The Antipodes
2022-10-28 20:00 - 22:00, 2022-10-29 14:00 - 16:00, 2022-10-29 20:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Adler Theater, 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, United States
The Antipodes
By Annie Baker
Directed by Dara Malina
“A play about people telling stories about telling stories.”
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Who are the storytellers and the gatekeepers deciding which story to tell? And what happens to a group of people all trying to decide on the one essential narrative worth pitching? Is there such a thing? In a windowless writers’ room where time exists in a spiral, the monstrous emerges and structures are broken down to the point of collapse. What story comes out of the chaos?
Content Warning: This show contains sexually explicit language, vomiting, and mentions of suicide and rape.
General Admission: $15 RCNJ Student: $5*
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Marisol
2022-11-11 20:00 - 22:00, 2022-11-12 20:00 - 22:00, 2022-11-13 20:00 - 22:00, 2022-11-17 20:00 - 22:00, 2022-11-18 20:00 - 22:00, 2022-11-19 20:00 - 22:00 | Sharp Theater, Berrie Center for the Arts, 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, 07430, United States
Marisol
By Jose Rivera
Directed by Terra Vandergaw
There’s a war in heaven and things on Earth have gotten really bad. Coffee is extinct, food
tastes like salt, the moon hasn’t been seen for months, and credit card debt is a crime. After a
particularly harrowing commute home, Marisol Perez doesn’t know if she’s dead or alive.
Inspired by Milton’s Paradise Lost, Jose Rivera’s apocalyptic and prophetic urban fantasy has the angels in revolt against a senile god while our heroine attempts to save herself and her loved ones on her own. Winner of the 1993 Obie award, Marisol is a contemporary classic and call to wake up!
General Admission: $15 RCNJ Students: $5*
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Content Warning: Not recommended for young children.
Marisol contains discussions and depictions of violent and traumatic moments including sexual assault, gun violence, warfare, attacks on the homeless, and stillbirth. Strong language, adult language, racial slurs, and radical religious themes are expressed. All moments of intimacy and/or violence in the production have been carefully created and choreographed by the fight choreographer/intimacy director and the director with the actors’ safety in mind and with their consent.
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New Red Order presents "Mergers"
2022-11-16 18:30 - 20:00 | Adler Theater, 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, United States
Mergers is a one-night only performance being presented in conjunction with the New Red Order (NRO) exhibition Give it Back: Stage Theory in the Kresge & Pascal Galleries from November 2- December 9.
Mergers will feature Kite, an Ogála Lakḣóta artist, composer, and academic for an evening that will interweave screenings of short films, supported by movements from a host of proxies, including accomplices Ashley Byler and Jeremy Pheiffer. The event converges around NRO and Kite’s shared inquiry into desires for indigeneity, and the persistence and permeation of these desires in myths, dreams and foundations of the so-called Americans.
New Red Order (NRO) is a public secret society collaborating with networks of self-described “informants” and “accomplices,” to interrogate individual and collective desires for indigeneity. Since 2014, the amorphous group has deployed elements of time-based media including video and sound, along with sculpture, installation, and performance in order to shift potential obstructions to Indigenous growth and create grounds for Indigenous futures.
The performance is free, open to the public, and does not require a ticket for admission.
Photo: New Red Order, Out of Step, In Place, 2021, screening-performance, Aupuni Space, Kaka’ako, O’ahu

Ramapo Chorale- Thanksgiving Concert
2022-11-20 | Church of the Assumption, 29 Jefferson Avenue, Emerson, NJ, 07630
Join the Ramapo Chorale, CantaNova, Skylark, Take 12, Gospel Chorus, Chamber Ensemble, and Digital Music Performance for their Thanksgiving Concert.
Time TBD. The concert will take place at the Church of the Assumption at 29 Jefferson Ave, Emerson, NJ 07630

Advanced Music Performance- Final Concert
2022-11-30 11:30 - 12:30 | BC 216, 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, 07430
Final concert for the Jazz Band, Concert Band, and Brazilian-Latin Percussion.
Concert will be located in BC-216.

