An Evening with Lorna Luft Featuring the Songs of Judy Garland
2026-02-28 20:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Sharp Theater, Berrie Center for the Arts, 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, 07430, United States
Using her unique perspective born from a lifetime in entertainment, join Lorna Luft as she shares favorites from the Great American Songbook. Expect some songs made famous by her mother and film legend, Judy Garland, as well as stories from Hollywood, Broadway, and beyond as only she can tell them.
Born to the legendary Judy Garland and producer Sid Luft, Lorna began her career on her mother’s TV show at the age of eleven. She went on to perform on Broadway in Promises, Promises; Snoopy, the Musical; and Extremities. She has performed in domestic and international productions of They’re Playing Our Song; Guys and Dolls; Grease; The Wizard of Oz; Holiday Inn; and White Christmas.
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Adults: $50/45, Children Under 17, $20, RCNJ Faculty/Staff: $40/36*, RCNJ Students: $8*, Retired Employees of Ramapo College: $40/36*
NOTE: Everyone entering the auditorium must have a ticket, including infants and young children. Strollers are not permitted in the theaters. Due to fire code capacity limits, no lap seating of any kind is allowed.
*Ticket limits apply. In order to receive a RCNJ Student, Faculty/Staff discount, you MUST purchase your ticket at the Berrie Center Box Office with ID. Discounted tickets cannot be purchased over the phone.
To purchase wheelchair accessible seating or for questions regarding alternative formats, please contact the Box Office at (201) 684-7844 or tickets@ramapo.edu

RCNJ Theater Presents: What the Constitution Means to Me
2026-03-05 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-03-06 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-03-07 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-03-08 14:00 - 16:00, 2026-03-10 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-03-11 20:00 - 22:00 | Adler Theater, 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, United States
Written by Heidi Schreck
Directed by Terra Vandergaw
This boundary-breaking Tony-nominated play breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans. Fifteen-year-old Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful and achingly human new play, she resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives.
Content Warning: What the Constitution Means to Me contains mature themes and language, mentions of domestic violence, sexual assault, and discussions of abortion and its stigmatization.
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Art History Talk - The Ballad of Miss Fortune
2026-03-06 11:30 - 13:30 | Berrie Center
Please join us in the Berrie Center Café at 11:30 for a special talk by Art Historian Maria Loh in which she bridges renaissance imagery and notions of misogyny.
This event is held in conjunction with GODDESSES 3.0, on view in the Kresge and Pascal Galleries February 25 – April 10. More information on GODDESSES 3.0 can be found here!
ABSTRACT

Kairos, Occasio, and Fortuna are complex facets of the same goddess of luck, but at a certain moment in time a troubling, schizophrenic iconography came into being, which cast Lady Luck as a distinctively female force, both a capricious agent controlling the Wheel of Fortune and also as a body that could be either violently seized or wildly adored. This lecture will explore the uneasy gendering of Fortuna in some early modern images such as an engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi in the Metropolitan Museum that bears the descriptive title A Naked Man Holding Fortune by the Hair and Whipping Her. Rather than simply cancelling an image as such, I would like to take the opportunity to reflect upon the ideological work that such artworks accomplished in their own time and to push us to think about how we can and must make sense of them as twenty-first-century viewers.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Maria H. Loh is Professor of Art History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Previously, she taught at CUNY Hunter College for six years and at University College London for over a decade. She is a contributor to Art in America and the author of three books—Titian Remade. Repetition and the Transformation of Early Modern Italian Art (2007); Still Lives. Death, Desire, and the Portrait of the Old Master (2015); and Titian’s Touch. Art, Magic, & Philosophy (2019). She has also written on: horror and “special affect” in early modern painting and sculpture; rainbow imagery in Stuart England; melancholia and the Renaissance in Ottocento Italy; remakes in Chinese cinema; repetition in Hitchcock’s Vertigo; seriality and Sherrie Levine; and the “open work” of Jeff Wall. Her forthcoming book—Liquid Sky—will be written for a general audience.
Image: Maria Loh, courtesy of the Institute for Advanced Study.

