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West Windsor, NJ – Maurer Productions OnStage brings classic laughs to the stage with the Neil Simon comedy “Laughter on the 23rd Floor” at Mercer County Community College’s Kelsey Theatre. Dates and times for this hilarious salute to the comedy writers of television’s golden age are: Fridays, Jan. 27 and Feb. 3 at 8 p.m.; Saturdays, Jan. 28 and Feb. 4 at 8 p.m.; and Sundays, Jan. 29 and Feb. 5 at 2 p.m. Kelsey Theatre is located on Mercer’s West Windsor campus, 1200 Old Trenton Road. A reception with the cast and crew follows the opening night performance on Jan. 27.

Poets Eloise Bruce and David Keller read from their work followed by a 20-minute open mic session. Bruce’s first book of poetry, “Rattle” was published in 2004, and she has had various roles at the Frost Place Center for Poetry over the years. A recipient of a New Jersey State Council on the Arts fellowship in poetry, she is dedicated to expanding the role of the arts in education. Keller was the first Guest American Poet at the Poets’ House in Northern Ireland and for many years was director of Admissions at the Frost Place Center for Poetry.

Two years ago, shortly after the Dodge Poetry Foundation announced the cancelation, for financial reasons, of its popular Dodge Poetry Festival, Paul Muldoon launched the first Princeton Poetry Festival.  Poets and poetry lovers across the state sounded a collective cheer! 

In the newly-published book, Spark: How Creativity Works by Julie Burstein, Joyce Carol Oates, the prolific Princeton author, reveals aspects of the impulse that keeps her writing, often for 12 hours a day when working on a first draft, as well as the thinking and dreaming in which she immerses herself when preparing a novel.  “It’s an intense and ineffable experience which is difficult to talk about,” says Oates, who doesn’t begin to write until she has “the whole thing in my head like a movie.”

April is National Poetry Month and in Princeton this means a new issue of U.S.1 Worksheets, the (now) annual poetry journal of U.S.1 Poets’ Cooperative.  Last Sunday, April 3, the community room of the Princeton Public Library was packed to capacity, as poets gathered to celebrate the arrival of Volume 56 of U.S.1 Worksheets, featuring the work of 98 local and regional poets.

“Pi Day Princeton proves that Princeton's businesses, academic institutions, non-profits, residents and scholars value creativity, collaboration and community."

That verdict from Mimi Omiecinski, Maestro of this past weekend’s four-day celebration of Albert Einstein’s birthday (March 14), coupled with number Pi (3.14), a coincidence that spawned an endless stream of fun activities dreamed up by Omiecinski and her collaborator, Joy Chen.

Newly-appointed Princeton Township Chief of Police Bob Buchanan says his life is not like most of the police dramas on television.  No CSI: Princeton.  “They miss out on the report writing and the behind the scene stuff,” he says.  “And in real life you don’t solve a crime within the hour.”       

Author and linguist Deborah Fallows presents a lecture on Chinese language and culture titled “Dreaming — and Thinking —in Chinese,” followed by a book-signing. Fallows is the author of “Dreaming In Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language.” She has recently lived in Shanghai and Beijing and traveled throughout China for three years with her husband, writer and journalist James Fallows. While in China, she worked for the Internet Project at the Pew Research Center, looking at Internet use in China.

"There Goes the Judge," called "a precious little allegory" by the LA Weekly, is the story of a Candy Mogul, whose “Chocolate Covered Presidential Heads” have made her gloriously rich. In the play, she describes her past as a humble poet returning to her apartment to find a Circuit Judge hiding in her closet and the others who hunt for him. Starring in the play is Anne Connors working with her husband Leland Schwantes. Tickets available at the door.

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