Ernani - Verdi (Broadcast in HD)
2012-02-25 13:00 (America/New_York)
Encore Date: Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 7 p.m.
Angela Meade takes center stage in Verdi’s thrilling early gem. Salvatore Licitra is her mismatched lover, and all-star Verdians Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Ferruccio Furlanetto round out the cast. (3 hours 49 minutes, 2 intermissions)
Broadcast in HD

Fambul Tok
2012-03-05 19:30
Fambul Tok
Director: Sara Terry
Monday, March 5, 2012at 7:30 p.m.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. Through reviving their ancient
practice of fambul tok (family talk), Sierra Leoneans are
building sustainable peace at the grass-roots level–succeeding where the
international community’s post-conflict efforts failed. Filled with
lessons for the West, Fambul Tok explores the depths of a
culture that believes that true justice lies in redemption and healing
for individuals–and that forgiveness is the surest path to restoring
dignity and building strong communities.

Provost Film Series: Rachida
2012-03-21 19:30
RACHIDA (Not Rated)
A look at terrorism in Algeria in the 1990s through the eyes of Rachida,
a teacher in one of the school districts. 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. Panelists: Dr. Nancy Mezey, director, Institute for Global
Understanding and Dr. Saliba Sarsar, professor of political science,
Monmouth University

Natasha Trethewey
2012-03-22 16:30
Natasha Trethewey is author of Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (University of Georgia Press); Native Guard (Houghton Mifflin), for which she won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize; Bellocq’s Ophelia (Graywolf, 2002), which was named a Notable Book for 2003 by the American Library Association; and Domestic Work (Graywolf, 2000). Her collection Thrall is due for publication in 2012. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. Her poems have appeared in such journals and anthologies as American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, New England Review, Gettysburg Review, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry. Her first collection of poetry, Domestic Work (2000), was selected by Rita Dove as the winner of the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African American poet and won both the 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize and the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for Poetry.

On Broadway with David J.V. Meenan and Friends
2012-03-24 20:00
Back again this spring, the roof will be rocking with your favorite Broadway, Pop, and Jazz favorites as The Royale Orchestra swings in to action with David J.V. Meenan and Friends in On Broadway. 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. Featuring hits from Wicked, West Side Story, Mama Mia, Hairspray, Les Miserable, The Phantom of the Opera, and so much more! (Shore Concerts Production)
Cost: $38/30

Spring Musical: Working
2012-03-28 20:00 - 2012-04-05 20:00 | Lauren K. Woods Theatre
The Department of Music and Theatre Arts presents
Spring Musical: Working
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.
Directed by Nicole Ricciardi, Working
is the working man’s A Chorus Line. A musical exploration of twenty-six
people from all walks of life, with songs by all-star composers Craig
Carnelia (Sweet Smell of Success), Micki Grant (Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope), Tony Award-winning Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights), Mary Rodgers (Once Upon A Mattress), Susan Birkenhead (Jelly’s Last Jam), Stephen Schwartz, and Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, James Taylor. The musical director is George Wurzbach.
Working celebrates
everyday people in a genuinely funny and touching way, and has been
called “the perfect musical for everyone who has ever worked a day in
their lives.” Updated to fit 21st century audiences, cast members sing
and dance with cell phones and laptops as they tell the tales of
traditional careers: teacher, waitress, firefighter; and more modern
additions: hedge fund manager, UPS delivery man, and a customer service
representative in India.

First Senior Exhibition (Fine Art)
2012-03-30 - 2012-04-06 | Pollak Gallery
First Senior Exhibition (Fine Art)
March 30 – April 6, 2012
Opening Reception:
Friday, March 30, 7 – 9 p.m.
ICE HOUSE & POLLAK GALLERIES
Featuring the work of the Monmouth University graduating seniors who will receive their degrees in fine art and/or art education.

Jazz and Poetry with Robert Pinsky
2012-03-30 19:30
Jazz and Poetry with Robert Pinsky
accompanied by Ben Allison
Cost: $10; $20
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. Elegant and tough, vividly imaginative, Pinsky’s poems have earned praise for their wild musical energy and ambitious range.
The Long Branch native whose first ambition was to be a jazz musician, told The Paris Review “in jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what’s regular and what’s wild. That has always appealed to me.” During these performances Pinsky explains, “The musicians have read the poems beforehand, and we discuss appropriate music a bit, but what we do is at the heart of it improvised.”
Pinsky will be accompanied by celebrated bassist/composer Ben Allison who was called “one of today’s best young jazz musicians” by the Boston Globe and a “visionary composer, adventurous improviser, and strong organizational force on the New York City jazz scene” by JazzTimes.