Tonewall "Standing Room Only"
2022-12-01 20:00 - 22:00 | Sharp Theater, Berrie Center for the Arts, 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, 07430, United States
TONEWALL presents “Standing Room Only”: Not only a fun concert and the electrifying energy of a packed house, it’s also a call to action—to stand with the LGBTQ+ community as a member or ally. Performing songs by knock-out artists like Lizzo, Queen, Twenty-One Pilots and Miley Cyrus, and queer favorites Betty Who, Emeli Sandé, Alex Newell and Shea Diamond, Standing Room Only covers the music to get you on your feet AND asks, “what do YOU stand for…”
Tonewall is the super-charismatic queer a cappella band of the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus. With their award-winning arranging and choreography they entertain audiences with uplifting anthems, classic tunes, and sexy hits from today’s artists while promoting diversity, LGBTQA+ inclusion and social equality. Audiences are invited to stay for a meet ‘n’ greet with the group after the show! Co-sponsored with RCNJ Women’s Center & LGBTQ+ Services.
Adults: $35/32/25 Children under 17: $18 RCNJ Faculty/Staff/Retirees: $20* RCNJ Students: $ 8*
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Ramapo Chorale Presents: The Road Home, Songs of the Seasons
2022-12-04 16:00 - 18:00 | Old Paramus Reformed Church, 650 E. Glen Ave, Ridgewood, NJ, United States
Please join the Ramapo Chorale for their Winter Concert. The concert will take place at 4pm at the Old Paramus Reformed Church at 660 E Glen Ave, Ridgewood, NJ 07450.
Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for students (must be purchased with ID at the Berrie Center Box Office or at the venue the day of the concert).
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Ramapo College Concert Band and Jazz Band- Winter Concert
2022-12-06 19:30 - 21:30 | H- Wing Auditorium (H-129), 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, 07430, United States
Please join the RCNJ Concert Band and Jazz Band for their Winter Concert! The concert will be held on December 6, 2022 at 7:30pm in the H-Wing Auditorium (H-129).

Eileen Ivers "A Joyful Christmas"
2022-12-10 20:00 - 22:00 | Sharp Theater, Berrie Center for the Arts, 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, 07430, United States
GRAMMY Award winner Eileen Ivers and her ensemble are back! Eileen’s Irish and American roots shine throughout the evening’s beautiful mix of traditional, story-filled, age-old Wren Day songs, poems, and of course, foot stomping and hollerin’ roots music.

Adults: $35/32/25 Children under 17: $18 RCNJ Faculty/Staff/Retirees: $20* RCNJ Students: $ 8*
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From Alchemy to Numinosity
2023-02-17 - 2023-04-04 | Berrie Center
An unusual group exhibition exploring notions of alchemy and numinosity.
Featuring works by Juan Alsar, Emery Blagdon, Benoit, gwen charles, Victor Davson, Florine Démosthène, Michael Dominick, Edouard Duval-Carrié, LaFortune Felix, Sancilus Ishmael, Edger Jean-Louis, Serge Jolimeau, Jean Baptiste Jean Joseph, Josh Knoblick, Ann LePore, Julie Nagle, Philomé Obin, Antoine Oleyant, André Pierre, Roland Rockville, Jon Serl, Jackie Skrzynski, and Lydia Viscardi.
On view February 17 – April 4 in the Kresge and Pascal Galleries.
Featured Image: Julie Nagle, Astrolabe, 2016, brass, semi-precious stones.

Annual Les Paul Concert featuring Zoë Keating
2023-02-18 20:00 - 22:00 | Sharp Theater, Berrie Center for the Arts, 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, 07430, United States
Zoë is a one-woman orchestra. She uses a cello and a foot-controlled laptop to record layer upon layer of cello, to create lush, beautiful and other worldly music. Increasingly considered a role model for DIY artists, Zoë’s self-released albums have sold over 35,000 copies and she has amassed an incredible 1.3 million twitter followers.
Keating also composes for TV, theater, film and dance. She co-composed, along with Jeff Russo, the score for the HBO movie “Oslo”, which earned them an Emmy Nomination in 2021 for Outstanding Music for a Television Movie. In addition to her recordings, Keating performs to rapt audiences around the world. Each performance is unique as she spontaneously improvises around her works, demonstrates how she makes them and tells the stories behind each piece.
Stay for a post-performance conversation with the artist!
Adults: $35/32/25 Children under 17: $18 RCNJ Faculty/Staff/Retirees: $20* RCNJ Students: $ 8*
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Rediscovering Community
2023-02-25 20:00 - 22:00 | Sharp Theater, Berrie Center for the Arts, 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, 07430, United States
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Rediscovering Community is the theme for this season’s call for artists featuring new works-in-progress. Join us for this evening of multi-disciplinary work based on how the arts are helping us to rediscover and come together as a community. Featured artists this year are Joseph Bertolozzi, Marylou and Jerome Bongiorno, Jane Rigler, and Tessa Brinckman.
TICKETS ARE FREE BUT A TICKET IS REQUIRED TO ENTER.
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About the Artists
Joseph Bertolozzi – “…An eye illumined by another sun…”
This work is part of an intended larger suite probing the unexpected profiles of the solo gong. Over a decade ago my solo percussion project The Bronze Collection explored expressive and unexpected nuances within gongs and cymbals utilizing the whole range of musical expression, from dynamic contrast (barely audible to roaring cadences) and coloristic shading (muting, playing on their edges, & various surfaces with unusual mallets), to extended techniques (playing a gong or cymbal with a cello bow, etc.). Writing and performing multi-movement works opened up a window not only in my mind but for my audiences. Those techniques and insights later informed my larger public works on New York’s Mid-Hudson Bridge and Eiffel Tower in Paris.
But with two lost years to Covid of necessity I turned from those gigantically public utterances back to gongs once again, and reduced things further to an even more intimate expression of music: the solo gong. At first this was for myself; of course, I couldn’t play anywhere anyway! But in reassessing a strongly limited sonic palette, I found new expressions that could draw audiences into a new sphere of awareness. Not the sonorities of a new age “gong bath,” this isn’t that; but of an articulate, eloquent engine of ideas and musical exchange. The expectation of a gong being a loud one-trick pony is upended in this atmospheric, introspective opus. As we convene once again for public art, this serves as a rediscovery of what we thought we knew.