Mario the Maker Magician- SOLD OUT
2026-03-14 14:00 - 15:00 | Sharp Theater, Berrie Center for the Arts, 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, 07430, United States
THIS PERFORMANCE IS SOLD OUT!
It’s robots and magic and slapstick… oh my! Mario the Maker Magician is a smash-hit, all-ages family theater experience that will lead you through an hour-long journey of energy-driven interaction, belly laughs, and maker inspiration. Mario has been featured on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Sesame Street, and live all over the world to sold out audiences and critical acclaim. No one leaves the show empty-handed OR empty-hearted.
Ideal for ages 4-10 and their families!

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Adults: $25, Children Under 17, $20, RCNJ Faculty/Staff: $20*, RCNJ Students: $8*, Retired Employees of Ramapo College: $20*
NOTE: Everyone entering the auditorium must have a ticket, including infants and young children. Strollers are not permitted in the theaters. Due to fire code capacity limits, no lap seating of any kind is allowed.
*Ticket limits apply. In order to receive a RCNJ Student, Faculty/Staff discount, you MUST purchase your ticket at the Berrie Center Box Office with ID. Discounted tickets cannot be purchased over the phone.
To purchase wheelchair accessible seating or for questions regarding alternative formats, please contact the Box Office at (201) 684-7844 or tickets@ramapo.edu
Photo Credit: Brent Lee

Film Screening - Ask the Goddess
2026-03-25 14:30 - 16:30 | G126, 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, 07430, United States
As part of the GODDESSES 3.0 exhibition, on view February 25 – April 10, the Ramapo College Art Galleries are pleased to present a screening of Carolee Schneemann’s Ask the Goddess (1991).
Ask the Goddess is a provocative performance in which Schneemann interacts with the audience by responding to sexual and psychic dilemmas read from cards they have submitted. A continuous relay of projected slides comprises an iconography of Goddess symbols, taboo and sacred, including images of animal attributes. Schneemann reacts spontaneously to the questions; she channels cogent answers triggered by the unpredictable images and finds herself physically activated, turning into a howling wolf or crawling across the projection area, squealing like a pig. (Description via Electronic Arts Intermix).
PLEASE NOTE: This film contains adult content.
Following the screening, there will be a panel discussion featuring Rachel Churner, director of the Carolee Schneemann Foundation, Julie Nagle, professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Donna Kessinger, co-curator of GODDESSES 3.0 and feminist video artist.
Location: Room G126
Image: Carolee Schneemann, Ask the Goddess, 1991. Photo courtesy of the Carolee Schneemann Foundation.

Exhibition Reception
2026-03-25 17:00 - 19:00 | Berrie Center
Join us in the Kresge and Pascal Galleries on Wednesday, March 25th from 5 – 7 PM to explore and celebrate the GODDESSES 3.0 and Relative to the Collection: Luce Turnier exhibitions!
The evening will begin with time to view the galleries, followed by artist and curator talks at 6 PM.
View the GODDESSES 3.0 information page here!
Refreshments will be provided.
Image: Nancy Spero, A New Consciousness (detail), print, Ramapo College Collection, gift of the artist.

RCNJ Theater Presents: Nine: The Musical
2026-04-10 20:00 - 22:30, 2026-04-11 20:00 - 22:30, 2026-04-12 14:00 - 16:30, 2026-04-16 20:00 - 22:30, 2026-04-17 20:00 - 22:30, 2026-04-18 20:00 - 22:30 | Sharp Theater, Berrie Center for the Arts, 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, 07430, United States
Book by Arthur Kopit, Music and Lyrics by Maury Yeston
Directed by Lester Mayers
The spectacular musical adaptation of Fellini’s 8½ features one man and the dozens of muses in his life. Celebrated but impetuous film director Guido Contini, succumbing to the pressures of filming his latest film epic, suffers a midlife crisis. One by one, figures from his past and present– including his mother, his wife, his mistress, and his leading lady – haunt, instruct, scold, seduce and encourage him until he finally learns to grow up.
NINE contains mature language and adult themes, including depictions of desire, infidelity, suicide, and emotional conflict. The production includes the presence of a prop firearm, theatrical haze, and moments of heightened intimacy. Audience discretion is advised.
This production uses haze and strobe lighting.
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Mack Brandon's Gospel Explosion
2026-04-25 20:00 - 22:00 | Sharp Theater, Berrie Center for the Arts, 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, 07430, United States
Over the past four decades, gospel music has witnessed popularity and captured hearts around the world with its electrifying energy, uplifting joy, and profound emotional resonance. This tradition of Christian worship has touched millions, spreading messages of love, hope, and unity that transcend borders.
Now, get ready for an unforgettable evening! Join us as the incomparable Mack Brandon returns to the Berrie Center with his phenomenal choir for an interactive experience that will leave you moved, inspired, and craving more.
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Adults: $33/30, Children Under 17, $20, RCNJ Faculty/Staff: $26/24*, RCNJ Students: $8*, Retired Employees of Ramapo College: $26/24*
NOTE: Everyone entering the auditorium must have a ticket, including infants and young children. Strollers are not permitted in the theaters. Due to fire code capacity limits, no lap seating of any kind is allowed.
*Ticket limits apply. In order to receive a RCNJ Student, Faculty/Staff discount, you MUST purchase your ticket at the Berrie Center Box Office with ID. Discounted tickets cannot be purchased over the phone.
To purchase wheelchair accessible seating or for questions regarding alternative formats, please contact the Box Office at (201) 684-7844 or tickets@ramapo.edu