Arif Lohar/Arooj Aftab
2012-03-31 20:00
Caravanserai’s Spring 2012 music residencies will feature one of Pakistan’s most beloved contemporary folk singers, Arif Lohar. Born in a small village called Aach Goch in Gujrat District of Punjab, Pakistan, Arif Lohar follows in the footsteps of his father, famous Pakistani folk singer Alam Lohar. 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. Playing his beloved chimta, a traditional percussion instrument resembling tongs, Arif Lohar will be backed by an ensemble of talented Pakistani musicians.’
In a special collaboration, Arif Lohar will be joined by talented world music songstress Arooj Aftab. Born and raised in Lahore, Pakistan and now based in New York City, Arooj Aftab pays homage to her cultural roots with inspired original songs that fuse classical Pakistani, Sufi, and South Asian music traditions with contemporary jazz, folk, and pop influences. Her dynamic vocals mesh with subtle, graceful acoustic arrangements to create a signature sound that has been described as “indigenous soul.”
For Caravanserai, Arif Lohar and Arooj Aftab celebrate their cultural heritage by imagining new musical horizons, crossing boundaries, and inviting U.S. audiences to share their journey with peace and love.
Click for more information on the Caravanserai events.
Click here to read an interview with Arif Lohar
Click here to read an interview with Arooj Aftab
Caravanserai: A place where cultures meet is managed by Arts Midwest on behalf of the U.S. Regional Arts Organizations with financial support from the Building Bridges program of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art. This event is locally sponsored by the Arab American Forum.
Cost: $15

Jacob Landau: An Exhibit of Selected Works
2012-04-05 - 2012-04-19 | Monmouth University Library
MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY PRESENTS:
Advocacy of the Human: An Exhibit of Selected Works

By Jacob Landau

This exhibit is a selection from Monmouth University’s extensive collection of Jacob Landau’s work. Each line of these images reveal an aspect of our humanity and affirms our inviolable individuality. He places the human at the center of our world because it is the individual who suffers and, at the same time, who envisions a world without suffering, so that it can be created. And in this act every human is an artist.
At the Monmouth University Library

Seminar Rooms 102 & 104

April 5-19, 2012

Open to public & docent tours available.
Consult library website for times https://library.monmouth.edu/

Here, There, Then, Now: Dahlia Elsayed
2012-04-05 11:30 - 14:15 | Art Building
Here, There, Then, Now
Dahlia Elsayed – painter/installation artist
Event will take place in the Art Building Courtyard – between Plangere & Student Center, behind Sculpture Garden (rain location will be Plangere lobby)
Audiences can come and go as they please. If students want to take part in creating Dahlia Elsayed’s site specific performance, they can contact the artist at delsayed@monmouth.edu
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.
Elsayed will collaborate with students from various departments to create a multi-channel event exploring ideas of semi-permanence, traces,
and cyclical erasures relating to the ocean with all its implications as life sustaining, transporting, cleansing and deadly.
Artist bio: For over a decade, Elsayed has been making paintings and installations that synthesize an internal and external experience of place, connecting the topographical with the psychological. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and internationally. Visually, Elsayed pulls from conceptual art, comics, cartography and landscape painting and employs symbols of hard data to frame the soft data of the
ephemeral. For three generations Elsayed’s family has moved from continent to continent due to political and religious persecution, which
has fostered a deep curiosity about how story shapes a landscape, and its inverse, how landscape takes a mythic form in narrative. For more
information visit: www.dahliaelsayed.com.

Provost Film Series: Under the Bombs
2012-04-05 19:30
Under the Bombs (Not Rated)
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

Met Opera: Manon - Massenet
2012-04-07 12:00
Encore Date: Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 7 p.m.
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. Piotr Beczala and Paulo Szot also star, with the Met’s Principal Guest Conductor Fabio Luisi on the podium. (4 hours 8 minutes, 2 intermissions)
For more information visit The Metropolitan Opera online.

On Screen In Person: Blast!
2012-04-09 19:30
Blast!
Director: Paul Devlin
Monday, April 9, 2012
at 7:30 p.m.
Wilson Auditorium
Welcome to astrophysics, Indiana Jones-style! Five-time Emmy winner Paul Devlin follows the story of his brother, mark Devlin Ph.D., 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. They hope to look back in time to reveal a hidden Universe of never-before-seen star burst galaxies, providing clues to the Evolution of Everything. From catastrophic failure to transcendent triumph, Blast! exposes the surprising real life work of scientists

