Performing Arts Series
Past Events:
Date: 6/23/2011 - 7/3/2011
Location: Laren K Woods Theatre;Shadow Lawn Theatre
Preview: June 23 at 8 p.m.
Opening Night: June 24 at 8 p.m.
Performances: June 25, 29 and 30, July 1, 2, 6, 7, 8 and 9 at 8 p.m.; June 26, July 3 and 10 at 7 p.m.
Cost: Preview night - Adult/Senior $20; Student $10; June 24 through July 10 - Adult $35; Senior $30; Student $15
Date: 7/14/2011 - 7/31/2011
Location: Laren K Woods Theatre;Shadow Lawn Theatre
Preview: July 14 at 8 p.m.
Opening Night: July 15 at 8 p.m.
Performances: July 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, and 30 at 8 p.m.; July 17, 24 and 31 at 7 p.m.
Cost: Preview night - Adult/Senior $15; Student $10; July 15 through July 31 - Adult $30; Senior $22; Student $15
Date: 9/24/2011
Location: Pollak Theatre
A defining figure in American Dance, Paul Taylor formed Taylor 2, a company of six dancers who bring the choreographer's masterworks to venues around the world.
Date: 10/14/2011
Location: Pollak Theatre
For more than two decades, Indigo Girls Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have presented some of their best music in front of cheering crowds – sometimes in the cramped confines of a small club, sometimes in a vast arena packed with thousands.
Date: 10/22/2011
Location: Pollak Theatre
Jody Joseph transforms herself physically and vocally in this live nostalgic show as the mystical, ethereal Stevie Nicks and the rebellious hard rocker Janis Joplin.
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.
Date: 11/6/2011
Location: Pollak Theatre
Since their arrival on the music scene in 1993 in a legendary residency at Los Angeles’ Brown Derby nightclub, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy’s irresistible live show and aggressive, musically perceptive approach has proven them over time to be the singular standout among the numerous bands that launched the Nineties swing revival.
Date: 11/12/2011
Location: Pollak Theatre
The Miles Davis Experience: 1949-1959;recaptures the sound, and the historical and cultural context of this critical period of American history through the lense of jazz music and its most iconic innovator, Miles Davis
Date: 11/20/2011
Location: Pollak Theatre
His talent as a tenor has taken him far and wide, and some of the many highlights of his career to date include performing for many dignitaries such as Irish President Mary McAleese, Emperor Akihito of Japan, Former Irish President and UN Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson and most recently for United States President, Barack Obama.
Date: 11/21/2011
Location: Laren K Woods Theatre
Three women plus twelve instruments equals one good time when Simple Gifts takes the stage.
Date: 12/2/2011
Location: Pollak Theatre
There's simply no better way to start the holiday season than to spend this special evening with Father Alphonse Stephenson and the Orchestra of Saint Peter by the Sea
Date: 12/7/2011 - 12/7/2011
Location: Pollak Theatre
An evening with John Edward and special guests!!Join John and internationally acclaimed psychic mediums Char Margolis and Jonathan Louis.
Date: 12/8/2011
Location: Pollak Theatre
Songs of the season featuring Monmouth University's choirs, bands, orchestra, and combined community choir, hand bell choir.
Date: 12/9/2011
Location: Pollak Theatre
Martin Sexton is ripe with raw, expansive talent. His voice comes in a hundred impossible shades. His songs are sweet and spirited and soulful. His repertoire is like a cross country tour of the American musical vernacular."
Date: 12/11/2011
Location: Pollak Theatre
From the company that brought you the hit Sing Sing Sing! comes their new seasonal musical marvel, Deck the Halls! With a company of more than 40 singers, tap dancers and musicians, your favorite family holiday songs will come reeling to life.
Date: 2/10/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
For this special evening of An Irish Homecoming, award winning Celtic super group Cherish the Ladies hosts an all-star gathering of singers, musicians and dancers bringing Ireland to life on the Pollak Theatre stage.
Date: 2/12/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
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: 2/17/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
“To call them a string band does not really do justice to the flying instruments, the role changes and the strong and sometimes dangerous singing of Rhiannon Giddens…” — New York Times
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: 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: 3/30/2012
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.
.jpg)
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: 4/13/2012
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: 4/20/2012
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: 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.
.jpg "Buy Tickets Online Button")
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
.jpg)
.jpg)
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: 10/14/2012
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: 10/21/2012
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: 10/28/2012
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: 11/11/2012
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: 11/29/2012 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 2/15/2013
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.
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."
.jpg)
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.
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
.jpg)
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.
.jpg)
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: 4/11/2013
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: 4/12/2013
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: 4/13/2013
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: 4/18/2013
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.”
Upcoming Events
