Past Events:
Date: 10/15/2009
Location: Wilson Hall
Willis Barnstone taught in Greece at the end of the civil war (1949-51), in Buenos Aires during the Dirty War, and during the Cultural Revolution went to China, where he was later a Fulbright Professor of American Literature at Beijing Foreign Studies University (1984-1985); Aliki Barnstone is a poet, translator, critic, and editor; and Tony Barnstone is The Albert Upton Professor of English Language and Literature at Whittier College and holds a Masters in English and Creative Writing and Ph.D. in English Literature from U.C. Berkeley.
Date: 12/9/2009
Location: Wilson Hall
Twin brothers, both authors have been profiled in Poets & Writers and The New Yorker.
Date: 3/25/2010
Location: Wilson Hall
Tóibín was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of six novels including The Blackwater Lightship and The Master, both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and the winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Date: 4/27/2010
Location: Wilson Hall
Nicole Cooley grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her new book of poems, Breach, about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, will be published by Louisiana State University Press in March 2010. Her first book of poetry, Resurrection, won the 1995 Walt Whitman Award and was published by LSU Press in 1996.
Date: 9/21/2010
Location: Wilson Hall
Born and raised in Romania, Mihaela Moscaliuc came to the United States in 1996 to complete graduate work in American literature. She received an M.A. from Salisbury University, an M.F.A. in poetry from New England College, and a Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Maryland.
Date: 10/14/2010
Location: Wilson Hall
David St. John has been honored, over the course of his career, with many of the most significant prizes for poets, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, both the Rome Fellowship and an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the O. B. Hardison Prize (a career award for teaching and poetic achievement) from The Folger Shakespeare Library, and a grant from the Ingram Merrill Foundation.
Date: 10/20/2010
Location: Hawk TV Studios
Not quite blind as a bat, but definitely deaf as a doornail, Terry Galloway is the modern medical accident who's asking tough questions about disability, queerness, performance, and more in Out All Night and Lost My Shoes, one of the foundational texts in the history of disability performance. It's one hour of pure, energetic theater that mixes poetry, storytelling, stand- up, New Vaudeville and plain old corny vaudeville in a charged, moving celebration of life – hers and that of all oddballs.
Date: 11/30/2010
Location: Hawk TV Studios
Through the performative strategy of what they call formational interventions, Hillerbrand+Magsamen's work interstices between art and cultural geography by exploring perceptions of language, identity, media, and family within a uniquely American subjectivities and created system.
Date: 2/7/2011
Location: Hawk TV Studios
Shadow Puppies is an internationally celebrated cutting edge trio that conjures rich, complex, and entrancing worlds of electronic sound and vision in real-time.
Date: 3/22/2011
Location: Pollak Theatre;Wilson Hall
On the first night, Codrescu will discuss the politics and culture(s) of East and West, the collapse of communism (which he covered for the U.S. media) and its aftermath, and the historical and literary changes that are reshaping Eastern Europe and informing his own relations to spaces of origin or adoption. On the second night, he will be reading from his new book, The Poetry Lesson (Princeton University Press, 2010).
Date: 4/26/2011
Location: Wilson Hall
Jennifer Grotz's second book of poems, The Needle, is forthcoming in Spring 2011. Her first book of poems, Cusp, was chosen by Yusef Komunyakaa for the Bakeless Prize and also recieved the Natalie Ornish Best First Book Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. Her poems, essays and translations from both the French and Polish appear widely in journals such as New England Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and American Poetry Review, and in anthologies such as Best American Poetry and Legitimate Dangers. She teaches poetry and translation at the University of Rochester and also serves as the assistant director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
Date: 9/15/2011
Location: Wilson Hall
Originally from Kingston, Jamaica, Shara McCallum is the author of three collections of poetry, This Strange Land(Alice James Books, April 2011), Song of Thieves (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003), and The Water Between Us (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999).
Date: 10/6/2011
Location: Wilson Hall
Nick Flynn is the author of two memoirs, The Ticking is the Bomb: A Memoir of Bewilderment (Norton, 2010) and Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (Norton, 2004), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir and has been translated into 13 languages.
Date: 10/30/2011
Location: Pollak Theatre
Civil War Voices tells the compelling and passionate true stories of five individuals who lived through the conflict; using the actual words the characters left behind in diaries, letters, and other writings.
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Date: 11/8/2011
Location: Wilson Hall
Michael Waters’ ten books of poetry include Gospel Night (2011); Darling Vulgarity (2006—finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize); Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems (2001—finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize)—these titles from BOA Editions—Bountiful (1992); The Burden Lifters (1989); and Anniversary of the Air (1985)—these titles from Carnegie Mellon UP. In 2011, Shoestring Press (UK) published Selected Poems.
Date: 1/17/2012 - 3/9/2012
Location: Rotary Ice House Gallery
Featuring the work of the Monmouth University Department of Art & Design faculty.
Date: 1/30/2012 - 3/15/2012
Location: Pollak Gallery
Imaginative, vibrant, and saturated with the rich colors of South Asia, Samina Quraeshi’s photographs, calligraphic works, and mixed media montages reflect the diversity of Islamic expressions of faith.
Date: 1/30/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Karim and Hebba are a young married and loving couple. Karim is just about to be appointed as editor-in-chief of the greatest governmental newspaper. Hebba is the hostess of much appreciated TV programs with controversial subjects that could put Karim's career in danger.
Date: 2/21/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
An insider's look into "The Most Dangerous Country in the World" as labeled by a cover story in Newsweek on October 29, 2007.
Date: 2/23/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
In one extraordinary new work, lovers of Baroque opera have it all: the world's best singers, glorious music of the Baroque masters, and a story drawn from Shakespeare.
Date: 2/24/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
For more than 20 years, Cowboy Junkies have remained true to their unique artistic vision and to the introspective, quiet intensity that is their musical signature, creating a critically acclaimed body of original work that has endeared them to an audience unwavering in its loyalty.