Ramapo Chorale and CantaNOVA Spring Concert
2026-04-26 16:00 - 18:15 | Ponds Church, 341 Ramapo Valley Road, Oakland, NJ, 07436, United States
Ramapo Chorale and CantaNOVA present a spring concert featuring contemporary works and the timeless Mozart Requiem.
Ponds Reformed Church, Oakland
Tami Petty & Lisa Lutter- Directors
Hyunjin Cho- Pianist
Adults $10, Students Free
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Origines Nostrae - Senior Thesis Exhibition Reception
2026-04-29 17:00 - 19:00 | Berrie Center
On Wednesday, April 29th, the Visual Arts Senior Thesis Exhibition ORIGINES NOSTRAE goes on view in the Berrie Center Kresge and Pascal Galleries, with an Opening Reception from 5-7 p.m. The exhibition features 28 graduating Visual Arts students working in a variety of approaches including: drawing, painting, photography, animation, installation, mixed media, sculpture, and computer projection.
The meaning of ORIGINES NOSTRAE is Our Origins.
Participating artists:
Adam Perlysky
Alaina Murphy
Alexander Pilz
Ava Nicoliello
Chloe Sisskind
Gabby Castellucci
Gene Anerine
Hailey Wiedmann
Hindy Goldberg
Isabella Cumba
Kassy Stefanski
Kaylah Chitty
Kayla Price
Lia Milsom
Liza Kireev
Mars Jones
Michael Bello
Mo Naegely
Nicholas San Inocencio
Nicole Dipré
Nitin Shukla
Olivia Fusco
Samantha Servillo
Sara Savage
Skyler Larreategui
Suvon Ahmed
Talia Criso
Victoria Amato
Exact viewing hours for this exhibition may be found on the Kresge and Pascal Galleries webpage. Click here to view this page.

Thomas Edison Film Festival 2026
2026-04-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Adler Theater, 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, United States
See Animations from The Thomas Edison Film Festival
Free and no ticket required
Adler Theater, Berrie Center for the Arts, 2nd Floor
Films in Order of Appearance

Have I Swallowed Your Dreams? By Clara Chan, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Ima wa ima (Now is now) By Chun Yam Keung, Hong Kong and London, UK
In the Eyes of the Worm by Emily Hubley and Max Rosethal, East Orange, NJ
The Whistle by Greg Franklin, Highland Beach, FL
Snake Soup by Zack Demirtshyan, Yevravan, Armenia
Jimmy, Becky, and the Portal to Hell by John Schnall, Bloomfield, NJ
The Gun by Randall Christopher, San Diego, CA
Silent Panorama by Nicolas Piret, Brussels, Belgium
Impossible Journey by Daniella Schuarts and Leonardo Salomão, Brazil and NY, NY
Disturbia by Mira Yankova, Sofia, Bulgaria
Remember the Rats by Juan M. Abdo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
There’s a Robbery in Progress by Morgan Miller, Brooklyn, NY
The Underlying Pain of Existence by Oscar Jacobson, Ludwigsburg, Germany

