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National Geographic Live Terry Virts: A View From Above (Schools n Stage)
Reserve Your School Group Main Stage, $7, For Grades 5-8 For more information and to book your group, contact Jaclyn Wood at the Grunin Center for the Arts: 732-255-0400 ext. 2487 or jwood@ocean.edu. About the Show Terry Virts Step back, about 220 miles from earth, and experience our planet from a new perspective. Former International Space Station Commander Terry Virts helped to install the outpost’s 360-degree observation module, which not only helped him to take more photos…
View From Above
Buy Tickets Main Stage Tickets $27 Adult / $22 Senior / $22 Child About the Lecture Join us for National Geographic Live - View From Above. Sometimes, a little distance is all you need to see things in a brand new way. For astronaut Terry Virts, his newfound perspective was from the International Space Station (ISS), where he installed the Cupola module, granting an unprecedented 360-degree view from the station. When he later became the commander of…
Lightwire Theater: Dino-Light
Buy Tickets 1pm and 4pm performances available Main Stage, $17 Adult / $12 Child Group Rates available, call the Ticket Office for details About the Show In this original storyline, a famous scientist with magic powers brings a friendly dinosaur to life. When the dinosaur wanders away from home, he discovers a wonderful world full of creatures that light up the darkness and help him find the true meaning of love. This glow-in-the-dark adventure is visually stunning…
Lightwire Theater: Dino-Light
Buy Tickets 1pm and 4pm performances available Main Stage, $17 Adult / $12 Child Group Rates available, call the Ticket Office for details About the Show In this original storyline, a famous scientist with magic powers brings a friendly dinosaur to life. When the dinosaur wanders away from home, he discovers a wonderful world full of creatures that light up the darkness and help him find the true meaning of love. This glow-in-the-dark adventure is visually stunning…
Love Letters
Buy Tickets Black Box Adult $15, Senior/Child $12 Call for Group Rates Tickets on sale Monday, July 15th at 10:00am Love Letters Love Letters is a Pulitzer Prize winning play that centers on two characters, Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III, as they sit side by side at tables reading the notes, letters and cards they have sent to each other over nearly 50 years. They discuss their hopes and ambitions, dreams and disappointments, and the…
Mandy Harvey (Schools n Stage)
Reserve Your School Group Main Stage, Free, For High School and College For more information and to book your group, contact Jaclyn Wood at the Grunin Center for the Arts: 732-255-0400 ext. 2487 or jwood@ocean.edu. About the Show Mandy Harvey is a deaf American singer-songwriter. While a Vocal Music Education major at Colorado State University, Mandy lost her residual hearing at age eighteen due to a connective tissue disorder, and left the program. She pursued several career options,…
Mandy Harvey
Buy Tickets Main Stage, Tickets $35 - $25 Grunin Presents Subscription Eligible! About the Show Her message is universal… Hope, Dream, Believe, no matter what… Mandy Harvey is a deaf American singer-songwriter. A Vocal Music Education major at Colorado State University, Mandy lost her residual hearing in 2006-2007 at age eighteen due to a connective tissue disorder, and left the program. She pursued several career options, including education, but returned to music in 2008. She quickly became a…
Everett Jones
Buy Tickets Main Stage, General Admission $12 About the Show Rarely does an artist come along with the talent, passion, and insight of Dr. Everett N. Jones III. Jones, a gifted pianist, composer, and lecturer, brings a human element to traditional repertoire, uses composition to translate classical music to traditional and nontraditional audiences, and teaches the next generation of musicians the importance of appreciating and preserving history. Jones was born in Philadelphia, PA and showed a natural talent…
20th Annual Gospel Extravaganza
Buy Tickets Main Stage, Adult $10 / Seniors & Students $5 About the Show Join us for an evening of song, dance, and gospel music when Ocean County College’s Organization for Black Unity and Office of Student Life present the 20th Annual Gospel Extravaganza with special guests Howard Gospel Choir of Howard University, Washington, DC. and New Jersey's The Group Fire. About the Howard Gospel Choir Celebrating over four decades of musical excellence. The choir's main objective is to spread…
Nyle DiMarco – Living Out Loud
Buy Tickets This event is a rescheduled date. Active, unrefunded tickets from December 2, 2019 will be honored at this event. About Living Out Loud Audiences are moved as Nyle discusses and demonstrates the value of non-verbal communication and embracing one’s true identity. As he shares firsthand experiences from his life and career, he piques curiosity among listeners as they gain a deeper understanding of the deaf community. In his powerfully emotive presentations, Nyle reveals his triumphs, challenges,…