Date: 2/25/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Angela Meade takes center stage in Verdi's thrilling early gem.
Date: 3/1/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Shakespeare's furiously paced comedy will be staged in a contemporary world into which walk three prohibited foreigners who see everything for the first time.
Date: 3/5/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Victims and perpetrators of Sierra Leone's brutal civil war come together for the first time in an unprecedented program of tradition-based truth-telling and forgiveness ceremonies.
Date: 3/21/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
The film digs into the life of a woman in the Sunni Muslim patriarchal culture and the day-to-day living with anxiety and fear as bands of guerrilla thugs roam the streets.
Date: 3/22/2012
Location: Wilson Hall
Natasha Trethewey is author of Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast; Native Guard, for which she won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize; Bellocq’s Ophelia, which was named a Notable Book for 2003 by the American Library Association; and Domestic Work.
Date: 3/24/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Incredible tap dancing numbers, Broadway performers singing your favorites show tunes, and comedy will have you dancing and rolling in the aisles again! With a cast of more than 40, you will not want to miss this amazing musical song and dance extravaganza.
Date: 3/28/2012 - 4/5/2012
Location: Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Monmouth University’s Department of Music & Theatre will present the first East Coast production of the newly revised musical,Working, based on the book by Pulitzer-Prize winning author Studs Terkel. Adapted by Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Pippin, and Godspell) from his original version with Nino Faso, the new Working recently completed a run in Chicago. Monmouth’s production will be the first by any university in the country.
Date: 3/30/2012 - 4/6/2012
Location: Pollak Gallery;Rotary Ice House Gallery
Featuring the work of the Monmouth University graduating seniors who will receive their degrees in fine art and/or art education.
Date: 3/30/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Robert Pinsky, Three-time U.S. poet laureate and author of several acclaimed books of poetry, prose, and translation will bring his verse to life on the Pollak Theatre stage in a reading with musical accompaniment.
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Date: 3/31/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Singing contemporized interpretations of traditional Punjabi songs, Arif Lohar captures the sights and sounds of modern Pakistani culture with a unique mix of pop and folk stylings.
Date: 4/5/2012
Location: Art Building Courtyard
This special site-specific event is a cross-disciplinary project chronicling how public histories and private narratives temporarily attach to landscape, specifically to bodies of water.
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Date: 4/5/2012 - 4/5/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
In the wake of Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon, a determined woman finds her way into the country convincing a taxi cab driver to take a risky journey around the scarred region in search of her sister and her son. Panelists: Dr. Azzam Elayan, lecturer in chemistry, Monmouth University and Dr. Saliba Sarsar, professor of political science, Monmouth University
Date: 4/5/2012 - 4/19/2012
Location: Monmouth University Library
Advocacy of the Human: An Exhibit of Selected Works by Jacob Landau
Date: 4/7/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Anna Netrebko's dazzling portrayal of the tragic heroine in Laurent Pelly's new production travels to the Met from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Date: 4/9/2012
Location: Wilson Hall
Welcome to astrophysics, Indiana Jones-style! Five-time Emmy winner Paul Devlin follows the story of his brother, mark Devlin PhD, as he leads a tenacious team of scientists trying to figure out how all the galaxies formed by launching a revolutionary new telescope under a NASA high-altitude balloon.
Date: 4/10/2012 - 4/10/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Author and/or editor of more than 25 volumes or poetry, Naomi Shihab Nye will read selections from her work.
Date: 4/12/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Angela Meade takes center stage in Verdi's thrilling early gem.
Date: 4/13/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Faithful note-for-note re-creations of The Grateful Dead's 1970 Workingman's Dead and American Beauty albums, which include such favorites as "Uncle John's Band," "Casey Jones," "Truckin'," and "Sugar Magnolia."
Date: 4/14/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Natalie Dessay will put on the red dress in Willy Decker's stunning production, in her first Violetta at the Met.
Date: 4/20/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Students in the Monmouth University Orchestra, the Concert Choir, and the Chamber Choir will perform. Department Chair David Tripold, with faculty members Ron Frangipane and Michael Gillette, have selected representative works from renowned American composers, mostly of the 20th century. Among the works to be heard that evening will be Samuel Barber’s “Sure on a Shining Night” and his popular “Adagio For Strings,” “Alleluia” by Randall Thompson, and the “Chichester Psalms” by Leonard Bernstein, which will feature the soloist Jeffrey Mendelbaum, who is on the roster of the Metropolitan Opera and has performed concerts and opera up and down the East Coast.
Date: 4/20/2012
Location: MAC at Monmouth
Daughtry “Break the Spell 2012 Tour” with special guest pop rock group Safetysuit and opening the show is singer songwriter Mike Sanchez
Date: 4/21/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
This show will feature the two Rent stars performing singly and together.
Date: 4/26/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Anna Netrebko's dazzling portrayal of the tragic heroine in Laurent Pelly's new production travels to the Met from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Date: 4/26/2012
Location: Shadow Lawn
This collaborative site-specific performance transforms ordinary experience into performative action and elevates everyday life encounters.
Date: 5/5/2012 - 5/5/2012
Location: Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Jim Flanagan is seanchai, a true Irish storyteller, who has that lyrical way with words the Irish bring to the world. Join him and visit a Jersey City boyhood where street games, schools, nuns, priests, and politicians are the stuff of legends. He will take you on a journey from laughter to tears and back again with the magic of his words.
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Date: 5/7/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Award-winning filmmaker Susan Froemke takes you behind the scenes as one of the theater¹s finest stage directors teams up with one of the world¹s leading opera companies to tackle opera¹s most monumental challenge: the production of Wagner¹s epic Ring cycle.