6th Annual Animation & VFX Conference
2026-05-01 19:00 - 21:30 | Sharp Theater, Berrie Center for the Arts, 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, 07430, United States
Industry Experts Panel- 7:00pm-8:30pm
Tickets: $20 General Admission, $10 Students 18 Years & Under
Don’t miss your chance to meet animators and VFX industry experts including Saad Moosajee, Gregory Barsamian, and alumni and Oscar winner Brian Walters. Get a behind-the-scenes peek at how films, commercials and artwork are constructed via computer graphics and cutting-edge animation practices during our Industry Experts Panel.
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Alumni Networking Reception- 8:30pm- 9:30pm
Tickets: $10 General Admission
Following this panel there will be a special ticketed reception with food and refreshments for those who wish to stay and network with our panelists.
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"The Lillias White Effect" featuring Broadway's Lillias White
2026-05-02 20:00 - 21:30 | Sharp Theater, Berrie Center for the Arts, 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, 07430, United States
In her show, The Lillias White Effect, Lillias pulls back the show curtain to tell humorous, poignant and inspiring stories from both her personal and show business life that she has never shared before, onstage or off. In this brand-new concert, audiences can expect to hear the music of Frank Loesser, Stephen Sondheim, Ann Hampton Callaway, Jerry Herman, Cy Coleman and more.
Lillias White, a native New Yorker, made her Broadway debut in Barnum. She has also appeared on Broadway in Hadestown, Cats, Carrie, Dreamgirls, Once On This Island, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, Chicago and Fela! (Tony Award nomination).

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Adults: $40/35, Children Under 17, $20, RCNJ Faculty/Staff: $32/28*, RCNJ Students: $8*, Retired Employees of Ramapo College: $32/28*
NOTE: Everyone entering the auditorium must have a ticket, including infants and young children. Strollers are not permitted in the theaters. Due to fire code capacity limits, no lap seating of any kind is allowed.
*Ticket limits apply. In order to receive a RCNJ Student, Faculty/Staff discount, you MUST purchase your ticket at the Berrie Center Box Office with ID. Discounted tickets cannot be purchased over the phone.
To purchase wheelchair accessible seating or for questions regarding alternative formats, please contact the Box Office at (201) 684-7844 or tickets@ramapo.edu

Learning Commons: Arts Inclusion
2026-07-17 08:00 - 2026-10-31 17:00 | Learning Commons, 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, 07430, United States
Works including site examples by Studio KCA relating to the new Arts Inclusion sculpture Tomorrow Today.
Continuing on view, related educational event TBA
Image: StudioKCA, Tomorrow Today, 2026, Arts Inclusion Sculpture by Learning Commons

Translucence of Time: Jonathan Lipkin
2026-09-09 13:00 - 2026-10-14 19:00 | Berrie Center
A one-person exhibition of photographs by recently retired professor Jonathan Lipkin.
On view in the Pascal Gallery in the Berrie Center from September 9 – October 14.
A reception will be held Wednesday, September 16, 5-7 P.M.
Image: Jonathan Lipkin, 3521, 2017, pigment print, 44 x 88 inches.

Rodman Gallery
2026-09-09 13:00 - 2026-12-02 19:00 | Selden Rodman Gallery of Popular Arts, 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, 07430, United States
World renowned collection of Haitian, self-taught, and related folk arts will be on view in the Selden Rodman Gallery of Popular Arts, located in B-Wing room 130, beginning September 9.
The Rodman Gallery will close for the semester on December 2, 2026.
Image: Rigaud Benoit, Christ Healing the Sick, 1961, oil on board, Haiti, Rodman Collection, gift of Larry Kent, 37 x 25 inches.

