A Hilarious, Heartfelt Family Adventure!
A Hilarious, Heartfelt Family Adventure!
A Hard Rain is the Kronos Quartet’s newest large-scale program, created in collaboration with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and inspired by the Doomsday Clock. An idea born in Chicago, where Kronos performed for a gathering of Nobel Prize–winning physicists addressing existential threats such as nuclear weapons, climate change, and artificial intelligence. That performance—combining music with readings from Hiroshima survivors, world leaders, and historical archives—sparked the vision for a program exploring the fragility of civilization and honoring the scientists working to safeguard it.
Marking the 80th anniversary of the Trinity nuclear test, the Kronos Quartet, together with The Hard Rain Collective, has released two powerful reimaginings of Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” – a sung version, featuring an eclectic ensemble of voices including Iggy Pop, Willie Nelson, Allison Russell, Laurie Anderson, and Stephin Merritt, supported by members of Belle & Sebastian, Deerhoof, Patti Smith’s band, and a Brooklyn choir. And a counterpart offering an experimental spoken-word interpretation featuring Ringo Starr, Tom Morello, Ocean Vuong, Charlotte Gainsbourg, among others.
The full program expands these collaborations, including new texts by poet Ocean Vuong.
Xian Zhang conductor
Gil Shaham violin
New Jersey Symphony
Celebrate America’s 250th Anniversary with New Jersey Ballet in a powerful evening of dance that captures the spirit, energy, innovation, and resilience of the nation through the language of ballet. Red, White and Blue brings together iconic masterworks and bold contemporary voices in a program that reflects the many dimensions of the American experience while honoring New Jersey’s essential role in the fight for independence and the shaping of the nation.
Based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, this powerful drama explores justice, compassion, and moral courage. Seen through the eyes of a child, To Kill a Mockingbird remains a moving and deeply human story that continues to resonate across generations.
Legendary violinist Gil Shaham makes a welcome New Jersey return, joining with Xian Zhang for Dvořák’s only violin concerto, brimming with Bohemian character. This virtuosic concerto is paired with a fizzing Dvořák Overture and Brahms’ most personal Symphony—both bucolic and contemplative.
Xian Zhang conductor
Gil Shaham violin
New Jersey Symphony
A not-so-young couple, after extraordinary measures involving turkey basters, hormones, meditation and in vitro insemination, finally become pregnant. In this six-actor, 40-character whirlwind, we experience the couple’s dreams, their doctors, their friends, their fears, and their fantasies as they navigate those nine crazy months.
Join us for a 35mm screening of “On The Waterfront,” featuring Marlon Brando’s legendary Oscar-winning performance as dockworker and former prizefighter, Terry Malloy, who must choose between standing up to corrupt mob boss Johnny Friendly or staying silent about the atrocities he witnesses.
By William Shakespeare Adapted & Directed by E. Teresa Choate