Date: 5/9/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Conceived by Wagner as a prologue to the Ring cycle, Das Rheingold sets forth the dramatic issues that play out in the three subsequent operas. Gold from the depths of the Rhine River is stolen by the dwarf Alberich, who uses it to forge a ring that will give him unlimited power. The theft sets in motion a course of events that will eventually alter the order of the universe. Bryn Terfel as Wotan, lord of the gods, heads the cast.
Date: 5/14/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
This extraordinarily powerful work of theater focuses on some of the Ring’s most interesting characters at decisive moments of their lives: Wotan, whose violation of his own laws has jeopardized the gods’ rule; his twin offspring, Siegmund and Sieglinde, who are meant to save the gods; and, above all, his heroic Valkyrie daughter Brünnhilde, who makes a fateful decision that shatters her world.
Date: 5/16/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Part three of the Ring follows the journey of Siegfried, son of Siegmund and Sieglinde, from naive fearless boy to supreme hero. With the re-forged sword of his father, he conquers magical obstacles to reach his prize, Brünnhilde.
Date: 5/20/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Hooray, hooray! TheatreworksUSA is making a brand-new musical (that is a play all jumbled together with singing and dancing, I believe). And what do you know! It's all about me, Junie B. Jones! (The B stands for Beatrice, only I do not like Beatrice. I just like B and that's all.)
Date: 5/20/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
The Ring cycle concludes with a cataclysmic climax of betrayal and loss as focus shifts from the realm of the gods to the power and ambition of human beings. It is left to Brünnhilde, in the legendary Immolation Scene that brings the cycle to a close, to restore balance to the world.
Date: 5/24/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Natalie Dessay will put on the red dress in Willy Decker's stunning production, in her first Violetta at the Met.
Date: 6/8/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
7:00 p.m.
Now playing on Broadway, Richard Bean's 7-time Tony nominated play is a glorious celebration of comedy - a unique, laugh-out-loud mix of satire, songs, slapstick and glittering one-liners.
Date: 6/13/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
7:00 p.m.
Anna Netrebko opened the Met’s 2011-12 season with her portrayal of the ill-fated queen driven insane by her unfaithful king, singing one of opera's greatest mad scenes.
Date: 6/20/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
7:00 p.m.
Bel canto sensation Juan Diego Flórez sings the title role of this vocally dazzling comedy, in Bartlett Sher’s Met production.
Date: 6/21/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
7:00 p.m.
Stratford Shakespeare Festival's production of The Tempest, starring Christopher Plummer pits the desire for revenge against the demands of love and asks if man is capable of creating a brave new world.
Date: 6/27/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
7:00 p.m.
Mariusz Kwiecien is the world’s most famous lover in Michael Grandage's elegant production, led by Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi.
Date: 6/29/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
First broadcast in 2011, don't miss this second chance to catch Danny Boyle's electrifying stage production of Frankenstein. Starring Jonny Lee Miller and the star of BBC's Sherlock Holmes, Benedict Cumberbatch
Date: 7/11/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
7:00 p.m.
Bartlett Sher’s 2009 production stars Joseph Calleja in the tour-de-force title role of this fictionalized take on the life and loves of the German Romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann.
Date: 7/12/2012 - 7/29/2012
Location: Lauren K. Woods Theatre
"I can do one of two things," says Teddy Roosevelt at the top of "Teddy & Alice," "I can either be President of the United States or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both!" The battle of wills between the great American President and his free-spirited daughter provides a spectacular double-star turn in this high-stepping, flag-waving and heart-warming family drama, set to the immortal strains of John Philip Sousa.
Date: 7/18/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
7:00 p.m.
Met Opera Summer Encore - Anna Netrebko sings the title role of Donizetti’s bel canto tragedy in her Met role debut, with Piotr Beczala as her lover, Edgardo. Mariusz Kwiecien is her tyrannical brother.
Date: 7/25/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
7:00 p.m.
Strauss’s comic masterpiece of love and intrigue in 18th-century Vienna stars Renée Fleming as the aristocratic Marschallin and Susan Graham in the trouser role of her young lover.
Date: 8/30/2012
Location: MAC at Monmouth
TRAIN The California 37 Tour with special guest Mat Kearney
Date: 9/7/2012
Location: MAC at Monmouth
THE FRESH BEAT BAND - FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7TH. DOORS 5:30 PM SHOWTIME 6:30 PM.
Date: 9/7/2012
Location: MAC at Monmouth
THE FRESH BEAT BAND - FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7TH. DOORS 2:00 PM SHOWTIME 3:00 PM.
Date: 9/7/2012 - 10/17/2012
Location: Pollak Gallery
This exhibition features selections from freelance photographer Ed Gallucci's life work and includes photographs of celebrities like Muhammad Ali, Bruce Springsteen, Rod Stewart, jerry Garcia, Paul Simon, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, and many others.
Free & Open to Public
Date: 9/10/2012 - 11/16/2012
Location: Rotary Ice House Gallery
Designer Steven Brower explores his origins and how he filters early and later influences through his own personal sensibility. Not limited to visual art, graphic design or illustrations those influences include Groucho Marx, Woody Guthrie, Louis Armstrong, right along side PushPin Studios, Mad Magazine, and Jack Kirby.
Free & Open to Public
Date: 9/13/2012
Location: Wilson Hall
JUST AROUND THE CORNER tells the story of Bob Benjamin and his fight to find a cure for Parkinson’s disease. Bob and a few others started the Light of Day Foundation. The screening will focus not only on Light of Day but Bruce’s message of giving back that is a part of all of his shows. This is the ultimate giving back movie as all of the proceeds go directly to the LOD Foundation.
Date: 9/13/2012
Location: Wilson Hall
Come start your weekend on a Thursday by coming out to Monmouth University’s beautiful Wilson Hall to listen to wonderful music from Jersey Shore stalwarts Joe D’Urso and Joe Rapolla!