Visiting Writer: Naomi Shihab Nye
2012-04-10 16:30
Location: Pollak Theater

Naomi Shihab Nye – Poetry Reading
Admission compliments of Monmouth University
Naomi Shihab Nye was born to a Palestinian father and an American mother and grew up in St. Louis, Jerusalem, and San Antonio. She is the author and/or editor of more than 25 volumes. Her books of poetry include 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East, A Maze Me: Poems for Girls, Red Suitcase, Words under the Words, Fuel, and You & Yours (a best-selling poetry book of 2006). Other works include seven prize-winning poetry anthologies for young readers, including This Same Sky, The Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems & Paintings from the Middle East, and What Have You Lost? Her recent collection of poems for young adults titled Honeybee won the 2008 Arab American Book Award in the Children’s/Young Adult category. Two new books are forthcoming in winter 2012: There Is No Long Distance Now (a collection of very short stories) and Transfer (a book of poetry and prose). She has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a WitterBynner Fellow (Library of Congress). Her collection 19 Varieties of Gazelle was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her work has been presented on National Public Radio on A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer’s Almanac. She has been featured on two PBS poetry specials: “The Language of Life with Bill Moyers” and “The United States of Poetry” and also appeared on NOW with Bill Moyers.
Click for more information on the Caravanserai events.

Met Opera: Ernani Encore - Verdi (Broadcast in HD)
2012-04-12 19:00
Angela Meade takes center stage in Verdi’s thrilling early gem. Salvatore Licitra is her mismatched lover, and all-star Verdians Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Ferruccio Furlanetto round out the cast.
(3 hours 49 minutes, 2 intermissions)
Broadcast in HD
For more information visit The Metropolitan Opera online.

Marc Muller's Dead On: Live
2012-04-13 20:00
Dead On – Live!
A Note-For-Note Re-creation of The Grateful Dead’sAmerican Beauty & Workingman’s Dead
Cost: $40/30
Faithful note-for-note re-creations of The Grateful Dead’s 1970Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty albums, which include such favorites as “Uncle John’s Band,” “Casey Jones,” “Truckin’,” and “Sugar Magnolia.” Multi instrumentalist Marc Muller directs a Note For Note celebration capturing this important and beloved period in the Grateful Dead’s long, illustrious, and stylistically diverse career. He has assembled an impressive cast of world class musicians who have been able to reproduce virtually every note of every instrument, as well as all of the beautifully orchestrated vocal arrangements that are a trademark of these 2 American classics, to a level that’s perhaps never been accomplished and performed live in concert before. For more information visit: www.deadonlive.com

La Traviata - Verdi
2012-04-14 13:00
Encore Date: Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 7 p.m.
We apologize that the date of the encore was printed incorrectly in our season brochure. Please note the correct date/time indicated above.
Natalie Dessay will put on the red dress in Willy Decker’s stunning production, in her first Violetta at the Met. Matthew Polenzani sings Alfredo, Dmitri Hvorostovsky is Germont, and Principal Guest Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium. (3 hours 7 minutes, 1 intermission)
For more information visit The Metropolitan Opera online.

Rule Americana: Spring Concert
2012-04-20 19:30
Cost: $30 (adults), $20 (seniors), $5 (non-MU students), MU students with ID get one free ticket

DAUGHTRY - Break the Spell 2012 Tour
2012-04-20 19:30
BREAK THE SPELL TOUR 2012
DAUGHTRY
with special guests
SAFETYSUIT and MIKE SANCHEZ
Tickets are on sale now through Ticketmaster.com, phone charge at 800-745-3000, the MAC and Pollak Theatre box offices, and select Ticketmaster retail outlets.
Limit eight per person.
Seating Chart
Ticket Prices:
P1 (Floor/Lower Bowl) = $52.50
P2 (Upper Bowl/Bleachers) = $42.50
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
The Box Office will be open at 4:30 p.m. on the day of the show.
The parking lot will open at 5:30 p.m.
There will be a $10 parking fee per car and tailgating is prohibited.
Produced by TTM, Inc and AEG Live
For more about the band, visit www.daughtryofficial.com.

