Fall 2024 Events

Events to Make You Dance, Sing... and Think

Every year, the NJCU Center for the Arts brings you a wide range of performances to entertain and inform. This spring is no different. Check out our list of offerings from March to May.

Ordinary Days

A thumbnail for the musical "Ordinary Days" featuring a city skyline in the background. In the foreground, for people are standing together. A list of the cast members' names is prominently displayed in the center of the page.

Saturday, October 26, 2024 at 3:00 p.m.

Sunday, October 27, 2024 at 3:00 p.m.

Margaret Williams Theatre

Ordinary Days tells the story of four young New Yorkers whose lives intersect as they search for fulfillment, happiness, love and cabs. Through a score of vibrant and memorable songs, their experiences ring startlingly true to life. Ordinary Days is an original musical for anyone who's ever struggled to appreciate the simple things in a complex place. With equal doses of humor and poignancy, it celebrates how 8.3 million individual stories combine in unexpected ways to make New York City such a unique and extraordinary home.

For more information about the play, please visit our Theatre & Dance page. 

Enchanted Evenings: A Golden Age Review

Poster for Enchanted Evenings

Friday, October 25, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, October 26, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.

Margaret Williams Theatre

Featuring 25 songs from Musical Theatre鈥檚 Golden Age, this sung through review, conceived, written and directed by Marc G. Dalio, tells the story of 4 couples managing their relationships against the backdrop of 1950鈥檚 NYC.  Created as a partner show for this season鈥檚 Ordinary Days, Enchanted Evenings also gives us a look into the many joys, laughs and struggles of love and marriage, but through the lens and musical style of a different era.   With music from Annie Get Your Gun, Carousel, The Music Man, West Side Story, She Loves Me, Do Re Mi, South Pacific, Showboat, Guys and Dolls, Once Upon a Mattress, Kiss Me Kate, and more, this show will lift your spirits, warm your heart, and tug on the strings of nostalgia.   

Jazz Fest at JCFPL

Jazz Students at the Jersey City Free Public Library

Saturday, December 7, 2024 from 12pm to 4:30pm

Jersey City Free Public Library: Five Corners Branch

678 Newark Avenue, Jersey City, NJ 07306

A Winter Choral Concert

Chorale Students and Conductor preparing to sing

Sunday, December 8, 2024 at 3:00 p.m.

Margaret Williams Theatre

The season comes alive with the sounds of music. The Caroline L. Guarini Department of Music, Dance and Theatre presents "A Winter Choral Concert" featuring the NJCU Concert Chorale directed by Donald C. Morris. The featured work will be Durante鈥檚 Magnificat, accompanied by string orchestra. In addition, the Chorale will present anthems representing and celebrating joy, hope, and peace!

 Winter Jazz Big Band

saxophone player reading music with other brass musicans behind him

Monday, December 9, 2024 at 7:00 p.m.

Margaret Williams Theatre

The NJCU Jazz Ensemble welcomes you to an exciting evening of Big Band music for listeners of all ages! The concert will feature the Jazz Ensemble built by NJCU鈥檚 own jazz department. The music will span the full history of jazz and showcase music from the great groups of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Thad Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, and many more. Under the direction of Nathan Eklund, the ensemble will deliver a powerful, dynamic evening you won鈥檛 forget!

GRAMMY庐-winning artists Carla Patullo and the Scorchio Quartet invite you on an immersive musical and healing journey performing music from their acclaimed album "So She Howls."

Carla Patullo and the Scorchio Quartet

Wednesday, December 11, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.

Margaret Williams Theatre

'So She Howls" is a cathartic, cinematic album recently winning the GRAMMY庐 Award for Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album. Born from Patullo's near-death experience, the album is a triumphant story of healing told through primal vocals, lush orchestral arrangements, and adventurous electronics.

Led by the esteemed Martha Mooke, the Scorchio Quartet boasts an impressive pedigree, having performed with legendary artists like David Bowie, Philip Glass, Patti Smith, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Iggy Pop, Flaming Lips, Regina Spektor, and David Byrne, among others. Along with Mooke, Scorchio members Lorenza Ponce, Frederika Krier, and Leah Coloff will join Patullo, bringing their virtuosic talents to realize the full depth and breadth of "So She Howls" in a live setting...

For more information about this performance, please check out our Music page.

Fall Pop R&B

singer belting out front and center with base and percussion in the background

Friday, December 20, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.

Margaret Williams Theatre

The Pop R&B Ensemble is the creation of the NJCU Music Business program. It is dedicated to performing classic 鈥減op鈥 with a focus on rhythm & blues music from the pens of 20th-century tunesmiths whose work ruled the airwaves from the 1960s to the present day.锘