Date: 9/15/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Come experience a fantastic late afternoon performance at Monmouth’s beautiful Pollak Theatre! The Songwriters By The Sea series is an outlet for performing songwriters to introduce new material as well as existing material in an intimate and interactive environment.
Date: 9/17/2012 - 10/22/2012
Location: Wilson Hall
Join us for a series of Tango classes with Lee Sager of Tango Pantera. Everyone is welcome. No partner or experience needed.
Date: 9/19/2012
Location: Wilson Hall
Josh Emmons has written the novels “Prescription for a Superior Existence” and “The Loss of Leon Meed" and has also been given an honorable mention in "The Best American Non-required Reading."
Free & Open to Public
Date: 9/19/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Gen Silent is the critically-acclaimed documen- tary from filmmaker Stu Maddux that asks six LGBT seniors if they will hide their friends, their spouses - their entire lives in order to survive in the healthcare system.
Free & Open to Public
Date: 9/20/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Mark Haddon’s celebrated, multi-award-winning novel is beautifully and imaginatively adapted into a stage play for the first time.
Date: 9/22/2012
Location: Lauren K. Woods Theatre
One of the world’s most breathtaking interpreters of traditional Irish words and music, Seán Tyrrell returns Stateside on the heels of his starkly beautiful new
Date: 9/25/2012
Location: Lauren K. Woods Theatre
A performed compilation of their greatest hits, featuring a medley of work that has made the politics of gender and sexuality and the humor of human relations accessible to all ages and persuasions for the last 30 years. Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver, along with Deb Margolin, founded the company “Split Britches” in New York City 32 years ago. Since 1980 Weaver and Shaw have transformed the landscape of queer performance with their vaudevillian and satirical gender-bending shows.
Free & Open to Public
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Date: 10/4/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Asbury Park Musical Memories, Part 1 documents the musical history of the city from the 1930’s through the 1970’s in the words of those who lived it. Included in this rare footage are interviews with Asbury Park musical icons Billy Brown, Bobby Thomas, Bobby Bandiera, Nicky Addeo, Vini Lopez and Willie Mitchell, among others.
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Date: 10/12/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
They’ve been described as “a fiery blend of raucous Indian bhangra and funky New Orleans brass,” a street band playing “Bollywood with a go go beat.” Of course
Date: 10/13/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Sat. at 12:55 p.m.
Anna Netrebko and Matthew Polenzani star in one of the greatest comic gems in opera, as the fickle Adina and her besotted Nemorino.
(Encore: Fri, November 2, 2012 at 7:00 p.m)
Date: 10/14/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
A set by the CGT is a constantly surprising thing mixing baroque fugues, surf music, arena rock and cowboy standards with the
Date: 10/15/2012
Location: Wilson Hall
Filmed in Bangladesh, Runaway by Amit Ashraf is about one man running from his past, while another tracks him down and forces him to face it.
Free & Open to Public
Date: 10/16/2012
Location: Wilson Hall
Meena Alexander considered one of the foremost Indian poets of her generation. Editor of Indian Love Poems and author of several other publications, her memoir Fault Lines was picked as one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year.
Free & Open to Public
Date: 10/17/2012 - 9/18/2012
Location: Art Building Courtyard
A performative walking tour through economically varied sections of the communities surrounding Monmouth University. This project explores a society that has advanced to a point where an excess of highly specialized tools and goods results in a trajectory towards some form of collapse.
Date: 10/18/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
This new play features Julie Walters, Rory Kinnear (Hamlet) and Helen Mc Crory. It’s a funny, touching and, at times, a savage portrait of a family.
Date: 10/21/2012
Location: Pollak Gallery
Their backstory has been called “the most compelling of any band” — a stranger than fiction saga involving a guitar made from a tin can and stick a wood
Date: 10/27/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Sat. at 12:55 p.m.
Verdi’s Shakespearean masterpiece returns to the Met with an exciting cast. Johan Botha sings the title role opposite the acclaimed Desdemona of star soprano Renée Fleming, with Falk Struckmann as Iago and Semyon Bychkov conducting.
(Encore: Sun. November 18, 2012)
Date: 10/28/2012
Location: Wilson Hall
DUE TO WEATHER, GREAT HALL MILONGA IS CANCELLED FOR SUN. OCT. 28
All tango lovers (beginners through experienced) and even those who are just thinking about learning to tango are invited to join us for a sensational afternoon of dancing amongst the beautiful background of Wilson Hall. There will be an intro to Tango lesson for all beginners an hour before the Milonga given by Lee Sager and Silvana Brizuela of Tango Pantera.
Date: 11/1/2012 - 12/21/2012
Location: Pollak Gallery
The splendor of the golden age of American palaces will be featured in an exhibit of photographs depicting Shadow lawn estate as it appeared from 1903 through 1937.
Free & Open to the Public
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Date: 11/10/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Sat. at 12:55 p.m.
Composer Thomas Adès conducts the Metropolitan Opera premiere of his 2004 work, which has been widely praised as a modern masterpiece.
(Encore: Sun. January 13, 2013 at 12:55 p.m.)
Date: 11/11/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Fifty years after the release of the first album by Peter, Paul & Mary, the man who helped to reinforce folk music’s
Date: 11/12/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
In this semi-autobiographical film by Ousmane Sembene, black soldiers help to defend France in the Algerian War, but are detained in prison camp before being repatriated home.
Free & Open to Public
Date: 11/12/2012 - 12/3/2012
Location: MAC at Monmouth
Join us for a series of both advanced and beginner Tango classes with Lee Sager of Tango Pantera. No partner needed.
Date: 11/16/2012 - 12/1/2012
Location: Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Winner of 2 Obie (Off-Broadway) awards and two Outer Critics Circle awards as Best New American Play and Best Off-Broadway production, The Foreigner is an inspired comic romp. Set in rural Georgia, this comedy investigates what can happen when a group of people encounter a stranger who (they think) neither speaks nor reads English. That he does fuels the nonstop hilarity of the play and sets up the wildly funny climax in which things go uproariously awry for the "bad guys" and the "good guys" emerge triumphant.
