Center for the Arts
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The NJCU Center for the Arts brings the University's cultural offerings together under one creative umbrella.
With New York City just across the river, the NJCU Center for the Arts is a cultural hub of North Jersey, hosting guest artists and speakers in the performing, visual, film, and literary arts, alongside student presentations. We look forward to seeing you at events on campus and in the community.
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Fall Schedule Brochure
Featured Events
Chess The Musical
Friday, December 13 & Saturday, December 14, 7:30 p.m. Sunday , December 15, 3:00 p.m.
Margaret Williams Theatre
Tickets: $15, Students and seniors $5
NJCU in association with Cranford Dramatic Club presents CHESS THE MUSICAL in concert. With Music by Benny Anderson and Bjorn Ulvaeus of the pop group ABBA, the story of CHESS involves a politically driven, Cold War era Chess Tournament between two grandmasters from America and the USSR, and their fight over a woman who manages one and falls in love with the other. With a full orchestra, over 50 in the vocal ensemble and a cast of award-winning performers, don’t miss this exciting concert event.
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra: The Jungle Book
Saturday, January 18, 2:00 p.m.
Margaret Williams Theatre
Tickets $20, Children under 17: $12
In a playful and humorous manner, NJSO’s version
of Kipling’s The Jungle Book—featuring a string ensemble—introduces young audiences to classical master works and to various styles of music. Narration of the story alternates with brief musical interludes, and puppets and toy animals bring this program to vivid life!
Carolyn Dorfman Dance: The Legacy Project
Margaret Williams Theatre
Thursday, January 23, 9:45 a.m.
$8 for all students and adults (including teachers)
Grades 4-12
To purchase tickets please contact: boxoffice@njcu.edu or (201) 200-2429
A celebrated body of compositions that merge live dance, multimedia presentation and interactive dialogue to honor faith, survival and renewal as the cornerstones of her Eastern European roots and Jewish heritage. As a child of Holocaust survivors, Dorfman reveals her heritage through dance stories that interweave the common threads of our humanity. In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the show explores the rich tapestry of human experience and tradition through interdisciplinary and intercultural collaboration.
Svetlana and Her Night at the Movies
Saturday, April 4, 8:00 p.m.
Margaret Williams Theatre
Tickets $30
Svetlana is “Astrud Gilberto via Moscow”, a Russian-born critically acclaimed American jazz vocalist. Her new record and concert program, Night at the Movies is Svetlana’s love affair with movies, and dreaming. The concert adapts Oscar-winning Songs from 1930s to today, taking listeners on a carnival of sound, from sultry introspective torch jazz vocals to a rowdy New Orleans inspired dance party.
Carrying over all the romance, passion and beautiful familiar melodies, while discovering unexpected gems and adding a new twist and high energy – the band is fronted by Svetlana’s captivating vocals and stage presence. Listeners will find themselves nodding along to familiar tunes - while also being thrilled by the twists, turns, and unexpected improvisational aspects of Svetlana’s exciting virtuoso band of young jazz lions. The show is accompanied by projected moving images inspired by the movies from which the songs are drawn.
“Breakfast at Tiffany’s meets Some Like It Hot” – NY Music Daily
“Exceptional vocalist” – Wall Street Journal “Once in A Lifetime Voice” – Aquarian Weekly
Venues
Margaret Williams Theatre
Hepburn Hall
West Side Theatre
285 West Side Avenue
Ingalls Recital Hall
Rossey Hall, Room 101
Gothic Lounge
Hepburn Hall, Room 202
Visual Arts Gallery
Visual Arts Building
100 Culver Avenue, ground level
201-200-2496
Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery
Hepburn Hall, Room 323
201-200-3246
School of Business
200 Hudson Street
Harborside Financial Center, Jersey City
Box Office
Tickets may be purchased in advance online or in person at the box office, which opens one hour prior to performances.
For group sales and reservations, please contact the Box Office directly:
boxoffice@njcu.edu 201-200-2429.
For disability-related accommodations, please contact the Box Office two weeks in advance of the performance.
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