Gallery Exhibition: Hon Eui Chen - After the Sun
2015-01-20 09:00 - 2015-03-07 14:00 (America/New_York) | Joan and Robert Rechnitz Hall
January 20 – March 7
Rechnitz Hall
DiMattio Gallery – First Floor
Lecture: Thursday, January 29, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. Wilson Hall Auditorium,
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 29 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
The poetics of intimate spaces and the exploration of the idea of home are what interest me in paintings and installation. The subject of home remains an abstract concept and is the motivational force for my studio pursuits. Born in a refugee camp that lies between Cambodia and Thailand, I moved with my family to Mississippi at the age of six. Growing up, the sense of belonging and not belonging to the Southern culture of Mississippi affected my sense of identity. The memories of my childhood on the Thai-Cambodia border became just a faint beacon of light as the years go by; the need to remember, to retrieve those childhood memories of a past life remains a constant act in my work.
In my installations, I make objects that convey themes of identity, memory and longing to transform and activate a room. I use acrylic paint, varnishes, resin, plaster and photographs as the structural realization for a subject as formless and transitory as memory. The concept of travel and memory are embedded in the current series of mixed media paintings – layered earthy, dark colored background with graphite drawn trees and foliage and an overlay of concrete. My work seeks to simulate the impermanence of memory, the fleetingness of its existence in mixed media installations, creating structures that translate the mind’s formless but living past into physical material and sensation and transforming space that poetically simulates a timeless place for recollection and dreams.
Artist website: www.honeuichen.com
Image Caption: Untitled, 8” x 8”, acrylic, image transfer and concrete on panel, 2014

Gallery Exhibition: Heeseop Yoon
2015-01-21 09:00 - 2015-04-10 17:00 | Rotary Ice House Gallery
January 21 – April 10
Ice House Gallery
Opening Reception: Thurs. February 5, from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
Illustrated Lecture: Wilson Hall Auditorium, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
I begin by taking photographs of interiors such as warehouses, storage spaces, junkshops and basements; places where everything is jumbled, disorganized and filled with piles of random stuff. From these photographs I construct a view and then start to draw freehand. I don’t make sketches or project images to make the drawings. Once I put lines on the surface I don’t erase or remove them. If I want to change the drawing I just add more lines on top of the existing ones. These ‘mistakes’ that I make in the process of my drawing appear as double or multiples lines as I apply ‘corrections’. They reflect the accumulation of time, and how my perception has changed and become less clear over time.
Most of the drawing installations are site-specific. I usually visit the site before I start the piece and take measurements of the space where I will install the work. Usually I have vague ideas about how the whole installation will sit in the space, but most of the decisions I make happen during the process of making the piece in the studio.
Most of my drawing installations are also room scale, so I work section by section in my studio and don’t usually get to see the entire drawing until I have finish installing it. The whole piece is attached to the wall with the same black masking tape that I use for the drawing. I give each Mylar sheet a number and make a map of the drawing that shows which number goes where, so installing the whole piece is just like a putting together a really big puzzle.
I am mostly attracted to representing claustrophobic environments and defunct objects. At the beginning, it started as more of a formal interest – I was attracted to these massive piles of things, and the anonymous, decontextualized quality they had. I wanted to make still life drawings that were about perception and mark-making rather than the narrative of the objects themselves. But the more I worked with claustrophobic spaces, I stared to realize that these are the spaces hidden within our lives. We have so many things that we forget about. We struggle for space for ourselves and for the things we own. Now I am interested in these as lost spaces.
My work deals with memory and perception within cluttered spaces. I begin by photographing interiors such as basements, workshops, and storage spaces, places where everything is jumbled and time becomes ambiguous without the presence of people. From these photographs I construct a view and then I draw freehand without erasing. As I correct “mistakes” the work results in double or multiple lines, which reflect how my perception has changed over time and makes me question my initial perception. Paradoxically, greater concentration and more lines make the drawn objects less clear. The more I see, the less I believe in the accuracy or reality of the images I draw.
Artist Website: heeseopyoon.com/

National Theatre of London: Treasure Island (Broadcast in HD)
2015-01-22 19:00 - 22:00 | Pollak Theatre
Robert Louis Stevenson’s story of murder, money and mutiny is brought to life in a thrilling new stage adaptation by Bryony Lavery, broadcast live from the National Theatre.
It’s a dark, stormy night. The stars are out. Jim, the inn-keeper’s granddaughter, opens the door to a terrifying stranger. At the old sailor’s feet sits a huge sea-chest, full of secrets. Jim invites him in – and her dangerous voyage begins.
Broadcast in HD
Suitable for 10 years +