Date: 11/17/2012
Location: Bey Hall
The day will consist of readings by nationally known poets, some of whom will conduct poetry workshops for participants. The keynote readers will be Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn and Cave Canem Fellow Rachel Eliza Griffiths. Stephen Dunn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Different Hours.
Date: 11/18/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Sun. at 12:55 p.m.
Verdi’s Shakespearean masterpiece returns to the Met with an exciting cast. Johan Botha sings the title role opposite the acclaimed Desdemona of star soprano Renée Fleming, with Falk Struckmann as Iago and Semyon Bychkov conducting.
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Date: 11/24/2012
Location: MAC at Monmouth
Tickets on sale Friday, August 24th at 10am through Ticketmaster.com, phone charge at 800.745.3000 and in person at the MAC and Pollak Theatre box offices.
Date: 11/29/2012 - 12/2/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Starring three-time Tony Award winning nominee Marc Kudisch and Award-winning quadruple threat actor/singer/dancer/choreographer, Jeffry Denman two of the most talented performers on Broadway today, singing and dancing their way through classical holiday tunes in a fresh and “hilarious” re-gifting of the true meaning of the holidays.
Date: 11/30/2012 - 12/7/2012
Location: Rotary Ice House Gallery
Featuring the work of Monmouth University graduating seniors who will receive their degrees in Graphic Design or Fine Art.
Free & Open to Public
Date: 12/1/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Sat. at 12:55 p.m.
The virtuosic Elina Garanca sings Sesto in Mozart’s drama set in ancient Rome.
(Encore: Fri., January 25, 2013 at 7:00 p.m.)
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Date: 12/3/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
In this comic documentary, dyslexic director Harvey Hubbell V — with assistance from several dyslexic crew members – will present the latest scientific knowledge about dyslexia and the experiences of dyslexics.
Free & Open to Public
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Date: 12/6/2012
Location: Wilson Hall
In the splendid setting of the Grand Staircase of Wilson Hall, amid the lights and greens of the season, the Monmouth University Chamber Orchestra, Concert and Chamber Choirs, top student soloists, and the Exultation Ringers of the Colts Neck Reformed Church will perform seasonal favorites old and new.
Date: 12/7/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
A traditional sell-out at the Pollak Theatre, the annual Christmas concert by the beloved homegrown institution returns for its 22nd showcase of sacred carols and seasonal favorites.
Date: 12/8/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Sat. at 12:55 p.m.
Accompanied by a thrilling score, Verdi’s vivid characters grapple with life and love, betrayal and death.
(Encore: Sun. February 10, 2013 at 12:55 p.m)
Date: 12/9/2012
Location: MAC at Monmouth
Thunder 106’s WINTER THUNDERLAND MARTINA McBRIDE THE JOY OF CHRISTMAS TOUR - Tickets on sale Friday, September 14th at 10am.
Date: 12/12/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Skippyjon Jones is a little kitten with big ears and even bigger dreams! Sometimes he pretends to be a bird, sometimes he pretends to be a llama, and sometimes he pretends to be a whale… Anything BUT a Siamese cat! Appropriate for Grades K - 3
Date: 12/12/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Skippyjon Jones is a little kitten with big ears and even bigger dreams! Sometimes he pretends to be a bird, sometimes he pretends to be a llama, and sometimes he pretends to be a whale… Anything BUT a Siamese cat! Appropriate for Grades K - 3
Date: 12/15/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Sat. at 12:55 p.m.
The Met’s unforgettable production of Verdi’s ancient Egyptian drama stars Liudmyla Monastyrska and Hui He.
(Encore: Sun. February 24, 2013 at 1:00 p.m.)
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Date: 1/5/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Sat. at 12:00 p.m.
The Met offers a rare opportunity to witness Berlioz’s vast epic, last performed at the Met in 2003.
(Encore: Sun. March 24, 2013 at 1:00 p.m.)
Date: 1/13/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Sun. at 12:55 p.m.
Composer Thomas Adès conducts the Metropolitan Opera premiere of his 2004 work, which has been widely praised as a modern masterpiece. Director Robert Lepage recreates the interior of 18th-century La Scala, including the hidden workings underneath the stage, where Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan, practices his otherworldly arts. The magnetic baritone Simon Keenlyside stars as Prospero, a role he has sung to great acclaim in London.
Date: 1/19/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Sat. at 12:55 p.m.
Fresh from her triumph in the Met’s The Enchanted Island, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, one of the world’s most exciting singers, takes on the virtuosic bel canto role of the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots.
(Encore: Fri. February 22, 2013 at 7:00 p.m.)
Date: 1/22/2013 - 3/8/2013
Location: Rotary Ice House Gallery
Convergence is a group exhibition organized in affiliation with Project Vortex, a non-profit organization committed to reusing plastic debris from our oceans and shorelines. This exhibition brings together seven contemporary artists responding to the current environmental crisis in our oceans.
Free & Open to Public
Date: 1/25/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Fri. at 7:00 p.m.
The virtuosic Elina Garanca sings Sesto in Mozart’s drama set in ancient Rome. Giuseppe Filianoti is the noble Tito and Barbara Frittoli is Vitellia in this handsome revival of one of the composer’s final masterpieces. Harry Bicket conducts.
Date: 1/27/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
This performance is SOLD OUT. Back by popular demand, In the Mood returns with their big band orchestra, singers, and swing dancers. This retro 1940s musical revives the music that moved a nation's spirit and helped win a war.
Date: 1/28/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Raoul Peck’s film portrays the true story of the rise to power and assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba.
