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March
The month of ideas, wind and approaching beauty.
Shakespeare had mixed feelings about the month of March. He wrote "Beware the Ides of March." And then he welcomed "The winds of March with beauty." However the venues of the New Brunswick Cultural Center and the arts community have one common March theme... offer the people of the city and region a whirlwind month of entertainment and culture. The following pages point out where to find something for every taste...theatre and Broadway musicals, concerts (Classical or Jazz), comedy, film, dance from tango to ballet, the visual arts and childrens shows.
After a long hard winter, come to New Brunswick to begin welcoming spring.
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Meet George B. Stauffer
Dean, Mason Gross School of the Arts
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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Courtesy Mason Gross School of the Arts.
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George B. Stauffer is Dean of the Mason Gross School of the Arts and Professor II of Music History at Rutgers University. He is known internationally as a scholar, performer, and writer on the music and culture of the Baroque Era and the life and works of J.S. Bach in particular. Educated at Dartmouth College, Bryn Mawr College, and Columbia University, he has published eight books on Baroque music and Bach.
Stauffer has lectured at Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, University of Leipzig, National Sun Yat-sen University, and many other colleges and universities in the United States and abroad.
As a performer, Stauffer studied organ with Robert Elmore, John Weaver, and Vernon de Tar, and from 1977 to 1999 served as University Organist and Chapel Music Director at Columbia University, where he appeared frequently in concert.
Before coming to Rutgers, Stauffer taught at Yeshiva University and Hunter College (where he served as Chair of the Music Department and Program in Dance) and the Graduate Center of CUNY, and is a past president of the American Bach Society.
As Dean of the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers, Stauffer oversees the departments of Dance, Music, Theater, and Visual Arts. Since his arrival in 2000 he has created two additional programs, the Extension Division and Arts Online, the largest program of online study at Rutgers. He has also facilitated the construction of Bettenbender Plaza, a 20,000 sq.ft. gathering and performance space in the Mason Gross Performing Arts Center. A new 20,000 sq.ft. Music and Dance wing is scheduled for ground-breaking in summer 2011. Stauffer serves on the board of the New Brunswick Cultural Center
Under Stauffer's leadership, Mason Gross raised $11.7 million in the last Rutgers Capital Campaign "Creating the Future Today," and $18 million thus far in the present Capital Campaign, "Our Rutgers, Our Future." One of the largest private donations in the history of Rutgers University was a $7.2 million bequest from former Mason Gross Advancement Council member Victoria J. Mastrobuono.
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Mason Gross School of the Arts
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Closet Ties by Catherine Haggarty
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VISUAL ARTS
MFA Thesis Exhibition II Wednesday, February 23- Saturday, March 12Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Extended hours on Wednesday until 6 p.m. Saturdays, noon to 4 p.m. Reception: Wednesday, March 2, 5 - 7 p.m. Mason Gross Galleries at Civic Square BFA Thesis I Friday, March 25-Saturday, April 9 Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Extended hours on Wednesday until 6 p.m. Saturdays, noon to 4 p.m. Reception: Thursday, March 31, 5-7 p.m. Mason Gross Galleries at Civic Square, 33 Livingston Ave. THEATER Rutgers Theater Company*
Through Saturday, March 5 Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. The Last Days of Judas IscariotBy Stephen Adly Guirgis Directed by Chris O' Connor What play brings together Pontius Pilate, Mother Teresa, Jesus Christ, Satan, and Sigmund Freud? A play by Stephen Adly Guirgis, of course. This hypothetical trial of Judas Iscariot gathers these and other characters to testify. Philip J. Levin Theater The Jameson Project Fiction Through Saturday, March 5, 8 p.m.Saturday, March 5 and Sunday, March 6, 2 p.m.By Steven Dietz Directed by Matthew Singletary
Can you write yourself a happy life?
Jameson Studio Theater, 30 Jones Ave. Rutgers Theater Company* Tracing Nora Friday, March 25-Saturday, April 2
Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. by Emerging Artist Peter Handy
Directed by Vincent Murphy
A modern-day sequel of Ibsen's A Doll's House. Nora's gone, without an explanation and without a forwarding address. Her husband and daughter have questions --about a million of them--and they go on the road to find her. Will they be able to find her? And if so, can she even make them understand?
Victoria J. Mastrobuono Theater (formerly New Theater) MUSIC
Rutgers Wind Ensemble
Friday, March 4, 8 p.m.
Mallory Thompson, conductor
Nicholas Music Center, 85 George St.
Symphonic Dances
Music by Bernstein, Copland, and Rachmaninov
Sunday, March 6, 2 p.m.
Paul Hoffmann and Karina Bruk, pianos
Nicholas Music Center, 85 George St.