Lovers
Buy Tickets Black Box Adult $15, Senior/Child $12 Call for Group Rates Tickets on sale July 15th at 10:00am Lovers A play in two parts. The first section, titled “Winners,” follows the story of two teenage lovers, Joe and Mag, who are due to be married in three weeks. The second section, “Losers,” tell the story of middle aged lovers Hanna and Andy, who are trying to make their relationship work while Hanna’s family and neighbors disapprovingly intervene.…
Rhythm of the Dance
Buy Tickets Main Stage, Tickets $35 About the Show Fans everywhere are enjoying 2,000 years, and more, of dance, music, songs and culture from pre-Celtic times to modern day sounds all compacted into a 2-hour concert. Rhythm of the Dance is full of flailing feet and fiddles, futuristic dances, eye-catching lighting and costumes, sensational sound effects and is now one of the top 3 Irish step dance shows in the world. Apart from having World and Irish…
Rhythm of the Dance
Buy Tickets Main Stage, Tickets $35 About the Show Fans everywhere are enjoying 2,000 years, and more, of dance, music, songs and culture from pre-Celtic times to modern day sounds all compacted into a 2-hour concert. Rhythm of the Dance is full of flailing feet and fiddles, futuristic dances, eye-catching lighting and costumes, sensational sound effects and is now one of the top 3 Irish step dance shows in the world. Apart from having World and Irish…
Danú (Schools n Stage)
Photo Credit: Holst Photography Reserve Your School Group Main Stage, Free, 10:45 am For Grades K-5, 12:00 pm For Grades 6-12 For more information and to book your group, contact Jaclyn Wood at the Grunin Center for the Arts: 732-255-0400 ext. 2487 or jwood@ocean.edu. About the Show Hailing from historic County Waterford, Danú is one of the leading traditional Irish ensembles of today. For over two decades, Danú’s virtuosi players on flute, tin whistle, fiddle, button accordion, bouzouki, and…
Danú (Schools n Stage)
Photo Credit: Holst Photography Reserve Your School Group Main Stage, Free, 10:45 am For Grades K-5, 12:00 pm For Grades 6-12 For more information and to book your group, contact Jaclyn Wood at the Grunin Center for the Arts: 732-255-0400 ext. 2487 or jwood@ocean.edu. About the Show Hailing from historic County Waterford, Danú is one of the leading traditional Irish ensembles of today. For over two decades, Danú’s virtuosi players on flute, tin whistle, fiddle, button accordion, bouzouki, and…
Danú
Photo Credit: Holst Photography Buy Tickets Main Stage, Tickets $45 - $35 Grunin Presents Subscription Eligible! About the Show Hailing from counties Waterford, Dublin, Donegal and Cork, Danú is one of the leading traditional Irish ensembles of today. Their standing room only concerts throughout Ireland are true events featuring high-energy performances and a glorious mix of ancient Irish music and new repertoire. For over two decades, Danú’s virtuosi players on flute, tin whistle, fiddle, button accordion, bouzouki,…
Artrageous (Schools n Stage)
Reserve Your School Group Main Stage, $7, For Grades 6-12 For more information and to book your group, contact Jaclyn Wood at the Grunin Center for the Arts: 732-255-0400 ext. 2487 or jwood@ocean.edu. About the Show Artrageous is a one of a kind interactive performance that incorporates many different art forms on the same stage. Students will get to experience live art, music, dance, life sized puppetry, and get to be part of the show. The images created…
Artrageous
Buy Tickets Main Stage, $32 Adult / $27 Child Group Rates available, call the Ticket Office for details About the Show Imagine witnessing the creativity of an artist creating a masterpiece before your eyes in mere moments. With a palette that also mixes captivating vocals, intricate choreography and exciting audience interaction - Artrageous takes you on a unique visual journey packed with wild inspiration, creativity and fun! Art, Music, Theater, Singing, Dancing, Audience Interaction… All on one stage.…
Lucia Jackson
Buy Tickets Main Stage, Adult $24 Senior $20 Jazz Club Subscription Eligible! Tickets On Sale July 15th at 10am About the Show A graduate of the Alvin Ailey School of Dance, dancer and singer Lucia Jackson has created her own hybrid of modern dance and jazz vocalizing. This successful combination melds the forward-looking motion of modern dance with the proud traditions and endless possibilities of jazz singing into a unique art form—one’s that exciting and unquestionably transcendent. Lucia is…
Assisted Living: The Musical®
Buy Tickets Main Stage, Tickets $27 - $22 Grunin Presents Subscription Eligible! About the Show Forget everything your granny told you about Assisted Living! Assisted Living: The Musical® is a 75-minute, one-act vaudevillian revue filled with original songs. It delivers laughs from the opening scene, when the show’s host couple enters heaven, suspecting their son pulled the plug to get his hands on Dad’s vintage Corvette. They don’t seem to mind. Instead, the couple fondly remembers Pelican Roost, an…