Free & Open to Public
Date: 1/28/2013 - 3/8/2013
Location: Joan and Robert Rechnitz Hall
This invitational exhibition features the work of 57 accomplished artists from across the country - including current faculty and former faculty, alumni and artists who have exhibited in the Monmouth University galleries over the years.
Free and Open to the Public
Date: 1/31/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Academy Award nominee and Tony Award-winner John Lithgow (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Shrek, 3rd Rock from the Sun) takes the title role in Arthur Wing Pinero’s uproarious Victorian farce, directed by Olivier Award-winner Timothy Sheader (Crazy for You and Into the Woods, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, London).
Date: 2/1/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Fri. at 7:00 p.m.
Anna Netrebko and Matthew Polenzani star in one of the greatest comic gems in opera, as the fickle Adina and her besotted Nemorino. Bartlett Sher, whose previous productions of Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Le Comte Ory, and Les Contes d’Hoffmann have delighted Met audiences, guides this lively staging, where surface charm will meet with real emotion. Mariusz Kwiecien is the blustery sergeant Belcore and Ambrogio Maestri is Dulcamara, the loveable quack and dispenser of the elixir. Maurizio Benini conducts.
Date: 2/4/2013 - 3/22/2013
Location: Pollak Gallery
From the Monmouth University Permanent Collection: selected works from the Aftermath series.
Free & Open to Public
Date: 2/7/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
BARRYMORE is an unforgettable portrayal of legendary actor John Barrymore, a man of colossal talent and contradictions and one of the greatest Shakespearean actors of all time. Presented by New York-based alternative content distributors BY Experience, in association with Image Entertainment, and Executive Producers Steve Kalafer and Peter LeDonne. Please note this is NOT a National Theatre of London production.
Date: 2/8/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
This concert has been rescheduled at the request of management.
Please call the box office or check back for details.
Southside Johnny & The Poor Fools embark on a stripped down journey through Johnny Lyon’s eclectic version of the Great American Songbook. Playing a wide range of music pulled from Dylan, Mose Allison, Muddy Waters, NRBQ, Richard Thompson, Emmylou Harris, The Band, George Jones and more, The Poor Fools will also dive into some of the legendary Asbury Jukes material–revisiting the classics as well as the underperformed deep tracks.
Date: 2/10/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Sun. at 12:55 p.m
Accompanied by a thrilling score, Verdi’s vivid characters grapple with life and love, betrayal and death. Director David Alden’s dreamlike setting provides a compelling backdrop for this dramatic story of jealousy and vengeance. Marcelo Álvarez stars as the conflicted king; Karita Mattila is Amelia, the object of his secret passion; and Dmitri Hvorostovsky is her suspicious husband. Kathleen Kim is the page Oscar, and mezzo-soprano powerhouses Dolora Zajick and Stephanie Blythe take turns singing the fortuneteller Ulrica. Fabio Luisi conducts.
Date: 2/11/2013
Location: Wilson Hall
During the first weeks of the Spring 2013 Semester students from the Art & Design program took part in 24Frames 24Hours, a global cinematic experiment in mobile phone filmmaking. Participants made short two minute mobile-mentary (mobile/cell/smart phone documentary) about the impact of Sandy on the Jersey Shore.
Free and open to the public
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Date: 2/11/2013 - 5/31/2013
Location: Joan and Robert Rechnitz Hall
Student Movie Posters from the Department of Art & Design
What can you do with 4 colors, 4 names, 2 locations, 2 dates, 2 film genres and 4 adjectives?
For this project, students are asked to create a concept for a movie poster for a film that does not exist. Here are the results of their work.
Date: 2/15/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Robert Pinsky, Three-time U.S. poet laureate and author of several acclaimed books of poetry, prose, and translation will bring his verse to life on the Pollak Theatre stage in a reading with musical accompaniment.
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Date: 2/16/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Sat. at 12:55 p.m.
Director Michael Mayer has placed his new production of Verdi’s towering tragedy in Las Vegas in 1960—an ideal setting for this eternal conflict of depravity and innocence.
(Encore: Fri. April 26, 2013 at 7:00 p.m.)
Date: 2/17/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Have you ever had a really rotten day? Alexander has... He wakes up with gum in his hair, he trips on a skateboard, and then he accidentally drops his sweater in the sink - all before breakfast! Laugh and sing along with Alexander's misadventures in this hilarious musical, featuring book and lyrics by Judith Viorst, author of the best-selling classic book. Discover along with Alexander that sometimes, everyone has a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Appropriate for Grades Pre K - 4
Date: 2/21/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
This feature documentary film by Richard Chisolm chronicles an ambitious effort to ‘green’ the public school diet serving 83,000 students in Baltimore.
Free & Open to Public
Date: 2/22/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Fri. at 7:00 p.m.
Fresh from her triumph in the Met’s The Enchanted Island, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, one of the world’s most exciting singers, takes on the virtuosic bel canto role of the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots. Having scored a major success with his production of Anna Bolena, director David McVicar now turns to the second opera of Donizetti’s Tudor trilogy, which explores regal characters at fateful moments of their lives. Elza van den Heever sings Elizabeth I, and Maurizio Benini conducts.
Date: 2/24/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Sun. at 1:00 p.m.
The Met’s unforgettable production of Verdi’s ancient Egyptian drama stars Liudmyla Monastyrska and Hui He. The story centers on the enslaved Ethiopian princess caught in a love triangle with the heroic Radamès, played by Roberto Alagna. The proud Egyptian princess Amneris is played by Olga Borodina. Fabio Luisi conducts this revival, which features recent choreography by Alexei Ratmansky.
Date: 2/26/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
In this film by Abderrahmane Sissako, Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is out of work, and the couple is on the verge of breaking up. African civil society spokesmen have taken proceedings against the World Bank and the IMF whom they blame for Africa's woes. Chaka does not seem to be concerned by Africa's desire to fight for its rights.
Free & Open to Public
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Date: 3/2/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Sat. at 12:00 p.m.
