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Gallery Exhibition: Asbury Park’s Springwood Avenue Harmony – Celebrating The West Side’s Unique Musical Legacy

Pollak Gallery

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. Opening Reception: February 4, from 6-8 pm

ART NOW: Jennifer Haley – Writing, Performing & Producing Virtual Realities Onstage

Lauren K. Woods Theatre

Award winning playwright /TV writer Jennifer Haley will conduct an interactive artist demonstration. Her 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. She is a member of New Dramatists (NYC) and lives in LA, where she founded the Playwrights Union. Jennifer currently writes for the Netflix original series, Hemlock Grove.

LA Theatre Work’s In the Heat of the Night

Pollak Theatre

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. 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.

$35; $45

Jason Isbell

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. Tickets on sale Friday, August 22 at 10 am.

$40; $50; $65 (Gold Circle)

Met Opera: THE MERRY WIDOW Encore (Broadcast in HD)

Pollak Theatre

New Production 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).

$23.00

On Screen in Person: Rebels With a Cause

Pollak Theatre

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.

Asbury Park’s West Side Music Legacy Presentation

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)

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).

$23

Graduate Information Session

The Great Hall

This Information Session is for prospective students interested in Graduate School at Monmouth University. All programs will be represented.