Marylou & Jerome Bongiorno – City Symphony Films in 3D
Even before the pandemic, the Bongiornos used the medium of film to create environments that expanded audiences’ views of our communities. In 2009, they were commissioned by the Newark Museum to produce an immersive video installation in 3D that celebrated what’s endured in their home city of Newark, NJ, for over a hundred years. That led them to do the same for Brooklyn (Jerome’s birth city) and Staten Island (Jerome’s prior home) for exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York and the new Staten Island Museum, respectively. These 3D films, in the style of global city symphony films of the ’20s and ’30s, allowed viewers to step into new cities and experience their rich diversity while standing or sitting in a museum gallery, an airport, train station, cafe, or classroom, sometimes thousands of miles away.
During Covid lockdown, the Bongiornos experimented with transforming paintings into 3D video images, to dispel the feeling of isolation and to break the wall of 2D art. Compositions were inspired by what had been their regular visits to museums, playing jazz guitar in soup kitchens and other volunteerism. This way, viewers can become part of the spaces and be part of the greater community.

Tessa Brinckman & Jane Rigler – Your Coat, Turning – a telematic community
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“Your Coat, Turning” is a telematic invitation to create multiple futures through sound, video, text and play – a game of recreations of self and community. The climate crisis means that the coat of the earth is changing — and we must be able to deal with injury with creativity, beyond survival to renewal. Joy and imagination are necessary birthrights, and communal, political acts. Our concept of “community” offers an experience of building reliable and meaningful work, that people can belong to, and build their own futurism. We are interested in how to transform our individual and collective metaphorical coats (i.e. identity) to form other inevitable and necessary coats, through the experience of sounding and imagining.
“Your Coat, Turning” is both a film and sound performance with the audience as co-creators (no prior skills necessary). The piece draws from mixed media, sound, movement, and contemplative practices. Text and video prompt the audience to discover ways to interact with (provided) mystery objects that create a communal music experience.

Rhinoceros
2023-03-01 20:00 - 22:00, 2023-03-02 20:00 - 22:00, 2023-03-03 20:00 - 22:00, 2023-03-04 14:00 - 16:00, 2023-03-04 20:00 - 22:00, 2023-03-06 20:00 - 22:00, 2023-03-07 20:00 - 22:00, 2023-03-08 20:00 - 22:00 | Adler Theater, 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, United States
Rhinoceros
by Eugene Ionesco
Directed by Maria Vail
In a peaceful village in France something strange is afoot. One by one the inhabitants are transforming into destructive, unthinking wild animals. People are inexplicably turning into Rhinoceroses! An early example of the Theater of the Absurd, Ionesco illuminates what it’s like when fascism takes over a town and examines the tension between people as they bicker and quarrel about minutiae and wrangle with the pressure to conform.
March 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 at 8pm and March 4 at 2pm
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Ramapo Creative Technology MFA Faculty/Student Concert
2023-03-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Adler Theater, 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, United States
Please join the Ramapo College Creative Technology MFA Faculty and Students as they band together for a great evening of music! No tickets required!
Featuring:
Joseph Latka
Shawn Dalhaus
Nicholas Bates
(MFA Student Group)

Zach Layton (guitar, electronics)
Bobby Previte (drums, electronics)
Ben Vida (moog synthesizer)
Matt Bauder (saxophone, electronics)
(MFA Faculty Group)

The Duchess of Malfi
2023-04-06 20:00 - 22:00, 2023-04-07 20:00 - 22:00 | Sharp Theater, Berrie Center for the Arts, 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, 07430, United States
The Duchess of Malfi
By John Webster
Directed by Peter A. Campbell
One of the most powerful and poetic plays of the English Renaissance, Webster’s Game of Thrones like story of power and revenge shows how forbidden love leads to an aristocratic family’s self-destruction through corruption and hatred. This production brings intrigue, romance, horror, and tragedy to the stage of the Sharp Theater.
Content Warning: This production has simulated violence and amplified sounds of pain and suffering.
April 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, & 15 at 8:00pm
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