Director François Girard’s timeless new vision for Wagner’s final masterpiece explores the many facets of this mystical score, while designer Michael Levine (Eugene Onegin) creates a surreal landscape.
(Encore: Sun. April 7, 2013 at 1:00 p.m.)
Date: 3/3/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
A concert with Shawn Mullins and Mindy Smith. Shawn Mullins has undergone a series of transformative experiences leading to his eleventh studio release, Light You Up. His experiences included delving into the collaborative creative process by intensive co-writing, and in one instance putting him atop of the country charts via a key contribution to the Zac Brown Band’s “Toes."
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Date: 3/4/2013
Location: Wilson Hall
Tommy Sands, County Down's singer, songwriter and social activist, has achieved something akin to legendary status in his own lifetime. From the pioneering tours with the highly influential Sands Family, playing Carnegie Hall to Moscow's Olympic Stadium, he has become one of Ireland's most powerful songwriters and enchanting performers.
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Date: 3/6/2013 - 3/14/2013
Location: Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Please note that the March 6th performance has been cancelled due to the weather. Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters, Twelfth Night combines high comedy with some of the subtlest poetry and most beautiful songs Shakespeare ever wrote.
Date: 3/7/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
The play features Simon Russell Beale and is a timely play and great tragedy that examines issues of financial debt and ruin.
Date: 3/9/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
This event was rescheduled from the original November 4, 2012 concert date. Family dynasties in country music are surely nothing new — but just as surely as Steve Earle has blazed a trail of bracingly honest songcraft and life
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Date: 3/11/2013
Location: Hawk TV Studios
6:00 p.m.
The piece will feature garments which can be seen multiple ways through the AR (augmented reality) application. Bring your phones (Droid or Apple phones/iPads) to view the app at the event!
Free and open to the public
Date: 3/12/2013
Location: Wilson Hall
Mary Gaitskill is famous for her novels Two Girls, Fat and Thin and Veronica, which was nominated for the 2005 National Book Award.
Date: 3/14/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Filmmaker Jenny Abel explores the life and career of her father Alan Abel, known to many as "the world's greatest hoaxer."
Free & Open to Public
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Date: 3/16/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Sat. at 12:00 p.m.
Zandonai’s compelling opera, inspired by an episode from Dante’s Inferno, returns in the Met’s ravishingly beautiful production, last seen in 1986. Dramatic soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek and tenor Marcello Giordani are the doomed lovers. Marco Armiliato conducts.
(Encore: Sun. April 14, 2013 at 12:00 p.m.)
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Date: 3/23/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Red House Records is pleased to announce the July 13, 2010 release of Red Horse, the debut album from folk’s newest supergroup featuring Eliza Gilkyson, John Gorka and Lucy Kaplansky.
Date: 3/24/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Sun. at 1:00 p.m.
The Met offers a rare opportunity to witness Berlioz’s vast epic, last performed at the Met in 2003. Deborah Voigt, Susan Graham, Marcello Giordani, and Dwayne Croft lead the starry cast, portraying characters from the Trojan War. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi marshals the large-scale musical forces.
Date: 3/26/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
In this film by Lee Isaac Chung, an orphan of the Rwandan genocide travels from Kigali to the countryside on a quest for justice.
Free & Open to Public
Date: 3/28/2013 - 4/5/2013
Location: Rotary Ice House Gallery
Featuring the work of Monmouth University graduating seniors who will receive their degree in Graphic Design.
Free & Open to Public
Date: 3/28/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
NICK OFFERMAN - Star of NBC’s PARKS AND RECREATION. Thursday, March 28th. Please note that this show has been moved to the Pollak Theatre. On sale through Ticketmaster.com, 800.745.3000 and in person the MAC and Pollak Theatre box offices.
Date: 3/28/2013
Location: Joan and Robert Rechnitz Hall
Senior Animation and Motion Graphics Screening Joan and Robert Rechnitz Hall
March 28, 2013 - April 5, 2013 | Free & Open to Public
Featuring the work of Monmouth University graduating seniors who have taken animation and motion graphics courses.
Screening Event: Thursday, March 28th | 7-9 p.m. - In conjunction with the Graphic Design Senior Exhibition
Date: 4/2/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
In telling the tale of this large and complex event, this Theatreworks show focuses on the smaller stories of some of the soldiers who are caught up in it, including, Zak, a runaway slave who demands the right to fight his own fight; Will, his former best friend and "master;" Johnny, an Irish immigrant who volunteers to defend his new home; and Jackie, a girl who becomes a drummer boy. Appropriate for Grades 3 - 9
Date: 4/4/2013
Location: Wilson Hall
C.K. Williams has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Ruth Lilly Prize. He currently teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.
Free & Open to Public
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Date: 4/5/2013
Location: Pollak Gallery
With a career that spans over three decades, John Hammond is one of a handful of white blues musicians who was on the scene at the beginning of the first blues renaissance of the mid-'60s.
Date: 4/7/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Sun. at 1:00 p.m.
Director François Girard’s timeless new vision for Wagner’s final masterpiece explores the many facets of this mystical score, while designer Michael Levine (Eugene Onegin) creates a surreal landscape. Jonas Kaufmann stars in the title role of the innocent who finds wisdom. His fellow Wagnerian luminaries include Katarina Dalayman as the mysterious Kundry, Peter Mattei as the ailing Amfortas, Evgeny Nikitin as the wicked Klingsor, and René Pape as the noble knight Gurnemanz. Daniele Gatti conducts.
Date: 4/11/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female circumcision, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart in this film by Ousmane Sembene.
Free & Open to Public
Date: 4/11/2013 - 6/7/2013
Location: Pollak Gallery
Works of Jacob Landau from the Monmouth University Permanent Collection.