Landscape of our Memory
2026-09-16 13:00 - 2026-12-04 17:00 | Berrie Center
A haunting and original exhibition about the Holocaust by Prague artists Gabriela Bulisova and Mark Isaac.
Cosponsored and co-produced by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and in collaboration with Stockton University.
The Landscape of our Memory is a long-term artistic project that addresses the “dispersed Holocaust” or “Holocaust by Bullets” by commemorating the more than 2 million individuals who were killed in or near their hometowns rather than in major extermination camps. Inspired by the work of academics studying the Environmental History of the Holocaust (a relatively new sub-field of Holocaust studies), the artists use multiple antique and contemporary strategies to, in the words of the late Austrian historian Martin Pollack, “restore the names, faces and stories” of those tragically lost. Initial work was created under the auspices of two Fulbright Scholar grants in Poland, but the project now includes commemorations of those who lost their lives at the Terezin transit camp in the Czech Republic and will soon expand to other locations, including sites in Ukraine and Slovakia. Because every artistic technique is deeply rooted in the landscape, the project has an important environmental sensibility and begins a conversation about the relationship between genocide and ecocide. The artists believe that this will better prepare us to avoid future genocides and ecocides, including the possible extinction of the human race as a result of war or the climate crisis.
This exhibition will be on view in the Kresge Gallery in the Berrie Center. An opening reception will be held Wednesday, September 16, from 5-7 P.M.
There will be an informal lecture by the artists about their careers on Thursday, 12:30 P.M. in the Adler Theater.
Image: Mark Isaac and Gabriela Bulisova, Untitled (Witness Tree), Okopowa Jewish Cemetery, Warsaw, Poland, 2024, analog photograph, 106 x 60 inches.

Reception: Berrie Center Galleries
2026-09-16 17:00 - 19:00 | Berrie Center
A reception to celebrate Translucence of Time: Jonathan Lipkin, on view in the Berrie Center’s Pascal Gallery from September 9 – October 14 and Landscape of our Memory, on view in the Kresge Gallery from September 16 – December 4.

An Evening with Adam Pascal: Tony Nominated Original Star of RENT
2026-09-19 19:30 - 21:30 | Sharp Theater, Berrie Center for the Arts, 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, 07430, United States
Adam Pascal is a luminary of the stage. From his groundbreaking portrayal of Roger Davis in Rent—which earned him a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor, as well as Drama League and Obie Awards recognition—to his reprisal of the role in the acclaimed film adaptation, Pascal has cemented his status as a Broadway and theatrical icon.
Other Broadway credits include a whirlwind of captivating performances in Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida (Radame), Cabaret (Emcee), Chicago (Billy Flynn), Memphis (Huey Calhoun), Disaster! (Chad), Something Rotten! (Shakespeare), and Pretty Woman The Musical (Edward Lewis). Notable TV/ Film credits include: Marvel’s Hawkeye, tick, tick…BOOM!, and School of Rock.

Adults: $45/40Children Under 17: $20RCNJ Faculty/Staff: $36/32*RCNJ Students: $9*Retired Employees of Ramapo College: $36/32*
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*Ticket limits apply. To receive an RCNJ Student or Faculty/Staff discount, you must purchase your ticket at the Berrie Center Box Office and present a valid ID. Discounted tickets cannot be purchased over the phone.
Accessibility
To purchase wheelchair accessible seating or for questions regarding alternative formats, please contact the Box Office at (201) 684-7844 or tickets@ramapo.edu.

Seals & Crofts 2
2026-09-26 19:30 - 21:30 | Sharp Theater, Berrie Center for the Arts, 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, 07430, United States
For millions of fans, the music of Seals & Crofts was more than just songs — it was the soundtrack of their lives. With chart-topping hits like “Summer Breeze,” “Diamond Girl,” “Get Closer,” “We May Never Pass This Way Again,” and “Hummingbird”, the duo defined the soft-rock era of the 1970’s.
Now that legacy lives on with Seals & Crofts 2. Featuring Brady Seals (cousin of Jim Seals and Dan Seals, former co-lead singer of multi-platinum country group Little Texas, and ASCAP Triple Play Award winner) and Lua Crofts (daughter of Dash Crofts, a gifted vocalist and songwriter who carries the unmistakable Seals & Crofts family sound), the duo brings heart, harmony and the hits to every performance.
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Adults: $45/40Children Under 17: $20RCNJ Faculty/Staff: $36/32*RCNJ Students: $9*Retired Employees of Ramapo College: $36/32*
Purchase Tickets
*Ticket limits apply. To receive an RCNJ Student or Faculty/Staff discount, you must purchase your ticket at the Berrie Center Box Office and present a valid ID. Discounted tickets cannot be purchased over the phone.
Accessibility
To purchase wheelchair accessible seating or for questions regarding alternative formats, please contact the Box Office at (201) 684-7844 or tickets@ramapo.edu.
