Greater Morristown weekend preview: Dueling keyboards, singing hearts, and Elvis!

Elvis Lives
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What football game?

Elvis is back in the building. Arizona is raised. A keyboard champion is being declared.

All this and more awaits you this weekend in Greater Morristown!

Scroll down for details. Check our handy calendar for even more activities–and add your own events, too!


THURSDAY, FEB. 1, 2018:

The Morristown & Township Library celebrates the Coen Brothers with a free screening of Raising Arizona (PG-13, 1987), starring Nicholas Cage and Holly Hunter, at 6:45 pm. At One Miller Road, Morristown.

Raising Arizona

A Piano Battle, pitting Andreas Kern vs. Paul Cibis, comes to Morristown’s Mayo Performing Arts Center at 8 pm. Tickets:$29-$59. At 100 South St., call 973-539-8008.

Piano Battle
Piano Battle

Accomplice, a whoddunit by Tony-winning writer Rupert Holmes, comes to the Morris Museum’s Bickford Theatre in Morris Township at 2 pm and 7:30 pm. Tickets: $20-$45. At 6 Normandy Heights Road. Call (973) 971-3700.

'Accomplice' at the Bickford


FRIDAY, FEB. 2:

Morning Yoga with Munah Hayes returns to the Morristown & Township Library at 9:30 am. Free. Bring a yoga mat. At One Miller Road, Morristown.

'I DON'T HEAR YOU SINGING!' Mark Schaffer and Jeff DeSmedt perform at The Minstrel's belated Valentine's Day show--on April 14, 2013. Photo by Kevin Coughlin
‘I DON’T HEAR YOU SINGING!’ Mark Schaffer and Jeff DeSmedt perform at The Minstrel’s 2013 Valentine’s Day show. Photo by Kevin Coughlin

The Minstrel in Morris Township presents its Valentine’s Extravaganza, featuring talented Folk Project members singing and playing their loving hearts out, at 7:30 pm. Admission: $10; children 12 and under, free. At the Morristown Unitarian Fellowship, 21 Normandy Heights Road.

Bob Saget (Full House, America’s Funniest Home Videos) brings his mature-audiences-only standup show to Morristown’s Mayo Performing Arts Center at 8 pm. With opener Mike Young. Tickets: $39-$59. At 100 South St., call 973-539-8008.

Bob Saget
Bob Saget

Accomplice, by Tony-winning playwright Rupert Holmes, is presented at 8 pm in the Morris Museum’s Bickford Theatre. See Thursday entry for details.


SATURDAY, FEB. 3:

Author Ken Druse
Author Ken Druse

Best-selling author Ken Druse (The Natural Shade Garden) will present a discussion, The New Shade Garden: Creating a Lush Oasis in the Age of Climate Change, at the Frelinghuysen Arboretum in Morris Township from 1 pm to 3 pm. Admission: $30 for Friends of the Frelinghuysen Arboretum, $35 for non-members. Snow date: Feb. 4, 2018. At 353 E. Hanover Ave.

Experience maple sugaring demonstrations at 1 pm and 2:30 pm, at the Great Swamp Outdoor Education Center in Chatham Township. Also on Sunday. Admission: $3.  Call 973.635.6629 for directions.

The Ultimate Tribute to Elvis comes to Morristown’s Mayo Performing Arts Center at 3 pm and 8 pm. Tickets: $39-$79. At 100 South St., call 973-539-8008.

Elvis Lives

Accomplice, the whodunnit by Tony-winning playwright Rupert Holmes, unfolds at 8 pm in the Morris Museum’s Bickford Theatre. See Thursday entry for details.


SUNDAY, FEB. 4:

The weekly indoors Morris County Winter Farmers’ Market is back, from 10 am to 2 pm at Alexander Hamilton School, 24 Mills St., Morristown. It’s here each Sunday through April 15, 2018.

Bishop John Shelby Spong reflects on the Gospel of Matthew on Good Friday 2016 at St. Peter's in Morristown. Photo by Kevin Coughlin
Bishop John Shelby Spong, pictured in 2016 at St. Peter’s in Morristown. Photo by Kevin Coughlin

The Rt. Rev. John Shelby Spong, author of Unbelievable, concludes his lecture series, Miracles in the Bible: Are They Real? at 11:45 am at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Morristown, in the parish hall behind the church. Free; all are welcome. At Miller Road and Maple Avenue.

 

 

Experience Winter on the Farm, from noon to 4 p.m. at the Fosterfields Living Historical Farm in Morris Township.  Ride a tractor-pulled wagon, meet Jersey cows and other farm animals, learn about ice harvesting, and more. Admission: $4 to $8, children under age 2, free. Friends members are half price with a current membership card. At 73 Kahdena Road. Call 973.326.7645. 

King and Major, the farm's Percheron draft horses haul, ice up to the Willows at Fosterfields Living Historical Farm, Feb. 5, 2017. Photo by Jeff Sovelove
King and Major, the farm’s Percheron draft horses haul, ice up to the Willows at Fosterfields Living Historical Farm, Feb. 5, 2017. Photo by Jeff Sovelove

Maple sugaring demonstrations at 1 pm and 2:30 pm, at the Great Swamp Outdoor Education Center in Chatham Township. See Saturday entry for details.

The Morristown Daughters of the American Revolution and Morris Tourism Bureau present Kim Hanley, from the American Historical Theatre, performing as Abigail Adams, at 1:30 pm at the Morris County Library. Free. At 30 East Hanover Ave., Whippany.

colonial flag

Accomplice, the whodunnit by Tony-winning playwright Rupert Holmes, unfolds at 2 pm in the Morris Museum’s Bickford Theatre. See Thursday entry for details.

Temple B’nai Or in Morristown opens its 6th annual Community Art Exhibition with a free reception from 3 pm to 5 pm. Seventeen artists will be featured in the show, titled, Common GroundCreating Community Through Sharing Our Stories, which runs through April 15, 2018. At 60 Overlook Road (near the Thomas Jefferson School).

From the 6th annual Community Art Show at Temple B'nai Or.
From the 6th annual Community Art Show at Temple B’nai Or.

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