Met Opera: Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg Encore (Broadcast in HD)
2015-01-25 13:00 - 16:15 | Pollak Theatre
James Levine returns to one of his signature Wagner works conducting this epic comedy — back at the Met for the first time in eight years — about a group of Renaissance “master singers” whose song contest unites a city.
Johan Reuter, Johan Botha, and Annette Dasch lead the superb international cast in this charming and magisterial celebration of the power of music and art.
Broadcast in HD

Leave of Absence Deadline
2015-01-27

A World at War, 1937-1945: Triumph, Tragedy, Memory, and Myth
2015-01-28 19:30
This event WILL be held as scheduled.
“A World at War, 1937-1945:
Triumph, Tragedy, Memory, and Myth”
With the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II coming up on May 8, 2015, Monmouth University is pleased to present five films on the life-and-death decisions that people made in the invaded countries to survive in the war, defend their homeland and beliefs, and protect their families. Collectively, the films show episodes of resistance, collaboration, and heroism in addition to the legacy of the global war for the later 20th century and our current century as well.
All movies will be shown in the Pollak Theatre at Monmouth University free of charge and open to the Monmouth University community and the general public.

Host: Dr. Thomas S. Pearson – Professor, Department of History & Anthropology
The second film in the series:
“In The Fog”
Discussant: Dr. Kevin Dooley – Dean, Honors School and Associate Professor, Department of Political Science & Sociology
Wednesday, January 28, 20157:30 pm Pollak TheatreMonmouth University
Sergei Loznitsa’s “In The Fog” (2012) (Unrated)
Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces impossible moral choices.
Organized by the Office of Global Initiatives

Bolshoi Ballet: Swan Lake (Broadcast in HD)
2015-01-29 19:00 - 22:00 | Pollak Theatre
Music Piotr TchaikovskyLibretto Yuri Grigorovich Choreography Yuri GrigorovichBroadcast in HD
Cast The Bolshoi Principals, Soloists and Corps de Ballet
At the palace, the royal family and their guests are gathered for Prince Siegfried’s birthday celebrations. In a majestic ceremony, Siegfried is made a knight; young girls try to attract his attention, as he must choose a wife during the ball. Overcome by the sudden awareness of his future responsibilities, he escapes into the night and meets a strange flock of swans by a magical lake.
White swan by day, human by night, the beautiful Odette awaits an oath of true love to break the curse. The great legend of the enigmatic swan/woman is one of the most romantic classical ballets, appropriately set in the era of courtly romance and characterized by elegance, style and harmony.
With Tchaikovsky’s famous, lyrical score, Swan Lake depicts the tragic love between Princess Odette and Prince Siegfried, and will no doubt be performed to perfection by the unparalleled virtuosity of Russia’s great Bolshoi Ballet. This universal and enchanting masterpiece of love, deception and drama is a must.
Running time 2hr, 40

David Lindley & John Hammond
2015-01-30 20:00 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
Throughout his long and distinguished career David Lindley has performed music that redefines the word “eclectic.” He founded and lead the first world music rock band, the Kaleidoscope, has collaborated with artists such as Jackson Browne, Henry Kaiser and Ry Cooder and is leader of his own band El Rayo-X, that integrates American roots music and world beat with a heavy reggae influence. Lindley has been one of Hollywood’s most in demand session musicians playing with Bob Dylan, Rod Stewart, Linda Ronstadt, Crosby and Nash, Warren Zevon, and many others. His live performances incorporate an incredible array of stringed instruments into a unique concert experience.
John Hammond, Jr. 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. A Grammy winner whose 50-year career has seen successful collaborations with the likes of Tom Waits, Dr. John, Duane Allman, Robbie Robertson, and G. Love and who once boasted both Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix in his band, Hammond does justice to classic blues by combining powerful guitar and harmonica playing with expressive vocals and a dignified stage presence.  He didn’t know it when he was 20, and he may not realize it now, but Hammond deserves special commendation for keeping many of the classic blues songs alive. In the early years of his career, it was more important to him that he bring the art form to a wider audience by performing classic — in some cases forgotten — songs. Now, more than 50 years later, Hammond continues to do this, touring all over the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Whether it’s with a band or by himself, Hammond can do it all. Seeing him perform live, one gets the sense that some of the best is still to come from this energetic bluesman.

