Join the Princeton Playhouse Ensembles for a concert featuring new music theater arrangements of songs from A Little Night Music, Godspell, Evening Primrose, Kimberly Akimbo, In the Heights, Maybe Happy Ending, Next to Normal, Rent, and Waitress alongside new works by student composers and arrangers. This musical celebration will unite music theater storytelling, performance, composition, arranging, direction, and choreography while featuring the work, perspectives, reflections, and leadership of current Princeton students and alumni. The Playhouse Ensembles are directed by Princeton faculty member Solon Snider Sway.
This performance is directed by Aaron Landsman; music directed by Solon Snider Sway and Student Conductors Matt Cline ’27 and Marvel Jem Roth ’28; student choreography by Ava Kronman ’26, Destine Harrison-Williams ’26, Kevin Edouard ’27, and Rika Nishikawa ’29. Featuring tap dance artist, scholar, and 2021-23 Princeton Arts Fellow Michael J. Love and Playhouse alums Aaron Ventresca ’24 and Halle Mitchell ’23. With lighting design by Alex Slisher ’25, sound design by Kay Richardson, and stage management by Milan Eldridge. Presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Theater & Music Theater and cosponsored by the Department of Music.
The concert will also be the Ensemble’s debut EP release event! Their new EP, “From Wind to Wonder,” supported by a grant from the Edward T. Cone ’39 *42 Fund in Princeton’s Humanities Council, will feature five musical compositions written or co-written by current and former students. CDs available for purchase ($20) in the lobby after the show.
Tickets & Details
The concert is open to the public and tickets must be purchased in advance.
Ticket Prices
- $20 general
- $10 students (any institution)
Buy Tickets through McCarter Box Office
Program
Directions
Get directions to Berlind Theatre and find other venue information for McCarter Theatre Center, located at 91 University Place, Princeton.
Accessibility
The performance will include open/live captioning (CART). The Berlind Theatre is an accessible venue with wheelchair and companion seating available. An assistive listening system is available and headphones can be requested from ushers. Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information at our various locations, including Berlind Theatre. Attendees in need of other access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date.
About Guest Artist Michael J. Love
Photo by Cindy Elizabeth
Michael J. Love is an interdisciplinary tap dance artist, scholar, and educator. Love is Assistant Professor of Dance at Ursinus College (Collegeville, Pennsylvania) and the 2025-26 Baker Artist-In-Residence at Muhlenberg College (Allentown, Pennsylvania). Love was a 2021-23 Princeton University Arts Fellow and his work has been supported and presented by Fusebox Festival and ARCOS Dance and recognized by the Austin Critics’ Table. His scholarship has been published in b2o: an online journal and Choreographic Practices. Love has enjoyed numerous collaborations with artists across disciplines including Sō Percussion, rhythmanalyst DeForrest Brown Jr., and anti-disciplinary artist Aryel René Jackson. Most recently, Love was one of several co-composers to appear on Sō’s 2025 album 25×25, and he has performed with the quartet at Carnegie Hall in New York. Love and Brown have presented their work at Amant (Brooklyn, NY). Love and Jackson received the 2021 Tito’s Vodka Prize and, in New York, have had their videos programmed/screened by CUE Art Foundation, the New Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art. Love was featured in artist and filmmaker Tiona Nekkia McClodden’s exhibition, The Trace Of An Implied Presence, at The Shed (New York); was in the Broadway laboratory cast of choreographer Savion Glover and director George C. Wolfe’s Shuffle Along…; and has been in works by choreographer Baakari Wilder.