Rutgers Symphony Orchestra*
Wednesday, March 9, 8 p.m.
Bartok's Orchestral Masterpiece
Fussell: Symphony No. 5; Mozart Sinfonia Concertante, K364 in E-flat major (featuring Jihee Lim, violin, Sunghee Choi, viola); Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
Nicholas Music Center, 85 George St.
Rutgers Symphony Band
Sousa Meets Gershwin
Thursday, March 10, 8 p.m.
Includes Sousa's marches and an excerpt from Porgy and Bess
Darryl Bott, conductor
Stanley Cowell, piano
Conrad Herwig, trombone
Nicholas Music Center, 85 George St.
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Mark Chambers, alto
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Musica Raritana Period Instrument Orchestra Friday, March 25, 8 p.m. Andrew Kirkman, conductor Music for alto castrato;
Mark Chambers, alto Nicholas Music Center, 85 George St.
For additional listings and more information call: 732-932-7511
or visit
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George Street Playhouse
Ken Ludwig's The Fox on the Fairway
Directed by David Saint
March 22 - April 17, 2011
A laugh-out-loud GOLF COURSE comedy!
The Quail Valley Country Club is preparing to take on archrival Crouching Squirrel in the Annual Inter-Club Golf Tournament. With a sizable wager at stake, the contest plays out amidst three love affairs, a disappearing diamond, objectionable sweaters and an exploding vase. Sex and water hazards collide in this artful madcap adventure about love and golf.
For Tickets: 732-246-7717
www.georgestreetplayhouse.org
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State Theatre Regional Arts Center
 Dennis DeYoung:
The Music of Styx
March 5, 2011 at 8pm
Singer/songwriter/keyboardist/record producer Dennis DeYoung, a founding member of Styx, recreates 30 years of musical history featuring all the music he wrote and sang spanning his remarkable career. Featuring DeYoung and his 6-piece rock band.
 Runt of the Litter
March 5, 2011 at 8pmBo Eason performs his powerful and inspirational solo play, drawing on his real-life experience growing up in the shadow of his bigger, stronger, older brother, who was a natural athlete destined for football glory. Through sheer persistence and determination, Bo overcomes his family's low expectations and a series of devastating setbacks to make it to the NFL. Runt of the Litter is a complex story of family relationships and the importance of following a dream. These performances take place at the Crossroads Theatre, 7 Livingston Ave  Say Goodnight Gracie
Starring Joel Rooks
March 6, 2011 at 3pm
Say Goodnight Gracie is the hit Broadway play that invites you to spend a hilarious, heart-warming evening in the uplifting company of the world's favorite and funniest centenarian. George Burns, who spanned 100 years of American entertainment history, is now miraculously alive and kicking in a stunning tour de force. In Say Goodnight Gracie, we discover George in limbo between this world and the next, unable to join his beloved wife and partner Gracie Allen until he gives the command performance of his lifetime for God.  A Chorus Line
March 10, 2011 at 8pmIn an empty theater, on a bare stage, casting for a new Broadway musical is almost complete. For 17 dancers, this audition is the chance of a lifetime. It's what they've worked for-with every drop of sweat, every hour of training, every day of their lives. It's the one opportunity to do what they've always dreamed-to have the chance to dance. This is A Chorus Line, the musical for everyone who's ever had a dream and put it all on the line. Winner of nine Tony® Awards, including "Best Musical" and the Pulitzer Prize for drama, this singular sensation is the longest-running American Broadway musical ever.  Tango Buenos Aires
March 11, 2011 at 8pmTango from the streets to the ballroom. It's tango in its most rigorous, intense tradition with live, authentic musical accompaniment. Fast and furious the dancers' feet and legs flash and weave in and around each other, moving rhythmically and seductively.  The Peking Acrobats®
March 13, 2011 at 4pmHailing from the People's Republic of China, The Peking Acrobats® have for decades been diplomats of their spirited culture. Since 1958, this elite group has toured the world over, leaving audiences spellbound by the graceful presentation of their ancient folk art, acrobatics. Carefully selected from the finest acrobat schools in China, these gymnasts, jugglers, cyclists, and tumblers transform 2000-year-old athletic disciplines into an all-ages kaleidoscope of entertainment and wonder.  GREASE
March 20, 2011 at 3pmGREASE, Time Magazine's 2007 pick for "#1 musical of the year," is rockin' across the country in this new production direct from Broadway. Now starring Laverne & Shirley's Eddie Mekka (Carmine "the big ragu" Ragusa) as DJ Vince Fontaine. Take a trip to a simpler time of poodle skirts, drive-ins, and T-birds. "Bad boy" Danny and "the girl next door" Sandy fall in love all over again to the tune of your favorite songs: So throw your mittens around your kittens and Hand Jive the night away with the show that'll make you want to stand up and shout.  Juan De Marcos and the Afro-Cuban All Stars
March 24, 2011 at 8pmIt's an all-star evening! Juan de Marcos Gonzalez, a central figure in Cuban music for three decades, performs with the incredible Afro-Cuban All Stars, The Grammy®-nominated All Stars are a unique music group that perform a full range of Cuban music.
