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  • Gallery Exhibition: Second Senior Show – Fine Art and Art Education

    April 10 – 18, 2014
    Rechnitz Hall’s DiMattio Gallery
    Opening Reception: Friday, April 10, from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

    Featuring the work of Monmouth University graduating seniors who will receive their degrees in Fine Art and Art Education.

  • Gallery Exhibition: Annual Student Exhibition

    Rechnitz Hall’s DiMattio Gallery and Ice House Gallery
    April 26 – May 1st 2015
    Opening reception: Sunday, April 26, from 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.

    Featuring the select works by Monmouth University students in Photography, Graphic Design, Animation and Studio Art.

  • Our Town by Thornton Wilder

    November 5 – 9 and 12 – 15, 2014
    Lauren K. Woods Theatre

    A University-wide production of the classic Pulitzer-Prize winning play by Thornton Wilder, Our Town tells the universal story of small town America. Though taking place in the first decade of the 20th century and written in 1938, Our Town has consistently been hailed as a theatrical masterpiece. A New York production won the Tony Award for best revival in 1989 and an off-Broadway presentation in 2009 won accolades from critics and audiences alike and ran for nearly 3 years.  Performed with little scenery and having the character of Stage Manager directly address the audience, Our Town asks us to consider what is important in life. When Emily wants to relive a day in her life, she is told “Choose the least important day of your life; it will be important enough.”

  • SOLD OUT – ‘TIS THE SEASON: A Holiday Concert

    Tickets for this event are SOLD OUT. An evening of seasonal music for choir, orchestra, and handbells performed in the majestic and festive atmosphere of Wilson Hall. The concert is conducted by Professor Michael Gillette and Dr. David M. Tripold and features the Colts Neck Reformed Church Exultation Ringers conducted by Maggie Tripold.

  • Urinetown

    Urinetown
    March 4 – 8; March 10 – 12, 2015
    Lauren 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.

  • Something’s Happening Here Spring Showcase

    A musical cavalcade featuring the Monmouth University Chamber and Concert Choirs, Chamber Orchestra, Jazz Ensemble, student bands and soloists. The concert is conducted by Professor Michael Gillette, Professor Bryan Jenners and Dr. David M. Tripold.

  • Bolshoi Ballet: The Pharaoh’s Daughter

    Music Cesare
    Pugni

    Libretto Jean-Henry
    Saint-Georges and Marius Petipa

    Choreography, sets and costumes Pierre Lacotte

    Cast Svetlana
    Zakharova (Aspicia), Ruslan Skvortsov (Lord Wilson) and Nina Kaptsova (Ramze,
    Aspicia’s slave)

    Young Englishman Lord
    Wilson is travelling through Egypt when a powerful storm breaks out. He is
    forced to take shelter in the nearest pyramid, where the daughter of one of
    Egypt’s most powerful pharaohs lies entombed. Lord Wilson falls asleep and
    begins to dream that the princess has come to life.      

    The plot of this lavish
    production is loosely based on Théophile Gauthier’s novel  Le Roman de la Momie. French choreographer
    Pierre Lacotte was exclusively commissioned in 2000 by the Bolshoi Theatre to
    resurrect Marius Petipa’s mighty Egyptian fresco, and he succeeded brilliantly
    in giving new life to this forgotten masterpiece. With its exotic setting,
    impressive parades, spectacular variations and crowd scenes, this grand 19th    ‐century Orientalist fantasy is one of the most
    remarkable productions in the Bolshoi’s repertoire. The main roles are here
    danced by Bolshoi principals Svetlana Zakharova, Nina Kaptsova and Ruslan
    Skvortsov.

    Running
    time     2h30

  • Visiting Writer: Melissa Febos

    Melissa Febos is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, WHIP SMART (St. Martin’s Press 2010), whose “electrifying prose and unremitting honesty” Kirkus Reviews said, “expertly captures grace within depravity.” Among other places, she has been featured on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, Anderson Cooper Live, CNN, The Atlantic and Tin House online, Guernica, and New York magazine.  Her writing has been published and anthologized widely, in venues including Glamour, Kenyon Review, Post Road, Hunger Mountain, Salon, Dissent, The Brooklyn Rail, New York Times, Bitch Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education Review, The Rumpus, The Beauty Anthology, The Moment Anthology, and Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York.  For seven years, she has co-curated and hosted the popular Mixer Reading and Music Series in Manhattan, and is the recipient of an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She has taught writing at Purchase College, The New School, NYU, Sarah Lawrence, Utica College, and the Institute of American Indian Arts, among other places, and is currently Assistant Professor of Creative Nonfiction at Monmouth University. Selected by Lia Purpura as the winner of the 2013 Prairie Schooner Creative Nonfiction Contest, she is the recipient of a 2013 Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Artist Grant, a 2012 Bread Loaf Nonfiction Fellowship, a 2014 Virginia Center for Creative Arts fellowship, and MacDowell Colony fellowships in 2010, 2011, and 2014. The daughter of a sea captain and a psychotherapist, she was raised on Cape Cod, and lives in Brooklyn.

    Free and Open to the Public

  • Nine for IX: Venus Vs.

    A look at Venus Williams’ victory off the court in her fight for financial equality in the earnings allocated to men vs. women tennis champions. 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.

  • Orchestra of St. Peter by the Sea

    There’s simply no better way to start the holiday season than to spend this special evening with Conductor Father Alphonse Stephenson as he provides humorous and personal anecdotes amidst a program of holiday classics and carols performed flawlessly by his 42-piece orchestra and distinguished vocalists. This well-established Christmas tradition is celebrating its 24th year at Monmouth University. Be sure to get your tickets early for this annual sell out!