Art of the Pine Barrens: Heather Palecek’s Solargraphy
Heather Palecek’s solargraphs are taken with simple pinhole box cameras, often made with Altoids tins. She mounts them in trees ...
Komar and Melamid: A Two Party System
In the USSR, they rebelled against the regime through satire and parody. In New York, they were crowned Soviet Pop ...
Unfinished Women
The Camden Repertory Theater produced an immersive production of Aishah Rahman’s rarely produced underground classic Unfinished Women Cry In No ...
Philip Roth’s Newark
"Philip Roth Unbound" was a three-day festival at NJPAC in March 2023 that celebrated the great novelist with readings by ...
DBR and NJ Symphony
We profile Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), the New Jersey Symphony's Resident Artistic Catalyst, and the debut performance of his new ...
Ben Shahn: Passion for Justice
This award-winning 2001 PBS documentary tells the story of the socially engaged, 20th Century American artist Ben Shahn (1898-1969). During ...
Philemona Williamson, Artist
Renowned figurative artist Philemona Williamson’s studio is in East Orange. For years, the artist didn't talk about her unusual New ...
Quarter Rican at Mile Square Theatre
Hoboken serves as both the setting and the inspiration for Quarter Rican, a fast-talking new hip hop musical by performer ...