Met Opera: LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN (Broadcast in HD)
2015-01-31 13:00 - 17:00 | Pollak Theatre
Vittorio Grigolo playing the tortured
poet and unwitting adventurer of the title. The roles of the three
heroines are shared by an impressive lineup of singing actresses,
including Hibla Gerzmava, Erin Morley, and
Christine Rice. Thomas Hampson sings the Four
Villains, and James Levine and Yves Abel conduct Offenbach’s sparkling
score.
Broadcast in HD
Encore: Sun. February 22, 2015, 1:00 p.m.

Approx. Runtime: 3 hours 46 minutes

Gallery Exhibition: Asbury Park’s Springwood Avenue Harmony - Celebrating The West Side’s Unique Musical Legacy
2015-02-01 09:00 - 2015-02-28 19:00 | Pollak Gallery
February 1 – February 28
Pollak Gallery
Opening Reception: February 4, from 6-8 pm (includes a performance by the du-wop group the Tee-Tones)
Lecture: February 11 from 7-8:30 pm in Pollak Theatre by Charlie and Pam Horner
Gallery Hours: Mon – Fri 9:00 am – 7:00 pm and select weekends
Long before Asbury Park became known for rock music, the city’s African American community rocked on Springwood Avenue. Between 1910 and 1970, the city’s West Side pioneered the sounds of jazz, gospel and rhythm & blues. This exhibit explores, chronicles and highlights Asbury Park’s black music scene from Count Basie to Billy Brown, through an impressive collection of rare photos and memorabilia. Curated by Charlie & Pam Horner of Classic Urban Harmony LLC.

ART NOW: Jennifer Haley - Writing, Performing & Producing Virtual Realities Onstage
2015-02-03 10:00 - 11:30 | Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Jennifer Haley is an award winning playwright and TV writer in LA whose cutting edge work delves into ethics in virtual reality and the impact of technology on our human relationships, identity, and desire. She won the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, a Los Angeles Ovation Award and Drama Critics Circle Award for her play, The Nether, which is a haunting exploration of the consequences of living out our darkest desires online. Select other plays include Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, a horror story about suburban video game addiction; and Froggy, an interactive graphic novel come to life as a noir thriller with a live soundtrack. Jennifer’s numerous plays have been developed at the Sundance Theatre Lab, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Lark Play Development Center, PlayPenn, Page 73, Seven Devils and the MacDowell Colony.
She is a member of New Dramatists in New York City and lives in Los Angeles, where she founded the Playwrights Union. Jennifer currently writes for the Netflix original series, Hemlock
Grove.
Artist website: http://jenniferhaley.com/

LA Theatre Work’s In the Heat of the Night
2015-02-05 20:00 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
There will be a postshow Q&A with the cast following the performance.
John Ball’s 1965 novel, In the Heat of the Night, which was adapted into a five time Academy Award-winning film starring Sidney Poitier and a hugely popular television series, tells the story of black police detective Virgil Tibbs passing through the small town in the Carolinas on a hot August night in an America during the 1960s grappling with integration and an evolving acceptance of the Civil Rights Movement. This was the era of sit-ins and tear gas, of marches and assassinations. This was the era of Martin Luther King Jr., the Kennedys, and LBJ and an America finally, deliberately, moving towards a future of equality regardless of skin color. Now in conjunction with LA Theatre Works, the foremost radio theatre company in the United States, playwright and screenwriter Matt Pelfrey’s riveting stage adaptation of this classic American thriller comes to life in a “live-in-performance” radio drama. The show features a first-rate cast of TV and film actors, complete with live sound effects, and a connection to the audience rarely felt in a traditional dramatic play. Ball’s novel reflected the difficult and personal clashes of the time – the kind of daily encounters that showed ingrained racist attitudes and behaviors. The play demonstrates the slow evolution of attitudes, but leaves the characters, and America, with a long way to go. In the Heat of the Night remains shockingly emblematic of America in the 1960s, and how, almost half a century later, our nation is still conquering the demon of prejudice.

Jason Isbell
2015-02-06 20:00 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
A former member of the
Southern rock outfit Drive by Truckers, Jason Isbell’s solo career has seemed
effortless, from Sirens of the Ditch (2007) to Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit
(2009), through Here We Rest (2011) and last year’s Live From Alabama. He writes
open -hearted songs full of storm and drama, bursting with personal truths, and
echoing with the southern sound of his Alabama upbringing. Embracing his
newfound sobriety, Isbell next produced an album of haunting atonement and
redemption, the sparse and impressive Southeastern, which was a critical
success and commercial breakthrough.

