Berrie Center: Spring 2008 Programs and Events / March

Box Office Hours:
Monday - Friday, 12-8 pm,
Saturday and Sunday, 12-5 pm
and also two hours prior to each performance.
Telephone #: (201) 684-7844

NEW JERSEY PREMIERE!
Aquila Theatre Company presents
Joseph Heller’s
Catch-22

Friday, October 5
8 p.m., Sharp Theater

Joseph Heller’s stage adaptation of his great American classic novel, Catch-22, explores the important and timely questions of the absurdity of war and its impact on society.  In Aquila Theatre’s hilarious and dynamic production, Heller’s wonderful words will be heard for the very first time onstage in New Jersey.

Seating Category #1 / #2 / #3    Orchestra     Balcony

Tickets: Adults: $26 / 23 / 20;  Children (under 17): $15; Seniors and Ramapo Affiliates: 5% discount off regular ticket prices.

Recess: Old Dog, New Tricks
The Work of Shalom Gorewitz

Thursday, October 11
1 p.m., Sharp Theater

Join longtime visual arts faculty member Shalom Gorewitz as he shows and discusses examples from his many years of creating experimental videos and digital films that explore themes of faith and desire.

Free admission

Not Your Grandmother’s Chamber Music!
Quartet San Francisco
What do Stevie Wonder, Chick Corea and Astor Piazzolla have in common?

Friday, October 12
8 p.m., Sharp Theater

They’re all part of the repertoire of the 2007 two-time Grammy-nominated, genre-bending, dazzling Quartet San Francisco.  From tango to pop to jazz, this is definitely not your typical chamber group. 

Seating Category #1 / #2 / #3    Orchestra     Balcony

Tickets: Adults: $26 / 23 / 20;   Children (under 17): $15; Seniors and Ramapo Affiliates: 5% discount off regular ticket prices.

Avner The Eccentric
Exceptions to Gravity

Saturday, October 13
8 .pm., Sharp Theater

Is he a magician?  A clown?  Juggler?  Acrobat?  Puppeteer?  Yes, and a comedian, mime and dancer as well, but . . . “ trying to define Avner the Eccentric is like trying to do a handstand supported by nothing more than a rolled-up piece of cloth.” (He does that, too.)  Bring the whole family for an evening of comic relief!

“I laughed for two solid hours.  The show only lasted an hour and a half.”
Joel Siegel
-ABC TV

Seating Category #1 / #2 / #3    Orchestra     Balcony

Tickets: Adults: $26 / 23 / 20; Children: (under 17) $15; Seniors and Ramapo Affiliates: 5% discount off regular ticket prices.

The Beethoven Septet
A Musical Delight for All Ages

Sunday, October 14
8 p.m., Sharp Theater

Join The Sutin Ensemble and guests for a musical walk through the orchestra, as this “just right-sized” septet explores the diversity of chamber music of the 18th through 20th centuries.

All seats: Adults: $15; Children: $10

RCNJ Theater Program presents
Letters to a Student Revolutionary
By Elizabeth Wong
Directed by Mary Ellen Allison

October 18 -20 and 24-26 at 8 .pm.
October 27 at 2 pm and 8 p.m.
Sharp Theater

This powerful and disarmingly funny play is about friendship and political awakening. From a seemingly innocent chance encounter, two young women—one Chinese, the other Chinese-American—embark on a charming, poignant 10-year correspondence, cut abruptly and tragically short by the June 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. This bittersweet tale seeks to make sense of history, how we participate in it and how we are overwhelmed by it. The play explores ideas of capitalism and communism, and ultimately becomes a clarion call to remember the price of democracy.

Tickets: Adults: $10; Students and Ramapo Affiliates:$5

October 18
October 19
October 20
October 24
October 25
October 26
October 27 (2 p.m. show)
October 27 (8 p.m. show)

Science with Beakman Live!

Friday October 19
10 a.m. and 12 p.m., Sharp Theater

Beakman Live! with Paul Zaloom, is a live stage spectacle, based on the Emmy-winning children's science educational TV show, "Beakman's World", featuring large scale, wacky science demonstrations with plenty of audience participation.  By showing kids of all ages how to perform simple experiments using household items, Beakman Live!, helps kids discover for themselves how the world works.
 “As Beakman, Mr. Zaloom practices a decidedly cool brand of science.”
—New York Times
“Fact: 90% of the scientists who ever lived are alive today. Fact: the lively host of Beakman's World may be funnier and more informative than any of them.”
—Washington Post
Grades K-4
Links: Science; Theater

Tickets: $8

Jazz at the Berrie Center presents
The Sultans of Swing
David Berger, Conductor
Featuring vocalist Champian Fulton

Saturday, October 20
8 p.m., Sharp Theater

Get ready to swing dance with The Sultans of Swing, David Berger’s 16-piece big band that brings music of the 1930’s and 40’s to hip 21st Century jazz and swing audiences.
Berger, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra conductor from 1988-94, arranger and international expert on “all things Ellington,” carries on this rich tradition with the help of vocalist Champian Fulton, a finalist in the 2007 JazzMobile competition.

Seating Category #1 / #2 / #3    Orchestra     Balcony

Tickets: Adults: $26 / 23 / 20; Children (under 17): $15; Seniors, Ramapo Affiliates, New Jersey Jazz Society and WBGO Radio members: 5% discount off regular ticket prices.

Sharp Theater

Calling All Book Groups!
American Place Theatre’s Literature to Life Series presents:
The Glass Castle
From the book by Jeannette Walls
Adapted and Directed by Wynn Handman
Co-sponsored by the Office of Specialized Services

Sunday, October 21 at 3 p.m. and
Tuesday, October 23 at 3:30 p.m.
H-Wing Auditorium

Jeannette Walls’ unique memoir of survival and resiliency told through the eyes of a young girl, traces the harrowing story of the author and her siblings in this one-hour verbatim staged performance by actress Sarah Franek. With mentally unstable and supremely dysfunctional parents, the Walls children are often left to fend for themselves with barely any food or shelter.  Somehow they find the resources to transcend the family’s precarious lifestyle, dreaming of The Glass Castle their father promises to build them.
Pre- and post- performance discussions are included.

Tickets: All seats: $10.  No discounts apply

October 21
October 23

York Room Salon Series presents
Itay Goren, Piano

Sunday, October 28
3 p.m., York Room in the Mansion

Israeli-born pianist Itay Goren has gained renown as a performer, composer and arranger, who, as a member of the Israeli army band, gave over 300 performances during his three years of military service.  His York Room program will feature works by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Ravel.

All tickets: $15 including refreshments

Berrie Center Box Office Hours:
Monday - Friday, 12-8 pm, Saturday and Sunday, 12-5 pm and also two hours prior to each performance.

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