How comfortable are you with your New York cappuccino malaise? Have you, like Marjorie Taub, become a “retail terrorist,” dropping ceramic figurines on the floor of the Disney Store in a desperate cry for help? What you need is a Lee Green, one of those serendipitously-appearing long-lost friends who has met more celebrities than Letterman, [...]

Jonathan Larson, the electrifyingly talented composer of this relocation of the story of La Boheme to contemporary Lower East Side New York, never lived to see the miraculous success of his creation: he died of an aortic aneurysm at age 36, on the day of the show’s final Off-Broadway dress rehearsal.

In QED Alan Alda gives a tour-de-force performance as physicist Richard Feynman, a Nobel laureate with a larger than life personality and a career that included developing the atom bomb and explaining the puzzle of the space shuttle Challenger’s explosion. The two-character play was given its world premiere las spring at Los Angeles’ Mark Taper [...]

Parthenon Events Schedule

2009 – 2010 Symposia
October 6 – Theoni Pappas – Figuratively Speaking: The Language of Math
October 29 – Rex Wallace – Deciphering Etruscan
November 17 – Jim Womack – James Cowan, Gentleman Collector
December 8 – Richard Vine – John Kingerlee: By Art Alone
January 26 – Susann Lusnia – The Amazing, Colossal [...]

Situated on a beautiful 55-acre property, Cheekwood Botanical Gardens and Museum of Art is truly one of Tennessee’s treasures. Mrs. Mabel Cheek, formerly Wood, was the daughter of a prominent Tennessee family. Her name and her husband’s were combined to form the name of their new home, Cheekwood. Mr. Leslie Cheek was the son of [...]

The historic Ritz Theatre located on the White Horse Pike in Oaklyn, N.J., opened in September, 1927. The original decor remains intact in today’s Ritz. The auditorium walls still feature the neo-classic murals typical of the late 1920s.
The stage is surrounded by gilt trimmed marbleized columns and velvet-draped balconies enclosed by [...]

THE GUILD AT PAPER MILL
For over 20 years, the Guild has been an invaluable volunteer arm and support organization for Paper Mill.
The members, through their tireless efforts and dedication, generously donate thousands of volunteer hours by staffing and operating the Gift Shop as well as holding raffles. Monies raised from these [...]

The Open Doors Artist’s Studios and Available Space tour is an annual event organized by the Newark Arts Council.  The Tour features a number of crated and juried exhibitions highlighting artists from Newark and surrounding areas while showcasing available artists’ space; performance art; a rare look into artists’ studios and a [...]

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the state’s preeminent performing arts organization, is one of the oldest orchestras in the United States. It was founded in 1922, but traces its roots to 1846, when the Eintracht Orchestra and Singing Society of Newark was founded. Today, the NJSO fulfills its mission as a true state orchestra by [...]

Founded as the Summit Art Association by a dedicated group of artists in 1933, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts has evolved into a major regional arts center with both a professionally recognized studio program and critically acclaimed exhibition program. The Center, a non-profit organization located in Summit, New Jersey, offers a variety of fine [...]