Thursday, July 3, 2025
Photo by Michael Pacheco Ramapo’s run of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” kicked off last Friday night in the Berrie Center. Directed by talented professor of theater Maria Vail and featuring an all-student cast, the production is a phenomenal modern reimagining of the classic play. The romantic comedy follows two siblings, Viola […]
Photo by Michael Pacheco The new Ramapo production of “The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise,” a student-performed rendition of Japanese playwright Toshiki Okada’s 2011 play, is moving into its second and final week onstage in the Berrie Center’s Adler Theater. The production stars five nameless characters dressed in black […]
Photo courtesy of Aaron Webb, Flickr Last Saturday, the Berrie Center hosted comedians Michele Balan and Eddie Brill. Balan was the main act, while Brill did a brilliant job heating up the crowd as the warm-up act. As the audience filed into their seats and the house lights dimmed, Eddie […]
Photo by Kyle Ferlita Backstage before the show, as the cast was rehearsing numbers in the halls of the Berrie Center and cracking jokes with one another about previous shows, Samantha Martino was concentrating on her homework. “The life I live certainly isn’t boring,” said the senior from Stevens Institute […]
Photo by Micheal Pacheco Combining post-apocalyptic themes with “The Simpsons,” Anne Washburn’s play “Mr. Burns” premiered in the Sharp Theater last Friday night. The show, labeled as a “post-electric” play, serves as Ramapo’s spring mainstage production. This production of “Mr. Burns” is directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh and choreographed by Amanda […]
An international art exhibition came to Ramapo on Wednesday night as the Berrie Center held an opening reception featuring a discussion with the scholar behind the exhibit, Midori Yoshimoto, the gallery director at New Jersey City University. Titled “Manga and War,” the exhibition in the Pascal Gallery is a scaled-down […]
Photo courtesy of Marek Hajdasz The Grammy-nominated, Emmy-winning ensemble Cherish the Ladies delivered its third annual performance at the Berrie Center last weekend, playing two shows on Sunday in the Sharp Theater. The Irish-American folk band formed in 1985 under the leadership of Joanie Madden, a multi-instrumentalist born in the […]
Photo by Michael Pacheco As part of their tour across the east coast, Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys stopped at Ramapo to perform their infectious Cajun music. This genre of music is rooted in the ballads of the French-Speaking Arcadians of Canada, who migrated to southern Louisiana. This eventually […]
Photo courtesy of Lia Kapelke, Flickr A prestigious dance group performed at the Sharp Theater last Saturday, when the New York Ballet Company performed its rendition of the popular fairy tale Cinderella. The curtain rose on a young, skinny Cinderella dressed in pink rags resembling a nightgown of today. Cinderella’s […]
Photo by Alyssa Rabinowitz Selections from popular folk musician John Denver’s catalog mixed with traditional holiday songs played in the Berrie Center’s Sharp Theater on Saturday night, during a concert dubbed “A Rocky Mountain Christmas.” The performance centered on award-winning guitarist and vocalist Chris Collins, who was backed by the […]
