Soundgarden
2013-05-14 20:00 (America/New_York)
95.9 The Rat presents
Soundgarden

May 14, 2013at the MAC at Monmouth University
Doors open at 7 p.m.Showtime at 8 p.m.
Parking lot opens at 6:00 p.m.
There is a $10 parking feeAll-ages to enter – Open to the public!

Seating ChartPrices: $49.50 + $59.50 + applicable surcharges
There is an six (6) ticket limit per household.

Tickets on sale Friday, March 1st at noon. Purchase tickets through Ticketmaster.com, phone charge at 800.745.3000 and in person at the MAC and Pollak Theatre box offices. Produced by TTM, Inc and AEG Live

Ramona Quimby
2013-05-22 10:30
By Len Jenkins
Based on the Ramona books by Beverly Cleary
Directed by Rob Barron
Ramona’s life is a mess! Her older sister Beezus is a pain, her Aunt
Bea may marry a dork, and her Dad just lost his job. She even thinks
that her teacher hates her. Life is no picnic, and growing up isn’t
easy. But with the help of her loving and patient family and friends,
Ramona faces these challenges — as audiences laugh and cheer her on.
Hold onto your hats as you follow the latest breathless adventures of
the world’s most animated elementary school student. Ramona, the
exasperating but lovable third-grader, has delighted young readers for
over fifty years through the books of Newbery Medal-winning writer
Beverly Clearly. Now, she comes to life on the stage in Two Beans
Productions’ Ramona Quimby.
Appropriate for Grades 1 – 5

Ramona Quimby - 2nd show at 12:45 added
2013-05-22 12:45

Met Opera: CARMEN (Encore) (Broadcast in HD)
2013-06-19 19:00
Bizet’s Carmen
Summer Encore Series
Approx. Run Time: 3 hours
Broadcast in HD
Original transmission date: Saturday, January 16, 2010
Richard Eyre’s hit production stars Elīna Garanča as the seductive gypsy of the title, opposite Roberto Alagna as the obsessed Don José. Carmen “is about sex, violence, and racism—and its corollary: freedom,” the director says about Bizet’s drama. “It is one of the inalienably great works of art. It’s sexy, in every sense. And I think it should be shocking.”
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Production: Richard Eyre; Barbara Frittoli, Elīna Garanča, Roberto Alagna, Mariusz Kwiecien

Darius Rucker - True Believers Tour 2013
2013-06-20 19:30
Darius Rucker
True Believers Tour 2013
with Rodney Atkins & Jana Kramer

June 20, 2013
at the MAC at Monmouth University
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Showtime at 7:30 p.m.

Parking lot opens at 5 p.m.
There is a $10 parking fee
All-ages to enter – Open to the public!

Seating Chart
Prices: $82.50, $69.50, $52.50 and $42.50 + applicable surcharges
There is an eight (8) ticket limit per household.
Beer Garden will open at 6:30 p.m.

On sale Friday, March 1st at noon. Purchase tickets through Ticketmaster.com, phone charge at 800.745.3000 and in person at the MAC and Pollak Theatre box offices.

Produced by TTM, Inc and AEG Live

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
2013-06-27 20:00 - 2013-07-21 19:00 | Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Book by Rachel SheinkinConceived by Rebecca FeldmanAdditional Material by Jay ReissMusic and Lyrics by William Finn
Six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, learn that winning isn’t everything and that losing doesn’t necessarily make you a loser.
THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE is a hilarious tale of overachievers’ angst chronicling the experience of six adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. The show’s Tony Award winning creative team has created the unlikeliest of hit musicals about the unlikeliest of heroes: a quirky yet charming cast of outsiders for whom a spelling bee is the one place where they can stand out and fit in at the same time.

