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Watersides: Mark Ludak & Ira Wagner

Rotary Ice House Gallery

In this exhibition, photographers and Monmouth University Art & Design faculty members Mark Ludak and Ira Wagner present photographs and video reflecting life today on the coast of New Jersey. Opening Reception: September 16, 6 – 8 PM

Bruce Dorfman: PAST PRESENT Paintings and Drawings in Combined Media

Joan and Robert Rechnitz Hall

Bruce Dorfman has had fifty-three solo exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad. His work has been presented in numerous museum and university collections and gallery group exhibitions worldwide, including currently “Ways and Means: A New Look at Process in Art”, July 18 – October 7, 2016 at UBS Art Gallery, NYC; June Kelly Gallery, NYC and “Making / Breaking Traditions: The Teachers of Ai Weiwei”, Art Students League, NYC (2014). Lecture: September 23, 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. in Wilson Hall Auditorium.
Opening reception: Fri. September. 23, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Bob Dylan: Photographs by Daniel Kramer Curated by the GRAMMY Museum ® at LA LIVE

Pollak Gallery

Curated by the GRAMMY Museum, in cooperation with Daniel Kramer, Daniel Kramer: Photographs of Bob Dylan features more than 40 of Kramer’s
photographs from his time on tour with Dylan in 1964 and 1965. Opening Reception: Nov. 11, 5 – 7 PM. Daniel Kramer and Bob Santelli from the GRAMMY Museum will give a talk during the opening reception.

National Theatre Live: THE DEEP BLUE SEA

Pollak Theatre

Helen McCrory (Medea and The Last of the Haussmans at the National Theatre, Penny Dreadful, Peaky Blinders) returns to the National Theatre in Terence Rattigan’s devastating masterpiece, playing one of the greatest female roles in contemporary drama. Tom Burke (War and Peace, The Musketeers) also features in Carrie Cracknell’s critically acclaimed new production. When Hester Collyer is found by her neighbors in the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, the story of her tempestuous affair with a former RAF pilot and the breakdown of her marriage to a High Court judge begins to emerge. With it comes a portrait of need, loneliness and long-repressed passion.
Behind the fragile veneer of post-war civility burns a brutal sense of loss and longing.

$23

Homecoming Weekend

The commemoration takes place Saturday after the 1 p.m. Monmouth vs Kennesaw State matchup at Kessler Field, the final football game planned for the sporting location. Join the Monmouth community […]

Monmouth Madness

OceanFirst Bank Center

Giveaways, meet and greets, free food and more as the Monmouth Men’s Basketball team gears up for the ’16-’17 season.

A Marvelous Night: The Music of Van Morrison

Pollak Theatre

New Jersey’s favorite entertainers will take the stage to share the music of Van Morrison with their friends. Legendary front man Rob Paparozzi (Original Blues Brothers Band, Blood Sweat ‘n Tears) and Master Song Stylist Pat Guadagno (BobFest, The Candle Brothers) will lead an all-star band on a musical journey through the lifework of one of the most influential and unusual artists of our time. Last year’s capacity crowd was mesmerized by an eclectic selection of Morrison’s mystical compositions, performed by an ensemble of Jersey musical nobility that included Pam McCoy, Steven Delopoulos (Burlap to Cashmere) Irish Tenor Steve Reilly, Michael Ghegan (Michael Jackson Cirque de Soleil), John Korba, (Hall & Oates, Phoebe Snow, Roseanne Cash) Tom Labella, Joe Bellia & Jillian Reyes McCoy (John Bon Jovi’s Kings of Suburbia). The memorable evening was highlighted by a surprise visit from ‘the worlds most recorded drummer’ Bernard “Pretty” Purdie. The whole crew is back for a transcendental evening of genre defying music presented by Charles Moran and Christopher Neary on what is sure to be A Marvelous Night ….. You will be healed! 

$25; $35; $55 (Gold Circle)

Visiting Writers: Gerald Stern

The Great Hall Auditorium

Gerald Stern was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1925 and was educated at the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia University. He is the author of 16 books of poetry, including, most recently, Divine Nothingness (Norton, 2014) and In Beauty Bright (Norton, 2012), as well as This Time: New and Selected Poems, which won the 1998 National Book Award and a kind-of memoir of a year in 85 sections titled Stealing History, was published by Trinity University Press in the spring of 2012. Stern was awarded the 2005 Wallace Stevens Award by the Academy of American Poets, was the 2010 recipient of the Medal of Honor in Poetry by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he was inducted into the 2012 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was the 2012 recipient of the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress. He was the 2014 winner of the Frost Medal. Stern has two books coming out in 2017, a poetry collection from W. W. Norton called Galaxy Love and a book of non-fiction titled Deathwatch, to be released by Trinity University Press.

Click Clack Moo

Pollak Theatre

“Cows that type? Hens on strike! Whoever heard of such a thing!” Farmer Brown cries. Find out in a hilariously “mooooo-ving” musical about negotiation and compromise, based on the Caldecott Honor Book by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin. Recommended for grades K -4.

$12 (child); $15 (adult)