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Paul Mecurio’s Permission to Speak

Pollak Theatre

Starring EMMY & PEABODY Award winning comedian from “The Late Show w/Stephen Colbert,” “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report,” “Permission to Speak” was met on Broadway with rave reviews and nominated for the prestigious “Most Unique Show” Broadway Alliance Award. In this exciting comedy show with a twist, the audience stars WITH Paul who improvises with audience members – randomly bringing folks on stage and letting them share their often hilarious, jaw-dropping personal stories. Directed by legendary director Frank Oz (Creator and voice of YODA and Co-creator of “The Muppets”). A breath of fresh air, PERMISSION TO SPEAK is first and foremost, funny and entertaining, but also a truly freeing experience that connects people through their amazing shared stories.

$30 – $40

BORROMINI AND BERNINI: THE CHALLENGE FOR PERFECTION

Pollak Theatre

This is the story of the most famous artistic rivalry of all time, the one between Borromini and Bernini, but also the story of Borromini’s rivalry with himself: a genius so absorbed by his art that he turns it into a demon that devours him from the inside forcing him to choose death to reach eternity.

$23 (adult); $21 (senior); $10 (child); $5 (MU student)

Mihaela Moscaliuc and Michael Waters

Great Hall 104 (Julian Abele Room)

Mihaela Moscaliuc is the author of the poetry collections Cemetery Ink (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021),  Immigrant Model (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015) and Father Dirt (Alice James Books, 2010), translator of Liliana Ursu’s Clay and Star (Etruscan Press, 2019) and Carmelia Leonte’s The Hiss of the Viper (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2015), editor of Insane Devotion: On the Writing of Gerald Stern (Trinity University Press, 2016), and co-editor (with Michael Waters) of Border Lines: Poems of Migration (Knopf, 2020). She has published scholarship in the field of Romani Studies, on issues of representation, appropriation, exophony and code-switching, and on the works of Kimiko Hahn, Agha Shahid Ali, and Colum McCann. She is the Translation Editor for Plume.  Michael Waters’ recent books include Sinnerman (Etruscan Press, 2023), Caw (BOA Editions, 2020), & The Dean of Discipline (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018). Darling Vulgarity (BOA Editions, 2006) was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His co-edited anthologies include Border Lines: Poems of Migration (Knopf, 2020) & Reel Verse: Poems About the Movies (Knopf, 2019). His poems have appeared in numerous journals, includingPoetry, American Poetry Review, Paris Review, Yale Review, & Kenyon Review. A 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, recipient of five Pushcart Prizes & fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Fulbright Foundation, & NJ State Council on the Arts, Waters lives without a cell phone in Ocean, NJ.

Free and open to the public
Recurring

Pippin

Lauren K. Woods Theatre

With an infectiously unforgettable score from four-time Grammy winner, three-time Oscar winner and musical theatre giant, Stephen Schwartz, Pippin is the story of one young person’s journey to be extraordinary. Winner of four 2013 Tony Awards including Best Musical Revival.

$20 (Adults), $15 (Employees, Seniors, Alumni), $10 (Child, Non-MU Student), FREE (MU Students)
Recurring

Pippin

Lauren K. Woods Theatre

With an infectiously unforgettable score from four-time Grammy winner, three-time Oscar winner and musical theatre giant, Stephen Schwartz, Pippin is the story of one young person’s journey to be extraordinary. Winner of four 2013 Tony Awards including Best Musical Revival.

$20 (Adults), $15 (Employees, Seniors, Alumni), $10 (Child, Non-MU Student), FREE (MU Students)

Anthony Davis’s X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X

Pollak Theatre

Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking opera, which premiered in 1986, arrives at the Met at long last. Robert O’Hara, who was nominated for a Tony Award in 2020 for his direction of Slave Play, oversees a new staging that imagines Malcolm as an everyman whose story transcends time and space. A cast of breakout artists take part in the operatic retelling of Malcom X’s life. Baritone Will Liverman, who triumphed in the Met premiere of Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones, sings Malcolm. Soprano Leah Hawkins plays his mother, Louise; mezzo-soprano Raehann Bryce-Davis is his sister Ella; bass-baritone Michael Sumuel is his brother Reginald; and tenor Victor Ryan Robertson is the Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad. Kazem Abdullah conducts the newly revised score, which provides a layered, jazz-inflected setting for the esteemed writer Thulani Davis’s libretto.

$23 (adult); $21 (senior); $10 (child); $5 (MU student)
Recurring

Pippin

Lauren K. Woods Theatre

With an infectiously unforgettable score from four-time Grammy winner, three-time Oscar winner and musical theatre giant, Stephen Schwartz, Pippin is the story of one young person’s journey to be extraordinary. Winner of four 2013 Tony Awards including Best Musical Revival.

$20 (Adults), $15 (Employees, Seniors, Alumni), $10 (Child, Non-MU Student), FREE (MU Students)
Recurring

Pippin

Lauren K. Woods Theatre

With an infectiously unforgettable score from four-time Grammy winner, three-time Oscar winner and musical theatre giant, Stephen Schwartz, Pippin is the story of one young person’s journey to be extraordinary. Winner of four 2013 Tony Awards including Best Musical Revival.

$20 (Adults), $15 (Employees, Seniors, Alumni), $10 (Child, Non-MU Student), FREE (MU Students)
Recurring

Pippin

Lauren K. Woods Theatre

With an infectiously unforgettable score from four-time Grammy winner, three-time Oscar winner and musical theatre giant, Stephen Schwartz, Pippin is the story of one young person’s journey to be extraordinary. Winner of four 2013 Tony Awards including Best Musical Revival.

$20 (Adults), $15 (Employees, Seniors, Alumni), $10 (Child, Non-MU Student), FREE (MU Students)

Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead

Virtual

Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club! Hosted by Monmouth University’s Ken Womack. This month’s novel is Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens’ anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. DEMON COPPERHEAD speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can’t imagine leaving behind.

Free and open to the public but registration is required