Met Opera: ARMIDA (Encore)
2013-07-10 19:00
Rossini’s Armida
Summer Encore Series
Approx. Run Time: 3 hours
Original transmission date: Saturday, May 1, 2010
This mythical story of a sorceress who enthralls men in her island prison has inspired operatic settings by a multitude of composers, including Gluck, Haydn, and Dvořák. Renée Fleming stars in the title role of Rossini’s version, opposite no fewer than five tenors. Director Mary Zimmerman describes the work as “a buried treasure, a box of jewels.” Armida is a fanciful and magical tale with “an epic, enchanted quality and a tremendous visual element.”
Conductor: Riccardo Frizza; Production: Mary Zimmerman; Renée Fleming, Lawrence Brownlee, Bruce Ford, Barry Banks, Kobie van Rensburg

Met Opera: LA TRAVIATA (Encore)
2013-07-17 19:00
Summer Encore Series

Approx. Run Time: 2 hours 30 minutes
Original transmission date: Saturday, April 14, 2012
Natalie Dessay stars as Verdi’s most beloved heroine in Willy Decker’s stunning production, first seen at the Met in 2010. Matthew Polenzani is her lover, Alfredo, and Dimitri Hvorostovsky sings his stern father, Germont. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium.
Conductor: Fabio Luisi; Production: Willy Decker; Natalie Dessay, Matthew Polenzani, Dimitri Hvorostovsky

Met Opera: TURANDOT (Encore)
2013-07-24 19:00
Puccini’s Turandot
Summer Encore Series
Approx. Run Time: 2 hours 20 minutes
Original transmission date: Saturday, November 7, 2009
Director Franco Zeffirelli’s breathtaking production of Puccini’s last opera is a favorite of the Met repertoire. Maria Guleghina plays the ruthless Chinese princess of the title, whose hatred of men is so strong that she has all suitors who can’t solve her riddles beheaded. Marcello Giordani sings Calàf, the unknown prince who eventually wins her love and whose solos include the famous “Nessun dorma.”
Conductor: Andris Nelsons;
Production: Franco Zeffirelli; Maria Guleghina, Marina Poplavskaya, Marcello Giordani, Samuel Ramey

Met Opera: IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA (Encore) (Broadcast in HD)
2013-07-31 19:00
Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Summer Encore Series
Approx. Run Time: 3 hours
Original transmission date: Saturday, March 24, 2007
One of the most beloved operatic comedies of all time, Rossini’s The Barber of Seville is presented in a production by director Bartlett Sher. Superstar tenor Juan Diego Flórez as Count Almaviva is joined by American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato as Rosina and Peter Mattei in the title role of the swaggering barber.
Broadcast in HD
Conductor: Benini; Production: Bartlett Sher; Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez, Peter Mattei, John Del Carlo, John Relyea

Met Opera: IL TROVATORE (Encore) (Broadcast in HD)
2013-08-09 19:00
Location: Pollak Theater
Verdi’s Il Trovatore
Summer Encore Series
NEW DATE:*Friday, August 9 at 7 p.m.
*This was changed from the original Wed. June 26 date
Approx. Run Time: 2 hours 40 minutes
Original transmission date: Saturday, April 30, 2011
David McVicar’s stirring production of Verdi’s intense drama premiered at the Met in the 2008–09 season. This revival stars four extraordinary singers—Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky—in what might be the composer’s most melodically rich score.
Broadcast in HD
Marco Armiliato; Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Graduate Information Session
2013-08-20 18:00 - 19:00
The sessions and visits are great ways to find out more about the exciting graduate educational opportunities available at Monmouth. This session begins promptly at 6 p.m. If you have a physical disability and require accommodation, please call our office prior to your visit.

End of Continuing Registration - Fall
2013-08-29

Preliminary Classlists Available Online
2013-08-30

Late Registration/Drop-Add
2013-09-03 - 2013-09-10

Gallery Exhibition: Massachusetts
2013-09-03 09:00 - 2013-12-05 17:00 | Joan and Robert Rechnitz Hall
Opening Reception: Friday, September 20th from 7 – 9 p.m.
This exhibition is comprised of nine artists: Steve Smalley, Henry Pinardi, Brenda Atwood Pinardi, John Stevens, Suzanne Howes-Stevens, Candace Walters, Bob Stein, Robert Cumming, and Vincent DiMattio; who all have strong personal ties related to Massachusetts. Many of the relationships began as early as 1960 as students of the Massachusetts College of Art.
Joan and Robert Rechnitz Hall Hours
Monday – Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Friday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. | Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Selections from the Monmouth University Permanent Collection
2013-09-03 09:00 - 2013-12-13 17:00 | Pollak Gallery
Selections from the Monmouth University permanent collection featuring works by various artists, including ebony carvings, etchings by Adam Wurtz, and lithographs by Salvadore Dali.

