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  • ‘The Dinner Party’

    Neil Simon wrestles with life’s more serious issues in this play about three divorced couples. By: Stuart Duncan ALT="image"> COLOR="black"> COLOR="black"> The Dinner Party plays at Paper Mill Playhouse through Feb. 10.    About two-thirds of the way through Neil Simon’s The Dinner Party, one of the characters observes, "It’s a goddamned Agatha Christie dinner." The…

  • Health & Fitness

    Wellness resources for the body and mind ADDapts, St. Lawrence Rehabilitation Center, room 117, 2381 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrence; free, support group to help adults with ADD, Thu. 7 p.m., free; community.nj.com/cc/adapts; (609) 448-5212. Anthony Rabara Studio for Pilates, 392 Wall St., Princeton, mat class, Thu. 5:30 p.m., $15; (609) 921-7990. Aroga Center for Wellness &…

  • ‘Becket’

    Actors’ NET of Bucks County kicks off its ‘Four Kings’ series. By: Stuart Duncan ALT="image"> COLOR="black"> Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski COLOR="black"> George Hartpence as Henry II and Joe Mattern as Bishop Folliot in Becket at Actors’ NET of Bucks County.    The life of Thomas Becket has long been fodder for novelists and playwrights.    Even…

  • Police arrest man in triple murder

    Monroe resident charged in slaying of New Egypt businessman at North Hanover trailer park. By: David Koch    NORTH HANOVER — An acquaintance of three residents killed in a mobile home park is being held on $1 million bail and charged with the shotgun slayings of the North Hanover residents.    Burlington County Prosecutor Robert Bernardi and…

  • Rec panel seeks Major League Baseball grant

    The Lambertville group is reapplying for a grant to improve the baseball field at Ely Memorial Field. By: Carl Reader    LAMBERTVILLE — The Recreation Commission has slowed its activity due to the season as work on Ely Memorial Field has nearly stopped and the new playground equipment for Cavallo Park can’t be installed until the…

  • Elaine Fane

       Elaine Carol Fane, 72, of Monroe, died Friday, Jan. 11, at St. Peters Medical Center in New Brunswick.    Born in Newark, Ms. Fane was a former resident of Plainfield and Scotch Plains. She lived in Monroe for the past 17 years.    She was a graduate of Montclair State College and was an elementary and special…

  • ‘Waiting for Tadashi’

    Playwright Velina Hasu Houston takes a 50-year journey through the landscape of a Japanese-American’s memories. By: Stuart Duncan ALT="image"> COLOR="black"> COLOR="black"> Takayo Fischer and Clark Jackson in Waiting for Tadashi at George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick through Feb. 3.    Waiting For Tadashi is a work-in-progress that began more than two years ago at George…

  • Blanche Meyerowitz Saks-Barcham

       Blanche Meyerowitz Saks-Barcham, 85, died Friday, Jan. 11, at the Medical Center at Princeton.    Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she resided in Roselle for many years before moving to Monroe in 1977.    She received her bachelor’s degree from Hunter College and her master’s degree from Kean College. She retired in 1976 after 25 years as a…

  • Josephine MacGregor

       Josephine MacGregor, 86, of Wall, died Monday, Jan. 14, at The Medical Center of Ocean County in Brick.    Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she lived in Monroe before moving to Wall in 1999.    Ms. MacGregor was a member of the Wall Senior Citizens, and was a communicant of St. Catharine’s R.C. Church in Spring Lake. She…