Assisted Living: The Musical®
Buy Tickets Main Stage, Tickets $27 - $22 Grunin Presents Subscription Eligible! About the Show Forget everything your granny told you about Assisted Living! Assisted Living: The Musical® is a 75-minute, one-act vaudevillian revue filled with original songs. It delivers laughs from the opening scene, when the show’s host couple enters heaven, suspecting their son pulled the plug to get his hands on Dad’s vintage Corvette. They don’t seem to mind. Instead, the couple fondly remembers Pelican Roost,…
Congregation B’Nai Israel presents The Maccabeats
Buy Tickets Main Stage, $36 Adult / $18 Child 12 & Under About The Show The Maccabeats are an extremely unique Jewish a capella group made up of 14 men that uses their clean cut, unadulterated voices and a little Jewish humor to connect with fans of all ages and backgrounds from Alabama to New Zealand and everywhere in between. They were originally formed in 2007 as Yeshiva University's student vocal group but have emerged as a Jewish A…
Capturing the Impossible
Buy Tickets Main Stage Tickets $27 Adult / $22 Senior / $22 Child About the Lecture For extreme filmmaker Bryan Smith, the line between going for it and going too far is often blurry—especially when you’re exploring the earth’s most remote environments. In this edge-of-your-seat presentation, Bryan shows you what it means to adventure with purpose, and why he believes the best expeditions are the ones with a healthy chance of failure. He’s faced machete-wielding locals in Papua…
Sonnet
Buy Tickets Main Stage, General Admission $12 Afternoon Recital Subscription Eligible! Tickets On Sale July 15th at 10am About the Show Pianists Mi-Won Kim and Bari Mort make up this New York metropolitan area piano duo whose name, Sonnet, means four hands in Korean. Originally from Korea and New York respectively, Mi-Won Kim and Bari Mort have successfully merged their inherently different personalities into a musical meeting of the minds. Both Julliard trained, Mi-Won Kim and Bari Mort…
The Amazing Max
Buy Tickets Main Stage, $17 Adult / $12 Child Group Rates available, call the Ticket Office for details About the Show The Amazing Max is an interactive magic show with a mind of its own. What's truly amazing is not only what happens on stage but also what happens in the audience. The enchanted look that spreads across the faces of his young (and not-so-young) fans as magician Max Darwin works miracles is hands-down astounding. Operating from…
Jazz Collaborations: Dance and The Music of Louis and Gia Prima
Buy Tickets Gia Maione Prima Studio Theatre Tickets $8 Adult / $5 Child About the Show As part of the day-long Jazz Fest 2020 Community Day: A Celebration of Dance and The Music of Louis and Gia Prima, join male repertory company 10 Hairy Legs and the Ocean County College Dancers for a performance that celebrates through dance the music of Louis Prima and Gia Maione Prima. OCC Dancers Dames on the Town: The Ocean County College Dancers will present…
Louis Prima, Jr.
Buy Tickets Main Stage, Tickets $35 - $25 Grunin Presents Subscription Eligible! About the Show Louis Prima, Jr. and the Witnesses are bringing Prima music into the 21st century. Not content to sit on the legacy they so passionately protect, LPJ and the band are taking a page from his father’s playbook, by wailing Prima Swing like it’s 2014. Less concerned about reliving the past than about creating a future for it, Louis Prima, Jr. and the…
Steel Magnolias
Buy Tickets Black Box Adult $15, Senior/Child $12 Call for Group Rates Tickets on sale July 15th at 10:00am Steel Magnolias The action is set in Truvy’s beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies who are “anybody” come to have their hair done. Helped by her eager new assistant, Annelle (who is not sure whether or not she is still married), the outspoken, wise-cracking Truvy dispenses shampoos and free advice to the town’s rich curmudgeon,…
The Music of Bobby Darin
Buy Tickets Main Stage, Tickets $35 - $25 Grunin Presents Subscription Eligible! About the Show Starring Vegas Entertainer Ron Gartner and his swingin’ band plus 23 great songs, multimedia, and backstage stories! Bobby Darin. Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actor in film and television. He performed in a range of music genres, including jazz, pop, rock’n’roll, folk, swing and country. He started in show business as a songwriter for Connie Francis and achieved world fame in 1958 with his own…
Federico Colli
Buy Tickets Main Stage, General Admission $12 Afternoon Recital Subscription Eligible! Tickets On Sale July 15th at 10am About the Show Internationally recognized for his vibrant interpretations and brilliant technique, Italian pianist Federico Colli received fantastic press following the release of his initial album for Chandos Records in May 2018. “You can’t but marvel at the sheer quality of his playing – his trills the epitome of crispness, his repeated notes sounding absurdly easy, while his command of…