Met Opera: THE MERRY WIDOW Encore (Broadcast in HD)
2015-02-08 13:00 - 16:15 | Pollak Theatre
The great Renée Fleming stars as the beguiling femme fatale who captivates all Paris in Lehár’s enchanting operetta, seen in a new staging by Broadway virtuoso director and choreographer Susan Stroman (The Producers, Oklahoma!, Contact). Stroman and her design team of Julian Crouch (Satyagraha, The Enchanted Island) and costume designer William Ivey Long (Cinderella, Grey Gardens, Hairspray) have created an art-nouveau setting that climaxes with singing and dancing grisettes at the legendary Maxim’s. Nathan Gunn co-stars as Danilo and Kelli O’Hara is Valencienne. Andrew Davis conducts.
Broadcast in HD

On Screen in Person: Rebels With a Cause
2015-02-09 19:30 - 22:00 | Pollak Theatre
Director Nancy Kelly Rebels With A Cause explores how a handful of politically savvy activists fought to protect San Francisco’s Point Reyes National Seashore and Golden Gate National Recreation Area from the threat of sprawl and over-development at a time when California was the nation’s fastest-growing state. Their efforts set new precedents for protecting open space and helped shape the environmental movement as we know it today.
There will be a post screening Q&A with the director Nancy Kelly
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.

Asbury Park’s West Side Music Legacy Presentation
2015-02-11 19:00 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
A multimedia presentation of the music from Asbury Park’s West Side from 1910 to 1970.Includes song clips, videos and fascinating stories that go along with the exhibition, “Asbury Park’s Springwood Avenue Harmony”. The presentation covers Jazz, Gospel, Rhythm & Blues, Doo Wop and Soul music from Asbury’s Springwood Avenue area, from Count Basie to Billy Brown. Presented by music historians Charlie & Pam Horner of Classic Urban Harmony LLC, who also curated the current exhibit.

Met Opera: IOLANTA / DUKE BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE (Broadcast in HD)
2015-02-14 12:30 - 16:30 | Pollak Theatre
New Production
On the heels of her triumphant Met performances in Eugene Onegin, soprano Anna Netrebko takes on another Tchaikovsky heroine in the first opera of this intriguing double bill, consisting of an enchanting fairy tale (Iolanta) followed by an erotic psychological thriller (Duke Bluebeard’s Castle). Netrebko stars as the beautiful blind girl who experiences love for the first time in Iolanta, while Nadja Michael is the unwitting victim of the diabolical Bluebeard, played by Mikhail Petrenko. Both operas are directed by Mariusz Trelinski, who was inspired by classic noir films of the 1940s. Iolanta also stars Piotr Beczala, and Valery Gergiev conducts both operas.
Broadcast in HD
Encore: Sun. March 1, 2015, 1:00 p.m.

Approx. Runtime: 3 hours 39 minutes

"W"ithdrawal Deadline Pattern "A" Classes
2015-02-16

Graduate Information Session
2015-02-18 18:30 | The Great Hall
This Information Session is for prospective students interested in Graduate School at Monmouth University. All programs will be represented.

Nine for IX: Pat XO
2015-02-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Pollak Theatre
An in-depth look at the legendary University of Tennessee Lady Vols Coach, Pat Summit, from her exceptional career to her new life fighting early-onset Alzheimer’s. Nine for IX is a series of documentary films which originally aired on ESPN celebrating the 40th anniversary of Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex discrimination in education. Four of the episodes will be screened during the year.

