Student work: 'Spring Awakening'

By Cameron Johanning, Class of 2016, and the Lewis Center for the Arts on March 9, 2015, 12:07 p.m.

The winner of eight Tony Awards, including best musical, "Spring Awakening" is the story of a group of teenagers growing up in the repressive world of late-19th-century Germany, and it celebrates youth and rebellion with an electric rock and roll score. This Program in Theater production is directed by Julia Hammer and features John Somers Fairchild as Moritz; both are senior theater certificate students. Performances will be at 8 p.m. March 12-13 in the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center.

At the 67th annual Tony Awards on June 9, in front of a packed audience at Radio City Music Hall and 7.24 million television viewers worldwide, actor Jesse Eisenberg announced the winner of the award for Best Play: "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike." The play, written by Christopher Durang and directed by Nicholas Martin, had its world premiere at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton. Emily Mann, artistic director of McCarter, accepted the award.

Princeton senior Hayden receives Witherspoon Scholarship to study in Scotland .

Princeton University senior Sonya Hayden has been awarded a Witherspoon Scholarship to study theater at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Established last spring, the scholarship honors the historic ties between Princeton and Edinburgh, highlighting the role of John Witherspoon at both institutions, and is awarded annually to a Princeton senior. Hayden is expected to begin her studies at Edinburgh in September.

Princeton Summer Theater builds community for its artistic 'voyages' .

To tackle the challenge of producing four plays in eight weeks, the Princeton Summer Theater company annually forms a small community that includes Princeton students, alumni and faculty, as well as local residents and students from other universities. The 44th season will take audiences to Sweden, London, Paris and the Catskills of New York with "A Little Night Music," June 21-24, and June 28-July 1; "Gaslight," July 5-8 and 12-15; "Boeing-Boeing," July 19-22 and 26-29; and "The American Plan," Aug. 2-5 and 9-12.

Princeton to premiere unrealized vision of classic Russian play .

A version of the classic Russian play "Boris Godunov" that was unrealized in the era of Soviet censorship some 70 years ago will have its world premiere at Princeton University in four performances April 12-14 at the Berlind Theatre.

Alumnus Roger S. Berlind, former trustee and ‘visionary spirit’ of the arts and humanities at Princeton, dies at 90 .

Roger S. Berlind, a member of Princeton’s Class of 1952, former University trustee, Tony Award-winning producer, and a supporter of the arts and humanities at Princeton, died of cardiopulmonary arrest Dec. 18 at his home in Manhattan. He was 90.

'Sharing the Stage: Science and Art at Princeton' .

Creativity is a passion for Princeton seniors Gary Fox and Anna Wuttig — as scientists and as artists. When not in the lab, they are immersed in the arts. Fox and Wuttig have successfully found a way to share the stage in pursuing both art and science at Princeton. They are bringing their talents to the fore in "Der Bourgeois Bigwig," an adaptation of the 17th-century Molière comedy "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme," playing through Saturday, Nov. 17, at the Berlind Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center.