Princeton NJ Events

I’m With Her, McCarter Theatre

Friday November 7, 2025
7:30 PM

With the 2014 formation of I’m With Her, singer/songwriters Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan, and Sara Watkins introduced an essential new force into the world of folk music. On their long-awaited sophomore LP Wild and Clear and Blue, I’m With Her now bring their luminous harmonies to a soul-searching body of work about reaching into the past, navigating a chaotic present, and bravely moving forward into the unknown. All multi-GRAMMY®-winners with deep roots in the folk scene, Watkins, Jarosz, and O’Donovan first discovered their near-telepathic chemistry during an impromptu performance at the 2014 Telluride Bluegrass Festival, then co-founded I’m With Her and began touring extensively and performing at acclaimed festivals across the globe.

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Drop Dead!, Kelsey Theatre

Friday November 7, 2025
8:00 PM

The Yardley Players

When a cast of has-been actors attempt to revive their careers in this full-length comedic murder mystery, "Drop Dead!" directed by "Wonder Child of the Broadway Stage" Victor Le Pewe, side-splitting antics ensue. The set falls apart, props break, and the producer and an actor meet an untimely demise ... but the show must go on. And so it does. Even as the curtain opens for the cast's debut performance, the murders continue and the play goes incredibly wrong. It's up to the remaining thespians to save the show, their careers, solve the mystery and stay alive for curtain calls.

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South Brunswick Jazz Café Concert – Ginger Meyer

Friday November 7, 2025
8:00 PM

Ginger Meyer is an alto saxophonist and educator born in Belvidere, New Jersey. In their stomping grounds of Easton, PA, native musicians such as Bill Goodwin, Skip Wilkins, and Adam Nussbaum nurtured strong musical values while Ginger was still in high school. Now wrapping up a degree in Music Education and Jazz Performance at Rutgers University, they perform live shows with blues, rock, and jazz groups all over the East Coast. Ginger has had the pleasure of sharing the stage and learning from master musicians such as Bruce Williams, Abraham Burton, Gene Perla, Ralph Bowen, Anthony Branker, Christian McBride, and Camille Thurman. In the past two years, Ginger has taught at the Jazz House Kids Summer Workshop and Jazz House Chica Power, an all-female and non-binary initiative for jazz musicians. Ginger's most recent project, The Erasure of Identities and Voices, will focus on the monumental role African Americans have played in the history of our nation, featuring dancers and musicians.

South Brunswick Municipal Complex 540 Route 522 (Ridge Rd.), Monmouth Junction, NJ 08852 Admission $6 at the door - Light refreshments included + BYOB Doors open 7:15PM – No reservations, no advance ticket sales For more info, www.sbarts.org

Annie, Music Mountain Theater

Friday November 7, 2025
8:00 PM

Leapin' Lizards! The irrepressible comic strip heroine comes to the Music Mountain Theatre stage in one of the world's best-loved musicals. With equal measures of pluck and positivity, little orphan Annie charms everyone's hearts despite a next-to-nothing start in 1930s New York City. She is determined to find the parents who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of a New York City Orphanage that is run by the cruel, embittered Miss Hannigan. With the help of the other girls in the Orphanage, Annie escapes to the wondrous world of NYC. In adventure after fun-filled adventure, Annie foils Miss Hannigan's evil machinations... and even befriends President Franklin Delano Roosevelt! She finds a new home and family in billionaire, Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary, Grace Farrell, and a lovable mutt named Sandy.

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Mandy Patinkin in Concert: JUKEBOX, State Theater New Jersey

Friday November 7, 2025
8:00 PM

15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick. www.stnj.org.

With Adam Ben-David on piano, JUKEBOX features Patinkin's own hand-picked collection of classic musical numbers, expressed as only he can through a unique mastery of word and song. $46 to $142.