Mavis Staples with Nicole Atkins
2015-02-21 20:00 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
There are few living musicians who can lay claim to being the voice of America’s conscience, and even fewer who continue to make vital music. For six decades Mavis Staples has been the solid rock of American music. Alongside the family group she is so identified with, the Staple Singers, Mavis has managed to transform herself as she goes, yet never alter.
From the delta-inflected gospel sound she helped create in the 1950s (“Uncloudy Day”), to the engaged protest of the civil rights era (“Freedom Highway”), and then, amazingly, on pop radio in the 1970s with a series of chart hits (“I’ll Take You There,” “Respect Yourself,” “Lets Do It Again”)–through all these, Mavis carried on, her warm embrace of a voice the only constant. On their second collaboration, the Grammy-nominated 2013 album “One True Vine,” the legendary singer and her producer, Wilco leader Jeff Tweedy, have crafted a gospel album for the 21st century. On the record, Mavis gives voice to something new in her repertoire, something deeper and more resonant with our times. Where her Stax-era hits spoke for a growing black social consciousness, and her seventies collaborations with The Band gave spiritual weight to the rediscovery of traditional American music, Jeff Tweedy has crafted a pulpit from which Mavis lends her voice to a search for grace. Staples is a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner, and a National Heritage Fellowship Award recipient. VH1 named her one of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll, and Rolling Stone listed her as one of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. Her previous album, the Tweedy-produced “You Are Not Alone,” won the Grammy Award for Best Americana Album in 2011, adding a remarkable new chapter to an already historic career.
Opening for Staples is a songwriter and performer who represents an exciting new voice in millennial music — in addition to being the Jersey Shore music scene’s most acclaimed breakout artist in a generation. Nicole Atkins grabbed the industry’s attention several seasons back with her major-label debut album Neptune City, a nationwide TV commercial for American Express, and a musicologist’s dexterity that found her sharing stages comfortably and confidently with everyone from Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds to Monmouth professor Marc Muller’s Dead On Live project. Having reaffirmed her indie roots with her latest release Slow Phaser, Atkins is creating some strong and innovative new music — and she’ll be sharing it, along with the expected surprise interpretations of her many and varied influences, in a solo acoustic setting on the Pollak stage.

Met Opera: LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN Encore (Broadcast in HD)
2015-02-22 13:00 - 16:15 | Pollak Theatre
Vittorio Grigolo playing the tortured
poet and unwitting adventurer of the title. The roles of the three
heroines are shared by an impressive lineup of singing actresses,
including Hibla Gerzmava, Erin Morley, and
Christine Rice. Thomas Hampson sings the Four
Villains, and James Levine and Yves Abel conduct Offenbach’s sparkling
score.Broadcast in HD

World Cinema Series: Zelary
2015-02-23 19:30 - 22:00 | Pollak Theatre
Ondrej Trojan’s “Zelary” (2003) (R) A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940’s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, a man from a remote mountain village where time stopped 150 years ago, agrees to hide her as his wife.

Turtle Island String Quartet
2015-02-26 20:00 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
Winner of the 2006 and 2008 GRAMMY® Awards for Best Classical Crossover category, Turtle Island fuses the classical quartet esthetic with contemporary American musical styles. For a quarter century, the Turtle Island Quartet has delved into folk, bluegrass, swing, be-bop, funk, R&B, new age, rock, hip-hop, as well as music of Latin America and India …a repertoire consisting of hundreds of ingenious arrangements and originals. Formed in 1985, the Turtle Island Quartet has been a singular force in
the creation of bold, new trends in chamber music for strings.
In this concert Turtle Island Quartet presents Birth of the Cool—celebrating what became known as “Cool Jazz,” marked by the embodiment of cool, Miles Davis, along with his colleagues Gil Evans and Gerry Mulligan, as well as the Modern Jazz Quartet and Dave Brubeck. In addition to their masterful jazz string quartet interpretations from the Birth of the Cool recording, Turtle Island offers a program of perennial favorites such as Dave Brubeck’s Blue Rondo A La Turk, Gerry Mulligan’s Bernie’s Tune, Miles Davis’s dreamy Miles Ahead, and the Modern Jazz Quartet’s darker Django.
For more information on the Turtle Island Quartet,
please visit www.turtleislandquartet.com

Graduation Applications Deadline (for May Graduation)
2015-03-01

Met Opera: IOLANTA/ DUKE BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE (Broadcast in HD)
2015-03-01 13:00 - 16:15 | Pollak Theatre
On
the heels of her triumphant Met performances in Eugene Onegin, soprano
Anna Netrebko takes on another Tchaikovsky heroine in the first opera of this
intriguing double bill, consisting of an enchanting fairy tale (Iolanta)
followed by an erotic psychological thriller (Duke Bluebeard’s Castle). Netrebko
stars as the beautiful blind girl who experiences love for the first time in Iolanta,
while Nadja Michael is the unwitting victim of the diabolical Bluebeard, played
by Mikhail Petrenko. Both operas are directed by Mariusz Trelinski, who was
inspired by classic noir films of the 1940s. Iolanta also stars Piotr
Beczala, and Valery Gergiev conducts both operas. Broadcast in HD