Rule Americana: Spring Concert
2012-04-20 19:30
Spring Concert
Rule Americana
Cost: $30 (adults), $20 (seniors), $5 (non-MU students), MU students with ID get one free ticket

Adam Pascal & Anthony Rapp: Original Stars of Broadway's RENT
2012-04-21 20:00
Adam & Anthony from Broadway’s Rent
Cost: $47/37
This show will feature the two Rent stars performing singly and together. Rapp will specifically perform pop standards, as well as original material. Pascal will offer a segment titled Me and Larry, featuring musical director Larry Edoff that will include numbers from Cabaret and Chess, as well as new arrangements of “Maria,” “Not a Day Goes By,” and “What I Did for Love,” among others. In addition the two will share stories about working on Rent and perform selections from Jonathan Larson’s multi-award-winning show.

a drift: Erin V. Sotak
2012-04-26 09:00 - 16:00 | Shadow Lawn
Erin V. Sotak – photographer and installation artist
Audiences can come and go as they please. If students want to take part in creating Erin Sotak’s site specific performance, they can contact
Anne Massoni at amassoni@monmouth.edu.
This collaborative site-specific performance transforms ordinary experience into performative action and elevates everyday life encounters. Mundane and significant events are amplified and altered through repetition and recreation while fabricated narratives interrupt reality and engage the fantastical. A hopeless romantic and devout absurdist, Sotak regales the arduous adventures of comically courting the ever-shifting and always fleeting in an attempt to stall, freeze and simply endure.
Artist bio:
Erin V. Sotak has exhibited both nationally and internationally and is the recipient of numerous grants and awards. She has been an invited lecturer and an artist in residence at prestigious universities, and her work has been published in several art journals. She describes her work as “less a conversation and more a short story. I narrate using symbolic colors, iconic objects, cultural references and historical allusions… My work
most often takes the form of installation and performance that is concerned with labor, endurance, absurdity, collections, consumption and
aesthetics. The work ultimately and most importantly exists as a photograph.”
For more information visit: http://www.erinvsotak.com/Erin_V_Sotak/erin_v._sotak.html

Met Opera: Manon Encore - Massenet
2012-04-26 19:00
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. Piotr Beczala and Paulo Szot also star, with the Met’s Principal Guest Conductor Fabio Luisi on the podium. (4 hours 8 minutes, 2 intermissions)
For more information visit The Metropolitan Opera online.

Jim Flanagan: Storyteller Growing up Irish-American
2012-05-05 19:00
Location: Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Jim Flanagan: Storyteller
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. The
evening is sure to warm your heart and widen your smile.
Tickets: $10

Met Opera: Ring Cycle - Wagner's Dream
2012-05-07 18:30
To purchase a discounted subscription package to all five Ring Cycle broadcasts for $80 please call the box office at 732.263.6889.
A new documentary film by Susan Froemke
(Estimated running time: 115 minutes)
Award-winning filmmaker Susan Froemke takes you behind the scenes as one of theater’s finest stage directors teams up with one of the world’s leading opera companies to tackle opera’s most monumental challenge: the production of Wagner’s epic Ring cycle. The film captures the creative birth of director Robert Lepage’s groundbreaking production and the multi-year effort to bring it to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, taking you deep into the artistic process, from early development to musical and stage rehearsals at the Met.
For more information visit The Metropolitan Opera online.

Met Opera: Ring Cycle - Das Rheingold
2012-05-09 18:30
To purchase a discounted subscription package to all five Ring Cycle broadcasts for $80 please call the box office at 732.263.6889.
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.
Conductor: James Levine
Cast: Wendy Bryn Harmer, Stephanie Blythe, Patricia Bardon; Richard Croft, Gerhard Siegel, Bryn Terfel, Eric Owens, Franz-Josef Selig, Hans-Peter König
Original Live in HD transmission: October 9, 2010
For more information visit The Metropolitan Opera online.

Met Opera: Ring Cycle - Die Walküre
2012-05-14 18:30
To purchase a discounted subscription package to all five Ring Cycle broadcasts for $80 please call the box office at 732.263.6889.
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. This production marked soprano Deborah Voigt’s first performances as Brünnhilde. Bryn Terfel again is Wotan, Jonas Kaufmann and Eva-Maria Westbroek star as the twins, Siegmund and Sieglinde, and Stephanie Blythe sings Fricka.
Conductor: James Levine
Cast: Deborah Voigt, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Stephanie Blythe; Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel, Hans-Peter König
Original Live in HD transmission: May 14, 2011
For more information visit The Metropolitan Opera online.

Met Opera: Ring Cycle - Siegfried
2012-05-16 18:30
To purchase a discounted subscription package to all five Ring Cycle broadcasts for $80 please call the box office at 732.263.6889.
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. Jay Hunter Morris took over the title role, one of the most demanding in the repertoire, days before the production’s premiere and reprised his acclaimed portrayal in this live transmission the following week. Deborah Voigt is Brünnhilde and Bryn Terfel sings the Wanderer.
Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Cast: Deborah Voigt, Patricia Bardon; Jay Hunter Morris, Gerhard Siegel, Bryn Terfel, Eric Owens
Original Live in HD transmission: November 5, 2011
For more information visit The Metropolitan Opera online.

Junie B. Jones
2012-05-20 14:00