Free & Open to Public
Date: 4/11/2013
Location: Anacon Hall
This event has been cancelled. Learn the ins and outs of "stepping," the percussive dance style created by African American college students, with a lesson by dance troupe Step Afrika. No experience needed.
Date: 4/11/2013
Location: Hawk TV Studios
In 1999 Matt co-founded SWAMP (Studies of Work Atmosphere and Mass Production) with Douglas Easterly. Their work focuses on critical themes addressing the affects of global corporate operations, mass media and communication, military-industrial complexes, and general meditations on the liminal area between life and artificial life.
Free and open to the public
Date: 4/12/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Step Afrika! is the first professional company in the world dedicated to the tradition of stepping. Founded in December 1994, the company is critically-acclaimed for its efforts to promote an understanding of and appreciation for stepping and the dance tradition's use as an educational tool for young people worldwide. Step Afrika! reaches tens of thousands of Americans each year and has performed on many stages in North & South America, Europe, Africa and the Caribbean.
Date: 4/12/2013 - 4/19/2013
Location: Rotary Ice House Gallery
Featuring the work of Monmouth University graduating seniors who will receive their degrees in Fine Art.
Free & Open to Public
Date: 4/13/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
CD Release Show and Signing. Southside Johnny & The Poor Fools embark on a stripped down journey through Johnny Lyon’s eclectic version of the Great American Songbook. Playing a wide range of music pulled from Dylan, Mose Allison, Muddy Waters, NRBQ, Richard Thompson, Emmylou Harris, The Band, George Jones and more, The Poor Fools will also dive into some of the legendary Asbury Jukes material–revisiting the classics as well as the underperformed deep tracks.
Date: 4/13/2013
Location: Joan and Robert Rechnitz Hall
Meredith Calcagno will be performing her senior recital featuring vocal performances
Date: 4/14/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Sun. at 12:55 p.m
Zandonai’s compelling opera, inspired by an episode from Dante’s Inferno, returns in the Met’s ravishingly beautiful production, last seen in 1986. Dramatic soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek and tenor Marcello Giordani are the doomed lovers. Marco Armiliato conducts.
Date: 4/16/2013
Location: Wilson Hall
Jen Davis is a New York based photographer. For the past 11 years she has been working on a series of Self-Portrait’s dealing with issues regarding beauty, identity, and body image. An accomplished photographer, she received her MFA from Yale University and has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Date: 4/18/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Monmouth University’s orchestra, choirs, and distinguished soloists will be under the direction of Dr. David Tripold performing music of the three giants of the 18th century High Baroque period.
Date: 4/18/2013
Location: Wilson Hall
This workshop will include the history of The Byrds' musical revolution and contemporary technical information - highlighting the computer techniques McGuinn uses in recording. Bring your guitar to participate in the Guitar Circle!
Please call 732.263.5715 to reserve your place
Date: 4/19/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
As the leader of the influential 1960's group The Byrds, Roger McGuinn was on the leading edge, combining the rock beat of The Beatles with the folk sensibilities of Bob Dylan, to create the genre known as “folk-rock.”
Date: 4/20/2013
Location: Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Jonah Santorello will be performing his senior recital featuring performances on the saxophone.
Date: 4/22/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
A collection of short films by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Sam Green. Running through Green’s films is a celebration of idealism and the search for meaning along with the often humorous realities of human folly.
Free & Open to Public
Date: 4/26/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Fri. at 7:00 p.m.
Director Michael Mayer has placed his new production of Verdi’s towering tragedy in Las Vegas in 1960—an ideal setting for this eternal conflict of depravity and innocence. In this production, inspired by the antics of the Rat Pack, Piotr Beczala is the womanizing Duke of Mantua, with Željko Lucic as his tragic sidekick, Rigoletto. Diana Damrau is Rigoletto’s daughter—and their victim. Michele Mariotti conducts.
Date: 4/26/2013
Location: Lauren K. Woods Theatre
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Taylor Bogan's performance has been cancelled.
Date: 4/27/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Saturday at 12:00 p.m.
The opera that conquered London in Handel’s time comes to the Met in David McVicar’s inventive production—which triumphed at its Glyndebourne premiere in 2005.
(Encore: Sat. May 11, 2013 at 12:55 p.m.)
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Date: 4/27/2013
Location: MAC at Monmouth
ALL TIME LOW – PIERCE THE VEIL with special guests MAYDAY PARADE and YOU ME AT SIX. Please note that this show is SOLD OUT.
Date: 4/28/2013 - 6/5/2013
Location: Rotary Ice House Gallery
Featuring the work of Monmouth University students in Photography, Graphic Design, Animation and Studio Art.
Free & Open to Public
Date: 4/28/2013
Location: Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Kitty Dorsey will be performing her senior recital featuring vocal performances
Date: 4/28/2013
Location: Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Gail Garbarine will be performing her senior recital featuring vocal performances.
Date: 5/2/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Please note the this event was rescheduled from the original March 28th date. Award-winning writer Alan Bennett is reunited with director Nicholas Hytner and Olivier Award-winning actress Frances de la Tour, with whom he worked on The History Boys & The Habit of Art.
Date: 5/11/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Sat. at 12:55 p.m.
The opera that conquered London in Handel’s time comes to the Met in David McVicar’s inventive production—which triumphed at its Glyndebourne premiere in 2005. The Guardian praised McVicar’s “witty, sexy, and tragic post-colonial framing of Handel’s Caesar and Cleopatra tale,” which incorporates elements of Baroque theater and 19th-century British imperialism to illuminate the opera’s ideas of love, war, and empire building. The world’s leading countertenor, David Daniels, sings the title role opposite Natalie Dessay as an irresistibly exotic Cleopatra. Baroque specialist Harry Bicket conducts.
Date: 5/14/2013
Location: MAC at Monmouth
presented by 95.9, May 14, 2013 – 8pm Showtime. All-ages to enter – Open to the public! On sale Friday, March 1st at noon.
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