On Screen/In Person: Shored Up
2013-09-09 19:30 - 23:59 | Pollak Theatre
Shored Up with director Ben Kalina
September 9, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Pollak Theatre
Set in Long Beach Island, New Jersey and the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Shored Up explores the political conflicts and personal stakes of seaside communities, culminating with the impact of Hurricane Sandy.
There will be a post screening panel discussion with:
Tony MacDonald, Director of the Urban Coast Institute, Monmouth University
Dr. Norbert P. Psuty , Professor Emeritus, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University
John Weber, Mid Atlantic Regional Manager, Surfrider Foundation; and Ben Kalina Director of Shored Up
On Screen/In Person is made possible by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts’ Regional Touring Program.

Gallery Exhibition: Zaun Lee's My No-Man's Land
2013-09-12 09:00 - 2013-11-15 17:00 | Rotary Ice House Gallery
Opening Reception/Artist Meet & Greet: Thursday, September 12th from 5 – 7 p.m.
My No-Man’s Land, an exhibition by Zaun Lee, highlights the raw senses of emotions. The exhibit depicts a journey into a transitional dynamic of one’s own understanding of internal logic of senses in decomposed narratives.
Rotary Ice House Gallery Hours
Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Katie Ford
2013-09-19 16:30
Location: Wilson Hall
Katie Ford is the author of Deposition, Colosseum, and the forthcoming Blood Lyrics (Graywolf Press, 2014). Ford is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship and the Larry Levis Prize. Colosseum was named among the “Best Books of 2008” by Publishers Weekly and the Virginia Quarterly Review. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Paris Review, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and many other journals. She teaches at Franklin & Marshall College and lives in Philadelphia with her husband, the novelist Josh Emmons, and their young daughter.

Springsteen & I
2013-09-23 19:30 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
Tickets on sale 9/16.
Forty years ago, Bruce Springsteen burst onto the rock scene and changed it forever. His music defines a generation, but behind the songs were remarkable stories about the fans who lived them. Come celebrate Bruce’s birthday with this documentary-biographical film directed by Baillie Walsh documenting his life and career through the eyes and insights of his fans throughout the world.
Presented by the Friends of Springsteen and Monmouth University’s Center for the Arts

Dawes
2013-09-25 20:00 - 23:59 | Pollak Theatre
The California-based roots rock band composed of brothers Taylor (guitars and vocals) and Griffin Goldsmith (drums), along with Wylie Gelber (bass) and Tay Strathairn (keyboards), was heavily influenced by the gentle, acoustic-based musical trappings and rich vocal harmony of the Laurel Canyon sound (Crosby, Stills & Nash, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell), as well as by the shambling, romanticized Americana of The Band. Last fall they found themselves traveling East to record their third album in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. The tracks they laid down at Asheville’s Echo Mountain Studio have yielded a 12-song disc of tremendous sonic and narrative clarity. Stories Don’t End spotlights the group’s maturing skills as arrangers, performers, and interpreters who shape the raw material supplied by chief songwriter and lead vocalist Taylor Goldsmith into an artfully concise and increasingly soulful sound. Opening the show will be Hayes Carll and Johnathan Rice.

For more information on the artist visit: http://dawestheband.com/

Queer Longings: A Performative Lecture on Anna Elizabeth Dickinson's Failed Theatrical Career
2013-09-26 16:30
Location: Lauren K. Woods Theatre
In this work in progress, solo performer Elizabeth Whitney explores the career of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson–a provocative abolitionist and suffragist who enjoyed national fame on the lyceum circuit, was shunned by critics as a playwright and actor in late 1800s New York City, and eventually institutionalized. This new project uses Dickinson’s championed form of the lecture as performance to look at themes of madness, failure, and obscurity in the life of a queer artist.
Dr. Whitney will lead a performance workshop Thurs. 9/26 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in Plangere 235.

