Princeton NJ Events

Oscar Shorts Festival, Trenton Film Society

Saturday March 14, 2026
1:00 PM

Oscar Shorts Festival, Trenton Film Society, Mill Hill Play House, 205 East Front Street, Trenton www.trentonfilmsociety.org. Screenings of Oscar-nominated live-action shorts. $12. 1 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.

Oscar Shorts Festival, Trenton Film Society, Mill Hill Play House, 205 East Front Street, Trenton www.trentonfilmsociety.org. Screenings of Oscar-nominated animated shorts. $12. 3:30 p.m.

Clue - The Musical, Kelsey Theatre

Saturday March 14, 2026
2:00 PM

2 and 8pm

Step into a world of mystery, music, and mayhem with Clue: The Musical! This interactive whodunit features all of your favorite characters – Colonel Mustard, Professor Plum, Mrs. White, Mr. Green, Miss Scarlet, Mrs. Peacock and more – join them to solve a murder with countless possible outcomes.. The choices are totally up to you! $26/$24PG

1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor

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Circus Quixote, McCarter Theatre

Saturday March 14, 2026
2:00 PM

2 and 7:30

Cervantes’ classic is reimagined in a dazzling new production from the creators of McCarter audience favorites, Lookingglass Alice and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Somewhere in La Mancha there lived a man who read so many books that his brains dried up…so he becomes a knight! As Don Quixote embarks on his impossible quest for justice, Lookingglass Theatre’s signature acrobatics, breathtaking visuals, and boundless imagination transport audiences into his wild, windmill-tilting world.

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Author Talk: The Avett Brothers' Bob Crawford on "America's Founding Son," Labyrinth Books

Saturday March 14, 2026
4:00 PM

Join historian Bob Crawford, best known as the bassist for The Avett Brothers, at Labyrinth Books. He will discuss his new book, America's Founding Son: John Quincy Adams, from President to Political Maverick, with historian Sean Wilentz of Princeton University. Sponsored by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.

March 14, 4:00 p.m. Doors will open at 3:30 p.m. General admission is FREE (tickets required). Admission with a reserved copy of the book is $28. Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bob-crawford-in-conversation-with-sean-wilentz-americas-founding-son-tickets-1980203809901

Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion, ACME Screening Room

Saturday March 14, 2026
5:30 PM

25 South Union Street, Lambertville www.acmescreeningroom.org.

The film traces Bob Mackie’s remarkable career and evolution as a designer and artist, weaving together original interviews with his clients, collaborators, and the designers, stylists, comedians, and actors he has inspired, alongside Mackie's own reflections on his most iconic creations. Post screening Q&A with Director Matthew Miele. $23.

Shrek, Music Mountain Theater

Saturday March 14, 2026
7:30 PM

"Once upon a time, there was a little ogre named Shrek." Thus begins the tale of an unlikely hero who finds himself on a life-changing journey alongside a wisecracking Donkey and a feisty princess who resists her rescue. Throw in a short-tempered bad guy, a cookie with an attitude, and more than a dozen other fairy tale misfits, and you have the kind of mess that calls for a real hero. Luckily, there's one on hand.

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Gravity Hill and Ride or Die @Needle Creek Brewery

Saturday March 14, 2026
8:00 PM - 11:00 PM

A winter party to celebrate all the friends we are so lucky to have and the ones we haven't yet met. New songs. Old songs. Great craft beer and tasty local bites for sale.

The musicians in Gravity Hill and Ride or Die met on a porch in Princeton, on a rainy spring day three years ago - the result of a fortuitous decision by the Princeton Porchfest Committee. The bands played in a steady downpour and by the time they were done the street was so packed that the cops had to shut the block down to traffic. This will be their first show together since then. What they deliver is an eclectic mix of songs you've heard, a few covers you haven't, and original music built upon the the vibes and jangles of sixties pop, folk & Americana, dance rock, alternative rock, and rhythm & blues.

Needle Creek Farm Brewery 91 Titus Mill Road Pennington, NJ 08534

TICKETS/$10