Princeton NJ Events

Preschool and Kindergarten Fair, Princeton Public Library

Saturday November 8, 2025
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Streamline your search for the best preschool or kindergarten for your child at this gathering of faculty and staff from local schools. The list of participating schools will be updated closer to the event date.

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Winery Weekend Music Series, Terhune's

Saturday November 8, 2025
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Spend November weekends at Terhune Orchards Vineyard & Winery, Saturdays and Sundays from 12–5 p.m. Enjoy award-winning Terhune wines by the glass or in a tasting flight, paired with light fare and café favorites. Starting November 21st, we’ll have the fire pits out and hot mulled wine available. Kids can join the fun too with s’mores and hot cocoa kits. From 1–4 p.m., relax to live music by local artists, with styles ranging from jazz and blues to folk and rock. A perfect way to savor autumn afternoons.

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Fall House Tour, Bordentown Historical Society

Saturday November 8, 2025
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

302 Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown. www.bordentownhistory.org.

Featuring eight private homes and six historic sites. Self-guided walking tour starts at the BHS meeting house, where brochures and maps will be provided. Register. $30 in advance; $35 day of.

Family Bowling Event, Rocky Brook Cohousing

Saturday November 8, 2025
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Rocky Brook Cohousing hosts a family-friendly Bowling Afternoon in Lawrenceville. Bring your kids, your friends, and learn more about cohousing initiatives in New Jersey. Info and RSVP: https://rockybrookcohousing.org/events/

The Canine Stars Stunt Dog Show, State Theater New Jersey

Saturday November 8, 2025
2:00 PM

The whole family is sure to fall in love with the incredible dogs of The Canine Stars Stunt Dog Show! The show features a world-class team of dog trainers and their adopted dogs. As seen on America's Got Talent, Stupid Pet Tricks with Sarah Silverman, and Nickelodeon Unleashed, these incredible pups have gone from Rescues to Rockstars! Almost all of the dogs are adopted from shelters, rescue groups, or found as strays, and they are all individually owned and loved by their trainers as they are family first!

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Dutchman and the Slave, Passage Theater

Saturday November 8, 2025
2:00 PM

Mill Hill Playhouse, 205 East Front Street, Trenton. www.passagetheatre.org.

"Dutchman" is an emotionally charged and highly symbolic version of the Adam and Eve story, set on a subway car, which was the first critical success for playwright/activist Amiri Baraka. "The Slave" is the story of Walker Vessles, a Black man who visits the home of his ex-wife, a white woman now married to a white professor. $35.

Drop Dead!, Kelsey Theatre

Saturday November 8, 2025
2:00 PM

2 and 8pm

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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Annie, Music Mountain Theater

Saturday November 8, 2025
3:00 PM

3 and 8pm

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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Stuart Upper School Fall Play: Peter and the Starcatcher

Saturday November 8, 2025
3:15 PM

PSO Concert - Mendelssohn & Tchaikovsky, Featuring Maxim Lando

Saturday November 8, 2025
7:30 PM

22-year-old American pianist Maxim Lando has been lauded by The New York Times for his “brilliance and infectious exuberance.” He joins the PSO for performances of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s rarely-heard Piano Concerto No. 2. Felix Mendelssohn described his fourth symphony, inspired by the sights and sounds of Italy, as a “blue sky in A major.” Gioachino Rossini’s sparkling overture to L’italiana in Algeri marks the composer’s first foray into comic opera.

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