Arts News
Celebrating National Poetry Month
The Traveling Poetry Emporium came to Monmouth University's campus on April 16 creating personalized poems in celebration of National Poetry Month. Students visited one of their pop-up poetry booths in the lobby of the Student Center, Dining Hall or Plangere Center and named any topic they wanted. Then, in less than five minutes, one of traveling poets GennaRose Nethercott, Cassandra de Alba or Julia Story composed an original, full-length poem on an antique manual typewriter just for them.
Musical Theater History Comes Alive at Monmouth U, With Summer Staging of ‘The Fantasticks’
The Center for the Arts at Monmouth University has announced that tickets are on sale for an exciting new staging of the record-setting musical The Fantasticks, presented as a Shadow Lawn Summer Stage production at the Lauren K. Woods Theatre on the east end of the Monmouth campus.
Kids on Keys & Dueling Pianos
The Center for the Arts at Monmouth University has announced Kids on Keys & Dueling Pianos – an event to benefit Autism Awareness - featuring Stormin’ Norman” Seldin, three young piano prodigies and the amazing Steinway & Sons "Spirio" Grand Piano on Saturday, May 5th, 2018 at 8 PM in Pollak Theatre.
Bruce Springsteen Symposium at Monmouth University April 12-15
The Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music at Monmouth University will hold its inaugural academic conference, Bruce Springsteen’s Darkness on the Edge of Town: An International Symposium, from April 12 to 15.
A Season for McGuinn
The Center for the Arts at Monmouth University is presenting a concert featuring Roger McGuinn, hosted inside the Pollak Theatre on April 25, 2018 as part of the 2017-2018 Performing Arts Series. Beginning at 8 p.m., the show represents the latest in a long line of visits to campus by the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer whose signature 12-string jingle-jangle and deep musical roots helped to redefine American rock for a generation and beyond. It also serves to mark the continuation of a happy collaboration between the co-founder of The Byrds and the Center for the Arts program.
The Beatles’ the White Album: an International Symposium
You are cordially invited to submit abstracts and/or panel suggestions for an international scholarly conference devoted to the life, work, and influence of the Beatles, particularly in relation to their legendary album The Beatles (1968), popularized as The White Album. To submit an abstract, please go to https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/BWAIS2018, create a new account and add a new submission. Abstracts should be 150-250 words in length to ensure full consideration.
The Met: Announces 2018-19 Live in Hd Season
The Met: Live in HD , the Metropolitan Opera's award-winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts, will begin its 13th season on October 6, with the Met's grand production of Verdi's Aida , starring one of the world's most acclaimed sopranos, Anna Netrebko . The company also announced that Yannick Nézet-Séguin will become the Met's Music Director for the start of the 2018-19 season, accelerating his arrival in the post by two seasons.
Poetry From the Emerald Isle
The Center for the Arts has announced that two award-winning Irish poets, Eleanor Hooker and Clodagh Beresford Dunne, will visit Monmouth University on Tuesday, March 20, to read from their notable works. The free event will happen at 4:30pm in the Great Auditorium, and is part of the Center’s Visiting Writer Series.
On the ‘Road’ Again
Presented inside the Pollak Theatre, the 8 p.m. event marks the “back by popular demand” return to campus of the spectacular touring sensation that combines the traditions of Irish music, the electricity of classic rock, the breathtaking majesty of Irish Dance, and a state-of-the-art light show into an experience that’s captivated audiences from coast to coast. Just a little more than a year after being founded as a collaboration between musician and tech specialist Chris Smith and Irish Dance World Champion Scott Doherty, “Rockin’ Road to Dublin” made its very first appearance in the New York/New Jersey area on the stage of the Pollak — then newly renovated to accommodate the scale and spectacle of a dynamic stage entertainment that’s helped to introduce a new generation to the Irish Dance experience.
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer David Crosby Returns to Monmouth Campus for a Special June Concert Event
The Center for the Arts at Monmouth University has announced that tickets are now on sale for the David Crosby & Friends, Sky Trails Tour 2018, hosted inside the Pollak Theatre on June 7, 2018 as a just-announced addition to the 2017-2018 Performing Arts Series. Presented at 8 p.m., the Thursday event marks the first time back on campus since the summer of 2014, for the singer and songwriter who appeared on Monmouth’s OceanFirst Bank Center stage as part of the legendary trio Crosby, Stills and Nash. For his second time performing at Pollak Theatre (last in 2004), the two-time inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will perform with full band in the recently renovated space that’s hosted numerous performances by his onetime Byrds bandmate Roger McGuinn — as well as an Intimate Evening with Graham Nash in September 2017, and a February encore of the popular tribute show “CSNsongs.”