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  • You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown

    Dates: 6/23: 2pm & 8pm;  6/24: 2pm & 8pm;  6/25: 3pm;  6/30: 2pm & 8pm;  7/1: 2pm & 8pm; 7/2: 3pm

    Shadow Lawn Stage, the professional theatre of Monmouth University, will present the 50th anniversary production of the enchanting musical, You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown this June with 10 performances at the historic Woods Theatre on the university’s campus. Based on the famed comic strip “Peanuts” by Charles Schulz, the musical tells the story of some typical days in the life of Charlie Brown. From running after the school bus to spying the cute little red-haired girl at lunch, Charlie deals with the fun and frustrations of life with his friends Lucy, Linus and Schroeder; his kid sister Sally; and his faithful companion, Snoopy. The original production featured Gary Burghoff (Radar in the MASH series). The 1999 revival won 2 Tony Awards – for Roger Bart as Snoopy and Kristen Chenoweth as Sally –  and the Drama Desk award for “Best Revival of a Musical”.

    The songs of the show, written by Clark Gesner, reveal the dreams and goals of the characters: Lucy explores her feelings for Schroeder while he plays Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” (“it’s always been my dream that I’d marry a man that plays the piano”); Linus sings and dances with his security blanket in “My Blanket and Me”, and even Snoopy sings the praises of his favorite time of day in “Suppertime!”  For the revival, Andrew Lippa added a new song that had Sally searching for “A New Philosophy” (is it “Why are you telling me?” or “I can’t stand it!”?)  As the day comes to a close, the whole gang reflects on the things that bring them “Happiness”.
    Directed by Maurice J. Moran, the Shadow Lawn production features a range of actors: professional members of Actors’ Equity Association, MU students and alumni, and new rising stars.

  • National Theatre Live: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

    Sonia Friedman Productions presents Imelda Staunton (Gypsy, Vera Drake, the Harry Potter films), Conleth Hill (Game Of Thrones, The Producers), Luke
    Treadaway (A Street Cat Named Bob, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
    Night-Time    , The Hollow Crown) and Imogen Poots (A Long Way
    Down    , Jane Eyre) in James Macdonald’s critically acclaimed, 5 star
    production of Edward Albee’s landmark play, broadcast live to cinemas from the
    Harold Pinter Theatre, London.

    In the early hours of the morning on the
    campus of an American college, Martha, much to her husband George’s
    displeasure, has invited the new professor and his wife to their home for some
    after-party drinks. As the alcohol flows and dawn approaches, the young couple
    are drawn into George and Martha’s toxic games until the evening reaches its
    climax in a moment of devastating truth-telling.

    Run Time: 210 minutes

  • World Cinema Series: Even the Rain

    (Director:
    Iciar Bollain 2010) Spanish director Sebastián, his
    executive producer Costa and all his crew are in Bolivia, in the Cochabamba
    area, to shoot a motion picture about Christopher Columbus, his first
    explorations and the way the Spaniards treated the Indians at the time. Costa
    has chosen this place because the budget of the film is tight and here he can
    hire supernumeraries, local actors and extras on the cheap. Things go more or
    less smoothly until a conflict erupts over the privatization of the water
    supply. The trouble is that one of the local actors is a leading activist in
    the protest movement.

    Not
    Rated (103 minutes)

     

  • World Cinema Series: The Reluctant Fundamentalist

    (Director:
    Mira Nair, 2012) A young Pakistani man is chasing corporate success on Wall
    Street. He finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American Dream, a
    hostage crisis, and the enduring call of his family’s homeland.

    Rated R (130 minutes)

  • World Cinema Series: Mountains May Depart

    (Director:
    Zhangke Jia, 2015) China, 1999. Childhood friends Liangzi and Zhang are both in
    love with Tao, the town beauty. Tao eventually decides to marry the wealthier
    Zhang. They soon have a son he names Dollar… From China to Australia, the
    lives, loves, hopes and disillusions of a family over two generations in a society
    changing at breakneck speed.

    Not Rated (131 minutes)

  • Human Capital

    (Director:
    Paolo Virzi 2013) Dino Ossola, a small-time real estate agent who dreams of
    bigger things; Serena Ossola, his teenage daughter who dates a spoiled rich
    brat; Carla Bruneschi, an actress who has given up her career to marry a
    wealthy businessman; Massimiliano Giovanni Bernaschi, her husband, a powerful
    player; Massimiliano Bernaschi, the troubled son of the Bernaschis; Roberta
    Ossola, a psychologist, Dino’s second wife; Donato Russomano, a brilliant drama
    teacher who is stuck on Carla; Luca Ambrosini, a teenager frowned upon by
    others; an anonymous cyclist… They are all shareholders of the human capital.

    Not Rated (111 minutes)

  • Millie and the Lords

    (Director Jennica Carmona 2015) Millie and the Lords tells the story of Milagros Baez, a young,
    working class under-confident Puerto Rican woman whose life is changed for the
    better when she begins to learn about the Young Lords Party and her rich Puerto
    Rican history.       
    This event is part of Hispanic Heritage Month. 

    Rated PG (90 minutes)

  • Norma

    The season opens with a new production of Bellini’s bel canto tragedy Norma, starring Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role, which she has sung to acclaim at the Met in 2013, as well as at the Canadian Opera Company, San Francisco Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu, and Lyric Opera of Chicago—making her one of the world’s leading interpreters of the iconic title character. Joyce DiDonato co-stars as Norma’s colleague and rival, Adalgisa, opposite Joseph Calleja as Pollione and Matthew Rose as Oroveso. Carlo Rizzi conducts and Sir David McVicar directs the new production.

    Total runtime: 2 hours, 34 minutes

  • Norma (Encore)

    The season opens with a new production of Bellini’s bel canto tragedy Norma, starring Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role, which she has sung to acclaim at the Met in 2013, as well as at the Canadian Opera Company, San Francisco Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu, and Lyric Opera of Chicago—making her one of the world’s leading interpreters of the iconic title character. Joyce DiDonato co-stars as Norma’s colleague and rival, Adalgisa, opposite Joseph Calleja as Pollione and Matthew Rose as Oroveso. Carlo Rizzi conducts and Sir David McVicar directs the new production.

    Total runtime: 2 hours, 34 minutes

  • Die Zauberflöte

    Met Music Director Emeritus James Levine conducts Tony Award winner Julie Taymor’s production of Mozart’s masterpiece, Die Zauberflöte. Golda Schultz makes her Met debut as Pamina with Kathryn Lewek as the Queen of the Night, Charles Castronovo as the fairy tale prince Tamino, Markus Werba as the bird-catching Papageno, Christian Van Horn as Sprecher, and René Pape as Sarastro. The holiday presentation of The Magic Flute, an abridged staging sung in English for families, was the first Live in HD performance to be transmitted. This is the first time the full-length German opera will be seen in the series.

    Total runtime: 2 hours, 48 minutes