Gun & Powder: "You've got all the capers, all the action, all the story of a Western

This Week's Episode

A musical at the Paper Mill Playhouse, Gun and Powder, tells the remarkable true story of how two farm girls became bank robbers. African American architect Edward T. Bowser, Jr. trained with the legendary Le Corbusier and designed at least a dozen houses and buildings throughout New Jersey. And artist Jack Larimore explores competition in the world of nature in Bonding, an exhibition at Rowan University Art Gallery.

NJ PBS

Thurs, 1/8 @ 11:30 pm

Sat, 1/10 @ 7:30 pm

Sun, 1/11 @ 9:30 am

WNET Thirteen

Sun, 1/11 @ 11:30 am

ALL ARTS

Mon, 1/12 @ 10:30 am & 3:30 pm

Wed, 1/14 @ 10 am & 3 pm

Images in gif: Gun & Powder Playwright and Music Co-writer- Angelica Chéri / Edward T. Bowser in Le Corbusier’s Paris office in 1949. Courtesy: the Bowser family / Artwork by Jack Larimore, photographed by Myles Pettengill

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National Mentoring Month

During January, be inspired by great mentors we've met over the years here on State of the Arts.

Kathy DeAngelo keeps the tradition of Irish music alive through the fiddle and the harp. Every week, Kathy and her husband Dennis Gormley host the South Jersey Irish Session, where friends gather to play traditional Irish tunes. Kathy and Dennis also perform together as McDermott’s Handy, named after Kathy’s mentor, the traditional Irish fiddler Ed McDermott. Kathy teaches Irish music, including at the Commodore John Barry Irish Center in Philadelphia. Watch here.

On the Blog

In this throwback for National Mentoring Month, actor Joseph Halsey shares the art of filmmaking with youth. Read here.

Happening Now

Spend the season with the Bay Atlantic Symphony! They've announced their 2026 concert dates, including in January. See their website for more info! Pictured: Music Director Jed Gaylin

Our related story: The Bay Atlantic Symphony

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company is celebrating the Lunar New Year of the Horse with performances happening Jan 18-Feb 25. See here for their calendar of events! Image courtesy: Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company

Highlights

Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa joined forces with his friend, composer and pianist Vince di Mura to create their powerful new symphonic work, Oh God…Beautiful Machine. Commissioned by a champion of Trenton’s art community, Larry Hilton, the musical piece premiered in the Patriots Theater at the War Memorial in Trenton with the Capital Philharmonic of New Jersey.

Our 2025 story: Oh God...Beautiful Machine.

“Philip Roth Unbound” was a three-day festival at NJPAC in 2023 that celebrated the great novelist with readings by actors including Matthew Broderick and Peter Riegert, panels led by luminaries including Princeton University historian Sean Wilentz, and a tour of Philip Roth’s Newark.

Our 2023 story: Philip Roth's Newark