Fall 2025 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.
Assassins
Friday, October 24, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 25, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 26, 2025 at 3:00 p.m.
Friday, October 31, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 1, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, November 2, 2025 at 3:00 p.m.
Margaret Williams Theatre
Our nation's most notorious assassins gather on stage to violently pursue a twisted American Dream.
A multiple Tony Award-winning theatrical tour-de-force, Assassins combines Sondheim's signature blend of intelligently stunning lyrics and beautiful music with a panoramic story of our nation's culture of celebrity and the violent means some will use to obtain it, embodied by America's four successful and five would-be presidential assassins. Bold, original, disturbing and alarmingly funny, Assassins is perhaps the most controversial musical ever written.
Assassins lays bare the lives of nine individuals who assassinated or tried to assassinate the President of the United States, in a one-act historical "revusical" that explores the dark side of the American experience. From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, writers, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman, bend the rules of time and space, taking us on a nightmarish roller coaster ride in which assassins and would-be assassins from different historical periods meet, interact and inspire each other to harrowing acts in the name of the American Dream.
Snowy Mountains Release Party
Monday, October 27, 2025 at 7:00 p.m.
Gothic Lounge, Hepburn Hall Rm: 202
Join us for a special celebration of the release of Snowy Mountains, the first single from the forthcoming album Be the Sky. The evening will feature a unique blend of live performance, film screening, and conversation with Tenzin Choegyal, arranger Alex Ring Gray, and Martha Mooke of the Scorchio Quartet. Current and former NJCU students will also join the artists on stage, making this a collaborative and inspiring preview of the new album.
Omnium Circus
Sunday, November 23, 2025 at 4:00 p.m.
Monday, November 24, 2025 at 10:30 a.m.
Margaret Williams Theatre
Omnium Circus® ensures everyone is in on the action in a spirited limit-defying & life-affirming spectacle with award winning artistry, memorable music, and a heartwarming story! We proudly provide access for audiences of all ages & abilities.
Omnium Circus® is a welcoming and spectacular non-profit Circus company. We assure everyone can participate together in joy, laughter, thrills, chills and connection through representation and shared wonder at the extraordinary feats that highlight the astounding potential of the human spirit.
It Don't Mean a Thing Jazz Ensemble
Monday, December 1, 2025 at 7:30 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 from the students in NJCU’s Jazz Department, featuring one of today's top jazz stars as a special guest. You will also hear one of the area's top high school jazz ensembles play an opening set, continuing to showcase students who may be tomorrow's jazz stars. The music will span the full history of the jazz tradition and typically showcases music from the great ensembles of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Thad Jones, Ella Fitzgerlad, Natalie Cole, and many more. Under the direction of Nathan Eklund, the ensemble will deliver a powerful, dynamic evening you won’t forget!
Gloria Concert Chorale
Sunday, December 7, 2025 at 3:00 p.m.
Margaret Williams Theatre
Join us for VivaldiI's GLORIA, an end of the year celebration with our NJCU Chorale. With works from a myriad of styles that will help usher in the season, and featuring the Vivaldi Gloria, the NJCU Chorale will also be joining with a local Jersey City area Choir to create a musical evening that you will not want to miss. This concert will feature singers and instrumentalists from NJCU’s Department of Music, Dance and Theatre.
The Green and Gold Faculty Showcase
Wednesday, December 10, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
Margaret Williams Theatre
Turing
Thursday, December 11, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, December 12, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
Margaret Williams Theatre
Turing is an opera about the life of Alan Turing as imagined by a digital mind that his work engendered. With music is by William Antoniou, the opera depicts Turing’s intelligence work during World War II as he develops a machine that becomes capable of decoding nearly every piece of intercepted German intelligence. It also dramatizes Turing’s broken engagement to a fellow cryptanalyst and the brief affair that lead to his conviction for homosexual acts and his subsequent suicide. The meta-digital form of the work honors Turing’s vision for the future of machine intelligence. Turing was originally commissioned and performed by the National Opera Of Greece, and then later re-developed and read in New York at National Sawdust. This area premiere performance will realize an expanded vision, and feature NJCU students and professionals.
Studio 2039 Pop R&B
Friday, December 19, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
Margaret Williams Theatre
Come out to CLUB 2039, and rock for an evening with our Pop/R&B Ensemble. This concert will feature classic pop, rock and rhythm & blues music from the mighty songwriters, musicians and bands of the 20th century, whose work ruled the airwaves from the 1960s to the present day. Showcasing students from the Department of Music, Dance and Theatre and under the direction of Jason Teborek and Michele McConnell.