Healing Hands is an evening of new works-in-progress based on how the arts are contributing to healing during these challenging times.  Act I will feature two performances including the Ballaro Dance work “Embedded Memories,” acknowledging personal histories through the lens of scars and their images which live permanently on our bodies. The second half of the program will showcase storyteller and artist William Doan’s work “Inhale, Exhale, Draw,” an exploration of how art has become an integral part of his…

Healing Hands is an afternoon of new works-in-progress based on how the arts are contributing to healing during these challenging times.  Act II will feature two performances including piano/violin duo 48 St. Stephen featuring works by composers Bongani Ndodana-Breen, Yoon-Ji Lee, and Oliver Messian who take us on a musical journey from chaos to calm. The second half of the program will feature Kuchipudi (Indian Classical) dancer and physician Pranamya Suri who portrays a soulful reflection of the constant struggle…

mignolo dance returns to our stage after their stand out performance as part of Leaning into the Unknown during our last season.  The premiere of their newest work “Self Help” explores mental health through the lens of a relationship between psychologist and patient. Tickets: $5 RCNJ Students w/ID (limit 1), $10 RCNJ Faculty and Staff w/ID (limit 2), Public $25, Children under 17 $10 RCNJ Students, Faculty and Staff must come to the Box Office with ID to purchase tickets.…

  Decoda is a collective of versatile musicians committed equally to virtuosic performance and audience engagement. For this concert, a wind sextet will perform excerpts of a new work by composer and Ramapo College music professor Gilad Cohen.  The second half of the program will feature works by Joseph Jones, Brad Balliett, Valerie Coleman, Doug Balliett and Evan Premo. Gilad Cohen is a composer, theorist and music educator. His music adapts features from a wide range of musical realms and…

Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Directed by Terra Vandergaw Sharp Theater, April 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9 at 8pm Everybody, by Obie and MacArthur award-winning playwright Branden Jacobs Jenkins, is an irreverent, surprising, and whimsical re-telling of the 15th century morality play, Everyman. As in the original, the character Everybody is happily going about their life, minding their own business, when suddenly Death comes calling. In a flash, Everybody must confront their own mortality and life’s big questions. Can they get…

Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Directed by Terra Vandergaw Sharp Theater, April 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9 at 8pm Everybody, by Obie and MacArthur award-winning playwright Branden Jacobs Jenkins, is an irreverent, surprising, and whimsical re-telling of the 15th century morality play, Everyman. As in the original, the character Everybody is happily going about their life, minding their own business, when suddenly Death comes calling. In a flash, Everybody must confront their own mortality and life’s big questions. Can they get…

Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Directed by Terra Vandergaw Sharp Theater, April 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9 at 8pm Everybody, by Obie and MacArthur award-winning playwright Branden Jacobs Jenkins, is an irreverent, surprising, and whimsical re-telling of the 15th century morality play, Everyman. As in the original, the character Everybody is happily going about their life, minding their own business, when suddenly Death comes calling. In a flash, Everybody must confront their own mortality and life’s big questions. Can they get…

Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Directed by Terra Vandergaw Sharp Theater, April 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9 at 8pm Everybody, by Obie and MacArthur award-winning playwright Branden Jacobs Jenkins, is an irreverent, surprising, and whimsical re-telling of the 15th century morality play, Everyman. As in the original, the character Everybody is happily going about their life, minding their own business, when suddenly Death comes calling. In a flash, Everybody must confront their own mortality and life’s big questions. Can they get…

Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Directed by Terra Vandergaw Sharp Theater, April 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9 at 8pm Everybody, by Obie and MacArthur award-winning playwright Branden Jacobs Jenkins, is an irreverent, surprising, and whimsical re-telling of the 15th century morality play, Everyman. As in the original, the character Everybody is happily going about their life, minding their own business, when suddenly Death comes calling. In a flash, Everybody must confront their own mortality and life’s big questions. Can they get…

Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Directed by Terra Vandergaw Sharp Theater, April 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9 at 8pm Everybody, by Obie and MacArthur award-winning playwright Branden Jacobs Jenkins, is an irreverent, surprising, and whimsical re-telling of the 15th century morality play, Everyman. As in the original, the character Everybody is happily going about their life, minding their own business, when suddenly Death comes calling. In a flash, Everybody must confront their own mortality and life’s big questions. Can they get…

Mack is back! Share the joy of gospel music with Mack Brandon and his fabulous choir. A music professor at Ramapo College for the past 20 years, Brandon has worked with Ben E. King, The Drifters, Average White Band and the Supremes. Tickets: $8 RCNJ Students w/ID (limit 1), $20 RCNJ Faculty and Staff w/ID (limit 2), Public $30/27/24, Children under 17: $18 RCNJ Students, Faculty and Staff must come to the Box Office with ID to purchase tickets. Purchase…

FRIDAY, APRIL 29 AND SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 2022 On Friday night catch the Thomas Edison Film Festival special selections and Young NJ Animation showcase screenings. Saturday begins with hands-on workshops for 4th-10th grade students. Then meet award-winning animation artists and visual effects gurus at our industry expert panel, including Miwa Matreyek. Get behind the scenes with these industry leaders! Registration Coming Soon!

Miwa Matreyek Indefinitely Yours and This World Made Itself Miwa Matreyek is an animator, director, designer, and performer who creates live, staged performances where she interacts with her animations as a shadow silhouette. Her work exists in a dreamlike visual space that makes invisible worlds visible, often weaving surreal and poetic narratives of conflict between man and nature. Her work exists both at the realm of the hand-made and tech. Infinitely Yours depicts an all too familiar world drowning in…