Each Summer, PUPP Scholars visit important cultural institutions in Philadelphia, New York City and in the Central New Jersey region. These trips are designed to enhance learning related to the theme of each summer institute. Throughout the school year, PUPP scholars attend a range of theatrical performances at regional professional theaters and on campus at Princeton. Each year, scholars attend an opera as part of Opera Philadelphia’s Sounds of Learning program. These events are coupled with pre-show reading and conversation, post-show talk-backs with actors and artists, and post-show discussions and writing assignments.

Cultural Enrichment excursions throughout the 2024-25 Academic School Year include:

  • José Cruz González’s, American Mariachi, Two River Theater
  • Dominique Morisseau’s Bad Kreyol, Signature Theater
  • Joseph Bologne’s The Anonymous Lover, Opera Philadelphia
  • Rebecca Lazier and Janet Echelman’s Noli Timere, McCarter Theatre
  • August Wilson’s, King Hedley II, Arden Theater
  • Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights, Bristol Riverside Theater
  • Jonathan Larson’s Rent, Arden Theater

Cultural Enrichment excursions throughout the 2023-24 Academic School Year include:

  • Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins, Arden Theatre
  • James Ijames’ Fat Ham, Wilma Theater
  • Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living, Philadelphia Theater Company
  • Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Opera Philadelphia
  • Lynn Ahrens’ Once on this Island, Arden Theater

The photo gallery below features our scholars attending PUPPs Cultural Enrichment excursions at museums, theatrical performances and operas throughout the year including but not limited to, El Museo del Barrio in New York City, Come From Away by Irene Sankoff and David Hein at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, and A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry at the Two River Theater.