Urinetown
2015-03-04 20:00 - 2015-03-12 23:00 | Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Urinetown March 4 – 8; March 10 – 12, 2015Lauren K. Woods Theatre
From an American town in the early 20th century, we flash forward to a future dystopia where a severe water shortage has made public pay-per-use toilets a legal necessity. Urinetown was a hit Broadway musical in the early 21st century, running for two and a half years. It won Tony Awards for its composer and lyricists Mark Hollman and Greg Kotis and Mr. Kotis also won for the book of the musical. The show is a satirical take on social change (the police are represented by Officers Lockstock and Barrel), corporate greed (the pay toilets are run by “Urine Good Company”), and Broadway musicals themselves. One of the show’s characters – its hero Bobby Strong – was included as one of the 100 Greatest Roles in Musical Theatre.

Dylan Scholinski
2015-03-05 09:00 - 2015-04-10 19:00 | Pollak Gallery
Lecture: March 26 at 2:30 p.m. | Pollak Theatre
Dylan Scholinski was born Daphne Scholinski. She was 15 years old she was locked up in a mental hospital, diagnosed as “an inappropriate female”, and spent the rest of her high school years undergoing extreme femininity training. Now 47 years old Dylan is a distinguished artist, author, and public speaker having appeared on 20/20, Dateline and Today to discuss his experiences and has been featured in a variety of newspapers and magazines. Recently his award-winning book The Last Time I Wore a Dress: A Memoir was listed in the Top 10 Must Reads in Out Magazines first transgender issue. His artwork not only portrays the anguish of his hospital years but also his ultimate triumph. Dylan is the founder/witness for the Sent(a)Mental Project : A Memorial to Suicide. He frequently opens his studio to a variety of Denver metro youth, to provide safe space to explore and discover ways of expressing and empowering themselves without bringing harm to themselves or others.
Dylan will be exhibiting his own work as well as examples of artwork by youth who have participated in his “lead with your heart” workshop. The idea is to use the image of the heart as a template to fill and show how your heart feels on the inside and to use the space outside of the heart to show what is affecting and influencing it. Each participant interprets the project their own way and displayed together the works collect the expressions of individual to show how the heart connects us all.

On Screen in Person: Still Dreaming
2015-03-05 19:30 - 22:00 | Pollak Theatre
Co-Directors Jilann Spitzmiller and Hank Rogerson
Still Dreaming follows a group of elderly entertainers living at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in New Jersey and a pair of young directors hired to stage an in-house performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. As the once-celebrated performers struggle with Alzheimer’s, dementia, and physical disabilities, the play’s themes of perception, reality and memory take on new relevance and poignancy.
There will be a post screening Q&A with the co-directors Jilann Spitzmiller and Hank Rogerson
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.

GIRLS NIGHT: THE MUSICAL
2015-03-07 20:00 - 23:00 | Pollak Theatre
GIRLS NIGHT: THE MUSICAL has been thrilling audiences and earning rave reviews since its sensational Off-Broadway debut. This touching and hilarious ‘tell-it-like-it-is’ musical takes audiences on a journey into the lives of a group of female friends. Audience members can’t help but laugh, cry and sing and dance in the aisles! Follow five friends as they visit their past, celebrate their present, and look to the future on a wild and hilarious night out … and you’ll recognize yourself in each of them! Described as “Desperate Housewives meets Mamma Mia” (Applause Magazine), and “As funny and outrageous as Sex and the City!” (The Advocate).GIRLS NIGHT is bursting with energy and packed with hits “Lady Marmalade,” “It’s Raining Men,” “Man I Feel Like A Woman,” “I Will Survive” and more.
Exclusive Preshow Gifts/Offers
for GIRLS NIGHT ticketholders at MONMOUTH MALL!
Go Shopping and grab drinks with your girlfriends
before the show!! The first 100 Girls
Night: The Musical ticketholders to show up at our table in the MONMOUTH MALL food court starting at 4
p.m. on the day of the show will receive a “swag bag” filled with special
gifts/coupons courtesy of Monmouth Mall. They will also be eligible for
drink/food discounts at participating restaurants at the mall. For more information about this offer call 732.263.5715. You must be present to receive a swag bag. Only one bag will be given out per person. We will also have a free photobooth in the lobby before the show and during intermission so that you and your girlfriends can get a group photo to remember the night.