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American Repertory Ballet
March 5 , 2011, 8pm  | |
Photo: Valerie Ford Photography
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ARB presents: Douglas Martin's Inaugural Season Program The Theatre at Raritan Valley Community College, Branchburg, NJ The company will unveil its new look under director Douglas Martin with an evening headlined by Philip Jerry's Our Town, set to the majestic music of Aaron Copland. The program will also feature Kirk Peterson's Glazunov Variations, based on the classical ballet Raymonda, and world premieres by Martin and Patrick Corbin.  | |
ARB Honoree & Board Member, Kevin Tylus
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March 12, 2011, 7pm ARB's Annual Gala and Performance Patriots Theater at the War Memorial, Trenton, NJ Festivities for the annual event, entitled Renaissance, will begin at 7:00 PM with a performance featuring American Repertory Ballet, students from Princeton Ballet School, and scholars from ARB's DANCE POWER program. Following the performance, the 8:00 PM reception will feature live music by John Nobile's 17-piece SummerSwing Orchestra, dancing, gourmet food and live and silent auctions. ARB will be honoring faculty member Sherry Alban with the Audrée Estey Award for Excellence in Dance Education, and board member, Kevin Tylus, who, along with his organization, PNC Bank, has contributed greatly to ARB over the years. March 25, 2011, 4:30pm On Pointe
Princeton Ballet School, Princeton NJ
On Pointe brings the dance world to you, with guest speakers, lecture demonstrations, panel discussions and more. This month, ARB presents, "Dancing your Way into College" aimed at young dancers about to embark on the college admissions process.
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The Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum
 FILM: The Heretics
March 3, 2011
7pm
Douglass Lounge, Douglass Campus Center
100 George Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Written and directed by Joan Braderman in 2009, this film documents the 1970s Heresies Collective and the groundbreaking art magazine Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics (1977-92). Twenty-four artists, including Joan Snyder, speak about extraordinary times, when they challenged established notions of gender and power.
PASSPORT TO ART: Imagery of the Imagination: An Alternative Take on Representing Nature
March 5, 2011
12:30 to 3pm
Travel the world of art every first Saturday of the month from October through April. Children and parents or guardians work side-by-side on exciting art, crafts, and performance projects conducted by trained educators and artists.
FREE FIRST SUNDAYS (New Program!)
Sunday, March 6, 2011
12-5pm
The first Sunday of every month at the Zimmerli becomes a free day of activities, tours, and fun for the whole family. Scavenger hunts are offered in English and Spanish between 12:30 and 4pm. Tours for children and adults are available at 1pm and 2pm.
SPOTLIGHT TOURS
Sundays, March 6, 13, 20 and 27
2pm
$6 General admission. Free to Museum Members, Rutgers University Students and Staff (with I.D.), and children under 18. Join a docent educator in the museum lobby every Sunday at 2pm (while Rutgers is in session)
CHILDREN'S PROGRAM: Drawing Club, Children Ages 9-14
Wednesdays, March 9 - April 6
4:15 to 5:45pm
Children can discover the secrets of drawing when they participate in the popular Drawing Club, which takes place on Wednesdays after school. Aspiring artists apply the full gamut of drawing techniques, including pencil and charcoal, to various genres such as still-life and portraiture.
LECTURE: Anna Chave on High Tide: Deploying Fluids in Women's Art Practice
March 10, 2010
Time: 4:30pm
This lecture by Anna Chave, Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory, 20th-century European and American Art, CUNY Graduate Center, is offered as a feminist context for the special exhibition Dancing with the Dark.
CONCERT: Sima Trio: Music of Serge Rachmaninov
March 13
3pm
One of the most dynamic young trios in contemporary classical music, the Sima Trio performs Rachmaninov's Trio No. 1, as well as works by Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Russia's exciting new composer, Lera Auerbach.
CONCERT: Violin Sonatas: Beethoven and Korngold
March 27
3pm
Back by popular demand, acclaimed violinist Yen Yu and pianist Iris Chen perform sonatas for violin and piano by Beethoven and Erich Korngold. Korngold is renowned for his late-romantic classical compositions as well as his lush Hollywood film scores.
For information call: 732-932-7237 or visit
www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu
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