Weekend Arts Roundup: See-It-All Edition!

This weekend and next always have the year’s largest number of arts events on campus…and here at The Ink, we want to help you to enjoy every bit of it! We’ve made a fancy-pants version of how to see it all between now and Thanksgiving break:

• Thursday, November 10: I might be slightly biased in this play’s favor (full disclosure: I’m the director), but Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll at Theatre Intime is shaping up to be a wonderful show. Spanning 20 years of the underground rock movement in Communist Czechoslovakia, from the 1968 Prague Spring to the 1989 Velvet Revolution, it’s a fascinating play–and the cast is top-notch.  Thursday-Saturday at 8pm this weekend and next, with a talkback on November 18th with Simon Morrison, the Music Department’s preeminent Slavic music scholar.  Student tickets $8, events eligible.
• Friday, November 11: The Princeton Glee Club’s Yale vs. Princeton Football Concert is always a great annual event chock full of beautiful music: Friday at 8pm in Richardson Auditorium, $5 student tickets, events eligible.
  
• Saturday matinee, November 12: Shaved heads, Baptist revivals, gore galore, bestiality…hooked yet? The Princeton University Players’ Bat Boy at Matthews Acting Studio, a dark musical comedy directed by Claire Greene ’13, has all that and more.  This weekend only, Thursday-Saturday at 8pm with a 2pm Saturday matinee. Tickets $8, events eligible.
• Saturday night, November 12: We’ve got two great a cappella options for Saturday night: first, The Nassoons’ Annual Yale Jam with the Yale Whiffenpoofs, is always a blast (8pm Saturday in Richardson Auditorium, student tickets $8). If gorgeous female voices are more your thing (and you’re looking for a great concert that’s also kind on your wallet), the Tigressions Thirtieth Reunion Concert is also a great bet: it’s free at Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall at 7:30pm on Saturday.

• Thursday, November 17: Fuente Ovejuna: A Disloyal Adaptation, produced by the Department of Theater at McCarter’s Berlind Theatre, takes the classic Lope de Vega play and stages it within the context of the La Baracca Theatre Troupe in 1930s Spain; it’s a beautiful production full of great performances. Friday-Saturday Nov. 10-11, Thursday-Saturday November 17-19, 8pm; student tickets $10, events eligible. For a terrific concert, check out alt-folk legend Crooked Still‘s one-night-only show at Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall, part of the Music Department’s Making Tunes concert series. 8pm; click here for ticket information.
• Friday, November 18: So much a cappella, so little time! The Footnotes Jam, A Gentleman’s Game, is sure to be a fun event: 8pm Friday in Richardson Auditorium, student tickets $8, events eligible.
• Saturday, November 19: We save the craziest for last: the Triangle Club’s 2011 show, Doomsdays of Our Lives, centers on the apocalypse…and with a Ke$ha-inspired cockroach number, a killer drag kickline (the teaser: Mayan virgins about to be sacrificed), and more high hilarity, it’s not to be missed. Tickets always sell out, so buy yours now! Friday-Saturday at 8pm; student tickets $10, events eligible.