National Theatre of London: OTHELLO
2013-09-26 19:00
Shakespeare’s Othello
The National Theatre presents a major new production of William Shakespeare’s celebrated play about the destructive power of jealousy. Olivier Award-winning actor Adrian Lester (Henry V at the National Theatre, BBC’s Hustle) takes the title role. Playing opposite him as the duplicitous Iago is fellow Olivier Award-winner Rory Kinnear (The Last of the Haussmans, James Bond: Skyfall), who is reunited with director Nicholas Hytner (Timon of Athens, One Man, Two Guvnors) following their acclaimed collaboration on the National Theatre’s recent production of Hamlet.
Othello, newly married to Desdemona – who is half his age – is appointed leader of a major military operation. Iago, passed over for promotion by Othello in favour of the young Cassio, persuades Othello that Cassio and Desdemona are having an affair.

Aquila Theatre's Fahrenheit 451
2013-09-27 20:00 - 23:59 | Pollak Theatre
Location: Pollak Theatre Tickets: $25; $35 Pre-performance talk at 6:30 p.m. (free with ticket purchase)
With its skill at creating innovative and modern productions of great works of literature, the Aquila Theatre will bring new life to Ray Bradbury’s visionary parable of a society gone awry. One of the most revered novels of the 20th century, Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury’s dystopian tale of a bleak future where literature and knowledge are on the edge of extinction. Considered a work of science fiction when first published, Fahrenheit 451 has been debated for decades – issues of censorship, the effects of technology on society and literature, and the means by which knowledge is gained – continue to be very real concerns today.  Before the show, join the director and members of the cast in a discussion about censorship and the creative process of turning Bradbury’s novel into a theatrical production.
This tour engagement of Aquila Theatre Company is funded through the Mid Atlantic Tours program of Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
For more information about the production visit: http://aquilatheatre.com/

Withdrawal Deadline Pattern "A" Classes
2013-09-30

Argentine Tango Classes
2013-09-30 19:30 - 2013-11-04 21:00 | MAC At Monmouth
September 30 – November 4Monday Evenings from 7:30 to 9:00 pm Eyas Lounge in the MAC Please join instructor Lee Sager of Tango Pantera for a six week session of Argentine Tango Classes. No partner or experience necessary.
For more information about Tango Pantera visit www.TangoPantera.Blogspot.com

Ghost Hunters Live
2013-10-04 21:00 - 23:59 | Pollak Theatre
Since its 2004 Syfy Channel premiere, Ghost Hunters has become television’s #1 paranormal reality series. The show is now in its ninth season and is aired in more than 170 countries. Leader of The Atlantic Paranormal Society-Jason Hawes along with fellow lead investigator Steve Gonsalves, will now bring their experiences with the paranormal and understanding of unexplained disturbances to live audiences in their theater presentation. Hear them talk about their scariest experiences, see unreleased footage from the show, and ask them questions about themselves or perhaps a ghostly experience of your own! As members of The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS), both Jason and Steve have made it their life’s mission to help anyone with questions pertaining to paranormal phenomena and ghost hunting. TAPS is a group of fairly ordinary people— office managers, factory workers, teachers and even psychic-hotline gurus— moonlighting to understand seemingly unexplainable disturbances.

Met Opera: EUGENE ONEGIN (Broadcast in HD)
2013-10-05 13:00
Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin

Run Time: 4:04

Anna Netrebko and Mariusz Kwiecien star as the lovestruck Tatiana and the imperious Onegin in Tchaikovsky’s fateful romance. Deborah Warner’s new production, set in the late 19th century, moves episodically from farmhouse to ballroom, with a powerful snowstorm providing the dramatic setting for the finale. Piotr Beczala is Lenski, Onegin’s friend turned rival. Russian maestro Valery Gergiev conducts.
Broadcast in HD
Eugene Onegin is a co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and English National Opera.

Encore: Sun. October 20 | 1 p.m.

Fall Holiday; No Thursday or Friday Classes
2013-10-10 - 2013-10-11
