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”
Mae Kellert2024-04-17T14:23:22-04:00“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
Mae Kellert2024-04-14T13:59:58-04:00From 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
Mae Kellert2024-02-27T12:09:13-05:00A newly digitized version of Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance. Narrated by Emmy Award-winning actor Joe ...
Mark Morris Dance Group
Mae Kellert2024-02-22T09:43:06-05:00In 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
Mae Kellert2024-02-22T18:46:45-05:00Two 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
Mae Kellert2024-02-22T09:33:29-05:00A newly discovered collection of glass-plate negatives focused on Trenton, New Jersey, and shot between 1890 and 1910, reveals a ...
Westphalia at Luna Stage
Mae Kellert2023-12-07T17:13:07-05:00As 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
Mae Kellert2023-12-07T17:11:53-05:00Steven 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
Mae Kellert2023-12-07T13:27:09-05:00We meet the extraordinary artist, scholar, print maker and feminist pioneer, Judith Brodsky. An exhibition she organized in Philadelphia 50 ...
Feminism in the Arts
Mae Kellert2023-11-09T16:38:09-05:00This is an excerpt of a 1988 State of the Arts, special about feminism in the arts that aired on ...
The Trenton Circus Squad
Mae Kellert2023-10-26T10:24:04-04:00The 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
Mae Kellert2023-10-26T10:21:27-04:00Heather 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
Mae Kellert2023-10-26T10:19:07-04:00In the USSR, they rebelled against the regime through satire and parody. In New York, they were crowned Soviet Pop ...
Unfinished Women
Mae Kellert2023-09-14T10:22:08-04:00The Camden Repertory Theater produced an immersive production of Aishah Rahman’s rarely produced underground classic Unfinished Women Cry In No ...
Philip Roth’s Newark
Mae Kellert2023-09-14T10:18:07-04:00"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
Mae Kellert2023-09-14T10:10:40-04:00We 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
Mae Kellert2023-05-26T11:21:45-04:00This award-winning 2001 PBS documentary tells the story of the socially engaged, 20th Century American artist Ben Shahn (1898-1969). During ...
Philemona Williamson, Artist
Mae Kellert2023-03-30T12:47:59-04:00Renowned 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
Mae Kellert2023-04-01T09:13:17-04:00Hoboken serves as both the setting and the inspiration for Quarter Rican, a fast-talking new hip hop musical by performer ...